Lecture 5 - Developing Through Lifespans (Pt. 2)

Question 1

What is the major task of infancy?

Answer 1

Forming healthy attachments

Question 2

What is the major task of childhood?

Answer 2

Forming a healthy self-concept

Question 3

What is an authoritarian parenting style?

Answer 3

Parents impose rules because “I said so” and expect obedience

Question 4

What is a permissive parenting style?

Answer 4

Parents submit to child’s desires, not enforcing limits or standards for behavior

Question 5

What is an authoritative parenting style?

Answer 5

Parents enforce rules, limits, and standards, but also explain, listen, and express respect for child’s ideas and wishes

Question 6

What is the lifespan perspective?

Answer 6

Development is a lifelong process

Question 7

What is adolescence?

Answer 7

A transition period from childhood to adulthood

Question 8

What is puberty?

Answer 8

Time of sexual maturation

Question 9

What is an early sign of puberty?

Answer 9

Height change

Question 10

How does the brain develop during puberty?

Answer 10

The brain stops automatically adding new connections and increases efficiency by “rewiring”

Question 11

How is nerve conduction sped up during puberty?

Answer 11

Well-used connections are coated in myelin

Question 12

What part of the brain is last to rewire?

Answer 12

The frontal lobe

Question 13

What do adolescents prioritize?

Answer 13

They understand risk and consequences but give more weight to potential thrills and rewards

Question 14

What did Piaget claim about adolescents?

Answer 14

He said they were in the formal operational stage

Question 15

What is preconventional morality?

Answer 15

When you follow the rules because if you don’t, you’ll get in trouble and if you do, you’ll be rewarded

Question 16

What is conventional morality?

Answer 16

When you follow the rules because everyone gets along if everyone does the right thing

Question 17

What is post-conventional morality?

Answer 17

When you recognize the rules sometimes need to be set aside to pursue higher principles

Question 18

What is moral intuition?

Answer 18

Quick, gut-feeling decisions

Question 19

What is moral intuition based on?

Answer 19

Moral reasoning and emotions

Question 20

What did Erik Erikson believe about adolescents?

Answer 20

They are struggling to form an identity to prevent role confusion

Question 21

What does psychosocial development revolve around during infancy?

Answer 21

Trust vs. mistrust

Question 22

What does psychosocial development revolve around during toddlerhood?

Answer 22

Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

Question 23

What does psychosocial development revolve around during preschool?

Answer 23

Initiative vs. guilt

Question 24

What does psychosocial development revolve around during elementary school?

Answer 24

Competence vs. inferiority

Question 25

What does psychosocial development revolve around during adolescence?

Answer 25

Identity vs. role confusion

Question 26

What does psychosocial development revolve around during young adulthood?

Answer 26

Intimacy vs. isolation

Question 27

What does psychosocial development revolve around during middle adulthood?

Answer 27

Generativity vs. stagnation

Question 28

What does psychosocial development revolve around during late adulthood?

Answer 28

Integrity vs. despair

Question 29

What happens to physical development at mid-20's?

Answer 29

Reach peak which comes with biological maturation

Question 30

What happens to physical development at middle adulthood?

Answer 30

Physical vitality is still more a function of lifestyle rather than biological decline

Question 31

What happens to physical development at the end of reproductive years?

Answer 31

Gradual decline in sexual activity and enter menopause around age 50

Question 32

What is a human's potential lifespan?

Answer 32

About 122 years

Question 33

What happens to telomeres (tips of chromosomes) as we age?

Answer 33

They wear down with every generation of cell duplication and we stop hearing well

Question 34

What is the death-deferral phenomenon?

Answer 34

People are able to stay alive for special events and gatherings before they pass

Question 35

What happens to memory as we age?

Answer 35

The regions of the brain related to memory begin to shrink, making it harder to form new ones

Question 36

What is the POPFID model?

Answer 36

Parent Orientation and Parent Fixation In Dementia

Question 37

What happens to the brain during dementia?

Answer 37

There is a loss of brain cells and neural connections, with a deterioration of neurons that produce acetylcholine (memory transmitter) and shriveled protein filaments forming plaques at tips of neurons

Question 38

What are cross-sectional studies?

Answer 38

Comparing people at different ages all at once

Question 39

What are longitudinal studies?

Answer 39

Comparing attributes of same people as they age over time