wvu psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers what is the life span of human development - Correct Answers ✅the ways in which people grow, change and stay the same throughout their lives, from conception to death phases of life (life span development psychology) - Correct Answers ✅prenatal (conception to birth) infancy and toddlerhood (birth to 2 years) early childhood (2 to 6 years) middle childhood (6 to 11 years) adolescence ( 11 to 18 years) early adulthood (18 to 40 years) middle adulthood (40-65 years) later adulthood( 65 and beyond) death what are the conceptions of age - Correct Answers ✅chronological age biological age psychological age social age
what are bales life span approach: key principles - Correct
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wvu psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers development is multidimensional development is multidirectional development shows plasticity development is multidisciplinary impiratmce of biology and culture change development involves changing allocation of resources influence of content bates life span approach- development is lifelong - Correct Answers ✅developmental change occurs throughout the life span; each age period is affected by what happened before and will affect later development bates life span approach- development is multidimensional - Correct Answers ✅development entails changes in many
areas of development:
- physical development
- cognitive development
- socioeconomic development
bates life span approach- development is multidirectional - Correct Answers ✅development consisting of gains and losses & growth and decline 2 / 4
wvu psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers bates life span approach- development is plastic - Correct Answers ✅development is malleable or changeable examples of plastic development - Correct Answers ✅the brain and body can compensate for injury bates life span approach- development is multidisciplinary - Correct Answers ✅the contributions of many disciplines are needed to understand how people grow, think, and interact with the world importance of biology and culture change across life span- biological influences - Correct Answers ✅greatest earlier in life span (sensory,abilities , coordination, strength) importance of biology and culture change across life span- influence of culture - Correct Answers ✅increases over the life span and may compensate fro earlier weakness (education technology and relationships) treu or false - development involves changing allocation of resources - Correct Answers ✅true people use their resources to focus on.. - Correct Answers ✅growing, maintaining and coping with loss 3 / 4
wvu psych 241 exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers what are types of typical resources? - Correct Answers ✅time, strength, intelligence, skills, money, relationships context - Correct Answers ✅when and where a person develops context includes - Correct Answers ✅physical and social enviorments, neighborhood, country, culture cohort - Correct Answers ✅a generation of people born at the same time history graded normative influence - Correct Answers ✅wars, epidemics, economic shifts; events shaped attitudes of a historical generation ex; history generation and cohort age-graded normative influences - Correct Answers ✅event tied to chronological age; similar or typical for a specific age ex; maturational and social
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