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TableofContents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundationsof Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, andB irth
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Chapter 4Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, andPerceptual Capacities
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Chapter 5 PhysicalGrowth
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Part III: Cognitive andLanguage Development
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Chapter 6 CognitiveDevelopment: Piagetian, CoreKnowledge, andVygotskian
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Chapter7 CognitiveDevelopment: An Information-Processing Perspective
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Chapter 9 LanguageDevelopment
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Part IV: Personality and SocialDevelopment
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Chapter 10 EmotionalD evelopment
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Chapter 11S elf andS ocialUnderstanding
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Chapter 12 MoralDevelopment
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex DifferencesandGender Roles
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Chapter 14 TheFamily t t t
Chapter 15 Peers, Media, andSchooling
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TableofContents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundationsof Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, andB irth
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Chapter 4Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, andPerceptual Capacities
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Chapter 5 PhysicalGrowth
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Part III: Cognitive andLanguage Development
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Chapter 6 CognitiveDevelopment: Piagetian, CoreKnowledge, andVygotskian
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Chapter 8 Intelligence t t
Chapter 9 LanguageDevelopment
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Part IV: Personality and SocialDevelopment
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Chapter 10 EmotionalD evelopment
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Chapter 11S elf andS ocialUnderstanding
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Chapter 12 MoralDevelopment
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex DifferencesandGender Roles
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Part V: Contextsfor Development
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Chapter 14 TheFamily t t t
Chapter 15 Peers, Media, andSchooling
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B) understand more about personalityand social development. t t t t t t
C) analyze child-rearingpractices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
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3) Whichof the following factors contributed to the study of child development inthe twentieth century?
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B) Parents were having more childrenand researchers became interested in the effects of familys ize onc hildre
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C) Pediatricians were pressured byinsurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritionalresea
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D) Highrates ofchildhood depression inspired new areas ofresearch into children’s anxieties and behaviorproble
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Answer:A t t
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4) Whichof the following state ments is true about the fieldof child development?
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B) The field ofchild development is considered interdisciplinarybecause it has grownthrough the combinede fforts
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ofpeople from many fields.
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C) Child development is the area of studydevoted to understandingconstancyand change throughout the lifesp
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D) Most ofwhat we know about child development comes from psychologists and medicalprofessionals.Answ
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7) What periodof human development brings the most rapid time of change?
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A) the prenatalperiod
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