PSY 382 Quiz Review Questions and
Answers Graded A+
Development - Correct answer-relatively permanent, in a particularly set order. A
good example of this would be a child in infancy developing the ability to use
language. Also, developing the ability to think before being able to understand that
other people can think too.
Developmental Psychology - Correct answer-interested in the developmental
change in the mind.
Discontinuous Change - Correct answer-change in the FORM of something;
transformations occurring.
Continuous Change - Correct answer-change around a NORM; ex. Getting better at
a skill or learning new vocabulary.
If a teacher thought of development as only being continuous, how might they
teach a child multiplication? - Correct answer-they may just have children
memorize times tables instead of actually learning the ability to multiply, as would
be done in discontinuous.
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, Behaviorist Perspective - Correct answer-the psychological perspective primarily
concerned with observable behavior that can be objectively recorded and with the
relationships of observable behavior to environmental stimuli.
Nativist Perspective - Correct answer-idea that the human brain has an innate
capacity for acquiring language (language acquisition device) possibly during a
critical period of time after birth, and that children are born with a universal sense
of grammar (Noam Chomsky).
Developmental Systems - Correct answer-an all-encompassing outlook on
development that stresses the need to embrace a variety of theories, and the idea
that all systems and processes interrelate.
Mechanistic World View - Correct answer--reductionistic perspective; looking at
the developing person as an aggregate of parts, reducing them down and studying
them as parts.
-sees the child as being passive in development.
-also sees development as being continuous.
-the theories that fall under this category are Behaviorism and Nativism.
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Answers Graded A+
Development - Correct answer-relatively permanent, in a particularly set order. A
good example of this would be a child in infancy developing the ability to use
language. Also, developing the ability to think before being able to understand that
other people can think too.
Developmental Psychology - Correct answer-interested in the developmental
change in the mind.
Discontinuous Change - Correct answer-change in the FORM of something;
transformations occurring.
Continuous Change - Correct answer-change around a NORM; ex. Getting better at
a skill or learning new vocabulary.
If a teacher thought of development as only being continuous, how might they
teach a child multiplication? - Correct answer-they may just have children
memorize times tables instead of actually learning the ability to multiply, as would
be done in discontinuous.
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, Behaviorist Perspective - Correct answer-the psychological perspective primarily
concerned with observable behavior that can be objectively recorded and with the
relationships of observable behavior to environmental stimuli.
Nativist Perspective - Correct answer-idea that the human brain has an innate
capacity for acquiring language (language acquisition device) possibly during a
critical period of time after birth, and that children are born with a universal sense
of grammar (Noam Chomsky).
Developmental Systems - Correct answer-an all-encompassing outlook on
development that stresses the need to embrace a variety of theories, and the idea
that all systems and processes interrelate.
Mechanistic World View - Correct answer--reductionistic perspective; looking at
the developing person as an aggregate of parts, reducing them down and studying
them as parts.
-sees the child as being passive in development.
-also sees development as being continuous.
-the theories that fall under this category are Behaviorism and Nativism.
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