Advanced Developmental Psychology
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Advanced Developmental Psychology explores the complex processes of human growth and change throughout the lifespan, focusing on physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development from infancy through adulthood. This course integrates cutting-edge research and theoretical perspectives to examine developmental trajectories, interindividual differences, and the impact of biological, psychological, and environmental factors. Topics may include advanced study of attachment, identity formation, language acquisition, moral reasoning, and the influence of culture and context. Students will critically evaluate empirical studies, apply developmental theories to real-world situations, and consider contemporary issues such as neurodiversity, technology's effects on development, and resilience in the face of adversity.
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Developmental Psychology From Infancy to Adulthood 4th Edition by Fiona White
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Chapter 1: Introduction to developmental psychology
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Q1) Piaget proposed that children were passive participants in the developmental process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In operant conditioning,the behaviour response is strengthened by:
A) observing social models perform the desired behaviour
B) a conditioned stimulus
C) immediate reinforcement
D) high levels of repetition
Answer: C
Q3) The study of the elderly and the processes of aging is called gerontology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Developmental research has tended to focus more on the period of adolescence compared to early childhood.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Foundations of development: Genetics and prenatal development
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Q1) Klinefelter's syndrome has a lower incidence than Turner's syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Monozygotic twins have an identical genotype.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following was not an early idea of Mendel (1865)?
A) individuals inherit traits via 'factors'
B) sex-linked genes lead to particular traits skipping generations
C) individuals had pairs of genes (one from each parent)
D) the notion of dominant and recessive genes
Answer: B
Q4) Research has shown strong genetic links in Alzheimer's disease.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Physical and motor development
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Q1) Typically,motor performance peaks in late adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is not an example of the rudimentary movement abilities of an infant?
A) crawling
B) blinking
C) grasping
D) gaining control of the head
Answer: B
Q3) Postural stability is dependent upon:
A) vestibular information
B) good muscle tone
C) kinaesthetic information
D) all of these answers are correct
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Perceptual development
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Q1) Infants prefer salty tastes,whereas children aged four months prefer sweeter tastes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a newborn diverts his attention to a novel sound,this is an example of intermodal exploration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What theory emphasises the way that knowledge affects perception?
A) environmental theory
B) cognitive developmental theories
C) biological theory
D) ethological theory
Q4) Infants prefer to look at 'bottom-heavy' objects rather than 'top-heavy' objects.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Forty to fifty percent of our cerebral cortex is involved in visual processing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Stages of cognitive development
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Q1) Which of the following is not true of the clinical method?
A) it helped explain quantitative shifts in children's reasoning
B) children were presented with a task or verbal problem that required a solution and explanation
C) the research approach was originally developed by Piaget
D) it was a relatively informal approach to research
Q2) Research has demonstrated that explicitly instructing children about a novel situation may reduce their spontaneous exploration and discovery within that situation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A toddler recognises a beagle,labrador and dalmation all as dogs.This is an example of:
A) a scheme
B) accommodation
C) assimilation
D) adaptation
Q4) Choose two neo-Piagetian theorists.Describe their theories and how these theories are similar and different with Piaget's theory.
Q5) Explain the three basic theoretical assumptions of Piaget's stage theory.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive development II
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the three key domains that have been studied within the core-knowledge approach?
A) physics
B) psychology
C) biology
D) physiology
Q2) Which of the following is not an alternative framework to Piaget's explanation of children's cognitive development?
A) sociocultural approach
B) core-knowledge approach
C) functional approach
D) information-processing approach
Q3) The amount of incidental information recalled decreases from around 11 years of age.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Implicit memory tasks show the same developmental pattern as explicit memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Language development
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Q1) Research findings suggest that infants are born with an ability to perceive the sounds of any human language.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about Chomsky is false?
A) Chomsky's approach focuses heavily on productive speech
B) Chomsky argued that language is better understood as an innate mechanism
C) Chomsky believed that all languages are based on a set of abstract, unconscious rules
D) Chomsky, a linguist, subscribed to the nativist approach
Q3) One factor that is thought to affect the development of reading comprehension is the capacity of an individual's knowledge.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Parents who speak a language other than English in the home are often concerned about the influence of the second language on their development of English.What suggestions can be made from research evidence to parents in such a situation to promote positive language development in their children?
