Child and Adolescent Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Child and Adolescent Psychology explores the psychological development of individuals from infancy through adolescence. The course examines key theories, research findings, and developmental milestones related to cognitive, emotional, social, and physical growth. Topics include attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, family and peer relationships, moral development, and the impact of culture and environment. Students will also discuss common psychological issues and disorders affecting children and adolescents, as well as intervention strategies and the role of caregivers, educators, and mental health professionals in supporting healthy development.
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The Development of Children and Adolescents 1st Edition by Penny Hauser Cram
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Chapter 1: Hauser-Cram
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Q1) Validity refers to
A) the degree to which an instrument measures what it is intended to measure.
B) the degree to which an instrument fails to measure what it is intended to measure.
C) the degree to which a researcher implements an instrument.
D) the degree to which a hypothesis is proven.
Answer: A
Q2) According to Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development,what do psychologists use for scaffolding?
A) assimilation
B) accommodation
C) organization
D) Zone of Proximal Development
Answer: D
Q3) Freud's psychoanalytic theory attributes personality development largely to
A) unconscious sources in the mind.
B) conscious sources in the mind.
C) environmental factors.
D) none of these
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations of Child Development
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Q1) The recessive allele is
A) expressed.
B) hidden.
C) contagious.
D) an enzyme.
Answer: B
Q2) Turner's syndrome occurs most often in A) males.
B) females.
C) both sexes equally.
D) neither males or females; it has been eradicated.
Answer: B
Q3) Experience-dependent development is
A) dependent on unique opportunities.
B) the same fundamental milestones for all children.
C) reaching predictable milestones.
D) dependent on culture.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) Research using The Cat in the Hat showed that babies recognize their mother's voices and preferred that book to others read aloud by Mom.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) _____________means a person gets used to something and so they ignore it.
A) Novelization
B) Habituation
C) Learning
D) Maturation
Answer: B
Q3) In the movie Juno,the central character didn't abort her baby because she was told the baby had fingernails.She had to be at least ________weeks along in her pregnancy.
A) 12 weeks
B) 28 weeks
C) 14 weeks
D) 18 weeks
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn
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Q1) Labor consists of ____ stages).
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
Q2) The goal of childbirth education is to __________ women's confidence in their ability to give birth.
A) decrease
B) increase
C) ignore
D) diminish
Q3) What system in both the mother and baby triggers the onset of labor?
A) endocrine system
B) lymphatic system
C) reproductive system
D) cardiovascular system
Q4) The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages mothers to breast feed for the first six months of an infant's life,when possible.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Physical Development and Health in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) What are the four components of a well-child visit?
A) assessment, education, intervention, care coordination
B) evaluation, inoculation, assessment, care coordination
C) vaccination, evaluation, intervention, assessment
D) comparison, developmental milestone check, height and weight charting, vaccinations.
Q2) Physical growth is
A) synchronous.
B) asynchronous.
C) harmonious.
D) unpredictable.
Q3) "Cells that fire together,wire together."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The first baby teeth usually make an appearance around
A) 3 months.
B) 6 months.
C) 8 months.
D) 1 year.
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Q5) Discuss early intervention programs.Include eligibility and range of services.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) When there is a discrepancy between what a child already knows and some new learning,______________ is said to exist.
A) equilibrium
B) disequilibrium
C) adaptation
D) accommodation
Q2) One of the differences in Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories is that Vygotsky emphasized
A) cognitive stages.
B) social interaction.
C) genetics.
D) environment.
Q3) Define and describe the object exploration approach and classic experiment by Carolyn Rovee-Collier.
Q4) When is it normal for a child to say "mine!"?
A) between 9 and 12 months
B) between12 and 18 months
C) between 18 and 24 months
D) never
Q5) Discuss the three theories of language development.
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Chapter 7: Psychosocial Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) You can spoil a 2-year-old.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Even infants can demonstrate empathy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Freud believed that the __________ was the prototype for all love relationships in life.
A) Mother-child relationship
B) Father-child relationship
C) act of breastfeeding
D) grandparent relationship
Q4) Each of Freud's ____________stages is based on _________.
A) six; a body part.
B) five; a pleasure center.
C) four; a pleasure center .
D) five; a body part.
Q5) Temperament is inborn and tends to be stable throughout the life span.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Physical Development and Health in Early Childhood
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Q1) Who has the fewest cavities?
A) Bob, who went to the dentist before he started first grade
B) Bill, who went to the dentist when he was 7
C) Judy, who went to the dentist before her first birthday
D) Jerry, who has never been to the dentist
Q2) Young children are more at risk for ear infections than adults because A) of hygiene.
B) they put their fingers in their ears more often.
C) of the anatomy of their ears .
D) of Q-tips.
Q3) Which of these is the most
A) taking on and off clothes
B) zippers
C) snaps
D) tying shoes
Q4) A good predictor of malnourishment is the A) circumference of the child's head.
B) child's weight.
C) child's height.
D) circumference of the child's upper arm.
