Abnormal Child Psychology Exam Practice Tests
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Abnormal Child Psychology explores the nature, causes, and treatment of psychological disorders in children and adolescents. The course examines developmental pathways to mental health and maladjustment, emphasizing the biological, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to abnormal behavior. Topics include diagnostic criteria, assessment techniques, and evidence-based interventions for disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, anxiety, depression, conduct disorders, and learning disabilities. Students will analyze case studies, review current research, and consider cultural and ethical issues shaping the identification and treatment of childhood psychopathology.
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Child Development An Introduction 14th Edition by John W Santrock
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following statements is MOST likely to be made by a nurture proponent?
A)No amount of teaching can make one write before one learns to speak.
B)One grows rapidly in infancy and less so in early childhood.
C)Individuals reach the peak of their physical strength in early adolescence.
D)A child's diet will have a substantial effect on how tall the child grows.
Answer: D
Q2) The period extending from birth to about 18 to 24 months of age is called
A)the neonatal period.
B)early childhood.
C)youth.
D)infancy.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following periods of development is sometimes referred to as the preschool years?
A)infancy
B)middle childhood
C)early childhood
D)prenatal period
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings
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Q1) Describe the emerging view in psychology about heredity-environment interaction.
Answer: Students' answers may vary. The emerging understanding of heredity-environment interaction is that both heredity and environment play complex roles in influencing development.Certain genes give people a propensity for behaving in a particular way,but the development of that behavior requires an environment.Environments themselves are complex,and their influences can range from what is known as "nurture," like parenting and schooling,and biological encounters like viruses.
Q2) To study the effects of heredity on behavior,a behavior geneticist would be mostly likely to turn to which of the following?
A)a genome-wide association method
B)a study of gene-linked abnormalities
C)a twin study
D)an epigenetic development study
Answer: C
Q3) Describe the epigenetic view of development.
Answer: The epigenetic view states that development is the result of an ongoing,bidirectional interchange between heredity and the environment.Heredity and environment operate together-or collaborate-to produce various observable traits of a person.
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) Now that Denise is pregnant,she needs to increase her daily vitamin intake.The intake of which of the following vitamins should be increased the most?
A)vitamin C
B)vitamin D
C)vitamin E
D)vitamin A
Answer: B
Q2) A cluster of abnormalities that appear in a newborn and include facial and limb deformities and defects of the limbs,face,and heart,and also often include neurocognitive difficulties and learning problems,are known as A)cocaine-induced syndromes.
B)embryonic nicotine syndromes.
C)drug-induced fetal disorders.
D)fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Birth
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Q1) The Apgar Scale rates infants' responses in the areas of heart rate and respiratory effort as well as
A)muscle tone,motor maturity,and appearance.
B)muscle tone,reflex irritability,and body color.
C)body color,motor maturity,and reflex irritability.
D)body color,muscle tone,and motor maturity.
Q2) An extremely low birth weight infant weighs less than ________ pounds at birth.
A)3.5
B)4.0
C)5.5
D)2.0
Q3) The highest rate of cesarean sections is performed in A)Brazil. B)France.
C)Germany.
D)the United States.
Q4) What are the circumstances in which a cesarean delivery is recommended? Are there circumstances when a cesarean delivery is not appropriate?
Q5) Compare and contrast natural and prepared childbirth methods.
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Chapter 5: Physical Development in Infancy
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Q1) According to your text,infants from which ethnic groups are MOST likely to die from SIDS?
A)non-Latino White and Asian
B)non-Latino White and Latino
C)Eskimo and African American
D)Native American and Latino
Q2) Which of the following is a syndrome that affects a large number of babies in the United States,causes severe brain damage,and includes symptoms such as brain swelling and hemorrhaging?
A)Tay-Sachs syndrome
B)shaken baby syndrome
C)Shy Drager syndrome
D)Down syndrome
Q3) The parietal lobes play an important role in A)hearing,language processing,and memory.
B)vision.
C)voluntary movement,thinking,personality,emotion,memory,sustained attention,and intentionality or purpose.
D)registering spatial location,maintaining attention,and administering motor control.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) According to research,what is linked to growth in young children's receptive and expressive language development from 18 to 36 months?
A)watching television
B)maternal sensitivity
C)outside activity
D)intrusive parenting
Q2) Infants who classify birds as animals and airplanes as vehicles,even though the objects are perceptually similar,are engaging in ________ categorization.
