Any practices should best be based on a research - this is the correct answer. (a. child development and research) Research is the best source of actual knowledge, rather than people's best guesses (people's best guesses might lead government regulations, but it would be better if they also followed research results.).
Answer: Construct validity
Explanation:
Construct validity is the degree to which a test is done to measure what it claims. Construct validity defines how well the test or experiment actually measures its claims and whether the operational definition of the variable reflect the true theoretical meaning of the concept being illustrated.
The psychologist develops a questionnaire that is designed to study the variable of self-esteem and then conducts different studies to investigate the differences between people who had low scores on sled esteem and the people who had high score on self esteem. The reason for this was to get an accurate method of measuring self esteem. This means the psychologist wants to establish construct validity.
Answer:(d) rewarding alternative behavior patterns, and (e) building empathy toward others.
Explanation:
d)rewarding alternative behavior patterns
Let us say for an example you are a teacher and in class there is a child that is usually agressive but on the days when they are being good you take that opportunity and reward their good behavior this is most likely to encourage that good behaviour. Instead of focusing on punishing the wrong behavior if may be encouraging to reward the good behaviour when it happens.
(e) building empathy toward others.
Empathy means showing that you understand how the other person feels you put yourself in the same situation so when you support them you show that you understand and this has a way of making people feel accepted than judged which may discourage their agressive behavior.
Answer: Nurseries, preschools and individual childcare providers such as nannies
Explanation: The cost of a nursery varies depending on the location, the length of childcare time needed and the type of services provided.
