Developmental Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the patterns of growth and change that occur throughout the lifespan, from infancy to old age. This course examines cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development, highlighting key theories, research methods, and milestones at each stage. Students will gain an understanding of both typical and atypical development, the influence of genetics and environment, and the role of cultural and societal factors in shaping human development. Through case studies and current research, the course emphasizes the application of developmental principles to real-world settings and practices.
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Children Play and Development 4th Edition by Fergus P. Hughes
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Chapter 1: Historical and Theoretical Viewpoints
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Q1) Explain the basic ideas of Rousseau's philosophy of Naturalism. What did Rousseau mean when he said that the only education a child should receive during the first twelve years of life should be negative education?
Answer: -Rousseau believed that children's development should not be interfered with. That is, children should be allowed to explore and make sense of their worlds without adults imposing their beliefs and interpretations on children.
-He knew that children would learn because they were naturally curious and each child would learn at his own pace.
-He believed that children were basically good and should be appreciated as they are rather than view as something to be corrected or improved upon by adults.
Q2) "Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for them." This statement comes from the writings of
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Q3) The educator ___________developed the first kindergarten and introduced play into the early childhood education curriculum.
Answer: Friedrich Froebel
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Chapter 2: Ethological and Cultural Perspectives
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Q1) Which is not true of the relationship between competition and cooperation in games?
A) Most cultures play one or the other, but not both.
B) Some games involve both competition and cooperation.
C) Cultural differences exist in the proportions of competition and cooperation that are observed.
D) Most cultures play competitive games.
E) The balance of competition and cooperation found in children's games reflects the values of their culture.
Answer: A
Q2) In cultures in which children participate regularly in the life of the community, which roles are they most likely to assume in make-believe play?
A) Realistic adult social and work roles
B) Fantasy roles
C) Roles that are very different from what their parents do
D) Roles usually taken by members of the other sex
E) No roles, because they don't engage in make-believe play
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The First 2 Years of Life
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Q1) Which is not a demonstrated benefit of mother-infant play?
A) It keeps the infant at an optimal level of arousal.
B) It increases the infant's intelligence.
C) It fosters self-confidence in the infant.
D) It facilitates the process of parent-child attachment.
E) It encourages the infant to explore its surroundings.
Answer: B
Q2) Sibling play with infants is thought to be less valuable than parent-infant play because older siblings, in the United States at least, tend to ______ infants when they play.
A) cause physical harm to B) overstimulate
C) overprotect
D) fight with
E) ignore
Answer: E
Q3) By the age of _______ months infants are able to reach out and pick up a block that is set in front of them.
Answer: five
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Chapter 4: The Preschool Years: From 2 to 5
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Q1) Moderate to severe malnutrition during childhood will
A) result in learning difficulties but will have no influence on play.
B) influence physical play, but will have no effect on make-believe play.
C) lower the quality and decrease the overall amount of play.
D) influence play to such a degree that the negative effects cannot be reversed.
Q2) Children appear to be the most closely attached to parents who tend to be secure, and who are confident in their _______ skills.
Q3) As compared to children from intact families, children whose parents divorce
A) engage in fewer episodes of dramatic play.
B) assume more flexible dramatic play roles.
C) assume more imaginative dramatic play roles.
D) seek other children to play with, and avoid solitary play.
E) temporarily lose interest in play of any sort.
Q4) Play with members of the opposite sex is rare in the preschool years.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Children do not begin to take an interest in adult roles until the age of four.
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to Mildren Parten, the lowest level of play is _______ play.
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Chapter 5: Play in Later Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) Involvement in both Little League baseball and Pop Warner football has declined in the past ten years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Your uncle has decided to enroll your six-year-old cousin in a hockey league, because it will benefit the child's health and because "sports build character". Based on the available research on the subject, what would you tell your uncle about the value for children of sports participation?
Q3) Symbolic play decreases during the elementary school years because
A) it no longer serves the child's ego needs.
