What are the key issues and questions in the field of child development?
What will be an ideal response?
Four key issues in child development are:
• whether developmental change is continuous or discontinuous
• whether development is largely governed by critical or sensitive periods during which certain influences or experiences must occur for development to be normal
• whether to focus on certain particularly important periods in human development or on the entire life span
• the nature-nurture question, which focuses on the relative importance of genetic versus environmental influences
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a. Anglo females b. African American females c. Anglo males d. African American males
The personality disorder that is characterized by an insistence that things have to be done "the right way" is ________ personality disorder.
A. antisocial B. avoidant C. paranoid D. obsessive-compulsive
In order for scaffolding to be successful, what does the teacher need to be aware of?
a. When the student becomes competent at the task he/she is performing b. How a student's innate intelligence will affect the work he/she will perform c. The effect of optimistic bias in understanding prior knowledge d. Whether a student has been exposed to dialectical thinking in his/her culture
The term "sociocentric" is best thought of as the opposite of the term:
a. egocentric b. collectivist c. individualist d. symbolic