A)conceptual
B)perceptual
C)surface-level
D)superficial
Q3) What is infantile amnesia? Explain the best understood cause of infantile amnesia.
Q4) What are the salient features of the core knowledge approach?
Q5) What are Piaget's six substages of sensorimotor development?
Q6) How is Gesell's measurement of infant development used? Name the four categories of behavior in the current version of the Gesell test.
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Chapter 7: Socioemotional Development in Infancy
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Q1) Caregiver-infant games such as peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake exemplify
A)social referencing.
B)scaffolding.
C)secure attachment.
D)indirect interactions.
Q2) According to Lewis' classification,________ emotions involve a sense of "me." An example of such an emotion is pride.
A)non-social
B)primary
C)basic
D)self-conscious
Q3) ________ is the most important mechanism that the newborns have for communicating with others.
A)Smiling
B)Gesturing
C)Crying
D)Shouting
Q4) How did Michael Lewis distinguish between primary emotions and self-conscious emotions?
Q5) How does the development of social referencing help infants?
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Chapter 8: Physical Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) According to recent studies,children's ability to overcome the gravity bias and their impulsive tendencies in perceptual tasks can be improved by
A)providing verbal instructions to the children regarding the task.
B)providing an abundance of carrots to enrich their eyesight.
C)making the perceptual tasks more abstract.
D)allowing parents to participate alongside the children.
Q2) ________ are characterized by a sudden arousal from sleep and an intense fear,usually accompanied by a number of physiological reactions,such as rapid heart rate and breathing,loud screams,heavy perspiration,and physical movement.
A)Lucid dreams
B)Night terrors
C)REM sleep periods
D)Delusions
Q3) A recent study demonstrated that children's literacy could be improved with
A)15 minutes of activity per day in preschool academic contexts.
B)30 minutes of activity per day in preschool academic contexts.
C)60 minutes of activity per day in preschool academic contexts.
D)a change of condition from inside to outside for 60 minutes per day regardless of activity level.
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Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Who was your favorite teacher in elementary school? Answering this question requires ________ memory.
A)procedural
B)personal
C)autobiographical
D)meaningful
Q2) During an experiment in which Lisa can eat a cookie right away or wait until the experimenter returns and get a second cookie,Lisa is singing the alphabet song to herself while she waits.According to your text,Lisa is using ________ thoughts.
A)cool
B)hot
C)educational
D)frozen
Q3) Which of the following is a known criticism of Vygotsky's theory?
A)It specifically describes age-related changes.
B)It adequately describes how changes in socioemotional capabilities contribute to cognitive development.
C)It overemphasizes the role of language in thinking.
D)It does not emphasize collaboration and guidance.
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Chapter 10: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Research has shown that the only child is likely to be high on the trait of A)dependency.
B)achievement orientation.
C)self-centered behavior.
D)impulsive behavior.
Q2) Research conducted to study the effects of working parents on children consistently shows that children of working mothers are
A)likely to have significant adjustment problems.
B)likely to have academic problems and internalized problems such as anxiety and depression.
C)more likely to have egalitarian views and engage in less gender stereotyping.
D)more likely to associate with antisocial peers and have low self-esteem.
Q3) What are the negative effects of television on children?
Q4) Which of the following is the MOST common form of child maltreatment?
A)emotional abuse
B)physical abuse
C)child neglect
D)sexual abuse
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Q5) What are the drawbacks of Baumrind's conceptualization of parenting styles?
Q6) Describe the stages of moral development in children as delineated by Piaget.
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Chapter 11: Physical Development in Middle and Late Childhood
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Q1) During the middle and late childhood years,children gain about 5 to 7 pounds a year.The weight increase is due mainly to increases in the A)total volume of baby fat.
B)waist circumference.
C)size of the skeletal and muscular systems.
D)head circumference.
Q2) Children who are at or above the ________ percentile of body mass index (BMI)are included in the overweight category.
A)65th
B)75th
C)55th
D)95th
Q3) Which of the following children are at the most risk of being overweight?
A)Sara,who has a high metabolic rate
B)Anna,whose diet is rich in proteins and fibers
C)Kay,whose parents allow her only 30 minutes of screen time per day
D)Lara,who has constant access to high fat-content foods
Q4) Describe the contrasting behavior of cancer in children and adults.
Q5) What role do parents play in preventing children from becoming overweight?
