Syllabus Year: 2023 - 2024

CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), Bengaluru - 560029

End Semester Examination

UG III Semester

Code : PSY331 Max. Marks: 50

Course : LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT Duration: 2Hrs

General Instructions:

● Read the questions carefully and attempt every section.

● All rough work should be done in the answer script.
● Do not write or scribble in the question paper except your register number.
● Verify the Course code / Course title & number of pages of questions in the question paper.
● Make sure your mobile phone is switched off and placed at the designated place in the hall.
Malpractices will be viewed very seriously.
● Answers should be written on both sides of the paper in the answer booklet. No sheets should
be detached from the answer booklet.
● Answers without the question numbers clearly indicated will not be valued.
● No page should be left blank in the middle of the answer booklet.

Course Outcomes (COs):

The student will be able to:

● CO1: Define basic concepts, issues and debates in the field of developmental psychology.
● CO2: Explain principal theories of lifespan development.
● CO3: Explain human development as progressing through different stages.

SECTION A

Answer ALL the questions in one or two sentences. 5 x 2= 10

Q. No. Questions CO RBT

Examine the interrelationship between any two domains of

1 development with a suitable example. 1 L4
 Differentiate primary aging from secondary aging.
2 1 L2

'Adolescents often show a sense of invincibility.' Appraise the

3 2 L5
aspect of cognitive limitation.

Explain the stages of 'identity moratorium' and 'identity

4 foreclosure'. 2 L3

What is the 'quarter-life crisis'?

5 1 L1

SECTION B

Answer the following within 250 to 300 words 3 x 10= 30

Q. No. Questions CO RBT

Define developmental psychology (2 Marks). Explain the nature

6 1 L4
and issues of development (8 Marks).

7 Trace the development of the Brain during the prenatal period. 2 L3

a. Discuss the role played by nature and nurture in language

development.

OR
8 2 L4
b. Emotional expression is involved in an infant's first
relationship. Elaborate on how cries and smiles help
infants when interacting with parents.

SECTION C

Read the case study and answer the questions that follow 1 x 10= 10

9. Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was one of the world’s most distinguished stage and screen
actresses. Bergman had been obsessed with acting since she had seen her first play at the age
of 11 in her native Sweden. Tall, awkward and shy, she came alive on stage. Plucked out of
Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic School at 18 to make her first film. She braved the wrath of the
school’s director, who warned that movies destroy her talent.

At 22, she married Dr. Petter Lindstrom, a handsome, successful dentist eight years her
senior, who later became a prominent brain surgeon. It was he who urged her to accept the
producer David Selznick’s invitation to go to Hollywood to make Intermezzo. At 23, she
arrived, to be joined later by her husband and infant daughter, Pia. Bergman began to see her
husband- whom she had always leaned on for help and decision making- as overprotective,
controlling, jealous, and critical. The couples spent long hours, days, and weeks apart- she at
the studio or on tour, he at the hospital.

Meanwhile, Bergman was becoming dissatisfied with filming on studio lots. When she saw
Rossellini’s award-winning Open City, she was stunned by its power and realism and by
Rossellini’s artistic freedom and courage. She wrote to him, offering to come to Italy and
work with him. The result was Stromboli- and the end of what she now saw as a constructive,
unfulfilling marriage.

At 33, Bergman, who had been number one at the box office, became a Hollywood outcast.
Her affair made headlines worldwide. So did the illegitimate birth of Robertino in 1950,
Bergman’s hurried Mexican divorce and proxy marriage there to Rossellini, the birth of twin
daughters in 1952, and the struggle over visitation rights with Pia, who took her father’s side
and did not see her guilt-ridden mother for 6 years.

Based on the above case please answer the following questions in 200-300 words

Q. No. Questions CO RBT

Discuss Bergman’s temperament in childhood with the help of a

a. theory (3 marks). 2 L4

Explain the romantic relationships of Bergman using Sternberg's

b. Triangular Theory of Love (5 marks). 1 L4

How does divorce affect Bergman's life (2 marks)?

c. 2 L3

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) Levels :

L1 – Remembering L2 – Understanding L3 – Applying

L4 – Analyzing L5 – Evaluating L6 - Creating

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