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Dr. Gabbard studies the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns. She is part of a group of researchers from the fields of psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine. What is Dr. Gabbard's approach to development known as?
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Dr. Gabbard studies the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns. She is part of a group of researchers from the fields of psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine. What is Dr. Gabbard's approach to development known as?
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Fill in the blanks: _______ design allows researchers to examine the relations between different variables, whereas _______ design allows researchers to understand how one variable causes changes in another variable.
correlational, experimental
What does a researcher who takes a dynamic systems perspective believe?
That change is a continuously-occurring process that impacts multiple domains of development
Carla uses flowcharts to map the precise steps individuals use to solve problems and complete tasks. Which theory does Carla's behavior fits with?
Information Processing Theory
Dr. Goldenberg's research examines what words children hear in different places. To do her research, she has a camera-crew follow and record 25 families as they go about their daily lives, so that she can watch the recordings later to examine what words children hear in the home. When Dr. Goldenberg begins her research, the 25 families all have young children whose ages vary between 6 months and 3 years. Dr. Goldenberg follows these same 25 families over the course of 5 years. What kind of research design is this?
Sequential design
Dr. Singh believes that development occurs in stages. What view of development is this consistent with?
Discontinuous
Which of the following is true about Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)? Mark all that apply.
The goal of working within a child's ZPD is to help the child eventually be able to do something new on their own.
The ZPD is the sweet spot between what the child can do on their own and what they cannot do yet on their own.
One of the points of the ZPD is to help a child complete a task.
Scottie got a new puppy who is not yet potty trained and having accidents all over the house. Scottie decides that she needs to potty train her puppy by giving her puppy a treat each time the puppy goes to the bathroom in the correct location. What kind of behaviorist approach is Scottie taking?
Operant Conditioning
Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development emphasized constructivism, which is the idea that...
children actively build their own knowledge as they explore their world.
Match aspects of this individual's life with systems from Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory:
Harry Potter is an 11-year-old boy who lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey (in England). Harry's uncle--who is the financial provider of their household--works at a company selling drills. Little Whinging is a middle-class town, whose residents have a culture of keeping their front yards and gardens very nice. However, Harry attends a boarding school called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that is far away from home, somewhere in the Scottish Highlands. Hogwarts School has a curriculum that is established by The Ministry of Magic, which is the government agency that oversees the magical world in the United Kingdom.
Harry Potter: Individual
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Microsystem
The Ministry of Magic: Macrosystem
Harry's aunt, uncle, and cousin: Microsystem
Harry's uncle's place of employment (the company that sells drills): Macro?
The citizens of Little Whinging keeping their front yards and gardens very nice: Macro?
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