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Chapter 8: Personality development
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Q1) Which model/theory integrates social cognitive and trait approaches to personality development?
A) social investment theory
B) sociogenomic model
C) sociobiological model
D) social cognitive theory
Q2) Behaviourists tend to avoid hypothetical constructs and therefore did not utilise the term 'personality'.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which theorist was the first to recognise that personality develops across the lifespan?
A) Erikson
B) Freud
C) Marcia
D) Eysenck
Q4) Two key behaviourists are Watson and Skinner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Social development
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Q1) When a person has high self-esteem they evaluate themselves positively in domains where they have previously excelled.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define bullying behaviour.Discuss the research evidence for the long-term consequences of bullying for both the victim and the perpetrator.
Q3) According to previous research,which of the following is not one of the positive developmental outcomes of play?
A) play provides children with an opportunity to develop their identity and self-concept
B) play teaches children to problem solve
C) play provides children with opportunities to develop social skills
D) play sharpens children's social knowledge
Q4) Research supports the popular saying that 'opposites attract'.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Outline how preferred play style differs in boys and girls across childhood,and discuss how this influences gender identity development.
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Chapter 10: Emotional development
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Q1) The neocultural theory of emotion acknowledges that everyone has a genetically encoded and biologically stored facial prototypic recognition program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The conscious or self-reported experience of positive and negative qualities of emotion is referred to as:
A) temperament
B) mood
C) affect
D) state
Q3) How does culture influence emotional expression and intensity? Discuss.
Q4) Which of the following statements are true about the difference between moods and emotions,according to the textbook?
A) moods gradually appear and disappear but emotions do not
B) moods are more intense at their peak compared with emotions
C) moods are less enduring than emotions
D) both A and C are correct
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Chapter 11: Model development
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Q1) Moral judgments at early adolescent years do not seem to be correlated with moral judgments in adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A person often behaves in a certain moral way because a source of moral authority often requires it.Henry (1983)identifies five sources of moral authority,each representing one of Kohlberg's stages.Which of the following is not accurately paired?
A) self-interest; stage 2: instrumental
B) family; stage 3: interpersonal
C) society's welfare; stage 6: universal ethical principle
D) educators; stage 4: social system
Q3) Which of the following was not proposed by Henry (1983)?
A) authority figures can guide an individual's moral thinking
B) it is the form of moral reasoning that differentiates Kohlberg's stages
C) Kohlberg's lowest level of moral judgment is not associated with a source of authority
D) there are five sources of moral authority
Q4) How does parental style influence children's moral development?
Q5) What role does the development of emotion play in moral development?
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Chapter 12: Psychological problems and development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is false?
A) bulimia nervosa is more responsive to treatment than anorexia nervosa.
B) bulimia nervosa tends to develop slightly earlier than anorexia nervosa.
C) individuals with bulimia nervosa are typically within the normal weight range.
D) the prevalence of bulimia nervosa is twice as high as anorexia nervosa.
Q2) Developmental psychopathology is the study of:
A) how psychological problems arise
B) how psychological problems change with time
C) childhood disorders
D) both A and B are correct
Q3) It is estimated that approximately 10% to 15% of Australian children are affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
A)True
B)False
Q4) The developmental pathways leading to any particular disorder are unidimensional and static.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Conclusions
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Q1) The nature-nurture relationship in the early months and years of life is dominated by the influence of biology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Halford's structure mapping approach is useful to explain the complicated network of changes in behaviour,cognition and social functioning.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Theories of development suggest that development can be continuous or discontinuous.Which argument has more convincing research evidence?
Q4) Infants prefer stationary and familiar objects over moving and unfamiliar objects.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is a consistent controversy in developmental psychology?
A) domain-specific versus domain-general approaches
B) nature vs/and nurture
C) continuous versus discontinuity in development
D) all of these answers are correct
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