Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Child Development

What is Bronfenbrenner's term for the changes that occur in developmental circumstances over time,both with respect to individual development and to historical changes?

Although economic growth has been strong for the past decade,what region remains the poorest region in the world?

Frank is a researcher at a large university and is nervous about an important meeting with a group who will scrutinize his research proposal while judging whether or not it follows reasonable ethical guidelines.Frank is meeting with _____.

Describe a research question an evolutionary psychologist might investigate.

The theorist who developed the ecocultural theory is _____.

What developed country is projected to have the steepest decline in population between now and 2050?

Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory has ____ key levels or systems that play a part in human development.

What time period included major climate change that allowed humans to cultivate plants and domesticate animals?

A researcher is interested in examining how well children who are good at delaying gratification do academically.The researcher would state "children who can delay gratification get better grades in school than children who cannot delay gratification." What step of the scientific method was just accomplished?

The ____ variable is the variable that is different for the experimental group than for the control group.

What type of design follows the same group of people over time and collects data on two or more occasions?

Which type of research design combines the cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches?

How long did it take the human population to double from 500 million to 1 billion?

Recent models of the information-processing still focus on _____.

What is the most commonly used method in social science research?

What will happen to the populations of developed countries during the next few decades and beyond? They will _____.

Evolutionary biologists believe that the larger brains of early Homo babies meant that babies were born less mature than they were for earlier hominids,resulting in ____.

When did the human population reach 500 million people?

Carlo is very good at coloring in the lines.When given a detailed picture,he goes outside the lines a few times.His teacher assists him in erasing the marks outside of the lines.His teacher is providing _____.

The feeling of self-confidence that comes with the belief that one has the ability to complete tasks and reach goal is referred to as _____.