Child Development EXAM 1 UARK 2022/2023 questions with 100% correct answersWhat is developmental science? - ✔✔an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on
the changes that children undergo from conception onward
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Child Development EXAM 1 UARK 2022/2023 questions with 100% correct answersWhat is developmental science? - ✔✔an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on
the changes that children undergo from conception onward
What two goals does developmental science have? - ✔✔1. The understand the basic
biological and cultural processes that account for the complexities of development
2. To facilitate children's health and well-being
What are the four major central issues of developmental science? - ✔✔1. Sources of
development
2. Plasticity
3. Continuity/Discontinuity
4. Individual difference
What does source of development mean? - ✔✔Emphasis
-Debates the importance of biology and environment
What does plasticity mean? - ✔✔To what degree, and under what conditions is
development open to change and intervention
-Greatest impact during sensitive periods
What is sensitive period? - ✔✔A time in an organism's development when a particular
experience has an especially profound effect
-Example of language development
What is critical period? - ✔✔A period during which specific biological or environmental
events are required for normal development to occur
-Example of imprinting
What are the four domains of development? - ✔✔1. Social
2. Emotional
3. Cognitive (intellectual)
4. Physical
The main idea of psychodynamic theory: - ✔✔In which psychosexual stages are
associated with the changing focus of the sex drive
The main idea of behaviorism: - ✔✔Theories that focus on development as the result of
learning, behavioral changes resulting from the individual's forming association between
behavior and consequences
Empirical evidence: - ✔✔not reply on argument or belief
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