investigations is
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Change
Changes during development that are orderly, patterned, and enduring are described as
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Systematic
The continuities of development are aspects that
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Remain stable over time or reflect the past
Two important processes that underline developmental changes are
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Maturation and learning
In the first week after hatchout, chicks improve their accuracy of pecking for seeds,
regardless of their visual experience. This refelcts development from
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Maturation
,Suppose researchers found that the average american baby begins to stand by itself at the
age of ten months. This finding is related to ______ development
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Normative
The strength of a ________ research design is that is selects participants of different
cohorts and follows each cohort over time
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Sequential
Generational differences in child-rearing practices suggest that researchers must pay
attention to
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Historical context
_______ research design can provide information about development changes in behavior
over a short period of time (e.g. Changes in a day/week)
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Microgenetic
Rita's parents are concerned about the fact that she is not speaking as well as her older
brother did when he was 2 years old. At a visit to the doctor, rita's parents learn that her
speech delay is likely due to her frequent ear infections, which have, at time impaired her
hearing. This is an example of the concept of ?
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Holistic development
Suppose that the plasticity principal did not apply to development, if this were true, it
would imply that
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Children who grew up in terrible circumstances would suffer inevitably from their
deficiencies
The study of cohort effects recognizes the importance of ____ on development
, - answer =>
Historical context
An example of maturational change would be
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Disappearance of an infant reflex at a predictable age
For bendura's cognitive social-learning theory, which of these is not among the necessary
steps for behavioral imitation of an observed models actions?
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The model must do positive, socially approved actions
Behaviorism and its learning viewpoint assert that
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Development is totally flexible and is influenced by the child's experiences
Subsequent researchers found that piaget tended to ______ the intellectual abilities of
children at each age level
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underestimate
Watsons behavioral learning viewpoint presents development as a(n) _____ process
- answer =>
Continuous
A child feels guilty because she bought a cheap toy as a birthday gift for a friend so that she
could use all the remaining money to buy a toy for herself. Psychoanalyst sigmund freud
would claim that her guilty feelings
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Arise from the superego