Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition

by Laura E. Berk Chapters 1 - 15

,Test Bank For Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk


Table of Contents

Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development

Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions

Chapter 2 Research Strategies

Part II: Foundations of Development

Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth

Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities

Chapter 5 Physical Growth

Part III: Cognitive and Language Development

Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and Vygotskian

Perspectives

Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective

Chapter 8 Intelligence

Chapter 9 Language Development

Part IV: Personality and Social Development

Chapter 10 Emotional Development

Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding

Chapter 12 Moral Development

Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles

Part V: Contexts for Development

Chapter 14 The Family

Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling

,CHAPTER 1
HISTORY, THEORY, AND APPLIED DIRECTIONS


MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) The field of child development
A) is devoted to understanding human constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
B) is part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science.
C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
D) focuses primarily on infants’ and children’s social and cognitive development.
ANSWER: B
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan.
B) understand more about personality and social development.
C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
D) describe and identify those factors that influence the consistencies and changes in young people during the
first two decades of life.
ANSWER:
D
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3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the twentieth century?
A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how to teach children of
different ages.
B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the effects of family size on
children’s well-being.
C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritional
research.
D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s anxieties and behavior
problems.
ANSWER:
A
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B) social, acultural, aand ahistorical
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D) biological, asocial, aand
aintellectual aANSWER: aC

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