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1. Which of the following statements is incorrect about the study of life-span development?
The study of development views human development as a life-long process.
It was not until the 1960s that interest in adult development and aging became systematized and that these topics gradually grew into major areas of research.
The study of development can be applied to all ages.
The study of development focuses more on infancy and childhood than later stages of development.
2. Which of the following is incorrect about the concept of developmental continuity?
Developmental continuity focuses on finding the identical behavior at different age points.
Developmental continuity concerns how and why people remain the same over time.
Prediction is at the core of developmental continuity.
It explains the preservation of individual characteristics over age.
3. Developmental trajectories explore diverse courses of development among individuals and pay more attention to individual differences.
True
False
4. _______________ assume that each psychological domain is served by its own specific mechanisms and the development of one domain occurs independently from other domains.
Domain variation
Developmental stage
Domain specificity
Domain general view
5. Multidimensionality indicates that different aspects of behavior including biological, cognitive, and socioemotional aspects may simultaneously show distinct courses of developmental change.
True
False