Historical Background of Child Psychology

Child Psychology deals with the study of________.

• child from birth to childhood

• child from pre-natal stage to adolescence

• child from birth to adulthood

• child from birth to death

Who is credited with conducting the first systematic study of developmental psychology?

• Jean Piaget

• John Bowlby

• Charles Darwin

• Lev Vygotsky

Which philosophical view assumes that the child's mind at birth is a "blank tablet"?

• original sin

• tabula rasa

• determinism

• innate goodness

Parents adhering to the fundamental premise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "innate goodness" argument would:

• reject the need to "teach" language since speech is inherited.

• argue that their newborn's brain is like a "blank slate."

• view their child as intellectually indistinguishable from themselves

• provide their children with little monitoring and few constraints.

Which of these scientific techniques for the study of children’s development did Arnold Gesell introduce?

• the one-way mirror

• the questionnaire

• observations in the home

• clinical interviews

Which of these scientific techniques for the study of children’s development did G. Stanley Hall introduce?

• questionnaires

• filmed observations

• home visits

• intelligence tests

What is a cross-sectional design?

• a research design in which an investigator might look at the same age group over time

• a random sample of different age groups

• a research design in which an investigator might look at several age groups

  simultaneously

• a study of language development over time

What is a longitudinal design?

• a research design in which the investigator follows certain individuals over a given time

  period, measuring change

• ) a research design in which an investigator might look at several age groups

  simultaneously

• a study of language development over time

• a random sample of different age groups

What was one of the earliest scientific studies of child development?

• Piaget’s case studies of his own children

• Freud’s case studies of his patients.

• Darwin’s case study of his son’s development

• Binet’s research into children’s intelligence