<p>Chapter 1: Understanding Life-Span Human Development</p><p>1. What is development? What processes underlie developmental changes across the life span?</p><p>2. How has our understanding of different periods of the life-span changed historically? What cultural and subcultural differences exist in perspectives of the life span?</p><p>3. What are the three goals of developmental psychology and the seven assumptions of the life-span perspective on human development? </p><p>4. How is the scientific method used to study development? </p><p>5. What are the important features of the experimental method? What sorts of information can be gathered from an experimental study? </p><p>6. What are the important features of the correlational method? What sorts of information can be gathered from this type of study?</p><p>7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the cross-sectional and longitudinal designs and how does the sequential design resolve the weaknesses of the cross-sectional and longitudinal designs?</p><p>8. What is the bioecological model of development? </p><p>9. What problems or issues arise in studying development?</p>