Exam 1: Introduction to Child Development Basic Concepts and Issues

Mary is seeing a therapist who asks her to describe her dreams and talk in a stream of consciousness. Mary is going through psychoanalysis.

Skinner believed that children's behaviors are:

Give an example of operant conditioning.

Humans are evolutionarily primed to be attracted to and respond to babies according to which theory of child development?

According to Gesell, maturation:

There is some evidence that children were once considered little adults and were given adult responsibilities.

A researcher was interested in the effect of a literature curriculum on children's reading abilities. He put the students with high English grades in the group to receive the curriculum and the children with lower grades in the group that will not receive the curriculum. This design has problems with:

A researcher is testing the association between parental warmth and school achievement. She measures parents' warmth in everyday interactions with children and the children's grades in school. This design is:

Microgenetic studies follow developmental changes over very long periods of time.

Juan Pascual-Leone expanded on Piaget's ideas by proposing that children's learning occurs when there are increases in their: