HDFS 210 ACTUAL EXAM 1 |COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH 100%
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What are the topical areas? - (answer)social, cognitive, physical, etc.
What are the six major developmental theories? - (answer)psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive,
humanistic, contextual, evolutionary
What is a theory? - (answer)An organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development
What is the purpose of theories? - (answer)Ground and guide research
What are the reoccurring issues? - (answer)1. nature and nurture
2. continuity and discontinuity
3. universal and context-specific
What do most scientists think about the nature nurture issue? - (answer)Most social scientists
agree that humans are shaped by an interaction of nature AND nurture
,What does continuity vs. discontinuity mean? - (answer)continuity: developmental changes are
gradual and smooth
discontinuity: developmental changes are abrupt
Are the most important aspects of development universal or specific? - (answer)BOTH
universal development vs. context-specific development - (answer)universal: normative
developments that all individuals display
context-specific: developmental outcomes that vary person to person
psychodynamic theory: - (answer)How well do people solve conflicts at different ages
(Freud/Erikson)
Behavioral Theory - (answer)How does social learning influence a persons behavior?
behaviorism: Watson/skinner
social learning theory: bandura
Cognitive developmental theory: - (answer)How do people think? How does it change?
Piaget
,Information processing theory
cognitive neuroscience approach
humanistic perspective - (answer)What aspects of development are unique to humans?
self-acutualization/free will
contextual perspective - (answer)How is development affected by their internal and external
environments?
Evolutionary perspective - (answer)How does our heredity affect our behavior
Lifespan perspective (theory) - (answer)How do we develop across our lifespan?
What are the basic assumptions of learning:behaviorism? - (answer)experience is all that matters
AND focus on behavior and its causes
operant conditioning - (answer)consequences of a behavior determined whether it is repeated
Basic assumptions of social learning: - (answer)Experience drives development
, learning occurs by observing and imitating the behavior of others
Humans are active information processors
self-efficacy - (answer)one's beliefs about one's abilities and talents
Jean Piaget what was he known as and was his main idea? - (answer)Father of developmental
psychology; children as scientists "How do children process and progress?"
Who developed the bioecological systems theory? - (answer)Uri Bronfenbrenner
Main assumptions of bioecological systems theory? - (answer)development is inseparable from
environmental context
interconnected systems
dynamic view
environment - (answer)"a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian
dolls"
How long of a process is development? - (answer)A lifelong process
RATED EXPERT SOLUTIONS |2026 LATEST UPDATED
What are the topical areas? - (answer)social, cognitive, physical, etc.
What are the six major developmental theories? - (answer)psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive,
humanistic, contextual, evolutionary
What is a theory? - (answer)An organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development
What is the purpose of theories? - (answer)Ground and guide research
What are the reoccurring issues? - (answer)1. nature and nurture
2. continuity and discontinuity
3. universal and context-specific
What do most scientists think about the nature nurture issue? - (answer)Most social scientists
agree that humans are shaped by an interaction of nature AND nurture
,What does continuity vs. discontinuity mean? - (answer)continuity: developmental changes are
gradual and smooth
discontinuity: developmental changes are abrupt
Are the most important aspects of development universal or specific? - (answer)BOTH
universal development vs. context-specific development - (answer)universal: normative
developments that all individuals display
context-specific: developmental outcomes that vary person to person
psychodynamic theory: - (answer)How well do people solve conflicts at different ages
(Freud/Erikson)
Behavioral Theory - (answer)How does social learning influence a persons behavior?
behaviorism: Watson/skinner
social learning theory: bandura
Cognitive developmental theory: - (answer)How do people think? How does it change?
Piaget
,Information processing theory
cognitive neuroscience approach
humanistic perspective - (answer)What aspects of development are unique to humans?
self-acutualization/free will
contextual perspective - (answer)How is development affected by their internal and external
environments?
Evolutionary perspective - (answer)How does our heredity affect our behavior
Lifespan perspective (theory) - (answer)How do we develop across our lifespan?
What are the basic assumptions of learning:behaviorism? - (answer)experience is all that matters
AND focus on behavior and its causes
operant conditioning - (answer)consequences of a behavior determined whether it is repeated
Basic assumptions of social learning: - (answer)Experience drives development
, learning occurs by observing and imitating the behavior of others
Humans are active information processors
self-efficacy - (answer)one's beliefs about one's abilities and talents
Jean Piaget what was he known as and was his main idea? - (answer)Father of developmental
psychology; children as scientists "How do children process and progress?"
Who developed the bioecological systems theory? - (answer)Uri Bronfenbrenner
Main assumptions of bioecological systems theory? - (answer)development is inseparable from
environmental context
interconnected systems
dynamic view
environment - (answer)"a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian
dolls"
How long of a process is development? - (answer)A lifelong process
