Basic Terminology

Question 1

What is a carefully regulated procedure in which 1 or more factors believed to influence the behavior?

Answer 1

Experiment

Question 2

What is the key dimension of children’s development?

Answer 2

Hypothesis

Question 3

What is the developmental period extending from birth to 18 to 24 months

Answer 3

Infancy

Question 4

What emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it?

Answer 4

Information-processing Theory

Question 5

What is a controlled setting from which many of the complex factors of the real world have been removed?

Answer 5

Laboratory

Question 6

What is naturalistic observations?

Answer 6

Behavior that is observed outside of a laboratory in the real world.

Question 7

Explain Piaget’s Theory.

Answer 7

States that children go through 4 stages of development as they actively construct their understanding of the world.

Question 8

Describe prenatal period.

Answer 8

Time from conception to birth.

Question 9

What is psychoanalytic Theory?

Answer 9

Describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion

Question 10

What is social cognitive theory?

Answer 10

Holds that behavior, environment, and cognition are the key factors in development

Question 11

What does the Scientific Method entail?

Answer 11

1.) conceptualize the problem to be studied 2.) collect data
3.) analyze the data to reach conclusions
4.) revise research conclusions and theory

Question 12

What is the developmental period of transition from childhood to early adulthood?

Answer 12

Adolescence

Question 13

What produces change in the individuals’ body?

Answer 13

Biological processes

Question 14

What is descriptive research?

Answer 14

To observe and record behavior

Question 15

What is the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through human life span?

Answer 15

Development

Question 16

Describe early childhood.

Answer 16

Extends from the end of infancy to about 5 or 6 years

Question 17

Describe early later experience issue

Answer 17

Focuses on the degree to which early experiences or later experiences are the key determinants of the child’s development.

Question 18

What is in-depth look at a single individual?

Answer 18

Case study

Question 19

Explain cognitive processes.

Answer 19

Changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence, and language

Question 20

What is context?

Answer 20

Refers to the settings in which development occurs