Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Child Development

Which of the following best describes ethnographic research?

What is the process by which an editor of a journal sends a manuscript to other researchers to evaluate for potential publication in a journal?

Which of the following research questions would be best examined by a questionnaire?

What did Freud believe was the force that drove human development?

According to Erikson,what is the developmental challenge during early childhood?

Give an example of qualitative data.Can a researcher turn interview data into quantitative data? Explain.

Which of the following best describes a theory?

It is clear that during the ____ humans began to use boats and trade with others.

What was one of the ways that Erikson's theory differed from Freud's theory? Erikson believed that _____.

In order to measure aggressiveness in toddlers,a researcher sat on a park bench for an afternoon and observed children playing on the slides and climbing equipment.To get clean results,it was very important that the toddlers not know that someone was observing them.What type of experiment would best fit these criteria?

You got very angry and threw a pillow across the room.You did not know your young son saw you act this way.Later that day your son became upset and threw a pillow across the room.His behavior was most likely a result of _____.

Globalization is ____.

Which of the following best describes a questionnaire with a closed-question format?

____ is the total pattern of a group's customs,beliefs,art,and technology.

Jean Piaget based his ideas about infants' cognitive development on his detailed observations of his own three children.This is an example of what research method?

LaWanda has a high school diploma and is currently working as a waitress but is attending school in hopes of becoming a pediatrician.Her current socioeconomic status is likely ____; however,when she becomes an established pediatrician,her socioeconomic status will be ____.

Nearly all of the population growth in the decades to come will take place in ____.

Emerging adulthood exists in some cultures and not others,and consequently young adult responsibilities such as marriage and stable work may be taken on as early as ____ or as late as ____.

In 1947,Sidney Farber injected a two-year-old boy who had leukemia with various versions of an experimental drug that led to remission.By the next year he had treated 16 patients and had enough data for a publication.Parents were sometimes told about the drug trial,but often it was after the fact.Children were almost never informed or consulted.Authorities at Children's Hospital in Boston were infuriated at these clinical trials; they figured that because these children were on their deathbeds anyways,it would be better to "let them die in peace." Can clinical trials such as these be carried out with children today? Why or why not?

What form of learning connects behavior to its consequences?