Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Human Development

Although economic growth has been strong for the past decade, what region remains the poorest region in the world?

Like the Hindu Dharmashastras, the life course described in the Talmud goes up to age ___.

According to Dharmashastras, the sacred law books of the Hindu religion, an individual who is 65 years old is in the ____ stage.

What was one of the ways that Erikson's theory differed from Freud's theory? Erikson believed that _____.

When participants are allowed to state their responses following the questions, what type of format is being used?

Which of the following best describes a theory?

On a survey of beverages you consumed during the past week, you are presented with the following choices: water, milk, coffee, tea and soda. What format is being used?

Once the study has been carried out and the data collected, the participants must be _____.

Which of the following are components of the microsystem from Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory?

What was the goal of Freud's psychotherapeutic approach?

____ is the total pattern of a group's customs, beliefs, art and technology.

In order to measure aggressiveness in toddlers, a researcher sat on a park bench for an afternoon and observed children playing on the slides and climbing equipment. To get clean results, it was very important that the toddlers not know that someone was observing them. What type of experiment would best fit these criteria?

Professor Cook is conducting a research study on the cognitive abilities of infants and young children. Rather than follow subjects from birth to the age of 10, he assesses small groups from various ages. Of 1-year-olds he measures five children, of 2-year-olds he measures five different children and so forth. By the time he has completed his study, Dr. Cook has an assessment of 50 different children from 10 different age groups. Which of the following describes the research method that Dr. Cook is using?

The plan for when and how to collect the data for a study is the ____.

Within any given country, which of the following sets most of the norms and standards, and holds most of the positions of political, economic, intellectual and media power?

What country allows for more legal immigrations than most other countries and has tens of millions of illegal immigrants as well?

Scholars of human development generally regard development as ______.

Carlos cannot wait to go get home and eat his candy bar, so he eats it in the backseat of the car. He does not care that his mother clearly told him not to eat in her car. According to Freud, what part of his mind is operating here?

In Asian countries such as South Korea, competition to get into university is intense and depends chiefly on adolescents' performance on a national exam at the end of high school; consequently, the high school years are a period of extreme academic stress. Fierce competition to get into university is an example of which of the following of Bronfenbrenner's systems?

Compare and contrast features related to developed and developing countries.