THE DEVELOPING HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
11TH EDITION MOORE TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. Stage theories (discontinuity theories) - ANSWER Development through a series of stages
2. Continuity theories - ANSWER Steady growth process
3. Discontinuity (stage) vs Continuity - ANSWER Stage is qualitative
4. Child development vs. Life Span Perspective - ANSWER Freud and Piaget = child development
Erikson = life span
5.Child Development theory - ANSWER complete once reach adolescence
6. Life Span theory - ANSWER continues throughout life span
7. Universality vs. context-specific development - ANSWER Universality (Piaget) = same order and same
age
Context-specific (Bronfenbrenner) = takes place in various contexts
8. Context-specific development - ANSWER Collectivist cultures vs. individualistic cultures changes
development
9. Cognitive development theory - ANSWER Based on the notion that cognitive abilities are developed as
individuals mature physiologically and have opportunity to interact with environment (Piaget)
10. Equilibration of accommodation and assimilation - ANSWER Piaget argues that normally we are in
this state, when a new stimulus presents we enter state of disequilibrium
,11.Nature versus nurture controversy - ANSWER experiences (nurture) or genetics (nature) influences
development
12. Nurture blank slate - ANSWER tabula rasa
13. Nature versus nurture differences - ANSWER nature preprogrammed and nurture experiences
14. View of most theorists on nature versus nurture - ANSWER combination, interact from conception
forward
15. Accommodation - ANSWER Adjusting prior knowledge gained through former experiences and
interactions
16. Assimilation - ANSWER Fitting together the new information with what has been previously known or
understood
17. Constructivism - ANSWER Piaget position on learning. Children construct schema, organized patterns
of thought or action, Based on the experiences that they have actively exploring the environment
18. Piaget Constructivism - ANSWER considered a stage theory
19. Piaget Constructivism Four Stages - ANSWER 1. Sensorimotor (birth - 2)
2. Preoperational (2-7)
3. Concrete Operations (7-11)
4. Formal Operaitons (11-15)
20. Preoperational stage - ANSWER egocentrism, rigidity of thought, semi logical reasoning, limited social
cognition
21. Concrete Operations - ANSWER Beginning of operational thinking, can perform transformations,
understand reversibility, inversion, reciprocity, and conservation, group into categories, make inferences,
inductive reasoning
, 22. Formal Operations - ANSWER higher ordered critical thinking, adult thinking, ultimate stage of
cognitive development, scientific method, logical, abstract and hypothetical thought, deductive and
inductive reasoning
23. Kohlberg - ANSWER extended Piaget model to study of moral reasoning
24. Information processing approach - ANSWER newer approach to studying cognitive development,
uses computer as metaphor for human mind
25. Learning theory (or behaviorist theory) - ANSWER Developmental change as the product of learning
26. Learning - ANSWER To find as changes in observable behavior
27. Watson - ANSWER Found in school psychology called behaviorism or behavioral psychology
28. Behavioral psychology important figures - ANSWER Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, Bandura
29. Learning theory - ANSWER behavior is controlled by stimuli in the environment
30. Pavlov Classical Conditioning - ANSWER Learning takes place when reflexive behavior comes under
the control of a novel stimulus in the environment
31. Reflex - ANSWER unlearned behavior present at birth, unconscious
32. Components of Reflex - ANSWER Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) - automatically elicits response
without training or conditioning
Unconditioned Response (UCR) - untrained motor response
33. Inborn reflex - ANSWER result of UCS-UCR connection
11TH EDITION MOORE TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. Stage theories (discontinuity theories) - ANSWER Development through a series of stages
2. Continuity theories - ANSWER Steady growth process
3. Discontinuity (stage) vs Continuity - ANSWER Stage is qualitative
4. Child development vs. Life Span Perspective - ANSWER Freud and Piaget = child development
Erikson = life span
5.Child Development theory - ANSWER complete once reach adolescence
6. Life Span theory - ANSWER continues throughout life span
7. Universality vs. context-specific development - ANSWER Universality (Piaget) = same order and same
age
Context-specific (Bronfenbrenner) = takes place in various contexts
8. Context-specific development - ANSWER Collectivist cultures vs. individualistic cultures changes
development
9. Cognitive development theory - ANSWER Based on the notion that cognitive abilities are developed as
individuals mature physiologically and have opportunity to interact with environment (Piaget)
10. Equilibration of accommodation and assimilation - ANSWER Piaget argues that normally we are in
this state, when a new stimulus presents we enter state of disequilibrium
,11.Nature versus nurture controversy - ANSWER experiences (nurture) or genetics (nature) influences
development
12. Nurture blank slate - ANSWER tabula rasa
13. Nature versus nurture differences - ANSWER nature preprogrammed and nurture experiences
14. View of most theorists on nature versus nurture - ANSWER combination, interact from conception
forward
15. Accommodation - ANSWER Adjusting prior knowledge gained through former experiences and
interactions
16. Assimilation - ANSWER Fitting together the new information with what has been previously known or
understood
17. Constructivism - ANSWER Piaget position on learning. Children construct schema, organized patterns
of thought or action, Based on the experiences that they have actively exploring the environment
18. Piaget Constructivism - ANSWER considered a stage theory
19. Piaget Constructivism Four Stages - ANSWER 1. Sensorimotor (birth - 2)
2. Preoperational (2-7)
3. Concrete Operations (7-11)
4. Formal Operaitons (11-15)
20. Preoperational stage - ANSWER egocentrism, rigidity of thought, semi logical reasoning, limited social
cognition
21. Concrete Operations - ANSWER Beginning of operational thinking, can perform transformations,
understand reversibility, inversion, reciprocity, and conservation, group into categories, make inferences,
inductive reasoning
, 22. Formal Operations - ANSWER higher ordered critical thinking, adult thinking, ultimate stage of
cognitive development, scientific method, logical, abstract and hypothetical thought, deductive and
inductive reasoning
23. Kohlberg - ANSWER extended Piaget model to study of moral reasoning
24. Information processing approach - ANSWER newer approach to studying cognitive development,
uses computer as metaphor for human mind
25. Learning theory (or behaviorist theory) - ANSWER Developmental change as the product of learning
26. Learning - ANSWER To find as changes in observable behavior
27. Watson - ANSWER Found in school psychology called behaviorism or behavioral psychology
28. Behavioral psychology important figures - ANSWER Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, Bandura
29. Learning theory - ANSWER behavior is controlled by stimuli in the environment
30. Pavlov Classical Conditioning - ANSWER Learning takes place when reflexive behavior comes under
the control of a novel stimulus in the environment
31. Reflex - ANSWER unlearned behavior present at birth, unconscious
32. Components of Reflex - ANSWER Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) - automatically elicits response
without training or conditioning
Unconditioned Response (UCR) - untrained motor response
33. Inborn reflex - ANSWER result of UCS-UCR connection
