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<p>Child development knowledge is not helpful for parents</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge of child development can inform policy decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children are reliable witnesses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Research in child development provides insights into human nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systematic continuity and changes in an individual between conception and death</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Development moves from simpler to more complex over time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children's abilities change over time in an orderly and systematic manner</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mechanisms of developmental change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The biological endowment we receive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Choice of environments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves gradual, quantitative changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves abrupt qualitative changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mechanisms of developmental change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical, social, cultural, economic, and historical circumstances that make up any child's environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sleeping arrangements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poverty</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genes, Treatment by other people, Subjective reactions to other people's treatment of them, Choice of environments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recruiting participants based on their availability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Participants from Western countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Structured interviews</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1.00 to -1.00</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Third-variable problem</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Random assignment of participants to groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide a baseline for comparison</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to determine specific experiences during the experiment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Longitudinal study follows the same participants over time, while cross-sectional study tests different groups at different ages</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frequent assessments over a small period of time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Development is considered to be systematic continuity and changes that occur in an individual between conception and death. It is orderly, cumulative, and moves from simpler to more complex over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reasons for studying child development include raising children, choosing social policies, and understanding human nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge of child development helps parents rear children by providing insights into how to deal with tantrums and the ineffectiveness of spanking, and by promoting positive reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Central Themes of Development include: Nature and nurture, The active Child, Continuity/Discontinuity, Mechanisms of developmental change, The sociocultural Context, Individual Differences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Continuous development involves gradual, quantitative changes, while discontinuous development involves abrupt qualitative changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The four factors that contribute to individual differences in development are: genes, treatment by other people, subjective reactions to other people’s treatment of them, and choice of environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Correlation refers to the association between two variables, while causation refers to the relationship where one variable directly influences the other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An experimental design involves random assignment of participants to groups, experimental control, and the manipulation of an independent variable to determine its effect on a dependent variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Correlational designs suffer from the direction-of-causation problem, where the relationship between two variables does not indicate which variable is the cause, and the third-variable problem, where the correlation between two variables may be influenced by a third variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The different types of study designs include longitudinal studies, which follow the same participants over time, cross-sectional studies, which test different groups of participants at different ages, and cohort-sequential studies, which test different groups of participants and follow them across time.</p> Signup and view all the answers