Chapter 1 Student name:__________ MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Life-span development covers the period from__________ to__________. A) birth; middle adulthood B) birth; old age C) conception; early adulthood D) conception; death 2) Which of the following gives thebest description of how life-span psychologists describe "development"? A) the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and lasts through the human life span B) the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and forms an adult’s personality and physiology C) the growth in skills and processes experienced from childhood through adolescence D) the change in personality and perspective experienced by individuals between adolescence and adulthood 3) The study of life-span development is the study of human development from conception to death. Historically, however, m