Adolescent Psychology Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Adolescent Psychology explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of individuals during the teenage years. The course examines major theories and research findings related to adolescence, including identity formation, peer relationships, family dynamics, and the impact of culture and media. Topics such as puberty, mental health, risk-taking behaviors, and the development of moral reasoning are discussed, with emphasis on practical applications for educators, counselors, and other professionals working with adolescents. Students gain an understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities present during this critical stage of life.
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Developmental Psychology Childhood and Adolescence 9th Edition by David R. Shaffer
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Developmental Psychology and Its Research Strategies
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Q1) The ethnographic research method is most suitable for studying child-rearing practices
A)within a particular culture or society.
B)by identifying the thoughts of a particular child.
C)by observing daycare children's lunchtime manners.
D)by identifying why children act the way that they do.
Answer: A
Q2) The plasticity principle states that the child
A)responds flexibly to changes in his or her life experiences.
B)must be trained by parents to avoid consuming plastics.
C)progresses predictably through developmental stages.
D)asserts his or her individuality and cannot accurately be described by generalizations that apply to all children.
Answer: A
Q3) Observing people in their typical environments is the hallmark of
A)naturalistic observation.
B)correlation.
C)interview methods.
D)clinical methods.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Hereditary Influences on Development
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Q1) Tryon's experiments on selective breeding of rats to increase their maze-learning ability was related to
A)evocative genotype/environment correlation.
B)concordance data.
C)in vitro fertilization.
D)positive eugenics.
Answer: D
Q2) During the 1800s, Gregory Mendel studied the inheritance of traits that are A)developed via learning.
B)strongly influenced by nutrition.
C)controlled by single pairs of genes.
D)controlled by multiple pairs of genes.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of these is LEAST advisable as a maternal tactic to have a baby with normal chromosomes?
A)Eat a diet that is rich in folic acid
B)Give birth while younger rather than older
C)Encourage your husband to avoid excessive smoking or drinking
D)Develop a career as an x-ray technician
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) ____ is a strong predictor of postpartum depression.
A)Positive maternal interaction with the infant
B)The mother's lack of social support within the family
C)A maternal diet consisting mainly of greasy foods
D)The presence of cats within the home
Answer: B
Q2) During the period of the embryo, the mesoderm, the middle layer of the embryonic disk, develops into the A)muscles, circulatory system, and bones.
B)neural tube.
C)fetus.
D)umbilical cord.
Answer: A
Q3) As early as the end of the ____ gestational month, the fetus's reproductive system already contains immature ova or sperm cells.
A)third
B)fourth
C)fifth
D)sixth
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) The child's sensitivity to pain develops as early as
A)the first day after birth.
B)the age of one month.
C)the age of three months.
D)the age of six months.
Q2) ____ is the most commonly experienced infectious disease among infants and preschoolers.
A)Mumps
B)Measles
C)Chicken pox
D)Otitis media
Q3) A fussy baby could most easily be quieted with taste if a ____ stimulus is placed in its mouth.
A)sweet
B)bitter
C)sour
D)salty
Q4) Discuss the functions of a baby's crying and how it changes over the first few months of life.
Q5) Trace the development of intermodal perception over the first year.
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Chapter 5: Physical Development: the Brain, the Body, Motor
Skills, and Sexual
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Q1) Which of the following illustrates the qualitative nature of development?
A)A child's early experiences direct the synaptic pruning that occurs in the first years of life.
B)The timing of puberty depends on both your genetics and what sort of nutrition you have had.
C)Babies remain the same length for days, and then grow several centimeters all in one day.
D)Motor development in infants is related to the infant's cognitive and social goals.
Q2) Outline the basic pattern of myelinization, and explain how it is reflected in motor skill development and coordination.
Q3) Research on childhood obesity suggests that parents who want to reduce their children's risk for obesity should
A)insist that their children clean their plates to get dessert.
B)use food as a reward for other good behaviors.
C)feed children a high-fat diet to encourage satiety.
D)avoid using food as a bribe for eating healthier foods.
Q4) Discuss dyslexia in terms of possible problems related to cerebral lateralization.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development: Piagets Theory and
Vygotskys Sociocultural Viewpoint
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Q1) Teachers who apply Vygotsky's principles in the classroom will be especially keen to encourage
A)exercises in sensory discrimination or detection.
