Developmental Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the patterns of growth and change that occur throughout the human lifespan, from infancy through old age. This course examines the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of individuals, focusing on influential theories, key research findings, and the role of biological and environmental factors. Students will analyze how people develop their identities, form relationships, and navigate various life transitions, as well as consider the impact of culture, family, and society on development. The course also addresses contemporary issues and applications of developmental principles in educational, clinical, and community settings.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and Research Methods
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Q1) The belief that the unconscious mind has an influence on one's behavior is part of what early field of psychology?
A) structuralism
B) functionalism
C) psychoanalysis
D) behaviorism
Answer: C
Q2) If you're conducting a study to determine how obnoxious teenagers gradually turn into mature adults, you're doing the work of a ________ psychologist.
A) social
B) clinical
C) developmental
D) personality
Answer: C
Q3) Dr. Waxner wants to compare the health habits of smokers and non-smokers. As such, she should probably use a quasi-experimental design.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) Joella was rollerblading when a cat jumped right in front of her, causing her to trip and fall. When she fell, she partially landed on the front side of her head near her forehead. Shortly afterwards, Joella exhibited symptoms similar to that of Phineas Gage. Which lobe would have been most affected by this fall?
A) frontal
B) temporal
C) parietal
D) occipital
Answer: A
Q2) The adrenal gland is part of the "HPA" axis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Because Jane has a toothache, she tries to make a conscious effort to stay away from hard foods. This would be an example of a reflex.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) The shortest wavelengths that we can see are experienced as ______ colors.
A) red
B) blue
C) green
D) yellow
Answer: B
Q2) According to your text, which of the following erroneously believed that the eyes produced rays enabling people to see?
A) Spinoza
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Nietzsche
Answer: C
Q3) The place theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the __________.
A) specific area of the basilar membrane that is stimulated
B) number of hair cells that are stimulated
C) size of the hair cells that are stimulated
D) degree of bend in the stimulated hair cells
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) Discuss how, using classical conditioning principles-particularly "conditioned compensatory response"- one may overdose on drugs when taking the drug in a novel setting.
Q2) Define and provide a practical example of learning.
Q3) ________ refers to a series of smaller behaviors that eventually form a desired and more complex behavior when reinforced operantly.
A) Successive approximations
B) Successive shaping
C) Successive modification
D) Approximal modification
Q4) If Steven's ________ has been removed, then autonomic responses of fear will probably disappear.
A) hippocampus
B) hypothalamus
C) amygdala
D) cerebellum
Q5) Discuss Köhler's two studies with Sultan, the chimpanzee, that illustrate insight learning.
Q6) List and describe the three characteristics of effective punishment.
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) Automatic and controlled processing differ in the amount of ________ that they require.
Q2) Traditionally, what are repressed memories?
A) real memories pushed out of consciousness because they are emotionally threatening
B) false memories
C) inaccurate recollections of events that actually occurred
D) an attempt to consciously think about an emotionally painful event
Q3) One mystery of repressed memories is that current research suggests that ________.
A) repressed memories never occur
B) purely pathological behavior should not be believed whatsoever
C) emotionally charged information is remembered worse than neutral information
D) emotionally charged information is remembered better than neutral information
Q4) Retrieval is the process of __________________.
A) accessing information already stored in memory
B) keeping information active in memory
C) rehearsing information
D) consolidating memories
Q5) What type of stimuli did Ebbinghaus use to study memory?
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) The smallest unit of meaning in a language is a morpheme.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Assuming that a series of coin tosses is random because the ratio of heads and tails look randomly distributed is an example of ________.
A) availability heuristic
B) representativeness heuristic
C) base-rate rule
D) cognitive illusion effect
Q3) Your intelligence quotient can be obtained by ________.
A) subtracting your chronological age from your mental age
B) multiplying your chronological age by your mental age and dividing the result by 100
C) dividing your mental age by your chronological age
D) dividing your mental age by your chronological age and multiplying the result by 100
Q4) Describe what occurs to your brain when you avoid functional fixedness.
Q5) Brain shape has no relation to intelligence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) Which level of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy is epitomized by the U.S. Army's slogan "Be all that you can be"?
A) safety
B) self-esteem
C) belongingness
D) self-actualization
Q2) Which area of the brain is most responsible for fear-related responses, including signaling other parts of the brain?
A) thalmus
B) amygdala
C) cerebellum
D) brain stem
Q3) According to the facial feedback hypothesis, when Jose complies with instructions to look angry, it is most likely that ____________.
A) he will be amused to be simulating anger
B) he will be pleased that he does it so well
C) his positive feelings will decrease
D) his reaction will depend on his age
Q4) What is an emotional reflex?
