Exam 1: The Science of Human Development

According to the text, race is _____.

Bettie grew up in the Great Depression, while her granddaughter is part of the millennial generation. Bettie and her granddaughter belong to different _____.

A system of shared beliefs, conventions, norms, behaviors, expectations, and symbolic representations is the definition of _____.

The three domains of development are _____.

The term cohort refers to individuals born in the same geographical region and within the same social class.

_____ research involves asking open-ended questions and reporting answers in narrative, not numerical, form.

People of a specific _____ group share certain attributes, such as religion and language.

Dr. Tucker and his research team are interested in how aggression changes as we age. The team will recruit 100 3-year-old children and assess their levels of aggression every three years until the participants turn 21. This is an example of cross-sectional research.

_____ is the study of how environmental factors affect genes and genetic expression.

The final step in the scientific method involves _____.

Ava believes that the terms culture, ethnicity, and race mean the same thing and are interchangeable. Explain why Ava is wrong, using examples from your textbook.

_____ refers to the traits, capacities, and limitations that each individual inherits genetically from his or her parents at the moment of conception.

Which of these is the BEST example of plasticity?

A dependent variable is _____.

The concept of multidirectional development suggests that when change is gradual, as when a tortoise grows larger over its 150-year lifespan, it is an example of _____.

Which statement about scientific observation is true?

Define a critical period and a sensitive period. Explain the difference between the two periods, and give an example of each.

In Bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems approach, the _____ refers to the interactions among systems.

Empirical evidence is based on _____.

In _____ research, groups of people of one age are compared with people of another age.