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CD 105 Final ExamThe study of human development may best be described as an attempt to understand: - correct answer
✔✔how and why people change across the life span.
The study of human development is empirical, meaning that it is based on: - correct answer ✔✔actual
facts
Which of the following is NOT one of the domains of human development discussed in the text? - correct
answer ✔✔chronological development
You and your high school classmates are part of the same: - correct answer ✔✔cohort
The notion of plasticity refers to the: - correct answer ✔✔ability of human traits to be molded during
development.
The first step in the scientific method involves: - correct answer ✔✔posing a question
Experiments allow researchers to: - correct answer ✔✔determine a cause-and-effect relationship
A researcher who tests the same individuals over thirty years, when they are 10, 20, 30, and 40 years
old, is conducting: - correct answer ✔✔longitudinal research
A researcher is interested in studying children's aggression. She begins recording data as soon as she
sees a fight break out between two children. She is using a method of recording observations known as:
- correct answer ✔✔event sampling
If you find a correlation between school grades and school attendance, you can conclude that: - correct
answer ✔✔high attendance and high grades tend to occur together
, Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson are best known for their contributions to ______ theory. - correct
answer ✔✔psychoanalytic
The psychoanalytic theories were the first to suggest that - correct answer ✔✔Early experiences
influence later social and emotional development
Unlike Freud, Erikson's psychosocial theory emphasizes: - correct answer ✔✔the social and emotional
conflicts
Behaviorism focuses on which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔observable behavior
The theorist most associated with Social Learning/Modeling theory is: - correct answer ✔✔Bandura
The researcher most associated with operant conditioning is: - correct answer ✔✔B. F. Skinner
The idea that children are born as blank slates, to be molded and shaped by the environment is known
as: - correct answer ✔✔Tabula Rasa
In operant conditioning, reinforcers: - correct answer ✔✔increase the likelihood that a behavior will be
repeated.
Social learning theory emphasizes: - correct answer ✔✔observation and imitation
Piaget's theory of development focused primarily on: - correct answer ✔✔how our thinking changes as
we grow older.
Lev Vygotsky is best known for his contributions to ______ theory. - correct answer ✔✔sociocultural
The process by which a skilled person helps a novice learn by engaging the learner in joint activities is
referred to as: - correct answer ✔✔guided participation
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