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, 9. Who was the first to identify adolescence as a separate stage of development?
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of the self.
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1. Child development is the scientific study of the processes that human beings undergo from the moment of
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conception through adolescence. The main focus of study is how children
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A. change.
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C. develop social relationships. zl zl
D. learn language skills. zl zl
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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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C. Arnold Gesell's studies on motor development
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,5. first emphasized the developmental nature of behavior by publishing a record of his son's sensory, m
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otor, 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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B. the twentieth century.
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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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A. John Watson zl
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A. from conception to adolescence.
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A. G. Stanley Hall
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A. There is little continuity over the life span.
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