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle in Late Childhood
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Q1) Rita,who is in fifth grade,has just found out that her history exam is all fill-in-the-blank questions. She is discouraged because she knows that she does not usually do well on this type of exam.In recognizing this,Rita has engaged in a form of
A)referenced thinking.
B)reconstructive analysis.
C)mental imaging.
D)metacognition.
Q2) Paul has an IQ of 72.He lives in his own apartment,has a job,and supports himself.He has an active social life with many friends,with whom he goes bowling and goes out to eat frequently.According to the definition of intellectual disability,Paul is ________ intellectually disabled.
A)mildly
B)not
C)severely
D)moderately
Q3) Two important strategies for improving memory are creating mental images and elaborating on information.Describe elaboration with a suitable example.
Q4) Describe the concept of intelligence quotient.
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Chapter 13: Socioemotional Development in Middle in Late Childhood
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Q1) Evan is a slow learner who is in the fifth grade.He has been attending remedial classes where he receives training to retain and recall information better.His teachers have reassured his parents that the cumulative effect of these remedial classes take some time and is not visible instantly.Despite this knowledge,Evan's father often chastises him for his mediocre marks and compares him unfavorably to his peers.Evan's father's approach to his academic performance is likely to lead to a ________ in Evan.
A)greater sense of self-esteem
B)greater sense of inferiority
C)lower level of guilt and shame
D)strong feeling of secure attachment
Q2) Which approach is criticized (by adherents of a rival approach)for turning children into passive learners?
A)constructivist approach
B)learner-centered approach
C)direct instruction approach
D)problem-solving approach
Q3) How does the development of self-understanding change from early childhood to middle and late childhood?
Q4) Describe the six functions of children's friendships.
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Chapter 14: Physical Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Early maturation in girls is associated with higher levels of A)self-esteem throughout life.
B)self-efficacy,especially in the adolescent years.
C)sexual abstinence when compared to late maturing girls.
D)vulnerability for depression and eating disorders.
Q2) Define puberty.
Q3) Alice was the youngest of three children raised by an authoritarian father.Alice's mother left them when she was 10 and Alice had managed to function well despite coming from a broken home.When she was 16,her boyfriend of 3 years ended their relationship abruptly.Alice grew convinced that he had left her because she was not appealing enough,and she began to diet extensively.Her school performance dropped,she grew uncomfortable around friends,and she became painfully thin.Mealtimes at Alice's home were not fixed,and her siblings and father often ate outside and failed to notice that she would hardly eat throughout the day.From the information provided in the scenario,we can say that Alice A)smokes and drinks excessively.
B)often takes high doses of prescription drugs.
C)is suffering from anorexia nervosa.
D)is overweight and at high risk for many lifestyle diseases.
Q4) What are the physical changes that occur in females during puberty?
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Chapter 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following is a personality trait that correlates with a greater likelihood of cheating?
A)high level of self-talk
B)agreeableness
C)low conscientiousness
D)high levels of anxiety
Q2) What is character education?
Q3) Which of Ethan's statements is an indicator of a personal fable?
A)"Nobody could possibly understand how I feel."
B)"My parents are so boring."
C)"I love listening to music."
D)"Why can't I stop worrying about my driving test?"
Q4) In the fuzzy-trace dual-process model,it is the ________ component that is seen to benefit adolescent decision making the most.
A)gist-based
B)analytical
C)deductive
D)inductive
Q5) What is service learning and when is it most effective?
Q6) What are the changing values that are seen among adolescents today?
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Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following statements BEST characterizes a clique?
A)Typically,members of a clique belong to different age groups.
B)Cliques are bigger than crowds and less personal.
C)A clique is a small group that ranges from 2 to about 12 individuals.
D)Generally,members of a clique do not spend much time together.
Q2) What are the three stages that characterize the development of heterosexual romantic relationships in adolescence?
Q3) When ethnic minorities identify with both their own culture and the major culture to which they now belong,it is called
A)bicultural identity.
B)dual identity.
C)dual citizenship.
D)flexible identity.
Q4) For many gay and lesbian youth,dating other-sex peers is
A)prohibited and may cause them intense shame.
B)more common for males than for females.
C)a way to explore and clarify their sexual orientation.
D)discouraged by both same-sex and other-sex peers.
Q5) List at least four causes of juvenile delinquency.
Q6) What is identity? Describe its various aspects.
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