Questions and CORRECT Answers
Continuous Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Development occurs in a constant,
steady manner; advancing skills one already possess
Discontinuous Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- development occurs in stages;
reaching certain stages at specific ages
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Microsystem
2. Mesosystem
3. Exosystem
4. Macrosystem
5. Chronosystem
Microsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- immediate environment that one interacts with
multiple times throughout the day
immediate family, school, peers
Mesosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- interaction and connection between a child's
microsystems
Exosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- social settings and occurrences that affect a child but
do not directly include the child or cross the their path
parents work place, health services in community
Macrosytem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- consists of things that influence and sometimes
support child within environment
culture, societal norms, laws
, Chronosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the sociohistorical conditions and
transitions/changes that occur in a child's life
important events change relationships
Nature - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- states that development is dependent on genetic, inborn
biological inheritance
Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- states that physical and social world influence a child's
development (biological and psychological)
Social Learning Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- learning occurs as a function of
observing, retaining, and replicating behaviors observed in others
Common Research Methods - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- systematic observation
self-reports
psychophysiological methods
clinical methods/case study
Systematic Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Naturalistic
2. Structured
Naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- occurs in the field or natural
environment where behavior happens
Structure observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- laboratory set up to evoke the behavior
being studied and ensure that all participants have equal opportunity to display behavior
Self-Reports - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ask participants to provide information