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PSYCH 290 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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development is ____, some dimensions or components of a dimension expand and
others shrink.


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multidimensional




Describes a child who has difficulty in learning that involves understanding or using
spoken or written language, and the difficulty can appear in listening, thinking,
reading, writing, and spelling. A learning disability also may involve difficulty in doing
mathematics. To be classified as a learning disability, the learning problem is not
primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities; mental retardation;
emotional disorders; or due to environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.


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, learning disabilities




_______ intelligence (practical intelligence/street smart): ability to grasp real-life
situation, figure out what's going on, ability to avoid trouble, figure out how to get
along with other, cope effectively with demand of one's environment


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contextual




Involves individual differences in behavioral styles, emotions, and characteristic ways
of responding.


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temperament




The perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional,
plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual; involves growth, maintenance, and
regulation; and is constructed through biological, sociocultural, and individual factors
working together.


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life-span approach

, A carefully regulated procedure in which one or more of the factors believed to
influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held
constant.


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experimental




Thinking that produces many answers to the same question and is characteristic of
creativity.


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divergent thinking




how a child thinks—not how much the child knows—determines the child's stage of
cognitive development.


1. sensorimotor (birth to 2)- infant constructs understanding of the world by
coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions.
2. preoperational (2-7)- represent world with words and images
3. concrete operational (7-11)- reason logically about concrete events and classify
objects into different sets
4. formal operational (11+)- reasons in more abstract, idealistic, and logical ways


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piaget's stages of cognitive development

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