Introduction to Lifespan Development Quiz
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What does ethnocentrism refer to?

  • Belief in the superiority of one's own culture (correct)
  • Shared language, knowledge, and behavior
  • Appreciation of cultural differences
  • Predicted number of years a person born into a particular time

    • Which generation was born between 1965-1980?

  • Silent Generation
  • Baby Boomers
  • Millennials
  • Generation X (correct)

    • What does biological age measure?

  • Length of time a species can exist under optimal conditions
  • Number of years since your birth
  • How quickly your body is changing (correct)
  • Predicted number of years a person born into a particular time

    • What is cultural relativity about?

    <p>Appreciation of cultural differences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does developmental psychology study?

    <p>How people change in cognition, emotional control, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of developmental psychology?

    <p>Studying how people change in cognition, emotional control, and other aspects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'plasticity' refer to in developmental psychology?

    <p>The malleability of many human characteristics and their potential for change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'ethnocentrism' describe?

    <p>Belief in the superiority of one's own culture over others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'socioeconomic status' take into account?

    <p>Education, income, and occupation as identifiers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is 'biological age' defined?

    <p>The rate at which an individual's body is changing over time</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed that the mind of the newborn is a tabula rasa ('blank slate')?

    <p>John Locke</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which developmental theorist proposed that development occurs according to innate processes?

    <p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a theory in the scientific approach propose?

    <p>An explanation for behavior and events used to make predictions about future observations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the nature/nurture debate in developmental psychology focus on?

    <p>The role of heredity and the environment in shaping human development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Whether or not development is best viewed as occurring in stages or as a gradual and cumulative process of change' relates to which area of disagreement among developmental theorists?

    <p>Continuity versus discontinuity</p> Signup and view all the answers

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