Test Bank For Child Development 10th Edition by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

Test Bank For Child Development
10th Edition by Laura E. Berk
Chapters 1 - 15

,Table of Contents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundations of Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
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Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Chapter 5 Physical Growth xz xz xz




Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
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Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, andVygotskian
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Perspectives
Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective
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Chapter 8 Intelligence xz xz




Chapter 9 Language Development
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Part IV: Personality and Social Development
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Chapter 10 Emotional Development
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Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
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Chapter 12 Moral Development
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
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Part V: Contexts for Development
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Chapter 14 The Family xz xz xz




Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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,CHAPTER 1 xz




HISTORY, THEORY, ANDAPPLIED DIRECTIONS
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1) The field of child development
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A) is devoted to understanding human constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
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B) is part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science.
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C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
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D) focuses primarily on infants’ and children’s social and cognitive development. ANS
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
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A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan.
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B) understand more about personality and social development. xz xz xz xz xz xz




C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
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D) describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in young people during the first t
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wo decades of life.
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3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the twentieth century?
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A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how to teach children of differ
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ent ages.
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B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the effects of family size on child
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ren’s well-being.
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C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritional researc
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D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s anxieties and behavior probl
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4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
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A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current researchers primarily answer
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B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown through the combined efforts
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of people from many fields.
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C) Child development is the area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the lifes
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D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and medical professionals. ANS
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5) Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains?
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A) infancy, childhood, and adolescence xz xz xz




B) social, cultural, and historical
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C) physical, cognitive, and emotional and social xz xz xz xz xz




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