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) Belief in your ability to succeed is called self-efficacy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Write a brief, substantive explanation of situationism.
Q3) Which theory of personality was partially born as a reaction against the psychodynamic perspective?
A) humanistic perspective
B) trait perspective
C) projective perspective
D) inventory perspective
Q4) Which of the following statements about personality changes is false?
A) College students are increasingly having an internal locus of control.
B) Children in the 1980s had as much anxiety as mental patients did in the 1950s.
C) The degree of extraversion has increased over time.
D) Certain traits typically considered to be consistent have decreased for both sexes.
Q5) Identify three neo-Freudians discussed by your textbook.
Q6) How many personality factors did Raymond Cattell originally find through factor analysis?
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Which of the following statements is correct?
A) Female fetuses are more active in the womb than male fetuses.
B) As the fetus develops, the heart rate slows.
C) Fetuses are sensitive to sound but not light.
D) Fetuses pay attention to music but cannot detect human speech.
Q2) In the second trimester of a pregnancy, the developing baby is called ________.
A) a zygote, then an embryo, then a fetus
B) an embryo and then a fetus
C) a fetus
D) an embryo
Q3) Name and describe the four attachment styles.
Q4) Identify several of the physical changes that occur in boys and girls at puberty. You should include at least four changes for each gender, including mention of the approximate age when these changes take place.
Q5) ________ is the process that produces genetically programmed changes with age.
A) Genomic imprinting
B) Maturation
C) Basic aging
D) Puberty
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) Which of the following is the type of conflict that occurs when a person must choose or not choose one goal or event that has both positive and negative aspects?
A) approach-avoidance
B) avoidance-avoidance
C) approach-approach
D) multiple approach-avoidance
Q2) During a bad "trip" on LSD, there have been cases where people have committed suicide or murder in response to the hallucinations that were being experienced.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is correct concerning REM deprivation?
A) REM deprivation results in long-term mental illness.
B) REM deprivation only occurs among the elderly.
C) REM deprivation leads to increased amounts of REM sleep on subsequent nights of sleep.
D) REM deprivation can lead to visual impairments.
Q4) What are some environmental factors that can increase the likelihood of aggression?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) What is binge eating?
Q2) Major depressive disorder is the most common psychological diagnosis in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your authors suggest that major depression affects several different areas of psychological functioning. Which of the following is one of those areas?
A) cognition
B) perception
C) rumination
D) consciousness
Q4) The neurotransmitter ________ plays a role in the experience of satiety, or feeling full after eating enough food.
A) dopamine
B) GABA
C) acetylcholine
D) serotonin
Q5) Antisocial personality disorder has been studied extensively. What are some of the symptoms of the disorder?
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) After many sessions of psychodynamic therapy, Dan at some point experiences reluctance to cooperate with his therapist and tends to forget to do what his therapist had suggested to him. Dan is experiencing ________.
A) resistance
B) a Freudian slip
C) a Freudian trip
D) interpretation
Q2) When trying to change a behavior, the behavior therapist is interested in the ABCs of the behavior. What are the ABCs?
Q3) Behavior modification is based on ________ principles.
A) operant conditioning
B) classical conditioning
C) observational learning
D) social comparison
Q4) Name three of the common cognitive distortions and describe what they are.
Q5) Behavioral techniques are based on classical conditioning and operant conditioning principles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement regarding stereotypes?
A) They are always negative.
B) They can be useful shortcuts.
C) They are general beliefs about people without regard for social category.
D) They are often accurate.
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of the behavioral component of an attitude?
A) Bea feels recycling is a great concept.
B) Bob is upset when he hears a corporation plans to build a polluting plant near his home.
C) Bill struggles to understand the arguments both sides present in a debate over a new manufacturing plant.
D) Betty writes a letter to her senator asking for support of a law making corporations responsible for the pollution they cause.
Q3) The basis of the realistic conflict theory is that arguments that occur over genuine problems lead to more violence than arguments that occur over petty or irrelevant issues.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) The "L" in the QALMRI method stands for ________.
A) latent
B) logic
C) length
D) lighten
Q2) The first step in organizing raw data is to ______________.
A) get a measure of the central tendency
B) establish the range
C) construct a frequency distribution
D) identify standard deviation
Q3) The most usual kind of frequency distribution is the _________.
A) normal curve
B) skewed curve
C) bimodal curve
D) binomial distribution
Q4) The Discussion section of a research paper tends to be associated with ________.
A) presentation of data
B) inferences
C) a description of what was done
D) the general logic of a study
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