Exam 2: Theories and Contexts of Development

Which of the following key cognitive capabilities that Bandura described is the ability to learn new behavior and the consequences of one's actions by observing others?

Freud believed that the ways in which parents handle their children's ____ impulses have significant consequences for their later development.

Vygotsky thought that scientific psychology should focus primarily on

According to Vygotsky, cognitive development, and therefore how adults think, eventually changes when

The focus of both Vygotsky and Bronfenbrenner's theories is

In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, which of the following represents the time dimension, or the fact that the other four levels of ecology change over time?

Piaget described children's behavior as being consistent at any one time, or

Most theories of cognition and cognitive development are best compared with a

Which of the following is not a principle of evolutionary developmental psychology?

Benefits, causes, development, and evolution of children' behavior are all important for developmental psychologists to consider.

Routine interactions between children and adults in which the children improve their skills and understanding through participation with more skilled partners in culturally organized activities is called

Research has shown that English-speaking children lag behind children of some other cultures in learning to count

Erikson's psychological stage of infancy includes_________.

Children, especially girls, who grow up in a stressful, resource-poor environment with little emotional support will likely

Who proposed that there are four subprocesses involved in observational learning: attentional processes, retention processes, production processes, and motivational processes?

A set of elements that undergoes change over time as a result of interactions among the component elements is a(n)

Evolutionary psychology applies the principles of modern evolutionary biology to explain

Vygotsky was a(n)

In the social mediated nature of child development, the mediation figures are

Theories that consider how biologic and environmental factors interact over time to produce any particular outcome are ______