Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Child Development

Human beings everywhere have essentially the same biological constitution,yet their paths through the life span are remarkably different depending on ____.

In ____ research,data is collected from a sample of people of different ages on a single occasion.Then,the researcher examines potential relations between variables in the data,based on the hypotheses of the study.

Every time Zubin cuts his knees,his mother sprays hydrogen peroxide on it to clean it.Which process accounts for the fact that Zubin does not like the smell of hydrogen peroxide because it reminds him of the pain?

Sigmund Freud divided human development into ____ stages.

According to Erikson,what happens when a person who had difficulty with the developmental challenge in one stage enters the next stage? He or she is ______.

The second step in the scientific method is to ____.

According to Freud,what balances the demands of the id and the superego?

What is a cognitive structure used for processing,organizing,and interpreting information?

Scholars of human development generally _____ that some aspects of development are continuous and some aspects are discontinuous.

The purpose of an Institutional Review Board is ____.

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

Individuals from collectivist cultures would be most likely to value _____.

According to Erikson,what is the developmental challenge during adolescence?

Hector is in second grade.He has just finished his first science fair project and is very proud of it.Although he did not know anything about gravity before his project,he now feels confident that he understands the concept.Which of Erikson's psychosocial stages is Hector in?

In an experiment,what group does NOT receive the treatment?

Charles Darwin,in his book The Origin of Species,first proposed the theory of _____.

Describe one way that Erikson's theory was different from Freud's.

Activity settings are an important element of which theory?

A book that presents an anthropologist's observations of what life is like in a particular culture is known as a(n)_____.

When was the Neolithic Period?