Psyc 335 Infant and child development Practice Exam Questions Answered Correctly.
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PSYC 335
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PSYC 335
What is development? - Answer systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death
What drives development? - Answer maturation and learning
What is maturation? - Answer hereditary influences on aging process
What is learning? - Answer c...
Psyc 335 Infant and child development
Practice Exam Questions Answered
Correctly.
What is development? - Answer systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur
between conception and death
What drives development? - Answer maturation and learning
What is maturation? - Answer hereditary influences on aging process
What is learning? - Answer change in behavior due to experience
3 goals of developmentalist - Answer 1. describe
2. explain
3. optimize
what is the nature of development - Answer continutal, holistic plastic, and historical/cultural
contextual
Jean Piaget - Answer schemes become more complex with development
What is assimilation? - Answer using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation
What is accommodation? - Answer modifying an old schema to fit a new object or problem or
incorporate new experiences
What are Piaget's stages of cognitive development? - Answer Sensorimotor (0-2) exploration of senses,
improving motor coordination
, Preoperational (2-7) usage of symbols
Concrete (7-11) logical thought
Formal (11+) abstract thought
ideographic development - Answer individual variations in the rate, extent, or direction of
development
Vygotsky - Answer children acquire their culture's values, belief and problem solving strategies through
knowledgeable members of society
What is the zone of proximal development? - Answer the difference between what a learner can do
without help and what he or she can do with help
Active role of child - Answer children actively contribute to their own development
Passive role of child - Answer children are passive recipients of environmental influence
Homozygous - Answer Having two identical alleles for a particular gene, both are either dominant or
recessive
codominant alleles - Answer both alleles are expressed simultaneously
sex-linked traits - Answer Traits controlled by genes located on sex chromosomes. most are on the x
making males more susceptible to recessive x linked traits
What is polygenic inheritance? - Answer - Most important human characteristics are influenced by
many pairs of alleles
- These traits follow a pattern of continuous variation and follow a normal curve distribution
what are some prenatal detection techniques? - Answer 1. amniocentesis
2. chorionic villus sampling
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