1. Which description best captures human development across the life course?
2. Which example correctly matches a developmental process with what it involves?
3. What does the life-span perspective imply about the timing and pattern of development?
What is development in human life?
A pattern of progressive, orderly, and predictable changes from conception onward.
What do biological processes in development involve?
Inherited physical development.
What does the life-span perspective treat development as?
Development as lifelong, from conception to old age with dynamic gains and losses.
What does plasticity mean in psychological development?
The modifiability of skills and abilities throughout the life-span.
Development: key processes?
Biological, cognitive, socio-emotional
Life-span perspective principle?
Development is lifelong, multidirectional, plastic
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