/ 2027 Updates Questions and Answers
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Scientific Method - correct answer five steps which will avoid unexamined opinions
and rein in personal biases
Step 1 of Scientific Method - correct answer begin with curiosity
Step 2 of Scientific Method - correct answer Form a hypothesis
Step 3 of Scientific Method - correct answer Test the hypothesis
Step 4 of the Scientific Method - correct answer drawing conclusions
,Step 5 of Scientific Method - correct answer Report your results
Nature vs. Nurture - correct answer name for a controversy in which it is debated
whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behaviour
lifespan perspective - correct answer infancy 0-2
early childhood 2-6
middle childhood 6-11
adolescence 11-18
emerging adulthood 18-25
adulthood 25-65
late adulthood 65+
Development is multidirectional - correct answer Throughout life, some dimensions or
components of a dimension expand and others shrink.
,critical period - correct answer A time when a particular type of developmental growth
(in body or behavior) must happen if it is ever going to happen.
sensitive period - correct answer a time when a certain type of development is most
likely to happen or happens most easily, although it may still happen later with more
difficulty
Urie Bronfenbrenner - correct answer Outlined layers of environment that affect a
child's development, such as the child's own biology, family/community environment,
and society.
socioeconomic status (SES) - correct answer a person's position in society as
determined by income, wealth, occupation, education, and place of residence
, difference-equals-deficit error - correct answer the mistaken belief that a deviation
from some norm is necessarily inferior to behavior or characteristics that meet the
standard
Acculturation - correct answer the process of cultural change and psychological
change that results following meeting between cultures
Development is plastic - correct answer Human traits can be molded (as plastic can
be), yet people maintain a certain durability of identity (as plastic does).
dynamic systems - correct answer A view of human development as an ongoing, ever-
changing interaction between the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial influences. The
crucial understanding is that development is never static but is always affected by, and
affects, many systems of development.