Some dimensions expand and others shrink Correct Answer: MULTIDIRECTIONAL Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions Correct Answer: MULTIDIMENSIONAL The capacity for change Correct Answer: plasticity Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development; no age period dominates development Correct Answer: lifelong Various areas of study have an interest in the field of development through the life span Correct Answer: MULTIDISCIPLINARY All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural, and historic factors) Correct Answer: CONTEXTUAL Nature Correct Answer: refers to an organism's biological inheritance EXAMPLE OF NATURE Correct Answer: sunflower grows in an orderly way Nurture Correct Answer: environmental experiences EXAMPLE OF NURTURE Correct Answer: sunflower is smashed by unfriendly environment Continuity Correct Answer: involves gradual, cumulative change EXAMPLE OF CONTINUITY Correct Answer: seed to tree Discontinuity Correct Answer: distinct stages EXAMPLE OF DISCONTINUITY Correct Answer: a child's first word Stability Correct Answer: We become older renditions of our early experience EXAMPLE OF STABILITY Correct Answer: many older adults continue to be good at practicing what they have learned earlier in life EXAPLE OF CHANGE Correct Answer: older adults often show less capacity for learning new things than younger adults do CHANGE Correct Answer: we develop into someone different from who we were at an earlier point in development Freud Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Theories Correct Answer: psychosexual development: oral (birth to 1.5 years), anal (1.5 to 3 years), phallic (3-6 years), latency (6 to puberty), and genital (puberty onward)
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