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Who was one of the first American psychologists to advocate a behavioral approach to development?

A) Skinner
B) Watson
C) Piaget
D) Erikson

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Question 102

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Lifespan developmentalists typically look at which of the following areas?

A) a particular family
B) a particular age range
C) a particular town/city
D) a particular country

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Using information-processing terminology,neo-Piagetian theory suggests that cognitive development proceeds at the same rate for all areas (i.e. ,reading vs.abstract computational abilities).

Which of the following suggests that unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior?

Psychoanalyst ________ provided an alternative psychodynamic view in his theory of psychosocial development.

Identify the four important issues of lifespan development that have been debated since lifespan development became established as a separate field.

Despite individual and specific differences,each and every one of us is traversing the territory known as lifespan development.

An information-processing approach that builds on Piaget's research is known as _______ theory because it considers cognition as made up of different types of individual skills.

Eleanor Roosevelt,Abraham Lincoln,and Albert Einstein are used as examples of

Specialists in lifespan development share one concern: understanding the growth and change that occur during the course of life.

Race is what kind of a concept?

Briefly list and describe the 3 major steps of the scientific method.

A _______ is a prediction stated in a way that permits it to be tested.

Which perspective considers the relationship between individuals and their physical,cognitive,personality,and social worlds?

What did Piaget call the process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking?

The approach stating that behavior is motivated by inner forces,memories,and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control is called the

Within Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach,which system underlies each of his system levels and involves the way the passage of time,including historical events,affects children's development?

Piaget's view assumes that thinking undergoes ________ advances,but the information-processing approach assumes that development is marked by ________ advantages.

What term refers to the notion that the well-being of the group is more important than that of the individual?

Freud believed that the ______ begins to develop around ages five or six and is learned from significant authority figures.