ABSC 160 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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ABSC 160
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ABSC 160
According to your book, the basic set of principles that help us organize our observations in order to understand and predict human development is called Theory
What type of change in development is reflected in the changes that place in the way children process information as they get older quali...
ABSC 160 Exam 1 Practice Questions
and Correct Answers
According to your book, the basic set of principles that help us organize our
observations in order to understand and predict human development is called ✅Theory
What type of change in development is reflected in the changes that place in the way
children process information as they get older ✅qualitative change
Research that has the primary goal of satisfying our curiosity and increasing our
understanding of the work we live in ✅Basic research
We know that both nature and nurture play a role in development, but today we are
more interested in understanding ✅How genes are expressed through the constant
interactions with the environment
The boy cried when his sister took his toy. This is an example of ✅description
Baseline and toilet training: ABAB graph ✅Functional relation is demonstrated. The
toilet training program is responsible for reductions in the number of accidents
The study described in the baseline and toilet training ABAB is an example of what type
of research design ✅single subject research
The influence of what we bring to development as a result of our genetic inheritance is
known as ✅Nature
The force that drives development ✅can be biological processes, environmental
events, or a combination of both
A researcher who is conducting observations to test her own hypothesis may pay more
attention to behavior that supports that hypothesis, so she must guard against
✅Observer bias
___ is when a good term is used as the explanation of a phenomenon, while at the
same time it is also the object of study ✅Circular logic
As a good consumer or the developmental information, students are encouraged to
✅Question experts
, If we say that there is no one right way to raise a child, we are endorsing the principle of
✅Equifinality
Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the internal process of the mind, but learning theories
focus on ✅Observable behavior
Which of the following correlations is the strongest? ✅-.82 (closest to -1 or 1)
When we say that a child looks just like his father, we are referring to the childs
✅Phenotype
When referring to development, continuity assumes that ✅New behaviors develop
from old ones
If a theory provides applicable guidance in solving daily problems of child rearing, it
satisfies which criteria for judging developmental theories? ✅practicality
Epigenetics is a term used to describe the system by which ✅genes can be turned on
or silenced by different environmental experiences
Cheese consumption and people dying is a ✅Spurious correlation
In natural sciences, theory is derived from ✅Scientific facts
a child who is very active and enjoys the challenge of competing with others will be
more likely to join an athletic team at school than to join the chorus or French Club. This
is an example of ✅niche-picking
you can have more confidence in information you find in scientific journals versus online
blogs because scientific articles: ✅undergo peer review before they are published
Bronfrenbrenner would say it is important we understand the individual ✅Within all the
contexts of that affect development
Connor wants to evaluate the effects of different flavors of skittles on the hyperactivity
on his 12 siblings. The skittles are an example of ✅Independent variable
Because most hunan characteristics are complex, many genes act together to
determine a trait. This is called ✅Polygenic inheritance
Canalizations is ✅The degree to which the expression of a gene is influenced by the
environment
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