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Chapter 01
1. Child development is the scientific study of the processes that human beings undergo
from the moment of conception through adolescence. The main focus of study is how children
A. change.
B. develop physically.
C. develop social relationships.
D. learn language skills.
2. Historically, the study of child development gained impetus from
A. the discovery of vaccines.
B. the enactment of child labor laws.
C. scientific discoveries about the nature of conception.
D. all of the above
3. Which of the following helped to pioneer the study of child development as a true
science?
A. G. Stanley Hall's book Adolescence
B. the establishment of research institutes at Berkeley and Yale
C. Arnold Gesell's studies on motor development
D. all of the above
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4. Five-year-old Tara does not make friends easily. She is shy and anxious in new
situations. Since this behavior has persisted over time, it is a demonstration of developmental
A. instability.
B. resilience.
C. constancy.
D. awkwardness.
5. first emphasized the developmental nature of behavior by publishing a record of his son's
sensory, motor, language, and emotional milestones during his first years of life.
A. Charles Darwin
B. John B. Watson
C. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
D. John Dewey
6. Dietrich Tiedemann and Charles Darwin used the information obtained from to
support their early theories about child development.
A. baby biographies
B. teachers
C. doctors
D. mothers' diaries
7. Professor Hughes insists that his students study the origins of human beings in order to
fully understand child development. Which of the following theorists would most agree with
Professor Hughes's perspective?
A. John Locke
B. Charles Darwin
C. John Watson
D. Alfred Binet
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8. Adolescence has been considered a separate stage of development since
A. early in the fifteenth century.
B. the twentieth century.
C. Freud mentioned it in his writings on child development.
D. Bandura mentioned it in his theory on child development.
9. Who was the first to identify adolescence as a separate stage of development?
A. John Watson
B. G. Stanley Hall
C. Arnold Gesell
D. Lewis Terman
10. Marsha is taking a class in human development. This class addresses the study of humans
A. from conception to adolescence.
B. throughout childhood.
C. from adolescence through older adulthood and death.
D. from conception through older adulthood and death.
11. designed a longitudinal study that traced the development of unusually intelligent
children.
A. G. Stanley Hall
B. John Dewey
C. Jean Piaget
D. Lewis M. Terman
DEVELOPMENT 15TH EDITION BY GABRIELA
MARTORELL FULL TESTBANK ALL CHAPTERS
1-17|| LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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TEST BANK FOR EXPERIENCE HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT 15TH EDITION BY GABRIELA
MARTORELL FULL TESTBANK ALL CHAPTERS 1-17||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
Chapter 01
1. Child development is the scientific study of the processes that human beings undergo
from the moment of conception through adolescence. The main focus of study is how children
A. change.
B. develop physically.
C. develop social relationships.
D. learn language skills.
2. Historically, the study of child development gained impetus from
A. the discovery of vaccines.
B. the enactment of child labor laws.
C. scientific discoveries about the nature of conception.
D. all of the above
3. Which of the following helped to pioneer the study of child development as a true
science?
A. G. Stanley Hall's book Adolescence
B. the establishment of research institutes at Berkeley and Yale
C. Arnold Gesell's studies on motor development
D. all of the above
,2|Page
4. Five-year-old Tara does not make friends easily. She is shy and anxious in new
situations. Since this behavior has persisted over time, it is a demonstration of developmental
A. instability.
B. resilience.
C. constancy.
D. awkwardness.
5. first emphasized the developmental nature of behavior by publishing a record of his son's
sensory, motor, language, and emotional milestones during his first years of life.
A. Charles Darwin
B. John B. Watson
C. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
D. John Dewey
6. Dietrich Tiedemann and Charles Darwin used the information obtained from to
support their early theories about child development.
A. baby biographies
B. teachers
C. doctors
D. mothers' diaries
7. Professor Hughes insists that his students study the origins of human beings in order to
fully understand child development. Which of the following theorists would most agree with
Professor Hughes's perspective?
A. John Locke
B. Charles Darwin
C. John Watson
D. Alfred Binet
, 3|Page
8. Adolescence has been considered a separate stage of development since
A. early in the fifteenth century.
B. the twentieth century.
C. Freud mentioned it in his writings on child development.
D. Bandura mentioned it in his theory on child development.
9. Who was the first to identify adolescence as a separate stage of development?
A. John Watson
B. G. Stanley Hall
C. Arnold Gesell
D. Lewis Terman
10. Marsha is taking a class in human development. This class addresses the study of humans
A. from conception to adolescence.
B. throughout childhood.
C. from adolescence through older adulthood and death.
D. from conception through older adulthood and death.
11. designed a longitudinal study that traced the development of unusually intelligent
children.
A. G. Stanley Hall
B. John Dewey
C. Jean Piaget
D. Lewis M. Terman
