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Child Development EXAM 1 UARK 2022/2023 questions with 100% correct answers

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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 [Show More]

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