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2. Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth.
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3. Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
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4. The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early
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5. Entering the Social World: Socioemotional Development
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7. Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development
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8. Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence.
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9. Moving Into the s s s s s s Adult Social World: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence.
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13. Making It in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial Challenges of Middle Adulthood.
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Part s s IV: s s LATE ADULTHOOD. s s
14. The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive,
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15. Social Aspects of Later s s s s s s s s Life: Psychosocial, Retirement,
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16. The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement.
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View 9th Edition By Robert V. Kail; John C. Cavanaugh
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Chapters 1 - 16 Complete
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1. The s s Study of Human s s s s s s Development.
Part I: PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT, INFANCY, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
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2. Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth.
s s s s s s s s s s s s
3. Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
s s s s s s s s s s s s Perceptual, and Motor Development.
s s s s s s
4. The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early
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Childhood.
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5. Entering the Social World: Socioemotional Development
s s s s s s s s s s s s in Infancy and
s s s s s s Early Childhood.
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Part II: SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
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6. Off to s s s s School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood.
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7. Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development
s s s s s s s s s s in Middle Childhood.
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8. Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence.
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9. Moving Into the s s s s s s Adult Social World: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence.
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Part III:
s s s s YOUNG AND MIDDLE ADULTHOOD. s s s s s s
10. Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, s s s s s s s s s s and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.
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11. Being With Others: Forming
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12. Work, Leisure, and Retirement.
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13. Making It in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial Challenges of Middle Adulthood.
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Part s s IV: s s LATE ADULTHOOD. s s
14. The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive,
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15. Social Aspects of Later s s s s s s s s Life: Psychosocial, Retirement,
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16. The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement.
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2. Whichterm does notbelongin this group?
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a. experiential
b. nurture
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ANSWER:d. hereditary ss
3. Dr. Kim takes a strong nature position with regard to the origins of
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ss intellectual disabilities. Therefore, she would most likely hypothesize that her
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ss son‘s intellectu al disability (formally known as mental retardation) is due to
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a. her parenting style ss ss
ANSWER:b.his genes s ss
c. his exposure to a toxic chemical prior to birth
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d. his exposure to Rubella prior to birth
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4. The notion that development is best described in terms of a series of abrupt
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s h ifts in behavior best fits with the
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a. nature
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5. Cleo, a director of a daycare, uses terms like ―pre-K,‖ ―K-3,‖ and the ―upper-
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elementary.‖ These ideas are most compatible with a view.
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a. context-specificity
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ANSWER:d. discontinuity ss
6. Dr. Fletcher is attempting to determine whether adult criminals were rule-
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break e rs throughout their childhood or whether they suddenly turned to a life of
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crime. Her research is most concerned with which issue of human
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development?
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a. nature versus nurture ss ss
b. universal versus context-specific development s s s s s s
c. biological versus sociocultural forces s s s s s s
ANSWER:d. continuity versus discontinuity ss ss ss
7. Mustafa is interested in determining whether children develop virtually the
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a. psychological versus biological forces s ss ss
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8. When Clarisse says, ―It doesn‘t matter if they are French, Swedish, or
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9. Viviana notices that children seem to mature socially much faster
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in Costa Ric a than in the Canada. Viviana is most likely to support a position
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regarding human development.
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