CFS 39 - Chapter 1

Question 1

What term encompasses all environmental influences that affect individuals after conception?

Accepted Answer

Nurture

Question 2

Which period illustrates a time when developmental growth must happen? (body or behavior)

Accepted Answer

Critical Period

Question 3

Which type of variable is introduced to see what effect it has on a specific variable?

Accepted Answer

Independent Variable

Question 4

This is a perspective that considers all the influences of development contexts.

Accepted Answer

Ecological-Systems Approach

Question 5

What is the First Element of human development?

Accepted Answer

Developmental study is a science

Question 6

What is evidence that is based on observational experience? (these are not theoretical)

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Empirical

Question 7

What is the term used when you repeat a Scientific Study. (Usually with different participants)

Accepted Answer

Replication

Question 8

What are the potential hazards of conducting research?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 9

____ in every 20 teenagers is attracted to the same sex.

Accepted Answer

1

Question 10

What System refers to a person's immediate surrounding?

Accepted Answer

Microsystem

Question 11

Which system considers all texts and interactions that constitute a life?

Accepted Answer

Ecological System

Question 12

What is anywhere from grasping a rattle to driving a car called?

Accepted Answer

Motor Skills

Question 13

What encompasses all mental processes that a person uses to obtain knowledge?

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Cognitive Development

Question 14

What is a system of shared beliefs, norms, behaviors, and expectations that persist over time?

Accepted Answer

Culture

Question 15

Which means that everyone plays a role in contributing a view of a whole person?(Diff. studies)

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Multidisciplinary

Question 16

What System refers to local institutions?

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Exosystems

Question 17

What type of system does interactions among systems?

Accepted Answer

Mesosystems

Question 18

What encompasses traits, capacities, & limitations that are inherited genetically?

Accepted Answer

Nature

Question 19

What affects every human characteristic?

Accepted Answer

Nurture, Nature

Question 20

What seeks to understand how and why all kinds of people change over time?

Accepted Answer

Science of human development

Question 21

Who do Developmentalists NOT favor?

Accepted Answer

Those seeking Financial support

Question 22

A type of study that is filed away and never published due to results being undesirable.

Accepted Answer

File Drawer Problem

Question 23

What type of system views every changing interaction between physical & emotional being?

Accepted Answer

Dynamic System

Question 24

1 out of ____ master native pronunciation.

Accepted Answer

20

Question 25

Which is not one of the three basic research designs?

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Correlation

Question 26

This is an anti-nausea drug that if taken before 54 days will cause limb deformation or absence

Accepted Answer

Thalidomide

Question 27

The integrity of Scientific Study promotes what?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 28

True or False; Ethnic groups ARE cultural groups.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

This is an in-depth study of one person, requiring personal information & more.

Accepted Answer

Case Study

Question 30

True or False; The Scientific Method aids in understanding a person as a whole.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Who thought the 1st stage of development occurs in the middle age range?

Accepted Answer

Both Sigmund Freud & Jean Piaget

Question 32

Which is a Social Construction?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 33

Which is stable over time?

Accepted Answer

Continuity

Question 34

Which basic research design does both types?

Accepted Answer

Criss-Sequential

Question 35

A person's position in society is determined by income, occupation, education, & residency.

Accepted Answer

Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Question 36

Which one is an example of BIosocial Development?

Accepted Answer

Motor Skills

Question 37

What is the Second Element in human development?

Accepted Answer

Inclusion of all kinds of people

Question 38

What are testable predictions also called?

Accepted Answer

Hypothesis

Question 39

True or False; We all DON'T have the tendency to judge others as inferior.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

What encompasses cultural differences in sex roles or in family structures?

Accepted Answer

Psychosocial Development

Question 41

What term means a change in direction? (This term is dynamic, but not static)

Accepted Answer

Multidirectional

Question 42

Which is NOT an example of Differential Susceptibility?

Accepted Answer

Motor Skills

Question 43

People whose ancestors are born in the same region and share a language, culture, and religion?

Accepted Answer

Ethnic Group

Question 44

Moral principles or guidelines that members of a profession or group are expected to follow?

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Code of Ethics

Question 45

Relationship between two variables, with the likelihood that 1 will or not occur due to another

Accepted Answer

Correlation

Question 46

Refers to the idea that abilities, personality, & other characteristics can change over time.

Accepted Answer

Plasticity

Question 47

What types of change can occur?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 48

Which is NOT a domain of Physical Development?

Accepted Answer

Nature/Nurture

Question 49

What type of development encompasses the growth and change that occurs in a person's body?

Accepted Answer

Biosocial

Question 50

What are powerful, affecting thoughts and behaviors that are created by society?

Accepted Answer

Social Constructions

Question 51

What term refers to how susceptible a person is regarding both genes and the environment?

Accepted Answer

Differential Susceptibility (Differential Sensitivity)

Question 52

What System refers to a larger social setting? (Cultural, Political, Economic, Policies)

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Macrosystem

Question 53

Which basic research design does individual follow-ups over time?

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal

Question 54

Which basic research design compares groups of people (different age but same characteristics)?

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Cross-Sectional

Question 55

This highlights the ever-changing impact that each part of a system has on other parts.

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Dynamic Interaction

Question 56

Which period illustrates the time when the type of development is most likely to happen

Accepted Answer

Sensitive Period

Question 57

What is one way to express developmentals many paths?

Accepted Answer

Variability

Question 58

A group that permits only research that follows certain guidelines.

Accepted Answer

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Question 59

Which term states that humans tend to observe differences & then conclude them as inferior?

Accepted Answer

Difference-equals-deficit error

Question 60

What age group is more important?

Accepted Answer

It Depends.....

Question 61

Refers to people born within the same historical period; moving through life together, etc. ?

Accepted Answer

Cohort

Question 62

What is a comprehensive set of ideas?

Accepted Answer

Theory

Question 63

What did Bronfenbrenner rename the Ecological-Systems Approach to?

Accepted Answer

Bioecological

Question 64

What is considered poor for a family of three?

Accepted Answer

$19,790

CFS 39 - Chapter 1

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CFS 39 - Chapter 1

Questions 72