Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Child Development

____ are programs intended to change the attitudes or behaviors of the participants.

In Asian countries such as South Korea,competition to get into college 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 college is an example of which of the following of Bronfenbrenner's systems?

What trend is occurring with the worldwide total fertility rate (TFR)over the past 10 years?

What is ethnographic research and are there any disadvantages?

What general values do developing countries tend to regard highly?

Which of the following signifies the onset of adolescence?

Working with persons suffering from various mental health problems,Freud concluded that a consistent theme across patients was that they seemed to have experienced some kind of ____.

If you are diabetic,you want a glucose monitor that provides consistent results.In other words,if you tested your blood sugar five times in a row,it should show the same reading across all five measurements.A criteria for a good glucose monitor would be one that has high _____.

Which is the best example of a maturational ability?

The textbook that you are using,Child Development: A Cultural Approach,divides development into ____.

A basic statistical principle of scientific research is that correlation _____.

According to the text,for most of history the total human population was under ______.

What typically includes information about who is conducting the study,what the purposes of the study are,what participation in the study involves,what risks (if any)are involved in participating,and what the person can expect to receive in return for participation?

The Upper Paleolithic was the time of the last _____.

What is the current total fertility rate (TFR)worldwide?

What is the most important consideration in human development research in terms of ethical standards? That the participants will ____.

Freud developed the first method of psychotherapy,which he called ______.

In general,_____ increases behavior,whereas _____ decreases behavior.

Your professor gives you a writing assignment that asks you to describe a dream you had this week.What type of format is being used by this project?

Your professor assigns a presentation and requires that all sources come from peer-reviewed journals.What does peer-reviewed mean?