Lifespan Psychology

Development is about

• change.

• age.

• gender.

• genes.

Development is

• a lifelong process.

• age focused.

• topically restricted.

• circular in nature.

Lifespan psychology assumes that

development is

• unidimensional.

• chronologically explained.

• multidimensional.

• age limited.

Understanding childhood at any

historical period depends on

what _____ think of children.

• peers

• scientists

• siblings

• adults

A model that uses the interaction

of biological, psychological, and

social influences to explain

development is the

• psychoanalytic.

• cognitive.

• biopsychosocial.

• behavioral.

One of the first outstanding

theorists to recognize the importance

of the early years was

• Skinner.

• Freud.

• Bandura.

• Hebb.

Lifespan psychologists cannot focus

solely on _____ for explanation.

• maturation

• genes

• schooling

• age

When we refer to the values,

beliefs, and characteristics of a

people, we are referring to

• culture.

• race.

• ethinicity.

• customs.

Adolescence begins in _____ and

ends in _____ .

• biology, culture

• school, marriage

• structures, schema

• ego, superego

Descriptive studies

• determine cause and effect.

• manipulate variables.

• require experimenter control.

• generate considerable data.