Chapter 1: The Field of Human Development

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This document is a self-quiz on the field of human development, covering topics such as key figures (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), domains of human development, and research methods. It's likely part of a textbook.

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Chapter 1: The Field of Human Development **Answers to Textbook Self-Quiz** 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2. Humans are born good, born bad, or as a blank slate. 3. The domains of human development include biological, cognitive, emotional, and social. 4. Multidirectional development 5. Con...

Chapter 1: The Field of Human Development **Answers to Textbook Self-Quiz** 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2. Humans are born good, born bad, or as a blank slate. 3. The domains of human development include biological, cognitive, emotional, and social. 4. Multidirectional development 5. Context in development 6. **Continuity in development** 7. Normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, non-normative life events 8. Centenarians 9. 18-39 years 10. The scientific method is a series of steps that scientists from any field use as a process to test theories and gain knowledge within their field. 11. A theory is a collection of ideas used to explain observations. 12. The operational definitions will let everyone in the world know exactly how we plan to measure these two variables. 13. question 14. Descriptive research, correlational research, experimental research 15. Naturalistic observation method and ethnographic research 16. Positive, negative, and curvilinear 17. -.84 18. independent; dependent 19. Cross-sectional, longitudinal, sequential 20. Time-series analysis