Exam 1: Introduction: From Beliefs to Scientific Evidence

In some countries, male circumcision, a common practice in the United States, is considered genital mutilation. Which of the following comments best explains these different characterizations?

Our current understanding of parenting differs from parenting beliefs because it is based on ______.

Most commonly, authorities on parenting get their information about how to parent from ______.

Lila sought advice on how to discipline her daughter from several well-known experts. According to your text, she will likely receive ______.

The "Code of Hammurabi" described ancient laws concerning unacceptable behavior including ______.

The idea that soothing or playing with children would cause "nervousness" in children was originated by Dr. Holt.

The Qur'an promotes character development and about one third of the injunctions in the Islamic text are related to the family.

The doctrine of original sin was derived from how Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden by choosing to eat the forbidden fruit.

Ariès's thesis regarding child development has received scrutiny from historians due to its reliance on visual evidence from artists.

Which of the following authorities on parenting did not actually father a child, and thus did not have any personal parenting experience upon which he based his views?

St. Augustine of Hippo developed the religious doctrine which stated that ______.

Today, child labor can still be found in which of the following industries?

According to your text, early parenting research was limited and one-dimensional. This is due to the fact that early research focused only on ______.

The process by which children are taught the skills they will need to be successful adults in their culture is commonly referred to as ______.

Soviet psychologist Ivan Pavlov made famous classical conditioning with his experiment with infant Little Albert. In his experiment, the rat went from an unconditioned stimulus to a conditioned stimulus by pairing the sighting of the rat with a loud sound, acting as a neutral stimulus.

Ethnotheories are beliefs about how children develop differently based strictly on their ethnicity.

Scientific research on child development and parenting began to regularly appear in journals during the ______.

If parents believe that children are born a "blank slate," they will most likely ______.

In Greek families of the classical era (490-323 BCE), children were viewed as ______.

Which of the following statements is most true regarding child labor in the United States?