Chapter 1: Introduction to Child
Development questions and answers with solutions
2025/2026
Why should someone study development? - ANSWER To better
understand human nature and how we grow, evolve, and become who
we are.
To better understand how environment shapes us
To understand ourselves better
To raise our children better
To better choose and design social policies for children's well being.
What are the 7 major themes in child development? - ANSWER Nature
and Nurture
The Active Child
Continuity/Discontinuity
Mechanisms of Change
The Sociocultural Context
Individual Differences
Research and Children's Welfare.
, What was Plato's belief about children's development? - ANSWER They
are born with innate knowledge.
What was Aristotle's belief about children's development? - ANSWER All
knowledge comes with experience and the mind of an infant is like a
black board on which nothing has yet been written.
What was Rousseau's belief about children's development? - ANSWER
Children should be given maximum freedom from the beginning as they
learn primarily from their own spontaneous interactions with objects
and other people.
How did Darwin contribute to the study of children's development? -
ANSWER His evolutionary theory influences the thinking of modern
developmentalists on a wide range of topics and his observations on the
motor, sensory and emotional growth of his infant s on represented one
of the first methods for studying children.
How is Alfred Binet significant in the field of study for child
development? - ANSWER Him and his colleagues pioneered the
systematic testing of children's intelligence and were among the first to
investigate differences among children of the same age.
Define: Psychoanalytic Theory - ANSWER Freud's theory. Biological
drives, especially sexual ones, are a crucial influence on development.
How did John Watson contribute to the study of children's development?
- ANSWER He was the father of Behaviorist Theory. Proposed that
Development questions and answers with solutions
2025/2026
Why should someone study development? - ANSWER To better
understand human nature and how we grow, evolve, and become who
we are.
To better understand how environment shapes us
To understand ourselves better
To raise our children better
To better choose and design social policies for children's well being.
What are the 7 major themes in child development? - ANSWER Nature
and Nurture
The Active Child
Continuity/Discontinuity
Mechanisms of Change
The Sociocultural Context
Individual Differences
Research and Children's Welfare.
, What was Plato's belief about children's development? - ANSWER They
are born with innate knowledge.
What was Aristotle's belief about children's development? - ANSWER All
knowledge comes with experience and the mind of an infant is like a
black board on which nothing has yet been written.
What was Rousseau's belief about children's development? - ANSWER
Children should be given maximum freedom from the beginning as they
learn primarily from their own spontaneous interactions with objects
and other people.
How did Darwin contribute to the study of children's development? -
ANSWER His evolutionary theory influences the thinking of modern
developmentalists on a wide range of topics and his observations on the
motor, sensory and emotional growth of his infant s on represented one
of the first methods for studying children.
How is Alfred Binet significant in the field of study for child
development? - ANSWER Him and his colleagues pioneered the
systematic testing of children's intelligence and were among the first to
investigate differences among children of the same age.
Define: Psychoanalytic Theory - ANSWER Freud's theory. Biological
drives, especially sexual ones, are a crucial influence on development.
How did John Watson contribute to the study of children's development?
- ANSWER He was the father of Behaviorist Theory. Proposed that
