Writing assignment is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the psychology content presented in this module.
Using your online textbook as the only resource, write an essay about each of these topics:
1. Explain the lifespan perspective and its assumptions about development.
2. Explain the issues underlying lifespan development.
3. Identify the historical and contemporary theories impacting lifespan
development.
4. Compare research methods noting the advantages and disadvantages of each.
5. Explain ways to conduct ethical research.
6. Distinguish between mitosis and meiosis, genotype and phenotype,
homozygous and heterozygous, and dominant and recessive.
7. Define behavioral genetics, describe genotype-environment correlations and
genotype-environmental interactions, and define epigenetics.
8. Describe the changes that occur in the three periods of prenatal development.
9. Define teratogens and describe the factors that influence their effects. Explain
maternal and paternal factors that affect the developing fetus.
10. Describe problems newborns experience before, during, and after birth.