B)competition, as with mock quiz shows.
C)lecturing by expert guest speakers.
D)cooperative learning experiences.
Q2) DeLoache (and colleagues) conducted a number of research studies designed to map the development of children's symbolic abilities during the preschool years. Describe the basic findings from these studies.
Q3) Mrs. Subway asks her boy Chompy if he wants his sandwich in one or two pieces. Chompy says to keep it in one piece because he isn't hungry enough to eat two pieces. Chompy's answer indicates that he
A)is decentered about the possible contents of the food.
B)misunderstands about the meanings of numbers.
C)applies hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
D)does not yet understand conservation.
Q4) Trace the development of object permanence originally outlined by Piaget.
Q5) List three key findings from cross-cultural research on Piaget's theory.
Q6) Explain what is meant by the term "horizontal decalage."
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Development: Information-Processing Perspectives
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Q1) Discuss the development of problem-solving strategies. What is the adaptive strategy choice model? What are the implications of the findings regarding strategy choice for the field of education?
Q2) Learning to learn speeds performance because the child
A)avoids being hampered by fuzzy traces.
B)perceives analogies among the several problems.
C)avoids thinking about tragic episodes from the past.
D)rehearses to minimize the effects of infantile amnesia.
Q3) Miller and Weiss's cross-sectional experiment with children at ages seven, 10, and 13 assessed selective attention with which methodology?
A)EEG brain wave recordings when various objects were seen
B)Interviews with each child on how closely they attended
C)Parental interviews about the child's distractibility
D)Asking about unattended details shown in the scenes
Q4) List three ways in which fuzzy traces differ from verbatim traces.
Q5) Identify five strategies that children might use to solve addition problems, and illustrate each strategy using the problem 12 + 8.
Q6) Explain what is meant by metacognition.
Q7) Describe Siegler's adaptive strategy choice model.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence: Measuring Mental Performance
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Q1) High school students take the ACT or SAT test to get into college. These tests are both examples of
A)two-generation interventions.
B)group tests of creativity.
C)individual tests that focus on practical intelligence.
D)group tests focusing on crystallized intelligence.
Q2) In Terman's longitudinal study of bright children, most of the women
A)matched the career achievements of the men.
B)became full-time homemakers and raised children.
C)balanced careers with family responsibilities.
D)outperformed their male counterparts in the workplace.
Q3) According to Jensen, Caucasian children
A)outperform African-American children on level I and II skills.
B)do worse than African-American children on level I and II skills.
C)do equally well with African Americans on level I and II skills.
D)outperform African-American children on level II skills only.
Q4) What long-range effects have compensatory education programs (such as Head Start) been found to have on IQ, academic achievement, and self-image?
Q5) Describe the two types of intellectual abilities proposed by Jensen.
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Chapter 9: Development of Language and Communication Skills
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Q1) Children who are exposed to two languages prior to the age of ____ develop strong proficiencies in both.
A)nine years
B)six years
C)three years
D)one year
Q2) For interactionists, language's main function is to
A)provide employment for language teachers.
B)discourage inappropriate evocations of parentese.
C)foster emotional bonds between parent and child.
D)communicate ideas among people.
Q3) New parents have just learned that their child is deaf, and they would like to know how to foster the development of language ability in their child. Discuss the recommendations that might be made to these parents, given your knowledge of language development.
Q4) The rules for making words out of sounds is a language's A)syntax. B)semantics.
C)morphology. D)phonology.
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development, Temperament, and Attachment
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Q1) Identify the correct developmental sequence of the phases of primary attachments, from earliest to last:
A)multiple attachments :: asocial :: specific attachments.
B)asocial :: multiple attachments :: specific attachments.
C)multiple attachments :: specific attachments :: asocial.
D)asocial :: specific attachments :: multiple attachments.
Q2) Resistant attachment, disorganized/disoriented attachment, and avoidant attachment are all types of
A)biologically predestined attachment.
B)insecure attachment.
C)goodness of fit.
D)social referencing.
Q3) Give an example of a qualitative change in development that has to do with attachment.
Q4) Explain "behavioral inhibition," and discuss how stable this characteristic is across early childhood.
Q5) Identify the types of working models that ethologists suggest may be present in securely attached children and in children with resistant, avoidant, or disorganized/disoriented attachments.
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Chapter 11: Development of the Self-Concept
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Q1) Parents who apply the ____ parenting style have children with high self-esteem.
