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Complete each statement.
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A child is a person undergoing the period of development from infancy to
__________.
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__________ is the orderly appearance, over time, of structures, traits, and
behaviours.
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The word growth is usually used to refer to changes in size or quantity,
whereas the term __________ also refers to changes in quality.
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__________ are intended to allow us to explain, predict, and control
events.
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__________ hypothesized five stages of psychosexual development.
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Erikson extended Freud’s five stages of development to __________.
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Behaviourism sees children’s learning as mechanical and relies on
classical and __________ conditioning.
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According to __________, children assimilate new events to existing schemes or
accommodate schemes to incorporate novel events.
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Information-__________ theory focuses on the processes by which information is
encoded, stored, retrieved, and manipulated.
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The __________ systems theory explains child development in terms of the
interaction between children and the settings in which they live.
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Vygotsky’s __________ theory is concerned with the transmission of
information and cognitive skills from generation to generation.
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Researchers in child development try to sort out the effects of __________
(heredity) and nurture (environmental influences).
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Learning theorists tend to see development as continuous, whereas stage
theorists see development as __________.
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14.
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The steps of the scientific method include formulating a research question,
developing a __________, testing the hypothesis, drawing conclusions, and publishing results.
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__________ observation studies are conducted in the real-life setting.
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The __________ study is a carefully drawn account or biography of an individual
child.
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A correlational study describes relationships but does not reveal __________ and
effect.
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In an experiment, members of an experimental group receive a treatment, whereas
members of a __________ group do not.
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__________ research observes the same children repeatedly over time.
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In cross-__________ research, children of different ages are observed and
compared.
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