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September 11 was a ______________ influence on the development of children living in lower Manhattan
normative history-graded influence
According to our textbook's most recent statistics, what percentage of children under 18 years of age living in families with incomes below the poverty line?
37%
If a pregnant woman uses drugs and the baby is born with an addiction, this would be an example of __________
nurture
What do most development psychologists currently believe about change and growth?
They are lifelong processes.
What is Nurse-Family Partners?
An example given by Janet Currie in her talk of an effective intervention to assist poor families.
"Early experience" is to "later experience" as __________
An acorn is to a caterpiller
Experiencing the death of a parent at a young age is
a non normative influence on development
What is the academic enterprise of Human Development?
The scientific study of how people change (as well as how they stay the same) as they grow older.
Plato's belief that infants who are frequently rocked become better athletes provides an example of which view of development?
Early experience
The lifespan view of human development
acknowledges and values continued development through old age
Today, the Western view of children holds that early childhood is
a highly eventful period that lays an important foundation for the adult years
Context is to environment as
nurture is to nature
Which of the following is NOT listed in our textbook as a psychological effect of living in poverty?1
Poor parents often don't care bout their children.
Continuity is discontinuity as
nurture is to nature
What is the status of the "early-later experience issue"?
It continues to be hotly debated among developmentalists.
Counting the number of words a child can say at 10 months, 12 months, 14 months, and 16 months is
tracking quantitative change
The pattern of human development is created by the interplay of three key processes. They are ____________
biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes
Podcast #1 (Jobtraining and Preschool) illustrates
the "early experience" perspective
Prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle/late childhood and adolescence are
periods of development
Which discipline is NOT considered a science?
None of the above (options were physics, child development, and biology)
Phi Beta Kappa speaker Dr. Janet Currie's presentation generally concerned
health and inequality
What is "tabula rasa" (That children are born a blank slate)
the environmental view
Everything we are born with is an influence of "nature" as opposed to "nurture"
FALSE
According to Janet Currie, what is inequality?
The distance between the highest and lowest income-earners in a given society.
A researcher wants to find out whether risk-taking decreases with age. She measures risk-taking in 50 5-year-olds; 50 10-year-olds; 50 15-year-olds; and 50 20-year-olds. Five years later she measures risk taking in the first 3 groups again, who are now all 5 years older, plus a new group of now five-year-olds. The researcher is using a(n) _______________ research design.
cross-sequential
Which of the following was NOT listed in our textbook as an inequality experienced by poor children compared to their economically more advantaged counterparts?
read relatively infrequently