Exam 1: Introduction: Issues and Themes in Child Development

You should know something about the qualifications of people who present themselves as experts on child development before you accept what they are saying.

_____________ includes the experiences we have and the learning that occurs as we move through development.

Physical characteristics such as height or eye color are largely determined by the genes we inherit from our parents.

The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget said that we should see children as active participants in their own development.

Which of the following is the best example of a qualitative change in development?

Describe what is meant by nature and nurture.

Stage theories describe

The Active Learning features in this book are intended to help you

The way that children can process information changes as they get older. This is a

It is important that scientific findings can be replicated. This means that

Many people believe that the study of child development is just "all common sense." Is this true? Why or why not?

Because a science is an organized body of knowledge

Once a problem that is having a negative effect on a child's development is identified, help often comes in the form of a(n)

The connection that Lewis Terman found between the characteristic of conscientiousness or social dependability in childhood and the reduced likelihood of an individual dying in any given year during adulthood can be partially explained by the

Mary tells you "I was spanked when I was a child and I turned out all right, so I plan to do the same with my children". How would you find and evaluate information to tell whether this is a good idea.

The importance of the peer review process is that

Describe the difference between continuous and stage-like change in child development.

What is developmental psychopathology? How do the concepts of equifinality and multifinality relate to the study of developmental psychopathology?

The reason that each chapter in this text starts with a True/False quiz is that

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