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by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15
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,Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Table of Contents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundations of Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
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Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
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Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, andVygotskian
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Perspectives

Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: AnInformation-Processing Perspective
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Chapter 9 Language Development
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Part IV: Personality and Social Development
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Chapter 10 Emotional Development
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Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
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Part V: Contexts for Development
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Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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1) The field of child development
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C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
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3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the twentieth century?
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, 4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
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