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Lifespan
Vocabulary
Issues in Human Development
Viewpoints in Human Development
Other
100
The stage of life from conception to birth.
What is the Prenatal period
100
Is the physical changes that occur from conception to maturation.
What is Growth
100
This issue argues that humans are inherently good, innately bad, or both.
What is Goodness VS Badness of Human Nature
100

Theory that proposes that people are driven by motives and emotional conflicts; and that these motives are based on early experiences in life.

What is the Psychoanalytic viewpoint

100
Name the model developed by Bronfenbrenner
What is Bioecological Model OR Human Ecological Model
200
The first two years of life in the life span
What is Infancy
200
Society's way of telling people to act their age
What are Age Norms
200
This issue argues that humans actively shape their environment or that humans are passively shaped by forces beyond their control.
What is Activity VS Passivity
200
This viewpoint discusses a person's ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO
What is the psychoanalytic viewpoint (Freud/Erikson)
200
The piece of the system that is an immediate physical and social environment in which a person interacts face-to-face with others and is influenced by them.
What is Microsystems.
300
Period of life 65 years and older
What is Late Adulthood
300
Developmental changes that are biologically programmed by genes rather than caused primarily by learning, inquiry, illness, or some other life experience.
What is Maturation
300
This viewpoint argues that humans change and develop gradually or that humans change and develop dramatically through stages.
What is Continuity VS Discontinuity
300
This viewpoint is the construction of the thought process from childhood to adulthood.
What is Cognitive Development (Piaget)
300
The part of the system that identifies that people and environments change over over time.
What is Chronosystem
400
Period of life from 40-65
What is Middle Adulthood
400
A functional unit of heredity made up of DNA and transmitted from generation to generation.
What are Genes
400
This issue argues that development is either primarily a product of genes OR experiences.
What is Nature VS Nurture
400
This viewpoint says that a long term change in behavior is based on experiences.
What is Learning Perspective (Skinner/Bandura)
400
The linkages involving social settings that individuals do not experience directly but can still influence their development.
What is Exosystem.
500
True or False: Every human being goes through the same stages in the life span.
TRUE - every human goes through the same stages of development, only at different speeds.
500
The deterioration of organisms that leads inevitably to their death.
What is Biological Aging
500
This viewpoint argues that development is similar from person to person in the same culture, or that development varys depending on the social context.
What is Universality VS Content Specific
500
This theory says that changes over the lifespan arise from the ongoing transactions between a changing organism and a changing world.
What is the Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner/Gottlieb)
500

The larger cultural context in which all other systems are embedded.

What is Macrosystem