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Lifespan Development

Check Your Understanding Questions

Lifespan DevelopmentCheck Your Understanding Questions
16 .
Describe Erikson’s third stage of psychosocial development. What is meant by initiative? What is meant by guilt?
17 .
How is the social world around preschoolers changing in early childhood? What is new and different from infancy and toddlerhood?
18 .
What are some of the ways children learn about gender stereotypes in early childhood?
19 .
What happens in the stage of ethnic knowledge? What types of knowledge are taught, obtained, and understood?
20 .
What are some of the ways punishment can be made more effective when a parent needs to discourage a behavior in a child?
21 .
What makes research on siblings so complicated?
22 .
How are peers different from friends?
23 .
Describe three different motivations for aggression.
24 .
What is a media diet made up of?
25 .
How does desensitization work? What causes it to happen?
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