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What question would a person ask to BEST understand someone's socioeconomic status?
-"What is your education level?"
-"What is your medical history?"
-"What is your income?" - ✔✔"What is your education level?" and "What is your income?"
and "What is your occupation?"
Our relationships with others, changes in emotions, and changes in personality are all examples of
__________ development/processes. - ✔✔socioemotional
Biology is to __________ as environment is to __________. - ✔✔nature/nurture
A set of ideas that helps us to explain our data and make further predictions is known as a(n): ________.
- ✔✔theory.
Which statement about the lifespan is MOST true?
-Most people's lives are the same, no matter where in the world they live.
-Throughout history, people's day-to-day lives have not changed much no matter where in the world
they live.
-Most ideas about proper human behavior are universal. - ✔✔The human lifespan varies
dramatically depending on cohort, socioeconomic status, cultural background, and gender.
Normative life events are the same in all cultures. - ✔✔False
,Two of the major areas comprising the study of lifespan development include _____ and _____. -
✔✔child development; gerontology
Which is an example of a non-normative transition?
-Frank is getting married at age 28.
-Yolanda is entering a master's program at age 22.
-Rachel is getting her driver's permit at age 16. - ✔✔Joseph is beginning medical school at age 58.
Which is NOT a normative transition?
-Mary begins kindergarten at age 5.
-Sara has a child when she is in her twenties.
-Manuel retires at age 65. - ✔✔Josephine has a terrible car accident at age 18.
Viewing infants as tabula rasas suggests that: - ✔✔experience will mold infants into
unique individuals.
Locke's tabula rasa is the idea that infants are blank slates on which experience writes.
The idea that the mind of the human infant is a tabula rasa at birth reflects the belief that: -
✔✔experience molds each person into a unique individual.
If parents believe that children are tabula rasas at birth, they are likely to: - ✔✔plan their
children's experiences from the moment of their birth.
Locke believed that experience was important to development; therefore parents play an important
role in planning their children's experiences.
The French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau, believed that: - ✔✔infants were born with an
innate sense of justice and morality.
,Rousseau believed that infants are born with an innate sense of justice and morality.
Heather believes her 12-month-old daughter will develop optimally if Heather gives her freedom to
grow naturally and does not try to shape her development. Heather's beliefs about child rearing are
most similar to those of: - ✔✔Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Rousseau believed in a natural unfolding of a child's innate sense of justice and morality, a
philosophy that formed the basis of the maturational theory.
Detailed, systematic observations of individual children are referred to as: - ✔✔baby biographies.
Baby biographies are detailed, systematic observations of individual children. The observations in the
biographies were often subjective and the conclusions were sometimes reached on the basis of minimal
evidence.
__________________ based his ideas about child development on evolutionary theory and was
interested in age-trends in children's beliefs and feelings. - ✔✔G. Stanley Hall
Hall generated theories based on evolutionary theory and conducted studies to determine age trends in
children's beliefs and feelings about a range of topics.
__________________ uses developmental research to promote healthy development, particularly for
vulnerable children and families. - ✔✔Applied developmental science
A new branch of child-development research has emerged that is known as applied developmental
science, which uses developmental research to promote healthy development.
An organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development is referred to as a: - ✔✔theory.
Theories are organized sets of ideas that are designed to explain and make predictions about
development.
, The view that development is a result of the unfolding of a specific and prearranged scheme or
plan within the body is characteristic of: - ✔✔Arnold Gesell's maturational theory.
This describes maturational theory, which was put forth by Gesell.
___________ theory states that child development occurs according to a prearranged scheme or plan
within the body. - ✔✔Maturational
According to Gesell, maturational theory reflects a specific and prearranged scheme or plan within
the body.
Gesell's maturational theory most closely fits with the ideas of - ✔✔Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Rousseau believed in a natural unfolding of a child's innate sense of justice and morality, a
perspective very much in keeping with maturational theory.
Which of the following theories has a biological perspective? - ✔✔Gesell's maturational theory
Maturational theory and ethological theory are the two theories with a biological perspective.
An evolutionary perspective is most closely associated with which of the following theories? -
✔✔ethological
Ethological theory is based on Darwin's theory of evolution.
When a particular type of learning can take place only during a specific time period, not before or after
that period, there is a(n) ___________ for learning that behavior. - ✔✔critical period
Ethologists believe that all animals are biologically programmed so that some kinds of learning occur
only at certain ages.
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