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Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) At age 2,children have a vocabulary of about ____________ words.
A) 0 to 100
B) 50 to 100
C) 75 to 200
D) 150 to 300
Q2) Piaget's famous ______________ problem demonstrates the
A) three mountain; classification.
B) class inclusion; classification.
C) three mountain; dual representation.
D) class inclusion; dual representation.
Q3) Young children's thinking is preoperational because they are not mentally capable of
A) logical thinking. .
B) analogical problem solving.
C) animistic thinking.
D) make-believe play.
Q4) Research indicates that bilingual children have better phonological awareness skills than monolingual children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) The type of parenting that has the best outcome for children is
A) authoritarian.
B) authoritative.
C) permissive.
D) uninvolved.
Q2) Peer acceptance can be put in these three categories:
A) popular, bullies, cheerleaders
B) popular, accepted, ignored
C) popular, rejected, neglected
D) popular, accepted, rejected
Q3) Lawrence Kohlberg said that most children in early childhood are in what stage of moral development?
A) heteronomous
B) autonomous
C) preconventional
D) postconventional
Q4) Empathy can be seen in the brain with neuroimaging.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical Development and Health in Middle Childhood
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Q1) One of the reasons people should wash their hands after using the toilet is______________.
A) hepatitis A
B) syphilis
C) hepatitis B
D) papillomavirus
Q2) An increase in the rate of growth between ages 5 and 8 is called____________.
A) Mid-growth spurt
B) middle-childhood spurt
C) unusual
D) bilateral growth
Q3) Once synaptogenesis and pruning are complete in toddlerhood,they do not occur again.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _______ are less likely to eat vegetables than ________.
A) Boys; girls
B) Girls; boys
C) Hispanics; Caucasians
D) Caucasians; Latinos
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Memories that are personal or one's own are called
A) autobiographical memories.
B) nonautobiographical memories.
C) episodic memories.
D) nonautobiographical episodic memories.
Q2) When studying Aplysia,Eric Kandel discovered that short-term memories are a result of causing changes in the strengths of the connections between synapses in the neurons in the brain,changes known as
A) neuron enhancement.
B) synaptic marking.
C) cognitive development.
D) neurosynaptic marking.
Q3) Schooling
A) advances children's literacy development.
B) enhances children's understanding of mathematics.
C) promotes children's use of mathematics.
D) All of these.
Q4) Identify three memory strategies and how children use them when processing information.
Q5) Explain the limitations of Vygotsky's theory,according to critics.
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Chapter 13: Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) When a child is mentally able to "walk in another's shoes," Selman says they are in stage ___________ of social perspective taking.
A) 0 Egocentric viewpoint
B) 1 Social-informational
C) 2 Self -reflective
D) 3 Mutual perspective taking
Q2) After a parental divorce,girls tend to display ________________.
A) internalizing problems
B) externalizing problems
C) no problems
D) an increase in happiness
Q3) Modeling,coaching,and problem solving are methods for ______________.
A) helping shy children improve their social skills
B) teaching athletic skills
C) overcoming learning disabilities
D) aiding autistic children
Q4) Research shows that children do not always view lying as wrong.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss ways adults can help children to develop their moral reasoning.
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Chapter 14: Physical Development and Health in Adolescence
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Q1) Stressed teens who don't sleep well or eat well can ______________.
A) rebound well
B) get sick, gain weight, and become anxious and aggressive
C) act out violently
D) not count on their parents for help
Q2) To minimize injuries,student athletes should be matched by ____________.
A) age
B) grade
C) ability
D) body mass
Q3) According to the text,social dominance and aggression are the same construct.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The teen least likely to engage in sex is a___________.
A) black male
B) Hispanic female
C) white male
D) white female
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Q5) Explain who has the highest rates of STDs and why that is true.
Q6) Discuss the role of parents in managing a teen's diabetes.
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Chapter 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) The majority of students who drop out of high school will return to get their GED.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a student who belongs to a group with a negative stereotype fears doing poorly in school,they have demonstrated ____________.
A)a self-fulfilling prophecy
B)a stereotype threat
C)confirmed expectations
D)laziness
Q3) Piaget believed that children acquire cognitive abilities in an ordered and invariant manner.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The elimination of weak and poorly developed synapses is called __________.
A)brain reorganization
B)superfluous removal
C)synaptic pruning
D)neural trimming
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Chapter 16: Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Suicide attempts are greater among adolescents
A) with same-sex attractions.
B) who are uncertain of their sexual orientation.
C) who are heterosexual.
D) Both A and B.
Q2) A crisis is the result of
A) two clashing extremes.
B) the clashing of identity achievement and identity confusion.
C) none of these.
D) Both A and B.
Q3) _______ developed a model that assessed risk taking in adolescents in two systems,socioemotional system and cognitive control system.
A) Kohlberg
B) Steinberg
C) Erikson
D) Marcia
Q4) What is the immigrant paradox,and how does it affect first-,second-,and third-generation immigrants,and why?
Q5) Identify the gender differences in friendships.
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