Human Growth & Development — MCPY 605
Human development quizzes
Self-tests built section by section against Broderick & Blewitt, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals (6th ed.). 327 questions so far, each citing the Learning Objective and, where the text cites a source for a claim, that source too. Click to reveal answers and rationales. Not scored; for review, not assessment.
Chapter 1 — Organizing Themes in Development
LO 1.1 — Reflective practice and developmental science
Technical rationality and its limits, the “dual curriculum,” Schön’s reflective practice and its sequence, expert–novice research, partial lenses, implicit theories, self-monitoring.
20 questions 6 on deckLO 1.2 — Classic theories: stage and incremental
How developmental science emerged; what defines a stage; Freud, Erikson, and Piaget; conditioning, social learning, and information processing; the either-or issues classic theories raised.
32 questions 15 on deckLO 1.3 — Multidimensional and systems theories
Bidirectional causation across levels, Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory and the culture critique, life span theory and Baltes’s architecture of supports, and the Juliana case.
18 questions 14 on deckLO 1.4 — Core developmental issues
Why nature and nurture are not separable, neuroplasticity and critical periods, universality and specificity — WEIRD samples, race as construction, the SES conflation, cross-cultural studies.
19 questions 8 on deckLO 1.5 — Risk and resilience
Developmental psychopathology, multifinality and equifinality, trauma and the long-term follow-up studies, mediators and moderators, risk models, resilience as a systems property, steeling and sensitization.
29 questions 14 on deckApplications — Practice and evidence
Cultural competence standards across three professions, the research–practice gap and translational research, prevention typologies, and how to tell whether a claim rests on real evidence.
20 questions 1 on deckChapter 3 — Cognitive Development in the Early Years
LO 3.1 — Piaget’s constructivist theory
Adaptation through assimilation and accommodation, Piaget’s methods and biography, the constructivist stance, and the stage controversy including domain specificity.
17 questions 9 on deckLO 3.2 — The sensorimotor stage
Habituation and preferential looking, face perception and the other-race effect, object permanence and the Baillargeon challenge, recognition versus recall, and intentional action.
28 questions 18 on deckLO 3.3 — Preoperational thought
Centration and decentration, the three executive functions, number conservation and Gelman’s magic number games, and theory of mind through false belief.
35 questions 23 on deckLO 3.3 — Language development
Phonology through pragmatics, the bilingual child, parentese and verbal responsiveness, the “30 million word gap” and what later research found, and narrative skill.
37 questions 24 on deckLO 3.4 — Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
Tools and signs, mediated learning, scaffolding and the zone of proximal development, intersubjectivity, and private speech becoming inner speech.
20 questions 11 on deckApplications — Practice with young children
Adult cognitive egocentrism, sibling rivalry and childhood fears, screen time, school readiness, curriculum evaluation, and early childhood education.
26 questions 1 on deckFocus — Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Kanner–Asperger history, diagnostic criteria and adaptive functioning, brain and genetic findings, the vaccine evidence, and treatment approaches.
26 questions none on deck