Basics

Question 1

What are the developmental stages?

Answer 1

• Conception to birth ( ~ 9 months)
• Infancy & Toddlerhood (0-3 years old)
• Early childhood & preschool (3 - 5 yrs old)
• Middle childhood school age ( 6 to 12 years old)
• Adolescence ( 13 to 18)
• Emerging Adulthood ( 18 to 24)

Question 2

Why study developmental psychology?

Answer 2

• professional goals
• inform social policy (such as parental rights)
• parenting aspects, parenting tasks
• self understanding
• nature v. nurture
• understand future of society
• children can be molded
• how culture impacts development

Question 3

Goals of developmental psychologists?

Answer 3

• ages/stages of new skills
• prevalence
• why does behavior change with development?
• what is biologically predetermined?
• what does the environment have to do with the development?
• what is the relationship between nurture v. nature

Question 4

What are the domains of development?

Answer 4

• Cognitive
• Social
• Emotional
• Physical

Question 5

Physical Development

Answer 5

• biological changes that occur in the body such as changes in height and strength

Question 6

Cognitive Development

Answer 6

• Changes in the way we think, understand and reason about the world

Question 7

Social-emotional development

Answer 7

• changes in the way we connect to other individuals & express & understand emotions