Child and Adolescent Development Exam 1 Study Guide 2026 | Psychology Review, Practice
Questions & Test Prep
The science of human development - ANS ✔✔Seeks to understand how and why people all
kinds of people- all kinds of people, everywhere, of every age ---- change over time.
Biosocial - ANS ✔✔Includes all the growth and change that occur in a person's body and the
genetic, nutritional, and health factors that affect the growth and change. Biology,
neuroscience, and medicine.
Cognitive - ANS ✔✔the mental processes that a person uses to obtain knowledge or to think
about the environment. Psychology, linguistics, and education.
Why is it more useful to consider ethnicity and culture instead of the differences in appearance
that are used to indicate race? - ANS ✔✔Because race is a socially constructed idea which is
changed by society over time.
What factors are used to indicate a person's Socioeconomic Status? - ANS ✔✔Income,
occupation, education, and place of residence.
What is the difference between a critical period and a sensitive period? Give an example of
each. - ANS ✔✔Critical period - A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in
body or behavior) must happen for normal development to occur.
Critical for humans to grow arms and legs, hands, and feet, between 28 and 54 days after
conception.
Sensitive period - When a certain type of development is most likely although it may still
happen later with more difficulty.
, Learning to pronounce a second or third language with a native accent.
Summarize Bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems approach. - ANS ✔✔A perspective on human
development that Considers all the influences from various contexts of development.
Summarize 3 basic research strategies, and describe the strengths and weaknesses of each -
ANS ✔✔-Scientific Observation - record behavior systematically and objectively.
Strength - can occur in naturalistic settings or can occur in a laboratory.
Weakness - observation provides issues to explore, not proof.
-Experiment - used to determine cause and effect.
Control over certain elements in the experiment.
Varied results.
-Survey - information is collected from a large number of people by interview, questionnaire or
some other means.
Quick and direct way to obtain data.
Not necessarily accurate. Answers can be influenced by wording, people follow trends, or lie.
Others present themselves as they would like to be perceived.
Questions & Test Prep
The science of human development - ANS ✔✔Seeks to understand how and why people all
kinds of people- all kinds of people, everywhere, of every age ---- change over time.
Biosocial - ANS ✔✔Includes all the growth and change that occur in a person's body and the
genetic, nutritional, and health factors that affect the growth and change. Biology,
neuroscience, and medicine.
Cognitive - ANS ✔✔the mental processes that a person uses to obtain knowledge or to think
about the environment. Psychology, linguistics, and education.
Why is it more useful to consider ethnicity and culture instead of the differences in appearance
that are used to indicate race? - ANS ✔✔Because race is a socially constructed idea which is
changed by society over time.
What factors are used to indicate a person's Socioeconomic Status? - ANS ✔✔Income,
occupation, education, and place of residence.
What is the difference between a critical period and a sensitive period? Give an example of
each. - ANS ✔✔Critical period - A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in
body or behavior) must happen for normal development to occur.
Critical for humans to grow arms and legs, hands, and feet, between 28 and 54 days after
conception.
Sensitive period - When a certain type of development is most likely although it may still
happen later with more difficulty.
, Learning to pronounce a second or third language with a native accent.
Summarize Bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems approach. - ANS ✔✔A perspective on human
development that Considers all the influences from various contexts of development.
Summarize 3 basic research strategies, and describe the strengths and weaknesses of each -
ANS ✔✔-Scientific Observation - record behavior systematically and objectively.
Strength - can occur in naturalistic settings or can occur in a laboratory.
Weakness - observation provides issues to explore, not proof.
-Experiment - used to determine cause and effect.
Control over certain elements in the experiment.
Varied results.
-Survey - information is collected from a large number of people by interview, questionnaire or
some other means.
Quick and direct way to obtain data.
Not necessarily accurate. Answers can be influenced by wording, people follow trends, or lie.
Others present themselves as they would like to be perceived.
