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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Our knowledge of human development is interdisciplinary. What does this mean? | Individuals from diverse fields have contributed to our knowledge of human development. |
| An orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior is a: | theory. |
| According to the lifespan perspective | development is plastic at all ages |
| Rousseau’s theory, which regarded children as noble savages, stressed that: | children are innately endowed with a sense of right and wrong and a plan for orderly, healthy growth. |
| Which of the following theorists emphasized the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest? | Darwin |
| In the normative approach to child study, researchers: | take measures of behavior on large numbers of children and then compute age-related averages to represent typical development. |
| Which of the following theories is noted for its focus on the unique developmental history of each individual? | psychoanalytic theory |
| Erikson’s psychosocial theory: | emphasized that the ego acquires attitudes and skills that make the individual an active, contributing member of society. |
| During Piaget’s _____________________ stage, children’s reasoning becomes logical, and they develop the ability to organize objects into hierarchies of classes and subclasses. | concrete operational |
| New evidence challenging Piaget’s theory suggests that he: | underestimated the competencies of young children. |
| Which of the following theories is concerned with the adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary significance? | ethology |
| Evolutionary developmental psychology is the study of: | the adaptive value of species-wide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as those competencies change over time. |
| According to _____________, cognitive development is a socially mediated process. | Vygotsky |
| To understand human development at the level of the microsystem, one must keep in mind that all relationships are: | bidirectional. |
| Jennifer’s mother volunteers as a room mother. This connection between home and school illustrates Bronfenbrenner’s: | mesosystem. |
| A researcher interested in the development of aggression in young children goes into a preschool. She keeps a record of all aggressive acts occurring during her time in the classroom. This is an example of: | naturalistic observation. |
| Ethnography aims to understand a culture or distinct social group through: | participant observation. |
| In a correlational design, researchers: | gather information on already existing groups of individuals, generally in natural life circumstances. |
| In a study of the association between parental warmth and children’s mental health, an investigator finds a correlation of +.31. What does this correlation coefficient indicate about the relationship between these two variables? | As parental warmth increases, children’s mental health also increases. |
| An experimental design permits inferences about cause and effect because: | the researcher controls changes in the independent variable. |
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