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Ashley J.
- Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
Developmentalists believe that biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes:
interact as people develop
Which of the following types of research design cannot provide causal reasons for the relationship between variables?
descriptive and correlational
1) The behavior is tied to evolution, is strongly affected by biological influence, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods is known as the theory of____.
ethology
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1.Life-span development is defined as the pattern of change that beingsat conceptionand continuesthroughthe human life span.2.Because Melissa is intrigued with how people change from infancy through late adulthood, she shouldstudylife spandevelopment.3.Which statement about human life span is true?The maximum human life span has not changed sincethe beginning of recorded history4.Life expectancy in the US is79years of age.5.Which of the following correctly describe life span in the study of human development?It occursthroughout life, and involves growth and change6.Life-spandevelopmentis the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception.7.Which of the following are characteristics of the life-span perspective of development?It’smultidirectional, lifelong, and multidimensional8.Which of the following statements more accurately reflects what is important in the study of life-spandevelopment?It is important to study growth as well as decline when studying the life span9.Life-span development is considered to be acontinuousprocess and does not end at any particular age.10.The upper boundary of the human life span (based on the oldest age documented is122years.11.Which aspects listed are part of the multidimensional characteristic of life-span development?Biological,cognitive, and socioemotional12.The average number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live is calledlifeexpectancy.13.True or false: life-span development focuses mostly on the rapid growth and development that occursduring childhood.False, the focus of life-span development is from conception to death14.The idea that development ismultidirectionalrefers to the fact that some dimensions or components of adimension expand and others shrink throughout the life span.15.True or false: the life-span perspective involves sociocultural and individual factors, but not biologicalfactors.False16.Which of these illustrates the multidirectional nature of human development?As children age, they mayspend more time playing games with rules, but less time engaging in creative play.17.In the life-span perspective, no age period dominates development. That highlights the view thatdevelopment is considered to belifelong.18.In lifespan development, which term refers to the capacity for change?Plasticity19.Development ismultidimensional,which refers to the fact that it has biological, cognitive, andsocioemotional aspects.20.Development ismultidisciplinary, which means that researchers in many fields share an interest inunlocking the mysteries of development through the life span.21.Development ismultidirectional,meaning that some dimensions or components of a dimension expandand others shrink throughout the life span.