Exam 1: Understanding Human Development

What was the primary purpose of the "Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study?"

Two-year-old Katherine sees a goat for the first time, and calls it a cow because it has four legs and horns. According to Piaget, Katherine's response is best considered an example of:

Individuals from collectivist cultures tend to emphasize ______; individuals from individualist cultures tend to emphasize _______.

Which model emphasizes that human development is a dynamic, interactive process that begins with an individual's genetic endowment and unfolds over time as a result of interactions with various levels of the environment?

Suppose that Dr. Jones reads about a new study with an interesting result. She decides to repeat the study in her own lab to see if she gets the same result. In this case, Dr. Jones's study would best be considered a(n):

This field of study attempts to understand how brain function is related to human development:

Dr. Albert is interested in how thinking changes in adolescence and early adulthood. She indentifies a group of people who are 18 years old, a second group who are 22 years old, and a third group who are 26 years old. She asks participants in all three groups to answer some questions testing their moral reasoning skills. Her research study is best considered an example of:

Dr. Muchmore studies how shy children differ from bold children in their adjustment to kindergarten by investigating how differences in their basic dispositions and temperament shape their later behavior. Her research interest falls most clearly into which of the following domains of human development?

In a naturalistic observation, the researcher watches individuals as they act in real life, rather than in a laboratory.

Which of the following is of highest value in a collectivist culture?

According the B. F. Skinner, if you would like to get your child to keep his or her room tidy, which of the following is most likely to work?

In Albert Bandura's "Bobo doll" study, the independent variable was the consequences for the adult model who behaved aggressively against the doll.

According to the text, the decade of the 1990s was labeled by President George H. W. Bush as "the decade of ____________."

Which research design tests groups of subjects of different ages, all at the same time?

A "discrete period of the lifespan during which predictable changes occur" is referred to as a:

Which of the following is the best example of maturation?

The participants in the "Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study" were:

The development of breasts and body hair is best considered to be an example of:

Erik Erikson proposed that a person who was focused on resolving the conflict between developing trust versus mistrust would likely be about how old?

Because in her family older women always do the cooking and younger women wash the dishes, Lucille comes to understand that this is how housework should be done. In Vygotsky's terms, Lucille has developed a(n):