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TEST BANK FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT 9TH EDITION
BY LAURA E. BERK CHAPTERS 1 – 15 COVERED
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Table of Contents
Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
Chapter 2 Research Strategies
Part II: Foundations of Development
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual
Capacities
Chapter 5 Physical Growth
Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and
Vygotskian
Perspectives
Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing
Perspective
Chapter 8 Intelligence
Chapter 9 Language Development
Part IV: Personality and Social Development
Chapter 10 Emotional Development
Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
Chapter 12 Moral Development
Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
Part V: Contexts for Development
Chapter 14 The Family
Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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CHAPTER 1
HISTORY, THEORY, AND APPLIED
DIRECTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) The field of child development
A) is devoted to understanding human constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
B) is part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science.
C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
D) focuses primarily on infants’ and children’s social and cognitive
development. ANSWER: B
2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being
throughout the lifespan.
B) understand more about personality and social development.
C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
D) describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in
young people during the first two decades of life.
ANSWE
R: D
3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the
twentieth century?
A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how
to teach children of different ages.
B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the
effects of family size on children’s well-being.
C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health,
which inspired nutritional research.
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D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s
anxieties and behavior problems.
ANSWER
:A
4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current
researchers primarily answer questions of scientific interest.
B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown
through the combined efforts of people from many fields.
C) Child development is the area of study devoted to understanding constancy and
change throughout the lifespan.
D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and
medical professionals. ANSWER: B
5) Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains?
A) infancy, childhood, and adolescence
B) social, cultural, and historical
C) physical, cognitive, and emotional and social
D) biological, social, and
intellectual ANSWER: C
6) The domains of development
A) combine in an integrated, holistic fashion.
B) are not influenced by each other.
C) operate independently of one another.
D) are distinct and
unrelated. ANSWER: A
7) What period of human development brings the most rapid time of change?
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TEST BANK FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT 9TH EDITION
BY LAURA E. BERK CHAPTERS 1 – 15 COVERED
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Table of Contents
Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
Chapter 2 Research Strategies
Part II: Foundations of Development
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual
Capacities
Chapter 5 Physical Growth
Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and
Vygotskian
Perspectives
Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing
Perspective
Chapter 8 Intelligence
Chapter 9 Language Development
Part IV: Personality and Social Development
Chapter 10 Emotional Development
Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
Chapter 12 Moral Development
Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
Part V: Contexts for Development
Chapter 14 The Family
Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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CHAPTER 1
HISTORY, THEORY, AND APPLIED
DIRECTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) The field of child development
A) is devoted to understanding human constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
B) is part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science.
C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
D) focuses primarily on infants’ and children’s social and cognitive
development. ANSWER: B
2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being
throughout the lifespan.
B) understand more about personality and social development.
C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
D) describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in
young people during the first two decades of life.
ANSWE
R: D
3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the
twentieth century?
A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how
to teach children of different ages.
B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the
effects of family size on children’s well-being.
C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health,
which inspired nutritional research.
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D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s
anxieties and behavior problems.
ANSWER
:A
4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current
researchers primarily answer questions of scientific interest.
B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown
through the combined efforts of people from many fields.
C) Child development is the area of study devoted to understanding constancy and
change throughout the lifespan.
D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and
medical professionals. ANSWER: B
5) Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains?
A) infancy, childhood, and adolescence
B) social, cultural, and historical
C) physical, cognitive, and emotional and social
D) biological, social, and
intellectual ANSWER: C
6) The domains of development
A) combine in an integrated, holistic fashion.
B) are not influenced by each other.
C) operate independently of one another.
D) are distinct and
unrelated. ANSWER: A
7) What period of human development brings the most rapid time of change?
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