Developmental Psychology
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Developmental Psychology explores the patterns and processes of human growth and change throughout the lifespan, from conception to old age. The course examines physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development, emphasizing how biological, psychological, and environmental factors interact to shape individual trajectories. Students will engage with major theories, research methods, and key issues in the field, and critically analyze developmental milestones and challenges at various life stages. Real-world applications to education, parenting, health, and policy are also discussed, fostering a comprehensive understanding of human development across diverse contexts.
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Children and Their Development 6th Edition by
Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Science of Child Development
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Q1) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development focused on A)the resolution of psychological crises.
B)improvements in mental hardware and software.
C)children's creation of "theories" that help them understand their worlds.
D)adaptive behaviors that are learned during critical periods.
Answer: C
Q2) A correlation of .82 was found between the number of hours studied and final exam scores.This means that
A)students who studied less received higher exam scores.
B)students who studied less received lower exam scores.
C)studying caused students to receive higher exam scores.
D)the amount of studying was unrelated to exam scores.
Answer: B
Q3) Hedy lives according to the philosophy "If it feels good,do it." Hedy's personality appears to be dominated by her A)ego.
B)imprinting.
C)superego.
D)id.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Genetic Bases of Child Development
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Q1) Genetic counseling typically involves
A)obtaining a detailed family history and performing tests to help couples with concerns about inherited disorders.
B)informing parents-to-be about how they can have a more intelligent child.
C)the government in making decisions for private citizens.
D)helping couples with fertility problems.
Answer: A
Q2) When one allele does not dominate another completely,it is a case of A)recessive inheritance.
B)incomplete dominance.
C)phenotype.
D)polygenic inheritance.
Answer: B
Q3) In adoption studies,if a behavior has genetic roots,adopted children should behave more like their biological parents than their adoptive parents.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth and the Newborn
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Q1) Children of teenage mothers generally do less well in school and are more likely to have behavioral problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Apgar score is a measure that assesses breathing,heart rate,muscle tone,reflexes,and skin tone.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Olivia was told that her newborn daughter had an Apgar score of 8.She should be A)mourning,because her daughter died.
B)extremely concerned,because her daughter is in a life-threatening state and requires emergency Medical care.
C)worried,because her daughter needs special attention and care.
D)happy,because her daughter is in good physical condition.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Growth and Health
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Q1) Over the course of evolution,human infants have typically been exposed to some forms of stimulation that are used to adjust brain wiring,strengthening some circuits and eliminating others.This is known as
A)experience-expectant growth.
B)brain-based education.
C)experience-dependent growth.
D)neurogenesis.
Chapter Section: The Developing Nervous System
Q2) The effects of malnutrition can be cured simply by providing an adequate diet.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The production of neurons is virtually complete by A)28 weeks after conception.
B)six months of age.
C)three years of age.
D)adolescence.
Q4) F-MRIs are used to track blood flow as participants perform different cognitive tasks. A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Perceptual and Motor Development
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Q1) Infants' color perception is similar to adults' by 3 or 4 months of age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs are known as
A)sensory and perceptual processes.
B)motor skills.
C)intersensory redundancy.
D)dynamic systems theory.
Q3) Texture gradient cues are used to infer depth
A)in the newborn.
B)beginning at 3 months of age.
C)by 7 months of age.
D)after the first birthday.
Q4) When an infant habituates to a stimulus,such as a picture,
A)the infant will pay more attention to the stimulus as it becomes more familiar.
B)the infant's heart rate will drop as the stimulus becomes more familiar.
C)the infant's behavior does not change as the stimulus becomes more familiar.
D)the infant will pay less attention to the stimulus as it becomes more familiar.
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Chapter 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Q1) You clench your fist,rapidly open your hand,then rapidly re-clench your fist.After you re-clench your fist,you momentarily see an image of your fingers extended.That image is stored in
A)working memory.
B)long-term memory.
