lifespan development 5

) What is nature versus nurture?

2) How are a theory and a hypothesis different?

3) What is the significance of Bronfenbrener’s theory to
development?

4) Develop your own study utilizing the experimental method.
Include what your independent and dependent variables are in the study.

5) What are ethical guidelines that must be followed when
conducting experiments with human subjects?

6) Discuss the difference between the sex chromosomes and
autosomes.

7) How does one get a genotype?

8)What is a phenotype? Name a trait that could be considered a phenotype.

9) What are
some risk factors for prenatal development?

10) Discuss

each stage of prenatal development and the significance of each.

hapters 3-5.

11) What are the states of a newborn?

1 2) Newborns have several distinct cries. What are they and when do they
occur?

13) Provide a link(URL) to a site that discusses why c-sections have become so popular in the
United States. Also, provide a reference that discusses when c-sections may be
medically relevant.

14) Vygotsky discusses helping children learn using two key concepts, name and define each
of these.

1 5)Discuss the two folded process of adaptation.

16) Discuss how children use parents as a secure base.

1 7) When children develop language they make two distinct errors, discuss them and give an
example of one.

18) Discuss Bowlby’s theory of attachment.

1 9) What is the strange situation?

10) How do fathers attach differently to infants than mothers?