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- Explain the distinctive features of a life-span perspective on development.
- What is development?
- Why is the study of life-span development important?
- What is the historical background of the study of life-span development?
- What are the seven main characteristics of the life-span perspective?
- What are three aspects of the contextual characteristic?
- Identify the most important processes, periods, and issues in development.
- What are the three key developmental processes?
- What are eight main developmental periods?
- What are four ways age can be conceptualized?
- What are three important developmental issues?
- Describe five theoretical perspectives on human development.
- What are the four steps in the scientific method?
- What is the relation between a theory and hypotheses?
- What are two main psychoanalytic theories?
- What are some strengths and weaknesses of the psychoanalytic theories?
- What are the three main cognitive theories?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the cognitive theories?
- What are the three main behavioral and social cognitive theories, and how can they be characterized?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral and social cognitive theories?
- What is the nature of the ethological theory of development?
- What are its strengths and weaknesses?
- What is the nature of ecological theory?
- What are its strengths and weaknesses?
- What is an eclectic orientation?
- Explain how research on life-span development is conducted
- How are data on life-span development collected?
- What are the main research designs used in studying development?
- What are some ways that researchers study the effects of time on peoples lives?
- What are researchers ethical responsibilities to the people they study?
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