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| According to Piaget's Theory of cognitive Development, a child's cognition is different in one stage compared to another. |
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| Melinda is at a museum, watching how parents interact with their children. She counts the number of times scientific explanations are given to boys versus girls. This is an example of: |
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| What are he key charactoristics of Vygotsky's theory? |
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Culture
Social Interaction |
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| The perspective that doesn not rigidly believe in any one theoretical perspective but considers multiple theories and selects the best features from each is know as theoretical orientation. |
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| Participants must have information on the costs and benefits of their participation. They must be told that they have the right to withdraw. |
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| Information on participants must not be published or revealed; ideally, participants' information will remain anonymous |
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| Participants will be advised of the purpose of the study and methodsused once their participation has ended. |
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| For study purposes, participants are not told everything in advance because it would change their behavior and alter data. This is allowed as long as participants are not harmed. |
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| Life-span Perspective views development as and as a process that involves , , and of . |
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lifelong
growth
maintenance
regulation of loss |
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| In Dr. Crawford's research study, he and his colleagues spend time in a sixth-grade classroom watching student-teacher interactions. This type of research is most likely: |
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| Observe and record behavior |
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| Aims to determine cause and effect |
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| Aims to assess the strength of the relationship between or among variables |
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| Key Factors of Bandura's social cognitive theory |
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Environment
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| age refers to an individuals ability to adapt to change as compared to people of the same chronological age. |
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| Developmental period from birth to 18 or 24 months |
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| Dr. Abby is a clinical psychologist who specializes in seeing clients who are trying to lose weight. This exemplifies the contemporary focus of life-span development on: |
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| What happens at each developmental stage in Erikson's psychosocial theory? |
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There is a crisis that needs to be resolved
There is a turning point marked by increased vulnerabilityand enhanced potential |
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| Nick's mother and mother-in-law are both in their 50s and are currently both experiencing menopausal symptoms. This would be an example of a influence. |
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| Normative age-graded influence |
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| Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a measure used to collect research data. |
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| What are the componets of Bronfenbrenners ecological theory? |
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Microsystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
Mesosystem |
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| Erikson developed an eight stage of development. |
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| Freud's psychosexual stages of development are: |
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oral
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cultural heritage
nationality
race |
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| Criticisms of research performed in a laboratory |
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Participants know they are being studied
It is not a natural setting |
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| Adolescence period of development |
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| Period of transitin from childhood to early adulthood; begins at 10 to 12 and ends at 18 to 21 years of age |
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| Middle and late childhood |
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| Period of development from about 6 to 11 years of age, elementary school years |
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| Interrelated, coherant set of ideas that help to explain the phenomena and facilitate predictions |
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