Child Psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Child Psychology Chapter 2: Development Theory Exam Questions and Critical Answers 2023/2024 Developmental Theory - correct answer Systematic statement of principles and generalizations that provides a coherent framework for understanding how and why people change as they grow older Grand Theories - correct answer Describe universal processes Minitheories - correct answer Explain only a part of development Emergent Theories - correct answer May become new systematic and comprehensive t...

Child Psychology Foundational Terms Chapters 1-3 Exam Review Questions with correct Answers 2023/2024 Child Development - correct answer Researchers from different disciplines work to understand the important changes that a child goes through in childhood Physical Development - correct answer Component of development related to growth size, strength, and muscle coordination Cognitive Development - correct answer Related to the changes in how children perceive, think, remember, solve probl...

Child Developmental Psychology Fundamentals Exam Test Review Questions with Guaranteed Answers 2023/2024 What is development? - correct answer Physical and mental changes we go through in a lifetime What is developmental psychology? What is an example of something that a developmental psychologist would study? - correct answer Development psychology is the science of studying these changes (physical, psychological, and behavioral) across the lifespan. What are the five themes discussed in...

Child psychology psychoanalytic theory Exam review Questions and Answers 2023/2024 What does Tabula Rasa mean - correct answer Blank slate Who originated the psychoanalytic theory - correct answer Sigmund Freud What are Ericksons stages based on - correct answer Sexual drive What is the definition of observational learning or the social learning theory - correct answer Focus on learning by observing social models without any direct reinforcement What are the four stages of Piage...

Child Psychology Developmental stages theories Exam Test Review Questions with complete Answers 2023/2024 Stage theories - correct answer approaches that propose that development involves a series of discontinuous, age-related phases Incremental theories - correct answer theories in which development is a result of continuous quantitative changes Qualitative changes - correct answer changes in the overall nature of what you are examining, This thing was blue, now it is red Quantitative...

Child Psychology Language Developmental Stages Exam Review Questions with correct Answers 2023/2024 Language: Skinner - correct answer Simple Association: after hearing a word many times within a social interaction a child learns the word Vygotsky: language is external Language: Chomsky - correct answer Language Acquisition Device: innate biological program in our minds that allows us to learn language Support: Critical period where it is easiest to learn; when children use one grammatical...

Child Psychology Continuous and Discontinuous Developmental periods Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Twin studies - correct answer provide another way to tease out the roles of nature and nurture by comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Monozygotic (MZ) twins - correct answer often called identical twins, share the same genetic code because they developed from one fertilized egg, which divided into two separate individuals. Dizygotic (DZ) twins - correct answer often called fraterna...

Child Psychology-Chapter 6 Child growth stages Practice Exam Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Piaget's theory - correct answer Children are naturally curious, create theories Assimilation - correct answer occurs when new experiences are readily incorporated into a child's existing theories Accommodation - correct answer occurs when a child's theories are modified based on experience Equilibration - correct answer when disequilibrium occurs, children reorganize their theories to retur...

Child Psychology Child Depressive Disorders Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Depression in Children - what does it look like? - correct answer Depressed mood - many children may not be able to communicate this, so it is manifested as irritability and restlessness. Changes in appetite Changes in sleep patterns Unexplained sadness or crying Feelings of guilt or worthlessness Loss of interest in pleasurable activities Psychomotor agitation or retardation Suicidal ideation How do you know ...

Child psychology: Developmental Science – Practice Guide Questions with complete Answers 2023/2024 Developmental science is a field of study devoted to - correct answer understanding constancy and change throughout the lifespan Within the ____ view of development, new ways of understanding & responding to the world emerge at specific times. - correct answer discontinuous Although Justin spent his first 18 months in an orphanage, his adoptive mother believes that sensitive caregiving wil...