Early developmentalists tended to focus their attention on __________, often to the exclusion of other parts of the life span.

List and describe the three major steps of the scientific method.

Explain why developmental researchers employ the cognitive perspective.

If a developmental researcher is studying how traumatic events in childhood are remembered later in life, or how problem-solving skills change over the lifetime, in what developmental area is the researcher interested?

Based on information in the textbook, what are some criticisms of the evolutionary perspective?

Which perspective contains the two major theories of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological approach and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory?

Which statement illustrates an accepted ethical guideline developed for researchers by the Society for Research in Child Development and the American Psychological Association?

Provide reasons why Erikson’s principles of psychosocial theory have been called into question.

What has become an important alternative to Piagetian approaches?

In an experiment, the __________ is what researchers manipulate.