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Table of Contents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundations of Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
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Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Chapter 5 Physical Growth
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Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
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Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and Vygotskian
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Perspectives
Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective
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Chapter 8 Intelligence
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Chapter 9 Language Development
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Part IV: Personality and Social Development
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Chapter 10 Emotional Development
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Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
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Chapter 12 Moral Development
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
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Part V: Contexts for Development
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Chapter 14 The Family
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Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
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nt. Answer: B
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
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A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan.
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C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
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3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the twentieth century?
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A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how to teach childr
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en of different ages.
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e on children’s well-being.
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C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritio
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4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
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A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current researchers prim
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ned efforts of people from many fields.
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the lifespan.
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D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and medical profession
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5) Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains?
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7) What period of human development brings the most rapid time of change?
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8) During which period of development do children form their first intimate ties to others?
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an development?
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10) Pete participates in soccer and is beginning to master fundamental reading and math skills. Pet
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e is probably in which period of human development?
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Table of Contents
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Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
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Chapter 1 History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Chapter 2 Research Strategies
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Part II: Foundations of Development
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Chapter 3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
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Chapter 4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Chapter 5 Physical Growth
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Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
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Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and Vygotskian
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Perspectives
Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective
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Chapter 8 Intelligence
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Chapter 9 Language Development
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Part IV: Personality and Social Development
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Chapter 10 Emotional Development
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Chapter 11 Self and Social Understanding
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Chapter 12 Moral Development
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Chapter 13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
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Part V: Contexts for Development
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Chapter 14 The Family
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Chapter 15 Peers, Media, and Schooling
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HISTORY, THEORY, AND APPLIED DIRECTIONS ws ws ws ws ws
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1) The field of child development
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C) focuses primarily on children’s physical and emotional development.
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D) focuses primarily on infants’ and children’s social and cognitive developme
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nt. Answer: B
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2) The common goal of investigators who study child development is to
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A) understand how physical growth and nutrition contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan.
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C) analyze child-rearing practices and experiences that promote children’s well-being.
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the first two decades of life.
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3) Which of the following factors contributed to the study of child development in the twentieth century?
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A) The beginning of public education led to a demand for knowledge about what and how to teach childr
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en of different ages.
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B) Parents were having more children and researchers became interested in the effects of family siz
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e on children’s well-being.
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C) Pediatricians were pressured by insurance companies to improve children’s health, which inspired nutritio
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D) High rates of childhood depression inspired new areas of research into children’s anxieties and beha
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4) Which of the following statements is true about the field of child development?
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A) Scientific curiosity is the prevailing factor that led to the study of children, and current researchers prim
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arily answer questions of scientific interest.
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B) The field of child development is considered interdisciplinary because it has grown through the combi
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ned efforts of people from many fields.
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C) Child development is the area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout
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the lifespan.
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D) Most of what we know about child development comes from psychologists and medical profession
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7) What period of human development brings the most rapid time of change?
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8) During which period of development do children form their first intimate ties to others?
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9) Charlotte is long and lean. She engages in make- ws ws ws ws ws ws ws ws
believe play and has a blossoming sense of morality. Charlotte is probably in which period of hum
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an development?
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10) Pete participates in soccer and is beginning to master fundamental reading and math skills. Pet
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e is probably in which period of human development?
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. Answer: D
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