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1. Child development is the scientific study of the processes that human beings undergo from the moment
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of conception through adolescence. The main focus of study is how children
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3. Which of the following helped to pioneer the study of child development as a true science?
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A. G. Stanley Hall's book Adolescence
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B. the establishment of research institutes at Berkeley and Yale
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C. Arnold Gesell's studies on motor development
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persisted over time, it is a demonstration of developmental
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A. instability.

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,5. first emphasized the developmental nature of behavior by publishing a record of his son's sensory,
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motor, language, and emotional milestones during his first years of life.
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6. Dietrich Tiedemann and Charles Darwin used the information obtained from
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to support their early theories about child development.
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7. Professor Hughes insists that his students study the origins of human beings in order to fully u
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nderstand child development. Which of the following theorists would most agree with Professor
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8. Adolescence has been considered a separate stage of development since
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, 9. Who was the first to identify adolescence as a separate stage of development?
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10. Marsha is taking a class in human development. This class addresses the study of humans
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D. from conception through older adulthood and death.
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12. Human development studies are based on which of the following ideas?
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13. Physical, cognitive, psychosocial development are what social scientists call the three
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of the self.
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