basic issues for theorists in explaining development? - Answer -Weather people are
active or reactive in their own development
Whether development is continuos or occurs in stages
the relative weight given to heredity and environment
A mechanistic model of college students' drinking behaviors would look at - Answer -
enviromental influences such as advertising peer pressure and the consequences
imposed by college administrators for drunkenness
In which of the following models or approaches are people characterized as active,
growing, and responsible for their own development? - Answer -Organismic approach
Freud's term for the part of the personality that operates on the pleasure principle,
seeking immediate gratification, is the - Answer -id
Erik Erikson extended Freudian theory by emphasizing - Answer -the influences of
society and culture on development
As a child, Albert was bitten and scratched many times by the vicious family hamster.
Now, as an adult, he finds that he is uncomfortable when his own children want to look
at a zoo exhibit featuring small rodents. Albert's current fear is a result of - Answer -
classical conditioning
Piaget suggested that children develop their thinking through adaptation, which includes
two different processes: - Answer -assimilation and accommodation
Arturo, a fourth-grader, is teaching his 7-year-old brother to put together a model
airplane. First, Arturo shows Abel how to set up the pieces, and then how to glue pieces
together. Next, Arturo guides his brother's hands as they glue two more pieces together.
Finally, Arturo watches Abel glue pieces by himself. Vygotsky suggested Abel's learning
is occurring in his - Answer -zone of proximal development
Miranda is doing a research study using Bronfenbrenner's model to look at all the
different influences on development. In the part of her paper that talks about the
,macrosystem, Miranda will most likely focus on - Answer -societys overall cultural
patterns
Which of the following is an example of a behavior that evolutionary psychologists
would view as adaptive for the survival of our species? - Answer -Sudden food
aversions during pregnancy
Babies ability to cry to attach the attention of their parents
Mens interest in attractive, healthy looking women
Keeshon has a summer job working for a psychology professor. He conducts telephone
interviews with parents about their children's participation in team sports. He asks every
parent the same set of questions. This data collection method is referred to as a(n) -
Answer -structured interview
Dr. Martinez wants to study the effects of parental cheerfulness in the morning upon the
school performance of teenagers. She defines parental cheerfulness as the number of
remarks with a positive theme uttered by the parent as a percentage of that parent's
total number of remarks. Dr. Martinez has created an _____ definition. - Answer -
operational
correlational study? - Answer -design intended to discover whether a statistical
relationship between variables exists.
In a longitudinal research study, researchers assess - Answer -the same person or
group of people more than once
After she conducts a study on adolescent Internet use, Dr. Green sells the names and
addresses of the study's participants to an Internet service provider that wants to get
customers to upgrade their service. Dr. Green has violated the participants' right to -
Answer -confidentiality and privacy
What is Human development - Answer -The study of patterns of change and stability in
human growth throughout the life
Characteristics of human development? 3 of them - Answer -Systematic
Adaptive
Life span devel.
Systematic - Answer -Organized
Adaptive - Answer -to internal and external conditions
Life span development - Answer -life long process
Domains of development - Answer -physical
cognitice
, psychosocial
The life span periods are - Answer -social constructions
Social contructions - Answer -childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood
Prenatal period - Answer -Conception to birth
Infancy and toddlerhood - Answer -birth to 3
Early Childhood - Answer -3-6
Middle Childhood - Answer -6-11
Adolescence - Answer -11-20
Emerging and Young Adulthood - Answer -20-40
Middle Adulthood - Answer -40-65
Late Adulthood - Answer -65 and over
Heredity is based on - Answer -DNA chromosomes Genes
Enviroment is based on - Answer -Parents siblings schools
Normative can be - Answer -Normative Age-grade influences
Normative history grade infulences
NON normative influences - Answer -Affect the individual, like a unique circumstance
Disease, disability, trauma
Sigmund Freud major perspective is - Answer -Psychoanalytic:psychosocial
Psychoanalytic:psychosocial is - Answer -unconscious forces that motivate human
behavior
Sex: Life
Aggression: Death
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