Exam 1: History, Theory, and Applied Directions

The Children's Defense Fund

The continuous development view holds that

Traditional behaviorists like John Watson believed that __________ is the supreme force in development.

Locke regarded development as __________ and largely influenced by __________.

Which of the following is an important criticism of behaviorism?

Which of the following theories emphasizes many possible courses of development?

In ecological systems theory, children are

Of all Western nations, __________ has the highest percentage of extremely poor children.

Today, Bandura's theory stresses the importance of

A criticism of the information-processing approach is that it

Development is often divided into which of the following three broad domains?

Ms. Xavier opposes physical punishment in schools. She believes that such punishment makes children fear teachers. Ms. Xavier is most aligned with which historical prospective?

Freud's psychosexual theory was the first to stress the influence of

Dr. Cooper is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist. Which of the following questions would Dr. Cooper most likely investigate?

Dr. Shepherd studies individual differences in intelligence, personality, and social skills of identical twins raised in different families. Dr. Shepherd likely emphasizes the role of __________ in his research.

__________ is the only industrialized nation without a universal, publicly funded health-care system,

In Piaget's concrete operational stage, children

The roots of ethology can be traced to the work of

In !Kung society, infants are

The information-processing approach is being used to