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September 11 was a ______________ influence on the development of children living in lower Manhattan
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normative history-graded influence
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According to our textbook's most recent statistics, what percentage of children under 18 years of age living in families with incomes below the poverty line?
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37%
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If a pregnant woman uses drugs and the baby is born with an addiction, this would be an example of __________
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nurture
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What do most development psychologists currently believe about change and growth?
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They are lifelong processes.
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What is Nurse-Family Partners?
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An example given by Janet Currie in her talk of an effective intervention to assist poor families.
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"Early experience" is to "later experience" as __________
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An acorn is to a caterpiller
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Experiencing the death of a parent at a young age is
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a non normative influence on development
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What is the academic enterprise of Human Development?
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The scientific study of how people change (as well as how they stay the same) as they grow older.
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Plato's belief that infants who are frequently rocked become better athletes provides an example of which view of development?
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Early experience
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The lifespan view of human development
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acknowledges and values continued development through old age
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Today, the Western view of children holds that early childhood is
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a highly eventful period that lays an important foundation for the adult years
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Context is to environment as
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nurture is to nature
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Which of the following is NOT listed in our textbook as a psychological effect of living in poverty?1
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Poor parents often don't care bout their children.
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Continuity is discontinuity as
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nurture is to nature
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What is the status of the "early-later experience issue"?
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It continues to be hotly debated among developmentalists.
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Counting the number of words a child can say at 10 months, 12 months, 14 months, and 16 months is
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tracking quantitative change
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The pattern of human development is created by the interplay of three key processes. They are ____________
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biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes
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Podcast #1 (Jobtraining and Preschool) illustrates
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the "early experience" perspective
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Prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle/late childhood and adolescence are
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periods of development
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Which discipline is NOT considered a science?
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None of the above (options were physics, child development, and biology)
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Phi Beta Kappa speaker Dr. Janet Currie's presentation generally concerned
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health and inequality
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What is "tabula rasa" (That children are born a blank slate)
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the environmental view
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Everything we are born with is an influence of "nature" as opposed to "nurture"
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FALSE
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According to Janet Currie, what is inequality?
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The distance between the highest and lowest income-earners in a given society.
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A researcher wants to find out whether risk-taking decreases with age. She measures risk-taking in 50 5-year-olds; 50 10-year-olds; 50 15-year-olds; and 50 20-year-olds. Five years later she measures risk taking in the first 3 groups again, who are now all 5 years older, plus a new group of now five-year-olds. The researcher is using a(n) _______________ research design.
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cross-sequential
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Which of the following was NOT listed in our textbook as an inequality experienced by poor children compared to their economically more advantaged counterparts?
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read relatively infrequently
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