WVU psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers Guide (Guaranteed Succes) Latest 2025
- domains of development - Correct Answers ✅physical
development, cognitive development, socioemotional physical development - Correct Answers ✅refers to body maturation and growth, including body size, proportion, appearance, health, and perceptual abilities cognitive development - Correct Answers ✅refers to the maturation of thought processes and the tools that we use to obtain knowledge, become aware of the world around us, and solve problems socioemotional - Correct Answers ✅includes changes in personality, emotions, views of oneself, social skills, and interpersonal relationships with family and friends.nature vs nurture issue - Correct Answers ✅Explanations that rely on nature point to inborn genetic endowments or heredity, maturational processes, and evolution as causes of developmental change. An alternative explanation for developmental change is nurture, the view that individuals are molded by the physical and social environment in which they are raised, including the home, school, workplace, neighborhood, and society. 1 / 3
WVU psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers Guide (Guaranteed Succes) Latest 2025 what are the four conceptions of life? - Correct Answers ✅chronological age, biological age, psychological age, societal age chronological age - Correct Answers ✅number of years since birth, actual age biological age - Correct Answers ✅how old you are based on health psychological age - Correct Answers ✅how old you are based on mental health societal age - Correct Answers ✅societies perception on how old someone is what are periods of life span developmental psychology? - Correct Answers ✅Prenatal (conception-birth) Infancy and toddlerhood (birth- 2) Early childhood (2-6 Middle childhood (6-11) Adolescence (11-18) Early Adulthood (18-40 Middle Adulthood (40-65) 2 / 3
WVU psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers Guide (Guaranteed Succes) Latest 2025 Late (65+) Death What is lifespan human development? - Correct Answers ✅The ways in which people grow, change and stay the same throughout their lives form conception to death normative age grade influences - Correct Answers ✅Similar and typical for a specific age
Maturational: things that are fixed in time ( puberty or
menopause)
Social: timing is flexible (marriage or parent hood)
normative history grade influences - Correct Answers ✅Events that shape attitudes of a historical generation
Historical generation: group that grow up in the generation
and experienced the same thing ex. People that experienced the great depression, people that watched the moon landing at the same time
Cohort: group of people born at the same time ex. All people
born in 2001 or people who are 21 in 2019 non normative influences - Correct Answers ✅Unusual events that have a major impact on an individuals life
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