Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

The Child's Growth: Brain, Body, Motor Skills, and Sexual Maturation

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				A psychologist who argued that individuals perceive in order to move and move in order to perceive.


2				The researcher who argued that there is very little in our theories of development that rely on some specific aspect of the developmental pattern of brain growth.


3				A researcher working at the turn of the 20th century who found that the structure of the visual system in birds could be altered by variations in stimulation.


4				A psychologist who reported that infants' grasping is complex: infants can vary their grips according to the size of their own hands relative to the object's size.


5				A longitudinal study that compares several hundred adoptive and biological parents and their adopted and natural children that suggested that genetic factors strongly determine height and weight.


6				In a longitudinal study of family relationships, this researcher discovered that parent-child relationships can alter the timing of sexual maturation.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

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