Scientific Method correct answers five steps which will avoid unexamined opinions and rein in
personal biases
Step 1 of Scientific Method correct answers begin with curiosity
Step 2 of Scientific Method correct answers Form a hypothesis
Step 3 of Scientific Method correct answers Test the hypothesis
Step 4 of the Scientific Method correct answers drawing conclusions
Step 5 of Scientific Method correct answers Report your results
Nature vs. Nurture correct answers name for a controversy in which it is debated whether
genetics or environment is responsible for driving behaviour
lifespan perspective correct answers infancy 0-2
early childhood 2-6
middle childhood 6-11
adolescence 11-18
emerging adulthood 18-25
adulthood 25-65
late adulthood 65+
Development is multidirectional correct answers Throughout life, some dimensions or
components of a dimension expand and others shrink.
critical period correct answers A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in body
or behavior) must happen if it is ever going to happen.
sensitive period correct answers a time when a certain type of development is most likely to
happen or happens most easily, although it may still happen later with more difficulty
Urie Bronfenbrenner correct answers Outlined layers of environment that affect a child's
development, such as the child's own biology, family/community environment, and society.
socioeconomic status (SES) correct answers a person's position in society as determined by
income, wealth, occupation, education, and place of residence
difference-equals-deficit error correct answers the mistaken belief that a deviation from some
norm is necessarily inferior to behavior or characteristics that meet the standard
Acculturation correct answers the process of cultural change and psychological change that
results following meeting between cultures
, Development is plastic correct answers Human traits can be molded (as plastic can be), yet
people maintain a certain durability of identity (as plastic does).
dynamic systems correct answers A view of human development as an ongoing, ever-changing
interaction between the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial influences. The crucial
understanding is that development is never static but is always affected by, and affects, many
systems of development.
differential sensitivity correct answers the idea that some people are more vulnerable than others
are to certain experiences, usually because of genetic differences
Theories of Human Development correct answers Psychoanalytic theory
Learning theory
Cognitive theory
Systems theory
Humanism
psychoanalytic theory correct answers A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain
personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of
behavior
Sigmund Freud correct answers psychoanalysis
Oral phase correct answers (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's
development
birth - 1 year
anal phase correct answers (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's
development during which bowel control is learned
1-3 years
phallic phase correct answers (psychoanalysis) third phase in Freud's model; child experiences
pleasurable and conflicting feelings associated with genital organs, unconscious sexual attraction
to parent of same sex as well as guilt; fixations results in difficulty with sexual identity and
authority figures
3-6 years
latency phase correct answers 6-11, dormant sexual feelings
genital phase correct answers (psychoanalysis) the fifth and sixth sexual and social stage in a
person's development occurring during adolescence