Developmental Psychology, also known as Human Development or Lifespan Development is the
scientific study of ways in:
People change
from conception to death
people stay the same
all of the above
- correct answer all of the above
What age period is more crucial, characterizes, or dominates human development?
- correct answer No single age period is more crucial
Which Development in the Lifespan Perspective is characterized by the brain's ability to learn from
experience and how it can recover from injury?
- correct answer Plasticity Development
The belief that our own culture is superior is called
- correct answer ethnocentrism
Lifespan refers to ________ and life expectancy refers to ________
- correct answer length of years to live; prediction of number of years to live
What is the _______ age that includes our cognitive capacity along with our emotional beliefs about
how old we are?
- correct answer psychological
This theorist believed that a child's mind was a blank slate and whatever came into the child's mind
came from the environment.
- correct answer John Locke
, This Theorist believed that children's intellectual skills changed over time, and maturation, not training,
brings changes.
- correct answer Jean Piaget
During the first of Freud's psychosexual stages of development, the child derives satisfaction from
stimulation of which body part?
- correct answer the mouth
This theorist made substantial contributions to psychology by identifying the principles of learning and
used the ideas of stimulus and response with reinforcement?
- correct answer B.F. Skinner
The three major types of research design for scientific investigations.
-Experimental research
-Correlational research
-All of the above
-Descriptive Research
- correct answer all of the above
The word _______ refers to the sum total of all the genes a person inherits and the word ______ refers
to the features that are actually expressed.
- correct answer genotype; phenotype
____________, or identical twins, occur when an egg splits apart in the first 2 weeks of development;
however, ___________ fraternal twins possess different genotype and phenotype.
- correct answer Monozygotic; Dizygotic
_______________ is a tic disorder which results in uncontrollable motor and vocal tics as well as body
jerking.
- correct answer Tourette syndrome