Child Development, 9th Edition TEST BANK by Laura E. Berk
Theory - ANSWER:an orderly, integrated set of statement that describes, explains
and predicts behavior.
Continous Development - ANSWER:a process of gradually adding more of the same
the of skills that were there to begin with.
Discontinuous Development - ANSWER:a process in which new ways of
understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.
Stages - ANSWER:qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that
characterize specific periods of development.
Contexts - ANSWER:unique combinations of personal and environmental
circumstances that can result in different paths of change.
Nature - ANSWER:inborn biological givens- the heredity information we receive
former parents at the moment of conception.
Nurture - ANSWER:the complex forces of the physical and social world that influence
our biological makeup and psychological experiences before and after birth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ANSWER:children are noble saves, naturally endowed with
a sense of right and wrong and an innate plan for orderly, healthy growth.
Maturation - ANSWER:genetically determined, naturally unfolding course growth.
Darwin - ANSWER:theory of evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest, genes
passed unto later generations
The Normative Approach (G. Stanley Hall) - ANSWER:measures of behavior are taken
on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are computed to represent
repine development.
James Mark Baldwin - ANSWER:Early Development Theorist- children's
understanding of their physical and social words develops through a sequence f
stages, begging with the simplest behavior patterns of the newborn infant and
concluding with adulthood.
The Psychoanalytic Perspective - ANSWER:children move through a series of stages
in which they confront conflict between biological drives and social expectations.
Freud's Therory - ANSWER:psychosexual theory
Theory - ANSWER:an orderly, integrated set of statement that describes, explains
and predicts behavior.
Continous Development - ANSWER:a process of gradually adding more of the same
the of skills that were there to begin with.
Discontinuous Development - ANSWER:a process in which new ways of
understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.
Stages - ANSWER:qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that
characterize specific periods of development.
Contexts - ANSWER:unique combinations of personal and environmental
circumstances that can result in different paths of change.
Nature - ANSWER:inborn biological givens- the heredity information we receive
former parents at the moment of conception.
Nurture - ANSWER:the complex forces of the physical and social world that influence
our biological makeup and psychological experiences before and after birth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ANSWER:children are noble saves, naturally endowed with
a sense of right and wrong and an innate plan for orderly, healthy growth.
Maturation - ANSWER:genetically determined, naturally unfolding course growth.
Darwin - ANSWER:theory of evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest, genes
passed unto later generations
The Normative Approach (G. Stanley Hall) - ANSWER:measures of behavior are taken
on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are computed to represent
repine development.
James Mark Baldwin - ANSWER:Early Development Theorist- children's
understanding of their physical and social words develops through a sequence f
stages, begging with the simplest behavior patterns of the newborn infant and
concluding with adulthood.
The Psychoanalytic Perspective - ANSWER:children move through a series of stages
in which they confront conflict between biological drives and social expectations.
Freud's Therory - ANSWER:psychosexual theory
