Chapter 1

Question 1

What is development?

Answer 1

Movements or change that begin at birth throughout your life span

Question 2

What is the traditional view of development in life?

Answer 2

Major change through childhood….none in adult…..decline in old age

Question 3

What are the human life expectancies?

Answer 3

Max 122

Average 79

Question 4

What are some characteristics of development in life?

Answer 4

Life long……multidimensional….contextual…..growth…loss….maintenance….constructed through biological, social factors, and individual factors

Question 5

What are the three types of contextual change?

Answer 5

Normative age graded influence….similar for individuals sharing the same age group

Normative history grade influences……common to people of a particular generation due to historical circumstances

Nomnormarive life events….unusual occurrences that have a major impact on a person

Question 6

What is culture?

Answer 6

Behavior patterns, beliefs, and other products of a group

Question 7

What is ethnicity?

Answer 7

Characteristics based on cultural heritage, nationality , race and religion

Question 8

What is social policy?

Answer 8

Government course of action designed to promote welfare of its citizens

Question 9

What are the main concerns of social policy?

Answer 9

Infant mortality rates…children…nutrition…older adults…health care….social support for older

Question 10

What are the three developmental process?

Answer 10

Biological…..cognitive….socioemotional

Question 11

What is the biological proccess?

Answer 11

Producing change in individuals features like height, weight, and motor skills

Question 12

What is the cognitive proccess?

Answer 12

A change in the mind and processing

Question 13

What is socioemtional proccess?

Answer 13

Changes in relationships, emotions, and personality

Question 14

What us the chronological age?

Answer 14

Age in years alive

Question 15

What is biological age?

Answer 15

Terms of biological health?

Question 16

What is psychological age?

Answer 16

Adaptive capacities compare with others

Question 17

What is social age?

Answer 17

Connectedness with others of the same social roles

Question 18

What are psychoanalytic theories?

Answer 18

Describe development as primarily unconcious and influence by emotion

Stresses shape you in early age

Question 19

What did sigmund Freud believe in?

Answer 19

Adult personality was based on how we resolve conflicts between pleasure at each stage of reality

Question 20

What did erikson beleive?

Answer 20

Primary motivation for human behavior is social and is the desire to affiliate with others

Question 21

What did piaget beleive?

Answer 21

Children actively construct their understandings of the world through adaptations

Question 22

What is sinners operant conditioning?

Answer 22

Consequences to behaviors produce changes in the probability of occoruence

Rewards and punishment

Question 23

What are behavioral and social cognitive theories?

Answer 23

Development through observable behavior that we learn through experience

Question 24

What are ecological theories

Answer 24

Emphasize environmental factors

Question 25

What is descriptive research?

Answer 25

Aims to observe and record behavior

Question 26

What is correlational

Answer 26

Tries to find a relationship between two or more variablen

Question 27

What is a cross sectional study

Answer 27

Compares multi age or individuals

Question 28

What is longitudinal approach?

Answer 28

Same Individuals studied over time

Question 29

What are cohort effects?

Answer 29

Effects due to time of birth/generation…..cross section can eliminate change due to cohort effects

Question 30

What are cohort effects?

Answer 30

Effects due to time of birth/generation…..cross section can eliminate change due to cohort effects