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Table of Contents

Chapter 01: Basic Concepts and Methods

Chapter 02: Theories of Development

Chapter 03: Prenatal Development and Birth1

Chapter 04: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy

Chapter 05: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Chapter 06: Social and Personality Development in Infancy1

Chapter 07: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Chapter 08: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood

Chapter 09: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood

Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence

Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood

Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood

Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood

Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood

Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood

Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood

Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement 2 / 4

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Chapter 01: Basic Concepts and Methods

Multiple-Choice Questions

• Developmental psychology is the scientific study of in our bodies, behaviour,

thinking, emotions, social relationships, and personalities.

• maturity and stability
• age-related changes
• social and cultural norms
• genetic and biological influences

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 01-1-01

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: B) age-related changes

• The belief that humans must seek redemption and lead a disciplined life to reduce the

influence of innate tendencies toward acting immorally is associated with the philosophical doctrine of

• innate goodness.
• original sin.
• empiricism.
• blank slate.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 01-1-02

Page-Reference: 3

Skill: Knowledge

Answer: B) original sin.

• A developmental psychologist who espouses the ideas of the philosopher Jean-Jacques

Rousseau would suggest that the basis for human development is

• life experiences and external environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual.
• preprogrammed sequential stages and genetically inherited traits.
• the struggle between an individual's selfish/sinful nature and redemption.
• an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.

Difficulty: 2

QuestionID: 01-1-03

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: D) an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.

• A developmental psychologist who espouses the ideas of the English philosopher John Locke

would suggest that the basis for human development is

• the struggle between an individual's selfish/sinful nature and redemption.
• an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.
• preprogrammed sequential stages and genetically inherited traits.
• environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual. 3 / 4

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QuestionID: 01-1-04

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: D) environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual.

• Which scientist contributed the concept of developmental stages to the scientific study of

human development?

• Charles Darwin
• John Watson
• Arnold Gesell
• G. Stanley Hall

Difficulty: 1

QuestionID: 01-1-05

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: A) Charles Darwin

• are recognized as the first scientific studies of child development.
• Darwin's baby biographies
• Gesell's studies of maturation
• Hall's questionnaires and interviews
• Piaget's cognitive theories

Difficulty: 2

QuestionID: 01-1-06

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: C) Hall's questionnaires and interviews

• Early developmental psychology pioneer G. Stanley Hall believed that developmentalists

should identify to further the field's understanding of child development.

• milestones
• norms
• developmental stages
• maturation processes

Difficulty: 2

QuestionID: 01-1-07

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Skill: Knowledge

Answer: B) norms

• is the term used to describe the average age at which children reach developmental

milestones.

• "Norms"
• "Maturation stage"
• "Psycho-social developmental stage"
• "Phenomenon"
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