lifespan development week 1

Question 1

what is developmental psychology?

Answer 1

Developmental psychology is “the scientific study of how and why people change, and how they do not change, from conception until death” (Berger, 2005).

Question 2

Three spheres of development

Answer 2

Biological processes/Cognitive processes/ Socioemotional processes

Question 3

Assumptions of developmental psychology

Answer 3

Multi-directional/ contextual/ Multi-dimensional/Multi-disciplinary/Hasplasticity

Question 4

Contexts exert three types of influences (Baltes, 2003)

Answer 4

Normative age-graded influences/Normative history-graded influences/ Nonnormative events

Question 5

who proposed an Ecological Systems Approach to understanding development?

Answer 5

Bronfenbrenner (1979)

Question 6

What is a developmental theory?

Answer 6

try to make sense of development by imposing some kind of structure on developmental processes

Question 7

Early Scientific Theories: Charles Darwin

Answer 7

Baby biographies – helps to understand evolution

Question 8

Early Scientific Theories: G. Stanley Hall

Answer 8

Developmentalists should identify norms

Question 9

Early Scientific Theories: Arnold Gesell

Answer 9

Maturation – genetically programmed sequential pattern of change

Question 10

Studying change over time: Two different techniques

Answer 10

1.Cross-sectional: compare groups of people of different ages at the same time
2.Longitudinal: follow one group of people over time

Question 11

cohort meaning

Answer 11

Born at a similar point in history