Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by
Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

,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 Strategiessd sd sd




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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Chapter 5 Physical Growth sd sd sd




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 8 Intelligence sd sd




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 12 Moral Development sd sd sd




Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
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Part V: Contexts for Development
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Chapter 14 The Family sd sd sd




Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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HISTORY, THEORY,ANDAPPLIED DIRECTIONS sd ds ds sd sd




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1) The field of child development
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A) is devoted to understanding human constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
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B) is part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science.
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C) focuses primarilyon children’s physical and emotional development. sd sd sd sd sd sd sd




D) focusesprimarilyon infants’ and children’s socialand cognitive development. AN
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
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A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan. sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd




B) understand more about personality and social development. sd sd sd sd sd sd




C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
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D) describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in young people during the fir
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st two decades of life.
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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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A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how to teach children of diff
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B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the effects of family size on ch
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ildren’s well-being. sd




C) Pediatricians were pressured byinsurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritional re sd sd sd ds sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd




search.
D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s anxieties and behavior pro
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, 4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
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A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current researchers primarily ans
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wer questions of scientific interest.
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B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown through the combined eff
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orts of people from many fields.
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C) Child development is the area of studydevoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the li
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fespan.
D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and medical professionals. AN
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5) Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains? sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd




A) infancy, childhood, and adolescence sd sd sd




B) social, cultural, and historical sd sd sd




C) physical, cognitive, and emotional and social sd sd sd sd sd




D) biological,social,andintellectual A ds ds ds sd




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