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qualitative change - Correct Answer Change in kind, structure, or organization, such as the change from nonverbal to verbal communication quantitative change - Correct Answer Change in number or amount, such as in height, weight, or size of vocabulary Multifinality - Correct Answer the concept that various outcomes may stem from similar beginnings Equifinality - Correct Answer one symptom can have many causes Skepticism - Correct Answer the idea that nothing can ever be kno...

Identify the forces that drive development - Correct Answer Biological processes Environment Or both Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative changes - Correct Answer Qualitative changes: changes in overall nature of what is being observed Quantitative changes: changes in the amount or quantity of what is being measured; reflected in the way children process info as they get older ex: walking is a qualitative difference from crawling - Tenets of developmental theory - Co...

What is the family system composed of? - Correct Answer adult relationship, parent-child relationship, and sibling relationship Sibling Relationship - Correct Answer the longest lasting relationship you will have in your life. Socialization - Correct Answer the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society Constructive Conflict - Correct Answer family conflict that is resolved in a posi...

Who invented the operant conditioning chamber (skinner box)? - Correct Answer B.F. Skinner Who is B.F. Skinner? - Correct Answer Innovated his own philosophy of science called racial behaviorism and founded how own school of experimental research psychology known as the experimental analysis of behavior. What is operant learning? - Correct Answer A process by which the consequence of a response impacts the likelihood of that response in the future. What does operant learning expla...

B.F. Skinner () - Correct Answer - Expanded the basic ideas of behaviorism to include the idea of reinforcement and punishment -- environmental stimuli that either encourage or discourage certain responses - Helped establish and popularize the operant conditioning model of learning - Skinner's intellectual influence lasted for decades Wanted to prove the environment could change a person entirely. invented the Skinner box, innovated his own philosophy of science called radical behavio...

social policy policies that are intended to promote the welfare of individuals in a society Track progress social policy - Correct Answer policies that are intended to promote the welfare of individuals in a society physical development - Correct Answer biological changes that occur in the body and brain. including changes in size and strength, integration of sensory, and motor activity, and development of fine and gross motor skills. cognitive development - Correct Answer changes...

what are the three domains of development? - Correct Answer physical social-emotional cognitive social policy - Correct Answer policies that are intended to promote the welfare of individuals in a society physical development - Correct Answer the biological changes that occur in the body, including changes in size and strength, as well as the integration of sensory and motor activities cognitive development - Correct Answer changes in the way we think, understand and reason ab...

quality of relationships between teens and non parental adults - Correct Answer it is a unique type of support. Research shows that they are not a substitute for relationship with parents benefits of mentoring programs and features that make them the most effective - Correct Answer in a review of 55 programs, youth were worse off after 10%, no impact in 33%, and a small benefit in the rest. Most effective with clear guidelines, intensive, and ongoing negative effects of television view...

Quantitative vs qualitative changes - Correct Answer o Quantitative changes: changes in the amount or quantity of what you are measuring o Qualitative changes: changes in the overall nature of what you are examining Concepts of multifinality and equifinality - Correct Answer o Multifinality-the principle by which the same pathways may lead to different developmental outcomes o Equifinality- the principle by which different developmental pathways may result in the same outcome skeptic...

A child who is very active and enjoys the challenge of competing with others will be more likely to join an athletic team at school than to join the chorus or the French Club. This is an example of: - ANS niche-picking A new understanding that has emerged from research in neuropsychology is that - ANS biology impacts behavior, but the environment also affects biological functioning According to your book, the basic set of principles that help us organize our observations in order to ...