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Development is BEST defined as a pattern of growth that:
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Begins at birth and ends when the person begins to decline due to age
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The field of human development is an interdisciplinary body of knowledge based on:
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Biology, psychology, neuroscience, education, medicine, and other relevant fields
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Theories differ from opinions in that:
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A theory's continued existence depends on scientific verification.
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Piaget's theory of cognitive development proposed that development is
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Discontinuous, stating that children's perceptions are unique in each stage
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According to the newest research on genetics, the ansxwer to the nature-nurture controversy is:
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That one's genetic predisposition is influenced constantly by the environment, and can be changed by it
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History-graded influences on development are those that:
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Explain why people born the same year tend to be more alike
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The developmental concept that children are neither innately good nor evil, but are shaped by the experiences they have in their lives, is called:
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Tabula rasa.
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According to Piaget's congnitive-developmental theory,
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Children actively construct knowledge as they interact with their world
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Piaget believed that:
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In each stage of development, children have qualitatively distinct ways of understanding the world.
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The developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding development asks such questions as:
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How do early experiences influence the growth and orginization of the young child's bran?
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The greatest advantage of naturalistic observation is that it:
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Allows investigators to see directly how people actually behave in everyday life
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The advantage or correlation research is that it can be used to study:
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Variables that actually exist, and that would be impossible or unethical to arrange or control experimentally
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Random assignment to groups means that:
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Participants' characteristics or differences will be equally distributed across all treatment groups.
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An independent variable is:
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The aspect of the environment that the experiemtner manipulates in order to measure its impact on a dependent variable
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When the same indi in a study r studied wen they r at 1 age,&then again when they r at a later age,this method of studying change is:
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Congitudinal study
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