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1. How does Santrock define lifespan development? How does this differ from more

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1. How does Santrock define lifespan development? How does this differ from more traditional perspectives on lifespan development? a. Be familiar with the characteristics of the lifespan perspective - plasticity, multidirectional, multidisciplinary, contextual, lifelong 2. What is a social policy? What are some examples of social policies? 3. Understand the meaning of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes. 4. What is the nature versus nurture debate? Which concept relates more ta biological and which concept relates more to environmental influences? 5. Know the four different ways age can be defined and what each means. 6. What do the following terms mean: a) normative age-graded influence on development; b) normative history-graded influence on development; c) non- normative life events. What is an example of each?

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Answer 2- Social policy is a type of policy usually comes under a governmental or political settings, such as welfare state and social services.

Social policy consists of guidelines, principles, legislations, activities, that affects the living conditions with respect to human welfare such as quality of a persons life.

Social policies helps individuals and families well being by-

educating children and youth,

assuring good food, healthy nutrition to childrens and lactating womem in rural areas,

minimum levels of income and

goods and services such as food , housing and health care

providing employment and job trainings for youths

meeting the special needs of vulnerable populations

Answer 3- These are the three key developmentl processess discussed in the fields of psychology :

Bilological processes- Change that occur in physical nature

Cognitive process- Changes in intelligence and language

Socioemotional process- Changes in emotions, relationships and personality

Answer 4- The nature versus nurture debate is concernes with the extent to which particular aspects of our behaviour comes of either inherites through biological means (genetic) or acquired or learned type of characteristics. Nature is what we think and is influenced by genetic inheritance and relates to the bilogical factors. eg- color of eyes, type of hair, color of skinand certain diseases.

Nurture is generally taken as the influence of extenal or environmental factors eg- characteristics gained from exposure , experience and learning of an individual. eg- height, weight, hair loss, life expectancy