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1. Your textbook provides current and comprehensive coverage of four contemporary concerns in life-span development: health and well-being, parenting and education, sociocultural contexts and diversity, and social policy. In your own words, explain the nature and importance of each of these four contemporary concerns. For each concern, also provide one example from your own life and times that illustrates how it relates to you personally.
2. Explain the meaning of (a) nature and nurture, (b) continuity and discontinuity, and (c) stability and change. Also, explain why current life-span developmentalists do not adopt extreme positions on the three issues.
3. Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Erikson. Also, explain whether Erikson changed psychoanalytic theory in a fundamental way.
4. Compare and contrast the Piagetian and information-processing approaches to cognitive development. Which approach appears to be more “developmental”? Defend your answer using the characteristics of life-span development outlined in Chapter 1.
5. Think about your life during the past 24 hours from the perspective of behavioral and social cognitive theories. Provide at least two examples of how (a) rewards, (b) punishments, and (c) observational learning have influenced your behavior during this time frame.
6. Explain and evaluate ethological theory by indicating its strengths and limitations, and the aspects of development that are not explained by this approach to life-span development.
7. Define and distinguish the five systems in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory. Provide at least two examples of each system by citing aspects from your own personal life.
8. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches to research? In what ways do cross-sectional and longitudinal designs differ from experimental strategies? What kinds of conclusions can you draw from each?
9. What precautions must be taken to safeguard the rights and welfare of a child who might be a psychological subject? In your answer, relate each precaution to a specific ethical concern. In addition, discuss at least two examples of other types of subjects who pose similar ethical difficulties for researchers.

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