Developmental Psychology Exam Materials
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology is an exploration of the patterns and processes of human growth and change across the lifespan, from conception through old age. This course examines biological, cognitive, emotional, and social development, focusing on theories, milestones, and the influence of cultural and environmental factors. Students will analyze major developmental stages, such as infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and late adulthood, while considering contemporary research and practical applications relevant to education, parenting, and health.
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Development Infancy Through Adolescence 1st Edition by Laurence Steinberg
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Chapter 1: The Study of Child Development
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Q1) The differences between groups of people who are ten years apart in age are called _____ effects.
A)cross-sequential
B)placebo
C)cohort
D)covariance
Answer: C
Q2) In which of the following ways does Erikson's theory not differ from Freud's theory?
A)Both Erikson and Freud stressed the idea that development takes place in stages
B)Both Erikson and Freud stressed the idea that each stage was based on some unconscious struggle
C)Both Erikson and Freud stressed the idea that people develop over time,rather than being born completely developed
D)Both Erikson and Freud stressed the idea that basic personality development is completed in early childhood
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Nature With Nurture
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Q1) Use the epigenetic perspective to explain the development of intelligence in children. Answer: Students' answers should discuss the idea that children's genotypes set up general tendencies,which then interact with the environment in their expression.Thus,there may be a tendency toward greater intelligence,but it may be expressed to different degrees depending on the gene-environment interactions that ensue.Students should discuss the idea of reaction range,and the three types of gene-environment correlations:passive,evocative,and active.
Q2) Ron lives in a rural,developing country.Dmitri lives in an urban,highly technological country.Urie Bronfenbrenner would say that their living situations reflect differences in their
A)macrosystems.
B)mesosystems.
C)microsystems.
D)exosystems.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Conception,prenatal Development,and Birth
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Q1) The female genotype is A)XX.
B)XY.
C)YY.
D)XXY.
Answer: A
Q2) The main risk of most reproductive technologies described in the text is A)a higher rate of birth defects.
B)future infertility or sterility.
C)rejection of the zygote during implantation.
D)multiple pregnancy.
Answer: D
Q3) The highest score on the Apgar test is A)10.
B)15.
C)20.
D)25.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy
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Q1) Researchers studying depth perception in infants often use A)Thorndike's puzzle box.
B)Purina's checkerboard.
C)Gibson's visual cliff.
D)Skinner boxes.
Q2) After a neuron has been myelinated,its transmission speed A)doubles.
B)triples.
C)quadruples.
D)slows down.
Q3) Baby Korinna should be able to see colors clearly by the time she is _____ weeks old.
A)2
B)4
C)6
D)8
Q4) Explain how genetics,diet,and cultural expectations affect motor development in infants.
Q5) Draw a picture of a neuron.Label all of its major structures.Explain the functions of each structure.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) According to your textbook,all of the following are tools used for studying how children learn about language except
A)high-quality recordings.
B)parents' diaries.
C)linguistic computer simulations.
D)parents' language checklists.
Q2) According to Jean Piaget,the two processes involved in adaptation are
A)assimilation and habituation.
B)assimilation and accommodation.
C)habituation and accommodation.
D)habituation and the novelty response.
Q3) Jean Piaget believed that infants
A)were passive receivers of information.
B)were too young to learn.
C)were biologically programmed with certain information.
D)were active learners.
Q4) Use Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological perspective to explain how a child's culture and socioeconomic status affect his or her intelligence.
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Infancy
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Q1) Children begin to exhibit social referencing when they are _____ months old.
A)2-3
B)4-5
C)6-7
D)8-9
Q2) In John Bowlby's _____ phase of infant-parent attachment,infants begin to use social referencing and will become upset if they are separated from their parents.
A)indiscriminate social responsiveness
B)discriminating sociability
C)attachments
D)goal-corrected partnerships
Q3) Intrusive,overstimulating,rejecting parenting tends to lead to children who have _____ attachment styles.
A)secure
B)insecure-avoidant
C)insecure-resistant/ambivalent
D)disoriented-disorganized
Q4) Explain the evolutionary advantages of a secure parent-child attachment.
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Chapter 7: Physical Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) On average,children in the preschool years gain _____ each year.
A)12 pounds
B)10 pounds
C)8 pounds
D)6 pounds
Q2) Every night before bed,Dorothy brushes her teeth,snuggles with her teddy bear,and hears her father read a bedtime story.These _____ help her get to sleep.
A)bedtime rituals
B)transitional objects
C)genotypical behaviors
D)natural experiments
Q3) The most common cause of death for children between the ages of 1-4 years old is A)automobile accidents.
B)fires.
C)airway obstructions.
D)drowning.
Q4) Explain how children's temperaments and attachment styles affect their ability to handle stress.
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) When Ayize's grandmother gives him some candy,his father says,"Ayize,say 'thank you' to Grandma." Ayize's father is teaching him about A)semantics. B)pragmatics.
C)morphology. D)syntax.
Q2) Children can generally recite the alphabet and relate stories to their own experiences by the time they are approximately _____ years old.
A)3
B)4 C)5 D)6
Q3) Children's growing use of language in the preoperational period indicates their growing mastery of A)classification. B)conservation. C)representation. D)reversibility.
