Exam 1: Child Development: Theories and Themes

If an ego could talk, it might say,

Six-year-old Sarah had been watching her older brother and sister in swim meets for several years. Sarah believed she was a good swimmer too, and eagerly entered her first swim meet shortly after she turned six. Bandura would say that ________ played a role in Sarah's desire to imitate her siblings.

The computer is used as a metaphor for the mind in which theory?

James Mark Baldwin, a psychologist in Canada more than 100 years ago, was an important pioneer in the study of child development because

Physical and emotional nurturing promotes development of

John Locke's views are consistent with

Jill was the first moving object a newly hatched chick saw. The chick later followed her around, just as if Jill were the chick's mother. The chick's behaviour is a result of

Who was the first theorist to use learning theory to explain child development?

Who was the first Canadian theorist to empirically study the mind?

Jaraan was never really able to answer the question "Who am I?" as a teenager. Erikson would predict that during young adulthood, Jaraan will

Psychosocial theory is associated with

Sigmund Freud's psychodynamic theory

What population did Hall use to compile empirical data for his research?

Nehama believes that we could understand why children behave as they do if we would just look at the rewards and punishments they've received for their behaviours in the past. Nehama looks at child development as a(n) ________ theorist does.

What is the new approach in Canada that emphasizes dynamic transformation throughout the lifespan and focuses on how abnormal development can occur?

Vaillant's six developmental stages apply to

Which type of developmental research would look at grandchild‒grandparent relationship as a kind of investment?

If parents believe that children are tabula rasa at birth, they are likely to

Kevin and Alexei do not live in the same country. They go to different schools and eat different foods. They follow different laws and are acquiring different values. More generally, Kevin and Alexei differ in

Neuropsychoanalysis is the merging of