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Quiz 1A Flashcards

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True or False? Watching someone do something challenging can inspire you to believe you can do it.

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True

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True or False? Hanging around with bad company won’t affect an individual’s behavior.

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False

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True or False? Teenagers should question the moral codes of their parents to gain their own moral codes.

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True

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True or False? Teenagers should be expected to conform to the Moral Codes of their parents.

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False

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True or False? Elderly people, accepting that they need walkers to remain mobile, is an example of psychosocial development.

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False

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True or False? Gamblers, who win small and lose big, but keep playing, is an example of operant conditioning.

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True

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True or False? When we consider the laws affecting the lives of children we are referring to ecological influences.

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True

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True or False? When we consider the IQ of a human being, that’s considered to be a nurture influence.

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False

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True or False? When we consider the cultural impact on a human being, that’s considered a nature influence.

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False

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In ecological systems theory, what is the name of the connections between the child’s immediate settings.

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Mesosystem

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What is the participant observation of a culture called?

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Ethnography

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What graded influence explains why agemates tend to share distinguishing characteristics?

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History Graded

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What type of science deals with the study of constancy and change throughout a lifespan?

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Developmental Science

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What is the name of Freud’s theory that emphasizes the management of early sexual and aggressive drives?

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Psychosexual

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What is the name of the learning theory that emphasizes the role of modeling in the development of behavior?

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Social Learning Theory

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What’s the name of the developmental psychology that studies the adaptive value of a species’ mental competencies?

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Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

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In ecological systems theory, what are the temporal changes in children’s environments called?

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Chronosystem

18
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What is the name of Piaget’s developmental theory which states that children actively construct knowledge through exploration?

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Cognitive Developmental Theory

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What is the name of the systems theory that states that children develop within complex relationships, affected by the environment?

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Ecological Systems Theory

20
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What type of influences affect one or a few people and do not follow a predictable timetable?

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Non-Normative Graded

21
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What is the name of Erikson’s theory that focuses on the resolution of psychological conflicts over the lifespan?

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Psychosocial Theory

22
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What emphasizes the study of directly observable events?

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Behaviorism

23
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Which approach deals with age related averages that are computed to represent typical development?

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Normative Approach

24
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In ecological systems theory, what are the activities and interaction patterns in the child’s immediate surroundings called?

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Microsystem

25
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In ecological systems theory, what are the cultural characteristics that influence inner levels of the environment called?

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Macrosystem

26
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According to what perspective is development lifelong, multidimensional, plastic and context-dependent?

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Lifespan

27
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Which interview method uses a flexible, conversational style?

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Clinical

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What is the name of the controversy that deals with the debate concerning whether development is influenced more by genes or by the environment?

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Nature-Nurture

29
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What is the study of the adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary history called?

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Ethology

30
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What’s the name of Freud’s perspective which states that children develop in stages, negotiating biological drives and social expectations.

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Psychoanalytic

31
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Which graded influences are fairly predictable in their timing and duration?

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Age Graded

32
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What type of interview is it when the researcher asks all participants the same questions in the same way?

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Structured

33
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Which view of development believes that development gradually adds to innate skills?

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Continuous

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