TED 2320 Exam 1 Questions and
Answers
Blended family - Answer-Parents, children, stepchildren merged into families through remarriages
Cognitive development - Answer-changes in problem solving, memory,language, reasoning, and other
aspects of thinking
CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT - Answer-a gradual continuing process of increase (or decrease) in a
cities, knowledge, skills, strength, or other aspects of physical, cognitive, and social development- "more
of the same"
discontinuous development - Answer-Leaps and changes resulting in qualitatively different stages of
development
emotional/social development - Answer-changees over time in an individual's feelings, personality, self-
concept, and relations with other people
Ethnicity - Answer-a cultural heritage shared by a group of people
extended family - Answer-family members such as grandparents, aunts uncles, and cousins living in the
same household, or at leas tin daily contact with each other, cooperating to take care of children.
, maturation - Answer-Genetically influenced, naturally occurring changes over time.
Nature - Answer-
Physical development - Answer-changes in body structure and function over time
plasticity - Answer-the ability of the brain to reorganize in response to environmental stimuli and
experience
race - Answer-a social category system that groups people based on their physical characteristics such
as skin color or hair texture
sensitive periods - Answer-a time during which certain types of plasticity are dominant in the brain and
certain types of learning or development are most likely to occur or occur most easily.
socio-economic (ses) - Answer-An individual's creative standing in the society based on income, power,
background, and prestige.
tabula rasa - Answer-Latin for "blank slate"; Locke's idea that children are blank slates and their
development is modeled by experience, education, training, and so on.
1. What are the four main periods of child development addressed in this book? - Answer-1.Prenatal,
infancy and toddlerhood ( conception-2) greatest change 2. early childhood(2-6) walking running, doing
things on their own 3. middle childhood (6-11)self control 4. adolescence (10-22)sexual maturity
development vs. discontinuous development and nature vs. nurture. - Answer-(tadpole becoming a
frog) then learning new words...... What the child heredity, biological process, maturation and then
education, parenting, culture, social policies.
Answers
Blended family - Answer-Parents, children, stepchildren merged into families through remarriages
Cognitive development - Answer-changes in problem solving, memory,language, reasoning, and other
aspects of thinking
CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT - Answer-a gradual continuing process of increase (or decrease) in a
cities, knowledge, skills, strength, or other aspects of physical, cognitive, and social development- "more
of the same"
discontinuous development - Answer-Leaps and changes resulting in qualitatively different stages of
development
emotional/social development - Answer-changees over time in an individual's feelings, personality, self-
concept, and relations with other people
Ethnicity - Answer-a cultural heritage shared by a group of people
extended family - Answer-family members such as grandparents, aunts uncles, and cousins living in the
same household, or at leas tin daily contact with each other, cooperating to take care of children.
, maturation - Answer-Genetically influenced, naturally occurring changes over time.
Nature - Answer-
Physical development - Answer-changes in body structure and function over time
plasticity - Answer-the ability of the brain to reorganize in response to environmental stimuli and
experience
race - Answer-a social category system that groups people based on their physical characteristics such
as skin color or hair texture
sensitive periods - Answer-a time during which certain types of plasticity are dominant in the brain and
certain types of learning or development are most likely to occur or occur most easily.
socio-economic (ses) - Answer-An individual's creative standing in the society based on income, power,
background, and prestige.
tabula rasa - Answer-Latin for "blank slate"; Locke's idea that children are blank slates and their
development is modeled by experience, education, training, and so on.
1. What are the four main periods of child development addressed in this book? - Answer-1.Prenatal,
infancy and toddlerhood ( conception-2) greatest change 2. early childhood(2-6) walking running, doing
things on their own 3. middle childhood (6-11)self control 4. adolescence (10-22)sexual maturity
development vs. discontinuous development and nature vs. nurture. - Answer-(tadpole becoming a
frog) then learning new words...... What the child heredity, biological process, maturation and then
education, parenting, culture, social policies.
