Unit 3: Stages of Development

What type of development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, senses, motor skills, and health and wellness?

• Physical

• Cognitive

• Learning

• Psychosocial

What type of development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity?

• Psychosocial

• Emotional

• Artistic

• Cognitive

What does nature refer to in the nature v. nurture debate?

• Genes and biology

• Cognitive Capacity

• Environment and culture

• Language acquisition

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental _________________.

• milestones

• norms

• markers

• boundaries

When development proceeds in a step by step fashion, where there are periods of growth and stagnancy, psychologists would say that this is taking what kind of trajectory?

• Discontinous

• Continous

• Unidirectional

• Bidirectional

Which theorist is credited with proposing the psychosexual stages of development?

• Freud

• Erikson

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

What psychologist believes lifespan development encompasses eight stages and at each stage we encounter a psychosocial crisis that must be resolved?

• Erikson

• Maslow

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

_______ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information.

• Schemata

• Categories

• Cognitions

• Prototypes

Between birth and one year, infants are dependent on their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant’s needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as a safe, predictable place. In Erikson’s developmental theory, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

• Trust v. Mistrust

• Autonomy v. Shame/doubt

• Industry v. Inferiority

• Identity v. Confusion

After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. Within the psychosocial model of development, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

• Integrity v. Despair

• Generativity v. Stagnation

• Identity v. Guilt

• Initiative v. Guilt