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1 | | Ted Kacyzynski was gifted intellectually and sociable with others during his college years. |
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2 | | The original sin view was advocated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
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3 | | 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. |
| | A) | True |
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4 | | 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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5 | | Around the world, girls receive more education than boys. |
| | A) | True |
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6 | | Early childhood is a time when children focus on the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. |
| | A) | True |
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7 | | The continuity of development view is that development involves gradual, cumulative change. |
| | A) | True |
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8 | | Children's ability to move from concrete to abstract thought is an example of how development can be discontinuous. |
| | A) | True |
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9 | | Jean Piaget's four-stage cognitive development theory asserts that children actively construct their understanding of the world through organization and adaptation. |
| | A) | True |
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10 | | Piaget's theories emphasized the importance of social interaction and culture more than Vygotsky's theories did. |
| | A) | True |
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11 | | The social cognitive perspective emphasizes the ways that individuals manipulate, monitor, and strategize information. |
| | A) | True |
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12 | | One contribution of ethological theory is its attention to cognition. |
| | A) | True |
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13 | | Your textbook takes an eclectic theoretical orientation when considering issues facing children's development. |
| | A) | True |
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14 | | 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. |
| | A) | True |
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15 | | A weakness of standardized tests is that many were developed in Western cultures and might not be appropriate for individuals from other cultures. |
| | A) | True |
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16 | | 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. |
| | A) | True |
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17 | | Longitudinal research involves studying the same individuals over a long period of time, usually several years or more. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | | The code of ethics adopted by the American Psychological Association (APA) protects researchers from legal harassment from participants. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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