C)sensory memory.
D)the information processor.
Q2) Most children in Western cultures have well-defined ideas about what "essences" are.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to theory of mind,at 3 years of age children do not
A)understand that they and other people have desires.
B)understand that desires can cause behavior.
C)emphasize desires when trying to explain other people's behavior.
D)understand that other people's behavior is based on beliefs.
Q4) Name and describe the four stages of Piaget's theory.
Q5) Name and briefly describe the five forms of developmental change that occur with age proposed by information-processing theorists.
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Q6) Describe three important characteristics of preoperational thinking.
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
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Q1) You show 5-month-old Zachary many pictures of two objects.At first he looks at each picture for several seconds,but after several are shown he just glances at each briefly then looks away.Then you show him a picture of three objects.What would you expect him to do?
A)Look at the picture briefly then look away,because to him it looks just like a picture with two objects.
B)Look at the picture with renewed interest for several seconds,because he will recognize that three objects are different from two objects.
C)Look at the picture and say,"1,2,3."
D)Start crying and refuse to look at the picture because it is unfamiliar.
Q2) In which of the following countries do students show the LOWEST math achievement?
A)Japan
B)Taiwan
C)Korea
D)the United States
Q3) Name and briefly describe the three basic principles of counting.
Q4) What are some common reasons why young children sometimes fail to solve problems because of poor planning?
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Chapter 8: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
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Q1) Nate has decided that he would like to be a psychometrician.Nate is interested in A)studying sensory and perceptual processes.
B)Piagetian theory.
C)the treatment of mental illnesses.
D)the measurement of psychological characteristics.
Q2) The Bayley Scales of Infant Development
A)are designed for use with infants only up to 1 year of age.
B)do not assess adaptive behavior.
C)contain mental and motor scales.
D)contain motor but not mental scales.
Q3) Carroll's hierarchical theory
A)is a compromise between the two views of intelligence - general and distinct abilities.
B)suggests that g is responsible for performance on all mental tests.
C)is based on the research and theories of cognitive development.
D)focuses on emotional intelligence.
Q4) Sternberg said that successful intelligence involves three distinct abilities.Name and briefly describe them.
Q5) Compare and contrast creativity and intelligence in terms of thinking.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) What is infant-directed speech and how is it related to infant language development?
Q2) Adding -s and -ing are simple grammatical morphemes that are mastered at an early age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 3 years of age,children understand that a comment should be followed by a response.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The production of two-word speech
A)usually occurs around the first birthday.
B)is haphazard and is not based on any rules.
C)follows rules that are very different from language to language.
D)often is called telegraphic speech.
Q5) Which of the following is an example of telegraphic speech?
A)"Baby hungry."
B)the "ing" in "kicking"
C)using the word "car" to refer to trucks,vans,and automobiles
D)using the word "dog" to refer only to the family dog
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Your friend Jamal has a 12-month-old daughter,Kia.Recently,they ran into one of Jamal's coworkers who Kia did not know.When this "stranger" approached,Jamal thought that Kia looked at him to gauge his reaction to the "stranger" and then smiled after she saw Jamal greet the "stranger" in a friendly manner.When Jamal told this story to his wife,Yolanda,she laughed and told him that he was giving Kia more credit than a 1-year-old should get.Is Jamal or Yolanda correct? Explain your answer.
Q2) Culturally specific standards for appropriate expressions of emotion in a particular setting or with a particular person or persons are known as
A)display rules.
B)emotional regulation.
C)self-conscious emotions.
D)systematic desensitization.
Q3) A social smile typically occurs when an infant
A)was recently fed.
B)is asleep.
C)sees another human face.
D)is at least 1 year of age.
Q4) What are some new ways to regulate emotions that children develop as they get older?
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Chapter 11: Understanding Self and Others
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Q1) The first step in the development of self-concept is the child's awareness that he or she exists independently of others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the three phases that individuals typically go through in attaining ethnic identity.
