CH 3

Question 1

Development

Answer 1

changes in behavior & physical characteristics associated with
increasing age

Question 2

Human Development

Answer 2

multidisciplinary study of how and why people change and
how they remain the same over time.
- ~how individuals develop and change over their lifespan.
- ~examines how and why people are both unique and similar to each other

Question 3

Developmental Psychology

Answer 3

The field of psychology that
examines (three major
categories of developmental
change) physical, cognitive, and
socioemotional change

Question 4

Socioemotional development

Answer 4

Refers to social behaviors,
emotions, and changes
experienced in relationships,
feelings, and overall disposition

Question 5

Physical development

Answer 5

Involves maturation- biologically
driven progression of growth
beginning with conception and
ending when the body stops
growing

Question 6

Cognitive development

Answer 6

changes in memory, problem
solving, decision making,
language, and intelligence that
follow a universal course early in
life and variability with age

Question 7

Teratogens

Answer 7

1. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
2. Diseases
3. Environmental Hazards

Question 8

Prenatal Development

Answer 8

1. Zygote/ Germinal (Conception - 2nd week)
2. Embryo/ Embryotic Period (3rd - 8th week)
3. Fetus/ Fetal Period (9th - 36th week)

Question 9

Stages of Labor

Answer 9

1. Contractions/Water Breaks (Cervix Opens)
2. Baby Drops (Crowning)
3. Baby Born (Placenta leaves)

Question 10

Biological Forces

Answer 10

all genetic and health related factors (Ex. Hair
color, risk of diseases, resemblance of parents, intelligence, diet etc.)

Question 11

Psychological Forces

Answer 11

all internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional
and personality factors. (Ex. Confidence, personal characteristics)

Question 12

Sociocultural Forces

Answer 12

Societal, cultural, ethnic, interpersonal and
ethnic factors (Ex. Parents, siblings ,friends, teachers , co-workers)

Question 13

Lifecycle Forces

Answer 13

reflect differences of how the same event affects
people of different ages (Ex. pregnacy as a teen than as older woman)

Question 14

Nature vs Nurture

Answer 14

degree to which
genetic hereditary and experiential or environmental influences determine the kind of person
that you are.
(Ex. Language-children will only learn what they are exposed to and learn to speak the language
exposed to; Asian child adopted at an early age by Hispanic family.)

Question 15

Continuity vs Discontinuity

Answer 15

whether a particular development represents a smooth
progression throughout life (continuity) or a series of abrupt shifts (discontinuity). “”
(Ex. Normal Life vs Life of Hurt; Sensitive and critical periods.)

Question 16

Universal vs Context - Specific Development

Answer 16

seeks to find if there is just one path or
multiple ways in which development occurs.
(Ex. How development skills should be the same all over but how cultures may increase or
quicken a set stage “processing information”).