Q4) Explain how adults can encourage the development of literacy in children.
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Chapter 9: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) _____ is a condition in which fetal exposure to androgens results in girls with distinct male behavioral play patterns.
A)Turner's syndrome
B)Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
C)Down syndrome
D)Fragile X syndrome
Q2) Collectivist cultures tend to emphasize all of the following except A)individual development.
B)social harmony.
C)interdependence.
D)highly restricted emotional displays.
Q3) Kele believes that he has broken his friend's iPod.He hasn't said anything,but his shoulders are hunched and he won't make eye contact with his friend.Kele is showing physical signs of A)empathy.
B)compliance.
C)guilt.
D)pride.
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Chapter 10: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) The most common cause of traumatic brain injuries in middle childhood is A)child abuse.
B)automobile accidents.
C)sports injuries.
D)falling.
Q2) In middle childhood,growth tends to be
A)concentrated in the arms and legs.
B)generally a smooth,day-to-day process.
C)approximately 5-7 inches per year.
D)in spurts,mostly taking place at night.
Q3) Theo has trouble keeping his attention focused on anything,he's easily distracted,and he doesn't seem to listen to people or follow instructions.Often,Theo loses his books or homework,and has trouble planning and organizing things.A school psychologist might suggest that Theo suffers from A)traumatic brain injury.
B)attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
C)Turner's syndrome.
D)Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Chapter 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Louis L.Thurstone argued that intelligence was made up of A)analytical,creative,and practical abilities.
B)seven primary mental abilities.
C)a single factor that he called g.
D)the abilities measured by a good,standardized IQ test.
Q2) Ippolit's teacher shows him a card with the words zoo,animals,lions,tigers,seals,moose,bears,wolves,elephants,and chimps printed on it.Then she takes away the list of words and asks him to remember as many of them as he can.Ippolit remembers some of the words,but also says that he remembers the word "monkeys." Ippolit's teacher is using the _____ procedure to test his memory.
A)digit span
B)Brown-Peterson
C)Deese-Roediger-McDermott
D)cross-out
Q3) Up to _____ of kindergartners come to school unready to engage in basic school activities.
A)35%
B)45%
C)55%
D)65%
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) _____ aggression is behavior designed to damage someone's status in a group.
A)Relational
B)Social
C)Verbal
D)Physical
Q2) Lakshmi is always being bullied by Parvati.One day she gets so upset by this that she slaps Parvati in the face.This is a form of _____ coping.
A)active
B)aggressive
C)denial-based
D)ruminative
Q3) Negasi has just scored the winning goal for his lacrosse team.Erik Erikson would say that Negasi's scoring contributes to his growing sense of A)autonomy.
B)generativity.
C)industry.
D)initiative.
Q4) Explain how children's cliques reinforce potentially positive or negative behavior among their members.
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Chapter 13: Physical Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Vasili has just been named to head a task force for reducing adolescent drug use.He wants to begin by eliminating the availability of the drugs that teenagers use.Assuming you want to help him,which of the following should be your advice to Vasili?
A)Go for it.Drug interdiction plans have been very successful in the past.
B)This can work well,but it will need a big media campaign.
C)This is likely to work,but will take a long time and cost a lot of money.
D)This doesn't stand a chance.Don't bother.Think of something else.
Q2) Boys who mature earlier than most of their peers ________ than those who mature later.
A)have higher self-esteem and are more popular
B)have lower self-esteem,but are more popular
C)have lower self-esteem and are less popular
D)have higher self-esteem,but are less popular
Q3) In general,it is better to be
A)a girl who matures earlier than her peers.
B)a boy who matures later than his peers.
C)either a girl or boy who matures earlier than her or his peers.
D)a girl or boy who matures at about the same time as most of her or his peers.
Q4) Explain the psychosocial outcomes for early-maturing girls and boys.
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Chapter 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) One problem with high school education seems to be that it is
A)geared primarily to preparing college-bound students.
B)geared primarily to teaching trades that are no longer needed.
C)geared primarily to training low-level workers for the service industries.
D)geared primarily to keeping adolescents off the streets.
Q2) Teenagers who work over 20 hours per week while attending high school _____ compared to students who work fewer hours.
A)tend to do better in school
B)tend to have better attendance at school
C)tend to become more disengaged from school
D)tend to have the same interest in school,attendance,and grades
Q3) Which of the following is not true of greater parental involvement in adolescents' education?
A)It is an especially strong influence on Mexican American youth.
B)It tends to stifle students' own initiative.
C)It should give the same messages at home that adolescents receive from their teachers.
D)It should include going to special school programs and events.
Q4) Explain how adolescents' cognitive development affects their views on religion and spirituality.
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Chapter 15: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Adolescent delinquent behavior peaks at approximately _____ years of age.
A)14-15
B)15-16
C)16-17
D)17-18
Q2) ________ is an internalizing problem.
A)Breaking rules
B)Bullying
C)Truancy
D)Depression
Q3) _____ is a major risk factor for an individual's development into becoming an adolescence-limited offender.
A)A history of aggressive childhood behavior
B)Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
C)Poor parenting
D)Poverty
Q4) Describe the four sets of risk factors for attempting suicide in adolescence.Discuss ways to reduce adolescent suicide by dealing with these problems.
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