DEP 4164 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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DEP 4164 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
2 basic issues that theorists address when explaining child development - CORRECT
ANSWER- are children active or reactive in their own environment
AND
is development continuous or discontinuous
Advances in the West that paved way for scie...
DEP 4164 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
2 basic issues that theorists address when explaining child development - CORRECT
ANSWER- are children active or reactive in their own environment
AND
is development continuous or discontinuous
Advances in the West that paved way for scientific study of child development - CORRECT
ANSWER- survival rate increase
- Discovery of germs
-Development of vaccines
Child welfare laws
New science of psychology suggested that people could better understand themselves by
learning what influences them as children
Factors that helped to pioneer the study of child development as a true science - CORRECT
ANSWER- -Adolescence was first considered a period of development when G Stanley Hall
published his book, Adolescence (1904)
-Establishment of research institutes marked emergence of child psychology as a true science.
-Longitudinal studies provided research based information about normative developments at
different ages
Meaning of "studying the lifespan" in the field of developmental psychology - CORRECT
ANSWER- Looking at development from womb to tomb
The three domains of development studied by developmental scientists - CORRECT
ANSWER- Physical development: Growth of body and brain
,Cognitive development: Pattern of change in mental abilities
Psychosocial development: Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social
relationships
(All three are interrelated)
Names and age ranges of the five major age periods studied in child development -
CORRECT ANSWER- Prenatal: Conception to birth
Infancy and Toddlerhood: Birth to age 3
Early Childhood: Ages 3 to 6
Middle Childhood: Ages 6 to 11
Adolescence:Ages 11 to 20
Maturation - CORRECT ANSWER- Unfolding of a universal, natural sequence of physical
changes & behavior changes.
Examples of milestones that are based largely on maturation - CORRECT ANSWER- -
changes of infancy & early childhood are tied to the change of the body and brain
-As children grow into adolescents and then adults, individual characteristics (heredity) and
life experience (environment) play an important role in their development
Normative age-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER- Events such as puberty and entry
into formal education, which are highly similar for people in a particular age group.
Ex. The impact of technological developments such as video games, computers, and the
Internet
Normative history-graded - CORRECT ANSWER- Significant events that shape the behavior
and
attitudes of a historical
generation.
Ex. War, 9/11
Nonnormative influences - CORRECT ANSWER- Unusual events that have a major impact
on individual's lives because they disturb the expected sequence of the life cycle.
, Critical period - CORRECT ANSWER- Specific time when a given event or its absence has a
profound and specific impact on development.
Reactive development - CORRECT ANSWER- Children grasp experiences that mold them
over time. Environment/external factors drives developmental change
Active development - CORRECT ANSWER- Children create their experiences and are
internally motivated to learn about the world around them.Heredity/internal factors drives
developmental change
Continuous development - CORRECT ANSWER- Change is quantitative - change in number
or amount
e.g., increases in height, weight, or size of vocabulary across childhood and adolescence.
Discontinuous development - CORRECT ANSWER- Change is qualitative: Change in kind,
structure, or organization.Development proceeds in stages.
Difference between Erikson and Freud's theories - CORRECT ANSWER- Erikson studied
people from birth to death Freud only studied people into adolescence Erikson proposed 8
stages of development while Freud proposed 5 stages
Erikson's psychosocial theory focused on social and environmental factors while Freud's
psychosexual theory focused on the importance of basic and biological needs
Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER- Observed behavior is a predictable response to
EXPERIENCE
Development is reactive and continuous.
Environment is more influential than biology humans learn by reacting to aspects of their
environment that they find pleasing, painful, or threatening.
Learning occurs throughout the lifespan.
Two forms of associative learning - CORRECT ANSWER- Classical conditioning and
operant conditioning
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