Ch.1 - Studying Development

Question 1

What does psychosocial development refer to?

Answer 1

Changes in emotions and relations with other people

Question 2

What does cognitive development refer to?

Answer 2

Changes in methods and styles of thinking

Question 3

Normative age-graded influences have a strong relationship with

Answer 3

Chronological age

Question 4

Baltes and Nesselroade identified three influences that are determined by the interaction of bio and enviro factors:

Answer 4

Normative age graded, normative history graded and non-normative

Question 5

An example of normative age graded development is

Answer 5

The onset of puberty in adolescence

Question 6

An example of normative history graded events is

Answer 6

Famine or changes in family size

Question 7

An example of non-normative development is

Answer 7

Brain damage after a car accident

Question 8

Lifespan development by its nature is more

Answer 8

Dynamic than fixed

Question 9

The basic determinants are

Answer 9

Biological and environmental

Question 10

Discontinuous development is

Answer 10

Stages qualitatively different from the previous step

Question 11

Continuous development refers to

Answer 11

Achievements quantitatively building one after another

Question 12

What are the three major domains of development?

Answer 12

Cognitive, physical, psychosocial

Question 13

Nature refers to

Answer 13

Inherited traits and abilities

Question 14

Nurture refers to

Answer 14

Environmental factors that influence behaviour