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Q: How many stages of lifespan development are there?
Answer
8
Q: Name the 8 stages of lifespan development.
Answer
1. Prenatal Development
2. Infancy & Toddlerhood
3. Early Childhood
4. Middle Childhood
5. Adolescence
6. Early Adulthood
7. Middle Adulthood
8. Late Adulthood
Q: Development is loosely defined as __________.
Answer
Change
Q: Name 4 distinctive features of human development. (4 "kinds" or "ways" of
development.)
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1. Lifelong
2. Multidirectional
3. Multidisciplinary
4. Multidimensional.
Q: Development is __________, meaning that it continuous from birth to death.
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Lifelong
Q: Development is ____________, meaning that changes can be good, bad, or both
simultaneously; for example, one could age physically while maturing cognitively.
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Multidirectional.
Q: ___________ is an aspect of multidirectional development; it can describe
physical aging or in cognitive growth.
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Maturation
Q: Development is ____________, which means that it is relevant across many
professional fields/fields of study.
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Multidisciplinary
Q: Name 3 professional fields where human development is relevant. (Think
multidisciplinary)
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1. Social Sciences 2. Healthcare 3. Education
Q: Development is ______________, meaning that changes occur in many
dimensions: Biological, social, emotional, cognitive, moral.
Answer
Multidimensional
Q: Name 3 of the 5 dimensions of human development. (Think multidimensional.)
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1. Biological
2. Social
3. Emotional
4. Cognitive
5. Moral
Q: Name two controversies in human development.
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1. Nurture vs. Nature
2. Continuity vs. Discontinuity
Q: The _________ vs. __________ controversy describes biology vs. social
environment to describe why human beings are the way they are.
Answer
Nature vs. Nurture
Q: The ___________ vs. _____________ controversy describes how stages of
development occur in human beings; one theory suggests a distinct end for each stage,
the other suggests a gradual flow from stage to stage.
Answer
Continuous vs. Discontinuous
Q: Historically, the __________ model of stage development prevailed.
Answer
Discontinuous
Q: A controversy within development, _______________ means that stages of
development gradually flow into each other.
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Continuity
Q: __________ ___________ described 5 psychosexual stages of development
Answer
Sigmund Freud
Q: According to Freud, the personality develops over time in three parts: the ______,
the ________, and the _______________.
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Id, Ego, Superego
Q: The ______ is the earliest developed personality according to Freud.
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Id
Q: According to Freud, the _______ personality consists of our unconscious
impulses that demand immediate fulfillment; infants are born with this.
Answer
Id
Q: According to Freud, the ______ operates according to the reality principle: not all
desires can be fulfilled, or may be fulfilled after a delay.
Answer
Ego
Q: The _______ operates in the conscious and develops in early childhood.
Answer
Ego
Q: According to Freud, the ______________ develops in school-age children.
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Superego
Q: According to Freud, the Superego is a child’s internalization of
_____________________ and ______________________.
Answer
societal norms, standards
Q: According to Freud, the Ego must balance the impulses of the _______ and the
moral standards of the _______________.
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Id, Superego
Q: Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Development theory describes a conflict and a
___________ with an area of the body associated with _____________
________________.
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fixation; sexual gratification.
Name the 5 stages of Freud's Psychosexual Development.
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1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency
5. Genital
Freud's ________ stage of development involves deriving pleasure through the mouth.
Investigating through the mouth; soothing through sucking.
Answer
Oral
Freud's Oral stage of development lasts from birth until age _______
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18 months
Freud's __________ stage involves children deriving pleasure from learning to control
their bodies and the environment around them. (Specifically through toilet training.)
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Anal
Trauma in this stage of development (Freud) can result in fixations about control.
Answer
Anal
According to Freud, an anal retentive personality has a high need for ________ and
__________ in his environment.
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order, cleanliness
Freud's Anal stage of development lasts from 18 months until age _______
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3 years.
According to Freud, the _________ stage of development involves a fixation on the
penis.
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Phallic
In Freud's stages of development, girls may develop __________
_______________, wherein they realize that they are lacking a penis, ie, a significant
feature.
Answer
penis envy
While in the phallic stage of development (Freud), boys experience a desire for their
mothers sexually, which Freud called the ____________ ______________.