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Which word best describes the study of human development?
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Change
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Which type of development is most involved in the growth of body and
brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health?
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Physical
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Marlane is large for her age and does not have many friends. This is an
example of interaction between which two types of development?
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Physical and social
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The age range of approximately 6-11 years refers to which of the
following periods of development?
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Middle childhood
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The inborn traits or characteristics we inherit from biological parents
are our..?
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Heredity
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Megan recorded events in the lives of her sons, Joseph and Jacob, such
as their first words, their first steps, and the events of puberty.
These events are examples of the process of
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Maturation
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A _____________ is a group of people born at the same time
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Cohort
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Individual differences in development are due primarily to which of the
following?
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Heredity and environment
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In the state of Ohio, most
teenagers get their driver's licenses at the age of 16. This is best
described as a:
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Normative age-graded influence
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A critical period is a time when
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An organism is most likely to be influenced by a specific event
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What are the 7 principles of life-span
development identified by Baltes (1987)?
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Development is lifelong. development is multidimensional. development multidirectional. relative influences of biology and culture shift. development involves changing resource allocations. development shows plasticity. development is influenced by history and culture.
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Dr. Smith is going to use his research subjects in a study on the
development of taste aversion in early childhood. He plans on going in
to schools and working with the children without asking their parents or
teachers. What ethical code has Dr. Smith violated?
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Informed consent
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Most of the early pioneers in psychology, such as Sigmund Freud, Erik
Erikson, and Jean Piaget, favored the ____________ perspective on human
development.
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Organismic
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Stacy's mother believes that most of Stacy's acting out lately has been
caused by unconscious forces within her that motivate her behavior. This
perspective is called
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Psychoanalytic
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The proper order of Freud's psychosexual stages of development is
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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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