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One of the challenges in teaching a child development course is to help students give up some of the intuitive ideas or simplistic thinking they have about the topic. Many students enter courses on child and adolescent development confident that they already know most of what they need to know about development and that this is “all just common sense,” but experienced instructors know that some of the most important information in their courses is, in fact, counterintuitive. Unfortunately, students’ long-held ideas and beliefs are often quite difficult to change, and students can complete a course in child development with their misconceptions intact. It is our intention to pique student interest in these topics by challenging their assumptions. We believe that the most effective way to dislodge misconceptions is to challenge them directly. To do that, each chapter begins with a true/false quiz that contains interesting and provocative questions, many of which reflect common misconceptions. Students can immediately check whether their answers are correct by using the key at the bottom of each quiz. Unexpected or surprising answers to these questions draw the students into the chapter where they will find the questions in the margin of the chapter and information related to the topic of the questions highlighted in the text. The initial question plants a seed that is reinforced when they again read about the topic in the context of the chapter.