Module 1

Question 1

Corhort

Answer 1

A group of people born roughly around the same time in a particular society. They experience the same historical events and cultural climate, which influences values, priorities, and goals.

Question 2

Normative Age Grade influences

Answer 2

biological+ environment. ex- starting school, retirement, menopause, puberty.

Question 3

Normative History Grade influences

Answer 3

Historical events that influence development/identity. Ex; great depression, wars, advances in technology.

Question 4

Non Normative influences

Answer 4

unpredicted/ not ties to a certain time. Unique experiences biological or environmental.Ex; earning a degree, divorce, close death, job offers.

Question 5

What does culture influence?

Answer 5

what’s right or wrong, what to eat or strive for, how to speak emotional regulation.

Question 6

social economical status/social class

Answer 6

how to identify households based on shared levels of education, income, occupation.

Question 7

ethnocentrism

Answer 7

our own cultures practicies/expectations are superior/right

Question 8

cultural relativity

Answer 8

an appreciation for cultural differences

Question 9

What are the Domains of Human Development?

Answer 9

Physical, Cognitive, Psychological

Question 10

Examples of Physical Human Development?

Answer 10

weight, motor skills, aging, sexual health, brain development

Question 11

Examples of Cognitive Human Development?

Answer 11

Wisdom, learning/understanding, language development

Question 12

Examples of Psychological Human Development?

Answer 12

attachment/temperament, personality, self esteem, relationships, emotions

Question 13

Experimental Reality

Answer 13

knowing based on your own history

Question 14

Agreement Reality

Answer 14

knowing based on what others told you

Question 15

Personal Injuiry

Answer 15

drawing conclusions based on personal experience

Question 16

Confirmation Bias

Answer 16

Tendency to look for evidence that are right while ignoring contradicting evidence

Question 17

Human Development Issues

Answer 17

Continuous- gradual
One Course- same for all
Discontinuous- unique stages
Many Courses- different for everyone

Question 18

Periods of Human Development(8)

Answer 18

1)Prenatal, 2) Infancy/toddlerhood, 3) Early childhood, 4) Middle childhood, 5) Adolescence, 6) Early Adulthood, 7) Middle Adulthood, 8) Late adulthood

Question 19

Lifespan development

Answer 19

the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial hangers and constancies that occur throughout the entire course of life

Question 20

Lifespan Perspective

Answer 20

an approach to lifespan development by Paul Battes(a german psychologist and expert on lifespan development)

Question 21

Balte’s lifespan development principles. Developement is…(6)

Answer 21

1)Lifelong, 2) Multidimensional, 3) Multidirectional, 4) Plastic, 5) Contextual, 6) Multidisciplinary

Question 22

Lifelong

Answer 22

conception>death

conception to adolescence and the gradual decline in old age

Question 23

Multidimensional

Answer 23

influences- biological, cognitive, socioemotional

Question 24

Multidirectional

Answer 24

Gains and Losses

prioritizing and improving efficiency of particular functions

Question 25

Plastic

Answer 25

malleable changeable

no single pathway in development

Question 26

contextual

Answer 26

development varies from person to person
factors: biology, family, school, church, profession, nationality, and ethnicity

Question 27

multidisciplinary

Answer 27

any one discipline would not be able to account for all aspects of lifespan development