Unit 4: Human development across the lifespan

Question 1

What are the 6 life stages?

Answer 1

Infancy
Childhood
Adolescence
Early Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Later Adulthood

Question 2

What is the age range for Infancy?

Answer 2

0-2

Question 3

What is the age range for Childhood?

Answer 3

3-10

Question 4

What is the age range for Adolescence?

Answer 4

11-17

Question 5

What is the age range for Early Adulthood?

Answer 5

18-29

Question 6

What is the age range for Middle Adulthood?

Answer 6

30-59

Question 7

What is the age range for Late Adulthood?

Answer 7

60+

Question 8

What are the 4 areas of human development?

Answer 8

Physical
Emotional
Cognitive
Social

Question 9

What is physical development?

Answer 9

The growth of the body and the development of bodily movements and functions

Question 10

What is emotional development?

Answer 10

The ability to develop, manage and express feelings.
Ability to show consideration and empathy for the feelings of others

Question 11

What is cognitive development?

Answer 11

The ability to recognise, remember and problem solve.
Learning and developing language and communication

Question 12

What is social development?

Answer 12

Building relationships.
Interacting with others.
Learning how to behave

Question 13

What is the difference between growth and development?

Answer 13

Growth is increasing in size whilst development is maturing in sone way

Question 14

What does Milestone mean?

Answer 14

Significant stages or developments

Question 15

What does Norm mean?

Answer 15

When milestones are typically achieved

Question 16

What does Degeneration mean?

Answer 16

stopping growing, slowing down or stopping working as well

Question 17

What is holistic development?

Answer 17

How the individual develops as a whole person with all areas of development - physical, emotional, cognitive, social

Question 18

What is interdependency?

Answer 18

All areas of development need to work alongside each other

Question 19

What is the nature argument for development?

Answer 19

All characteristics are inherited from parents
Disease and illness can be passed to children and these diseases can impact development

Question 20

What is the nurture argument for development?

Answer 20

Characteristics are influenced environment and experiences. Lifestyle, relationships, socio-economic, culture and physical environment.

Question 21

What is a lifestyle influence?

Answer 21

How you live your life: Drinking, smoking, exercising, drugs etc

Question 22

What is a socio-economic influence?

Answer 22

How money and privilege can change outcomes: Able to afford a nice house with a garden, being able to afford healthy food, having foreign holidays, having a good education etc

Question 23

What is a socio-economic influence?

Answer 23

How money and privilege can change outcomes: Able to afford a nice house with a garden, being able to afford healthy food, having foreign holidays, having a good education etc

Question 24

What is a relationship influence?

Answer 24

How others you know can influence you: Parents, friends, teachers etc

Question 25

What is a cultural influence?

Answer 25

How the values and traditions you are part of can influence development: Religious diet, not being able to be seen by a doctor of opposite sex etc

Question 26

What is a physical environment influence?

Answer 26

How your immediate surroundings can influence your development: Pollution, damp house, open countryside etc

Question 27

What is a transition?

Answer 27

The change from one state to another. A life event

Question 28

What is an expected transition or life event?

Answer 28

Something that pretty much happens to everybody

Question 29

What is an unexpected transition or life event?

Answer 29

Something that surprises you and doesn’t always happen to everybody

Question 30

What areas can life events or transitions have an individual?

Answer 30

Physical and mental health changes
Relationship changes
Life chances improve or decline
Independence changes