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1. Child development is the scientific study of the processes that human beings undergo from the moment
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of conception through adolescence. The main focus of study is how children
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D. learn language skills.
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2. Historically, the study of child development gained impetus from
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A. the discovery of vaccines.
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B. the enactment of child labor laws.
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C. scientific discoveries about the nature of conception.
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D. all of the above
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3. Which of the following helped to pioneer the study of child development as a true science?
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A. G. Stanley Hall's book Adolescence
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B. the establishment of research institutes at Berkeley and Yale
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C. Arnold Gesell's studies on motor development
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D. all of the above
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4. Five-year-
old Tara does not make friends easily. She is shy and anxious in new situations. Since this behavior ha
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s persisted over time, it is a demonstration of developmental
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A. instability.

B. resilience.

C. constancy.

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,5. first emphasized the developmental nature of behavior by publishing a record of his son's sensory,
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motor, language, and emotional milestones during his first years of life.
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6. Dietrich Tiedemann and Charles Darwin used the information obtained from
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to support their early theories about child development.
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B. teachers

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7. Professor Hughes insists that his students study the origins of human beings in order to fully
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understand child development. Which of the following theorists would most agree with Professor
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Hughes's perspective?
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8. Adolescence has been considered a separate stage of development since
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A. early in the fifteenth century.
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B. the twentieth century.
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C. Freud mentioned it in his writings on child development.
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D. Bandura mentioned it in his theory on child development.
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, 9. Who was the first to identify adolescence as a separate stage of development?
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B. G. Stanley Hall
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C. Arnold Gesell pn




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10. Marsha is taking a class in human development. This class addresses the study of humans
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A. from conception to adolescence.
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B. throughout childhood. pn




C. from adolescence through older adulthood and death.
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D. from conception through older adulthood and death.
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11. designed a longitudinal study that traced the development of unusually intelligent children.
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A. G. Stanley Hall
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C. Jean Piaget pn




D. Lewis M. Terman pn pn




12. Human development studies are based on which of the following ideas?
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A. There is little continuity over the life span.
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C. Every portion of the life span is influenced by earlier events and will in turn affect later events.
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D. The domains of development are not interrelated.
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13. Physical, cognitive, psychosocial development are what social scientists call the three
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of the self.
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A. aspects

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