Ways of Thinking about Children
Physical Development
Learning Theories
Information Processing
Attachment & Personality
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A teacher says to you, “I never believe my students have learned something new until I see their behavior change.” Without knowing anything else about this teacher, you can guess that he or she agrees with the _______ perspective of development.
What is behaviorist?
100
This is the most prevalent eating disorder.
What is obesity?
100
This type of thinking is represented in the following example: A child who watches a chef in a pizza restaurant flatten a ball of dough into a crust may comment, "Wow! It sure got a lot bigger when you did that."
What is conservation?
100
This memorization method is the LEAST advanced encoding method?
What is rehearsal?
100
A one-year-old child largely ignores the fact that his mother has left him with a stranger and does not seem to care when mother returns.
What is insecure avoidant?
200
A preschool teacher thinks it is very important for children to participate as much as possible in real-life adult tasks—baking cookies, constructing napkin holders with wood, and so on—with whatever guidance and support they need to accomplish the tasks successfully. This teacher is taking a _______ approach to child development.
What is sociocultural?
200
Behavior problems and depression are more likely to be experienced by girls undergoing this type of physical development.
What is early maturation?
200
The primary developmental benefit of games like "Red Light, Green Light, 1, 2, 3 is that they promote this.
What is self-regulation?
200
Ladrillo means brick in Spanish, so when I hear “ladrillo,” which sounds sort of like ladder, I intentionally imagine a ladder leaning against a brick wall.
What is an example of the keyword method?
200
An infant’s temperament is highly reactive to novelty and frustration. The parent is intrusive, coercive, and controlling. This is the likely outcome for this child
What is angry and aggressive?
300
Dr. Kim has noticed that many 4-year-olds are very kind and caring toward their younger siblings. She wants to find out if 4-year-olds who are especially kind at home are equally kind and caring with their preschool classmates. This type of data collection technique would be most useful for this purpose.
What is observation?
300
The lack of high-quality parenting, including warmth and affection.
What is the cause of nonorganic failure to thrive?
300
All of the following sentences are true. What determines whether or not there is good weather? 1. Charlie is not swimming; Dave is boating; there is not good weather. 2. Charlie is not swimming; there is good weather; Dave is boating. 3. Charlie is swimming; there is not good weather; Dave is not boating. 4. Dave is not boating; there is good weather; Charlie is swimming. This Piagetian stage can be assessed by the above question.
What is formal operations?
300
The best answer to the question below: Which of the following best illustrates a script? A child knows that --a person can be a man and a father at the same time. --on school days, we get up, shower, eat breakfast, make lunch, and wait for the bus. --she has a bad memory for remembering what her --mother told her to do. --a word can only refer to one object or class of objects.
What is "on school days, we get up, shower, eat breakfast, make lunch, and wait for the bus."
300
This theory explains why baby geese imprint onto their mothers or other moving objects.
What is ethology?
400
An example of this research design is as follows: A researcher randomly assigns 50 students to two groups of 25. Group 1 is given computers and educational software to take home and use, while Group 2 is given educational workbooks to take home. Two months later, the researcher gives each group standardized achievement tests.
What is experimental design?
400
This peaks at 7-9 years of age.
What is physical activity?
400
Edward is severely beaten by his alcoholic father on several occasions. Before long, Edward begins to shake whenever his father approaches. In this situation, Edward’s father has become this to his son, according to classical conditioning theory.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
400
Sometimes the chemistry class takes its exams in the lecture hall where the professor lectures, and sometimes in the testing center. This explains why test scores tend to be better in the lecture hall
What is encoding specificity?
400
These are the Big Five personality traits
What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
500
When two things, orks and lopas, are positively correlated, a. orks may cause lopas, lopas may cause orks , or both may be caused by something else. b.it is almost certain that either orks cause lopas or lopas cause orks. c. it is almost certain that orks and lopas are not causally related. d. it means that one cannot be predicted from the other. The best answer for this question is?
What is 'a?'
500
This is one of the most important advantages of feeding babies breast milk for at least their first year of life.
What is rapid brain growth and myelinization?
500
What are the four mechanisms that promote cognitive development, according to Piaget?
What is maturation, active reflection, social & educational experience, and disequilibrium.
500
The Stroop test primarily measures this.
What is inhibitory control?
500
Parent Hale Holmgren believes that children who have to be active and into something all the time are difficult and annoying. Holmgren’s 12-year-old daughter is active and getting into things all the time. What do we do we call this type of parent/child situation?
What is poor fit?