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Ted Kacyzynski was gifted intellectually and sociable with others during his college years. |
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The original sin view was advocated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
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One reason why it is important to study child development is to understand how children change as they grow up and the forces that contribute to this change. |
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The term "context" refers to the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular group of people passed on from generation to generation. |
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Around the world, girls receive more education than boys. |
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Early childhood is a time when children focus on the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. |
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The continuity of development view is that development involves gradual, cumulative change. |
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Children's ability to move from concrete to abstract thought is an example of how development can be discontinuous. |
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Jean Piaget's four-stage cognitive development theory asserts that children actively construct their understanding of the world through organization and adaptation. |
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Piaget's theories emphasized the importance of social interaction and culture more than Vygotsky's theories did. |
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The social cognitive perspective emphasizes the ways that individuals manipulate, monitor, and strategize information. |
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One contribution of ethological theory is its attention to cognition. |
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Your textbook takes an eclectic theoretical orientation when considering issues facing children's development. |
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When a researcher chooses "observation" for a research technique examining children's play, the observer needs to have no prior knowledge of the children in order for the observations to be effective. |
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A weakness of standardized tests is that many were developed in Western cultures and might not be appropriate for individuals from other cultures. |
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A research study examined the effects on their school performance of children eating high-sugar cereals for breakfast. The independent variable would be the children's school performance. |
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Longitudinal research involves studying the same individuals over a long period of time, usually several years or more. |
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The code of ethics adopted by the American Psychological Association (APA) protects researchers from legal harassment from participants. |
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