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Evaluate the psychoanalytic theories in terms of their contributions and criticisms.

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Describe the three main types of research designs.What are the advantages and disadvantages of these research designs?

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James is planning to study the effect of violent images and videos on preschoolers.What are the four ethical issues he must take into account before and during this study?

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Describe three ways that children's lives can be made better.

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Discuss Vygotsky's sociocultural cognitive theory.

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Pete wants to study the effect of differences in parental nurturing styles on child development.What are the steps he must follow in order to base his study on the scientific method?

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Describe the five environmental systems discussed in Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory.

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Describe Piaget's cognitive developmental theory.

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What sets apart specific groups of people like "Millennials" from others? What term refers to such groups of people?

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Explain how differences in socioeconomic status lead to unequal opportunities.

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Carol is a counselor for parents of toddlers and young children.She wants to base her advice on Bandura's social cognitive theory.What advice is she likely to give parents for teaching young children good manners?

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The nature versus nurture controversy has been a longstanding issue in child development.Describe the main ideas of the nature versus nurture controversy.

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Define context,culture,and ethnicity and then explain why cross-cultural studies are necessary for a broader understanding of the development of children within a specific context.

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For the purposes of organization and understanding,a child's development is commonly described in terms of periods,which are given approximate age ranges.What are the various periods of a child's development? List a few characteristics of each period.

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What is behaviorism? What do behavioral and cognitive theories of child development emphasize in terms of the continuity-discontinuity issue?

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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of two of the following methods for collecting data: naturalistic observation,laboratory observation,surveys and interviews,standardized tests,and case study.

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Describe the salient features of information-processing theory.

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Evaluate behavioral and social cognitive theories of child development in terms of their contributions and criticisms.

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Quiz 1: Introduction