A)nurturant/democratic
B)permissive/democratic
C)neglectful/uninvolved
D)strict/authoritarian
Q2) A professor tells a college class, "Everyone has the ability to earn an A in this class, but you must exert maximum effort." This advice resembles
A)a categorical self that opposes the public self.
B)the identity diffusion status.
C)attribution retraining.
D)mutual role-taking.
Q3) At which age are you likely to have the highest self-esteem?
A)10
B)20
C)30
D)65
Q4) What are some of the difficulties in identity development faced by mixed-ethnicity adolescents and cross-ethnic adoptees in Caucasian adoptive homes?
Q5) Contrast a mastery orientation with a learned-helplessness orientation.
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Chapter 12: Sex Differences and Gender-Role Development
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Q1) Girls first begin to think that their math skills are inferior to boys' math skills by the age of
A)toddlerhood.
B)kindergarten.
C)fifth grade.
D)12th grade.
Q2) As compared with girls, boys' physical activity level
A)is equal at birth but increases at a faster rate.
B)makes them avoid nonaggressive rough-and-tumble play.
C)is higher but only for boys who have sisters at home.
D)is higher at all ages.
Q3) A preschooler tells his parents for the first time, "I'm a boy, and I know it!" The boy expresses his gender
A)grammatical morpheme.
B)Electra complex.
C)androgynized femininity.
D)identity.
Q4) Discuss how much influence genetic factors have on the behavior of males and females.
Q5) In one sentence, explain the difference between sex and gender.
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Chapter 13: Aggression, Altruism, and Moral Development
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Q1) In Piaget's moral theory, EXPIATORY PUNISHMENT is to RECIPROCAL PUNISHMENT as ____ is to ____.
A)BALANCED :: ONE-SIDED
B)DELAYED :: IMMEDIATE
C)MILD :: SEVERE
D)ABSOLUTE :: RELATIVE
Q2) Suppose you are part of a taskforce in your school district with the goal of coming up with suggestions for fostering self-control and resistance to temptation in children. Drawing on research, what suggestions could you make?
Q3) Scores on Kohlberg's measures of moral reasoning predict moral behavior
A)poorly at all age levels.
B)better for older than for younger children.
C)better for younger than for older children.
D)accurately at all age levels.
Q4) During the preschool years, there is a shift in altruism from
A)close associates to abstract patriotism about the nation.
B)other humans to egocentric self-directed concerns.
C)pretend play to real acts of helpfulness toward others.
D)other humans to helpfulness toward pets.
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Chapter 14: The Context of Development I: the Family
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Q1) Which developmental theme of the text was LEAST related to the chapter on family context?
A)Nature-nurture
B)Quantitative-qualitative
C)Active child
D)Holistic nature
Q2) Carolyn's parents are very unhappy. They fight all the time and rarely have time or energy to take her to the park anymore. They used to play board games at night, but that never happens either. The fact that she spends less time with her parents now because of their marital conflict makes Carolyn feel less attached to them. This illustrates a(n) _____ effect of marital conflict on child development.
A)direct
B)indirect
C)multidirectional
D)unimportant
Q3) The burden of scientific evidence points to what differences between gay/lesbian parents and heterosexual parents?
Q4) Name two factors that decrease the likelihood of sibling rivalry.
Q5) What is meant by "embeddedness" in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory?
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Chapter 15: The Context of Development
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Q1) Two toddlers are playing tag. "I chase you!" shouts one to the other. "You chase me." says the second one in reply. The fact that one child is acting as "chasee" and the other as "chaser" in this tag game illustrates
A)complementary roles.
B)supplementary roles.
C)interpersonal conflict.
D)interrole conflict.
Q2) Explain what is meant by "informal curriculum" in schools.
Q3) Name five suggestions Larry Rosen makes for dealing with concerns about teen exposure to online media.
Q4) Identify the correct sequence of social complexity for preschoolers' play, beginning with the simplest.
A)Parallel play :: associative play :: cooperative play
B)Associative play :: parallel play :: cooperative play
C)Cooperative play :: associative play :: parallel play
D)Associative play :: cooperative play :: parallel play
Q5) Describe the difference between social and cognitive complexity of play.
Q6) Identify three ways that computers can be integrated into classroom settings, and describe the benefits of each form of computer usage.
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