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Human Development:
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Human Development: A Life-Span View — Test Bank
Robert V. Kail
ISBN: 9781337554831
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language
Chapter 5: Entering the Social World
Chapter 6: Off to School
Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons
Chapter 8: Rites of Passage
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World
Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult
Chapter 11: Being with Others: Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
Chapter 12: Working and Relaxing
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife
Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life
Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life Psychosocial, Retirement, Relationship, and
Societal Issues
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Chapter 16: Dying and Bereavement
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Children and their Development, 8th edition Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1 The Science of Child Development
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which philosopher believed that children are born with innate knowledge?
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a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. John Locke
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d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer: a
Rationale: In Plato’s view, children’s experiences simply trigger knowledge they’ve had
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since birth.
Topic: Setting the Stage
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, Difficulty: Moderate Skill:
Remember the Facts
Learning Objective: Explain how conceptions of childhood and research on child
development have evolved from antiquity to today.
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2. The idea that the mind of the human infant is a tabula rasa at birth reflects the belief that
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a. experience molds each person into a unique individual
b. children should be left alone so that their good natures can unfold
c. heredity plays a major role in an individual’s development
d. infants cannot think, because their minds are blank
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Answer: a
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Rationale: John Locke’s idea of a tabula rasa argues poetically that infants are blank slates
on which experience writes.
Topic: Setting the Stage
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Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Learning Objective: Explain how conceptions of childhood and research on child
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development have evolved from antiquity to today.
3. Which two philosophers both believed that children were born as blank slates, with
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knowledge acquired through experiences?
a. Plato and Aristotle
b. Aristotle and Rousseau
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c. Locke and Rousseau
d. Aristotle and Locke
Answer: d
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Copyright © 2025, 2015, 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Human Development:
A Life-Span View, 8th
ST
Edition
UV
TEST BANK
IA
_A
Robert V. Kail
PP
────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
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||| ||| || ||| || | || ||| | || ||| |
9781337554831
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© Robert V. Kail. All rights reserved.
Reproduction or distribution without permission is
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prohibited.
© MEDCONNOISSEUR
, Edrftgyihu jiuh
Human Development: A Life-Span View — Test Bank
Robert V. Kail
ISBN: 9781337554831
ST
Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language
Chapter 5: Entering the Social World
Chapter 6: Off to School
Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons
Chapter 8: Rites of Passage
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World
Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult
Chapter 11: Being with Others: Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
Chapter 12: Working and Relaxing
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife
Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life
Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life Psychosocial, Retirement, Relationship, and
Societal Issues
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Chapter 16: Dying and Bereavement
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© MEDCONNOISSEUR
, TEST BANK FOR
Children and their Development, 8th edition Robert V. Kail
Chapter 1-15
Chapter 1 The Science of Child Development
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which philosopher believed that children are born with innate knowledge?
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a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. John Locke
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d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer: a
Rationale: In Plato’s view, children’s experiences simply trigger knowledge they’ve had
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since birth.
Topic: Setting the Stage
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D?
, Difficulty: Moderate Skill:
Remember the Facts
Learning Objective: Explain how conceptions of childhood and research on child
development have evolved from antiquity to today.
ST
2. The idea that the mind of the human infant is a tabula rasa at birth reflects the belief that
.
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a. experience molds each person into a unique individual
b. children should be left alone so that their good natures can unfold
c. heredity plays a major role in an individual’s development
d. infants cannot think, because their minds are blank
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Answer: a
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Rationale: John Locke’s idea of a tabula rasa argues poetically that infants are blank slates
on which experience writes.
Topic: Setting the Stage
PP
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Learning Objective: Explain how conceptions of childhood and research on child
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development have evolved from antiquity to today.
3. Which two philosophers both believed that children were born as blank slates, with
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knowledge acquired through experiences?
a. Plato and Aristotle
b. Aristotle and Rousseau
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c. Locke and Rousseau
d. Aristotle and Locke
Answer: d
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