Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition

by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

,Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk


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

,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
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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.
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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 fir
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st two decades of life.
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ANSWER:
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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 diff
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erent ages. 1




B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the effects of family size on chi
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ldren’s well-being. 1




C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritional re
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search.
D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s anxieties and behavior pr
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oblems.
ANSWER:
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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 ans
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wer questions of scientific interest.
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B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown through the combined eff
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orts 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 lif
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espan.
D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and medical professionals. A
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NSWER: B 1




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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
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B) social, cultural, and historical
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C) physical, cognitive, and emotional and social
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D) biological, social, and intellectual 1 1 1 1




ANSWER: C 1




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