1. Define developmentand discuss the period it encompasses.
2. Describe how the traditional approach to development differs from the life-span approach.
3. Describe each of Paul Baltes's life-span development characteristics.
4. List the three systems that interact to determine development in the contextual view, and give an example of each.
5. Briefly define the biological processes, cognitive processes, and socio-emotional processes.
6. Identify and briefly describe four ways age has been conceptualized.
7. Briefly discuss the nature-nurture controversy.
8. Briefly discuss the continuity-discontinuity of development issue.
9. Briefly discuss the stability-change issue.
10. What is the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
11. What are the two main psychoanalytic theories? List one contribution and one criticism of psychoanalytic theories.
12. What are the three cognitive theories discussed in the text? List one contribution and one criticism of cognitive theories.
13. What are the three main behavioral and social cognitive theories? List one contribution and one criticism of behavioral and social cognitive theories.
14. Compare and contrast ethological and ecological theories.
15. List five systems in Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, and give a brief definition of each.