| A) | The theory that emphasizes behavior, environment, and cognition as the key factors in development.
|
| B) | sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development.
|
| C) | A number based on statistical analysis that is used to describe the degree of association between two variables.
|
| D) | Includes eight stages of human development; each stage consists of a unique developmental task that confronts individuals with a crisis that must be faced.
|
| E) | An in-depth look at a single individual.
|
| F) | Study whose goal is to describe the strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics.
|
| G) | A carefully regulated procedure in which one or more of the factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
|
| H) | A record of information about a lifetime chronology of events and activities that often involves a combination of data records on education, work, family, and residence.
|
| I) | States that children actively construct their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive development.
|
| J) | An orientation that does not follow any one theoretical approach, but rather selects the best aspects from each theory whatever is considered best in it.
|
| K) | Observation of behavior in real-world settings.
|
| L) | An interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain events and make predictions regarding their outcome.
|
| M) | Has the purpose of observing and recording behavior.
|
| N) | Occurs when individuals incorporate new information into their existing knowledge.
|
| O) | Specific assumptions and predictions that can be tested to determine their accuracy.
|
| P) | Bronfenbrenner's environmental systems theory, which that focuses on five environmental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
|
| Q) | Describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.
|
| R) | Use of an ethnic label such as African American or Latino in a superficial way that portrays thean ethnic group as being more homogeneous than it really is.
|
| S) | Test with uniform procedures for administration and scoring.
|
| T) | A controlled setting in which many of the complex factors of the "real world" are removed.
|
| U) | Occurs when individuals adjust to new information.
|
| V) | Effects due to a person's time of birth era or generation but not to actual age.
|
| W) | A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time.
|
| X) | A research strategy in which the same individuals are studied over a period of time, usually several years or more.
|
| Y) | Emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it.
|
| Z) | Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by biology, tied to evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
|
.