EDHD320 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
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\.life span development - ANSWERS✔-systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occur between conception and death
\.nature - ANSWERS✔-aspects of development that are inborn or innate, product
of maturation
\.nurture - ANSWERS✔-changes in response to environment or learning
\.rite of passage - ANSWERS✔-ritual that marks a person's passage from one
status to another
\.Charles Darwin - ANSWERS✔-not objective, not generalizable to other children,
wrote biography of his son's development
\.G. Stanley Hall - ANSWERS✔-more objective than Darwin, examined knowledge
and reasoning of children, wrote about adolescence/storms and stress
, \.Paul Baltes - ANSWERS✔-psychologist: lifelong process, development is
multidirectional, involves both gain and loss, development shaped by historical-
cultural context
\.lifelong process - ANSWERS✔-if we understand early influences we can better
understand later choices/development; impact of good parenting in early
childhood
\.development is multidirectional - ANSWERS✔-develop not just toward maturity,
some characteristics do not change much, some characteristics decline faster than
others
\.scientific method - ANSWERS✔-involves generating ideas and testing them by
making observations
\.verbal reports - ANSWERS✔-asking people questions about themselves or
others, interviews, questionnaires, achievement tests, personality scales
\.social desirability - ANSWERS✔-tendency of respondents to answer questions in
a manner that will be viewed favorably by others
\.observations - ANSWERS✔-naturalistic- viewing people in their everyday
surroundings
COMPLETE WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\.life span development - ANSWERS✔-systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occur between conception and death
\.nature - ANSWERS✔-aspects of development that are inborn or innate, product
of maturation
\.nurture - ANSWERS✔-changes in response to environment or learning
\.rite of passage - ANSWERS✔-ritual that marks a person's passage from one
status to another
\.Charles Darwin - ANSWERS✔-not objective, not generalizable to other children,
wrote biography of his son's development
\.G. Stanley Hall - ANSWERS✔-more objective than Darwin, examined knowledge
and reasoning of children, wrote about adolescence/storms and stress
, \.Paul Baltes - ANSWERS✔-psychologist: lifelong process, development is
multidirectional, involves both gain and loss, development shaped by historical-
cultural context
\.lifelong process - ANSWERS✔-if we understand early influences we can better
understand later choices/development; impact of good parenting in early
childhood
\.development is multidirectional - ANSWERS✔-develop not just toward maturity,
some characteristics do not change much, some characteristics decline faster than
others
\.scientific method - ANSWERS✔-involves generating ideas and testing them by
making observations
\.verbal reports - ANSWERS✔-asking people questions about themselves or
others, interviews, questionnaires, achievement tests, personality scales
\.social desirability - ANSWERS✔-tendency of respondents to answer questions in
a manner that will be viewed favorably by others
\.observations - ANSWERS✔-naturalistic- viewing people in their everyday
surroundings
