Exam 2: The Science of Lifespan Development: Goals, Theories and Methodology

When creating normative descriptions of adult development, it is often necessary to come up with separate norms for adults with different backgrounds and varying kinds of lifestyles and life experiences.

The best picture of development can be drawn when cross- sectional, longitudinal and time- lag research are conducted at the same time on the same group of people.

The rapid progress of social change, particularly in areas of health care, education, technology and attitudes to women's employment, are:

The researcher is able to test causal hypotheses in a _____________ .

Which of the following is not correct regarding case studies?

A basic assumption of Buhler's theory is that each human life is coherently organised from birth to death around a goal activity.

Learning to do something by observing someone else doing it is an example of vicarious reinforcement.

_____________ originally pioneered the notion of lifespan development as a predictable process of qualitative gains in personality, strength, organisation and complexity.

The three goals of lifespan developmental scientists are description, explanation and potentialisation.

In some of his early research, Albert Bandura (1969) showed that aggression can develop through observational learning and modelling.

_____________ to boost development or remove obstacles in the path of development can supply ways of testing models, explanations and theories of human development.

In a behaviour modification/cognitive behaviour therapy context, which of the following is an example of Reinforcement?

According to Baltes, _____________ entails choosing or developing a psychological attribute, element or strategy to perform a particular psychological function.

In a/an _____________ , the same group of participants is followed through time, being tested at regular intervals as they grow older.

The findings of laboratory experiments and case studies generalise well into the typical individual's everyday life.

Cohort- specific experiences are a major problem for which of the following research methods?

According to Freud, which of the personality structures is dominant during the oral stage?

Age norms facilitate social services planning and environmental design for particular age groups.

In a cross- sectional study, members of different age groups, chosen to be similar to one another on dimensions other than age, are compared at a number of points in time.