Q3) How competent the child feels in relationships with parents and peers is reflected in which of Harter's domains?
A)behavioral conduct
B)physical appearance
C)athletic competence
D)social acceptance
Q4) At which age would you be most likely to find the highest levels of self-esteem?
A)preschool years
B)early elementary-school years
C)late elementary-school years
D)junior high years
Q5) Name and briefly describe Selman's five stages of perspective taking.
Q6) Briefly describe some outcomes associated with low self-esteem.
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Chapter 12: Moral Understanding and Behavior
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Q1) The belief that breaking a rule always leads to punishment is referred to as A)moral relativism.
B)postconventional reasoning.
C)conventional reasoning.
D)immanent justice.
Q2) Children in the moral realism understand that because people agree to set rules in the first place,they can also change them if they see the need.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Results from longitudinal studies support Kohlberg's invariant sequence of stages. A)True
B)False
Q4) Children with very strict parents show more self-control than other children. A)True
B)False
Q5) Moral reasoning does not reflect one's culture. A)True B)False
Q6) Describe three skills that underlie prosocial behavior.
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Chapter 13: Gender and Development
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Q1) If Deanna is a girl and Jerrill is a boy,which of the following statements is most likely to be TRUE?
A)Jerrill expresses emotions better than Deanna.
B)Deanna is more physically aggressive than Jerrill.
C)Deanna is more active than Jerrill.
D)Deanna has a lareger vocabulary than Jerrill.
Q2) Aggressive behavior has been linked to androgens,hormones secreted by the testes. A)True
B)False
Q3) Your friend Gretchen is an elementary school teacher.She told you that she has noticed that the boys in her class seem to have more language problems than the girls.She's also noticed that the girls seem to have better computational skills than the boys but this doesn't seem consistent with the fact that few women are in jobs that require extensive mathematical skill.Gretchen wonders if gender differences in verbal and mathematical ability are substantiated by research or if she has unusual students.What can you tell Gretchen about gender differences in mathematical and verbal ability?
Q4) Define and give examples of instrumental and expressive traits.How do they fit with gender stereotypes?
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Chapter 14: Family Relationships
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Q1) 53 Not all parents work well together,because they Here is another one.-KM
A)resolve conflicts in constructive manners instead of destructive manners
B)disagree about goals.
C)disagree about goals or compete for their children's attention
D)disagree about goals,compete for their children's attention,or limit the other parent's participation.
Q2) Biological children are more often abused than are stepchildren.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 76 Grandparents tend to be more involved when
A)they live far from their grandchildren.
B)they have many grandchildren.
C)their children (their grandchildren's parents)encourage involvement.
D)they didn't have much of a relationship with their own granparents.
Q4) 61 Who is likely to make the best adjustment to parental divorce?
A)Stuart,a boy who lives with his mother
B)Angela,a girl who lives with her father
C)Gabe,a boy who lives with his father
D)Stuart,Angela,and Gabe are equally likely to adjust well to their parents' divorce
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Chapter 15: Influences Beyond the Family
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Q1) 56 Based on current research which of the following is FALSE?
A)Children raised by gay or lesbian parents usually adopt their parents' sexual orientation.
B)Girls become lesbians when their father is their primary role model.
C)Sons become gay when raised by a domineering mother and a weak father.
D)They are all false.
Q2) 38 Which of the following statements is NOT correct about other-sex friendships?
A)Children with same- and other-sex friendships tend to be very well adjusted.
B)Children with only other-sex friendships tend to be unpopular and have lower self-esteem.
C)Children with both same- and other-sex friends are so socially skilled and popular that both boys and girls are to be their friends.
D)Children with only other-sex friendships are just as socially skilled as children with both same-sex and other-sex friendships.
Q3) 136 Co-rumination strengthens girls' friendships but also puts them at risk for greater depression and anxiety.
A)True
B)False
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