Researchers and practitioners whose professional interest lies in the study of human lifespan.
What are developmentalists?
100
The age group with whom we travel through life.
What is cohort?
100
The gap between the rich and poor within a nation.
What is income inequality?
100
Any perspective explaining why people act the way they do.
What is theory?
100
A measurement strategy that involves directly watching and coding behaviors in the participants' natural environment.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
The scientific study of the aging process and older adults.
What is gerontology?
200
The huge age group born between 1946 and 1964.
What is the baby boom cohort?
200
A basic marker referring to status on the educational - and especially - income rungs.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
200
Environmental causes of development.
What is nurture?
200
A developmental research strategy that involves testing an age group repeatedly over many years.
What is a longitudinal study?
300
The scientific field covering all of the human lifespan.
What is lifespan development?
300
The phase of life that begins after high school, tapers off toward the late twenties, and is devoted to constructing an adult life.
What is emerging adulthood?
300
Societies that prize social harmony, obedience, and close family connectedness over individual achievement.
What are collectivist cultures?
300
The original behavioral worldview that focused on charting and modifying only "objective," visible behaviors.
What is traditional behaviorism?
300
Each challenge that we face as we travel through the 8 stages of the lifespan.
What are Erikson's psychosocial tasks?
400
The scientific study of the adult part of life.
What is adult development?
400
The biological limit of human life (about 105 years).
What is maximum lifespan?
400
The more impoverished countries of the world.
What is the developing world?
400
A type of learning that illustrates that we act the way we do because we are reinforced for acting in that way.
What is operant conditioning?
400
Biological or genetic causes of development.
What is nature?
500
Unpredictable or atypical life changes that occur during development.
What are non-normative transitions?
500
People in their sixties and seventies.
What is young-old?
500
Dramatic loss of jobs (and consumer spending) that began with the bursting of the US housing bubble that began the year before.
What is the Great Recession of 2008?
500
Theory formulated by John Bowlby centering on the crucial importance of our species' survival of being closely connected with a caregiver during early childhood and being attached to a significant other during all of life.
What is attachment theory?
500
The extent to which the environment is tailored to our biological tendencies and talents.