B) it evolves into games-with-rules.
C) children are increasingly likely to adapt to reality rather than distort it.
D) children feel increasingly more powerful and less helpless.
E) all of the above
Q4) Athletic success will be of little consequence to a child who lacks a _________ that pertains to athletics.
Q5) The preschool child's intelligence consists of _______ activity, as compared to the sensory and motor intelligence of the younger infant.
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Chapter 6: Gender Differences in Play
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Q1) What happens when children are given toys to play with that are usually played with by members of the opposite sex?
A) They will refuse to play with them.
B) They will play with them, but not in the ways that children of the opposite sex do.
C) They play with them in exactly the same way as do children of the opposite sex.
D) Girls will play with them, but boys will refuse.
E) They usually don't even notice that the toys are "gender-inappropriate".
Q2) In the United States, boys engage in more rough and tumble play than girls do, but this difference is not found in other cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Children show a preference for gender-typed toys even before they have acquired a concept of gender.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Commercials designed to appeal to boys are louder than those that target girls, and more likely to depict scenes of _________.
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Chapter 7: Play in Special Populations
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Q1) Children with visual impairments have very little interest in playing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compared to typical children, children with autism are less likely to engage in complex toy play and less likely to use toys appropriately.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Children with autism are less likely to engage in complex toy play and less likely to use toys appropriately, and this is probably because
A) they do not see the toys as representative of other objects.
B) they fear toys because they think they're alive.
C) they have few opportunities to learn what toys are used for.
D) parents of children with autism think their children would not like toys.
E) toys require that they communicate, which they are unable to do.
Q4) Children with intellectual deficits seem to get less pleasure from toys than do typically developing children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Play and Intellectual Development
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Q1) Four-year-old Brian is asked to sort blocks of different shapes, and so he arranges them in a circle and says "I made a necklace", illustrating
A) logical classification.
B) a graphic collection.
C) seriation.
D) conservation.
E) egocentrism.
Q2) The experience of putting one's blocks away after playing with them can offer opportunities to develop conservation ability.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Graphic collections refer to the
A) tendency of young children to collect sets of objects.
B) sorting strategies of preschool children.
C) inability of preschool children to conserve.
D) word games often played by preschool children.
E) mature classification strategies of school-age children.
Q4) Describe and provide examples of the four different types of language play that occur in early childhood.
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Chapter 9: The Social Benefits of Play
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Q1) Most of the peer interactions of young children occur within the context of ______.
Q2) In one study it was found that when slow, soothing music was played in the background, children were more likely to engage in ________ play with a peer.
Q3) Six-year-old Sarah rarely interacted with other children while her behavior was being observed by a psychologist one day, she never engaged in games of any sort, and she typically played alone. What can be concluded about Sarah?
A) Her behavior is typical of a six-year-old.
B) She is a normal child who is having a bad day.
C) No conclusions can be drawn from such limited samples of behavior.
D) She is a child with social interaction problems.
E) She was uncomfortable because of the presence of the observer.
Q4) Coaching children in a variety of social skills has been found to lead to advances in peer acceptance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Parent-child physical play may help the child learn to ________ the emotional states of another person.
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Chapter 10: The Uses of Play in Therapy
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Q1) It has been discovered that therapy conducted by parents has been more effective by therapy conducted by professionals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the technique of "play analysis" that was practiced by Melanie Klein in terms of (a) the physical environment in which the therapy took place, (b) the specific procedures that were followed, and (c) the therapist's assumptions about the meaning of play for children.
Q3) In art therapy, children who draw huge figures may be __________, while withdrawn, insecure, or depressed children may produce small figures.
Q4) The first person to use play in psychoanalytic therapy with children was
A) Melanie Klein.
B) Anna Freud.
C) Virginia Axline.
D) Sigmund Freud.
E) Hermine Hug-Hellmuth.
Q5) List and discuss five reasons why play is seen by psychologists as an essential component of child psychotherapy.
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