Child Adolescent Dev. Ch. 2 Practice #2

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person’s environment, is known as?

• descriptive studies

• cross-sectional studies

• behaviorism

• ecological theory

Ideas about how people process information, think, and learn, is known as?

• Operant conditioning

• Cognitive theories

• Developmental theories

• Classical conditioning

Belief that people’s behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control, is known as?

• Classical conditioning

• Behaviorism

• cross-sectional studies

• descriptive studies

Behaviors associated with emotional responses, is known as?

• Moral decisions

• Piaget

• Operant conditioning

• Classical conditioning

Comprehensive explanations about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time, is known as?

• Behaviorism

• Cross-sectional theory

• Developmental theories

• Cognitive theory

Method of data collection used to compare groups of various ages at the same time, is known as?

• cognitive theory

• cross-sectional studies

• mediation

• operant conditioning

Use information that describes people and situations, such as their age, attitudes, or behaviors, what type of study is this?

• classical conditioning

• developmental theory

• descriptive studies

• cross-sectional

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person’s biology, is known as?

• genetics

• moral decisions

• ethological theory

• hypothesis

A possible answer formulated through observations, is known as?

• genes

• longitudinal studies

• manipulative experiments

• hypothesis

Method of data collection used to keep all the variables that affect behavior the same except for one, is known as?

• moral decisions

• manipulative experiments

• genetics

• ethics