Developmental Psychology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from infancy through old age. This course examines key theories, research methods, and findings in the field, addressing topics such as attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, and the influence of biology and environment on development. Students will analyze milestones and variations in development, assess factors that contribute to individual differences, and consider cultural and contextual impacts on growth and behavior. Through an integrative approach, the course provides a foundational understanding of developmental processes relevant to both personal and professional contexts.
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Lifespan Development 5th Canadian Edition by Denise Boyd
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Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Methods
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Q1) The _____ issue seeks to find out if age-related change is determined more by qualitative or quantitative factors.
A) nature-nurture
B) universal-individual
C) continuity-discontinuity
D) atypical-typical
Answer: C
Q2) Researchers in Canada have established a negative correlation between the temperature and the use of heaters. This means that
A) there is no relationship between temperature and use of heaters.
B) as the temperature rises, the use of heaters increases.
C) as the temperature rises, the use of heaters decreases.
D) the relationship between temperature and use of heaters is ambiguous.
Answer: C
Q3) The central factors in the nature-nurture controversy are
A) environmental continuity and psychological comfort.
B) inborn biases and genetic predispositions.
C) change triggered by social processes or change caused by cultural influences.
D) biological processes and experiential factors.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Theories of Development
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Q1) _______ is the branch of science involved in the study of human genetic make-up, including gene location and gene functioning.
A) Epigenetics
B) Human genomics
C) Microbiology
D) Evolutionary biology
Answer: B
Q2) The gradual elimination of a behaviour through repeated non-reinforcement is called extinction.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) ____________ is defined as the study of genetically inherited cognitive and social characteristics produced via natural selection to promote human adaptation and survival.
A) Sociobiology
B) Evolutionary anthropology
C) Evolutionary prenatal programming
D) Evolutionary psychology
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) When an egg and a sperm are combined in a petri dish and the resulting embryo is implanted in a woman's uterus, the assisted reproduction technique is known as A) cryptopreservation.
B) artificial insemination.
C) cloning.
D) in vitro fertilization.
Answer: D
Q2) Chronic illness in a mother can affect the prenatal development of her unborn child. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The stages of human prenatal development are germinal, embryonic, and fetal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
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Q1) A newborn is able to focus on objects if they are positioned within 25-80 centimetres of the baby's eyes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gina wants to return to work after her infant develops a regular pattern of sleep and wakefulness. You can predict that Gina can plan to return to work when the baby is approximately ________ old.
A) six months
B) six weeks
C) one month
D) one year
Q3) Sucking, swallowing, pupil dilation, and grasping are all examples of A) Babinski reflexes.
B) Moro, or startle, reflexes.
C) adaptive reflexes.
D) primitive reflexes.
Q4) It is important to teach infants how to sleep through the night as soon as possible.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) Children's earliest simple two- or three-word sentences are called telegraphic speech.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An infant's ability to remember an event is strongly related to two factors: ________ and ________.
A) whether the infant is breast-fed or bottle-fed; the quality of social interactions the child has experienced
B) her age; the specific context in which the original experience occurred
C) his IQ; capacity for cross-modal transfer
D) parental efforts to reinforce the memory; the speed of the infant's perception of the event
Q3) Newborns can learn by operant conditioning.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mavis Gunther hypothesized that classical conditioning was at work when she studied the effects on babies of inexperienced mothers' breast-feeding techniques.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) An infant's emotional ties to a parent, from which the child derives security, is known as
A) an affectional bond.
B) attachment.
C) synchrony.
D) social referencing.
Q2) High-quality enriched daycare has better overall developmental outcomes for young children, including children raised by parents or familial care takers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If they are happily married, mothers tend to be more responsive to their children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Depressed mothers can be just as effective and responsive as non-depressed mothers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Knowledge about how memory works and the ability to control and reflect on one's own memory function is known as
A) metacognition.
B) metamemory.
C) conservation.
D) critical thinking.
Q2) Which of the following best represents the earliest inflection used among children learning English, according to Roger Brown?
A) "I ran."
B) "A cat."
C) "Doggie running."
D) "Come in."
Q3) Psychologists use the term "fast-mapping" to refer to the ability of 3- to 6-year-olds to categorically link new words to real-world referents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Food aversions often develop during the preschool years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Guilt, shame, and pride are emotional states associated with ________ in young children.
A) empathy development
B) inborn traits
C) moral development
D) discipline compliance
Q2) By the age of 2 or 3, children seem to understand that violating a social convention, such as failing to say "thank you," is less serious than violating a moral rule, such as taking another child's toy without permission.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which item does not belong with the others in these descriptive characteristics of 3-year-old boys who have poor social relationships?
A) inductive influences
B) rejected by peers
C) aggressive behaviour
D) poor group-entry skills
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following is an accurate statement about weight issues in middle childhood?
A) Obesity most likely results from a genetic predisposition that promotes overeating.
B) Most children who are overweight in middle childhood will become average-weight adults.
C) Increasing a child's level of exercise and changing their eating habits will not overcome obesity in adulthood, because metabolic rates change throughout the lifespan.
D) Fear of developing an unattractive body may lead some children to diet or to become dissatisfied with their weight and physical appearance.
Q2) According to Robert Siegler, children's cognitive development occurs as a result of A) improved operational efficiency and expanded short-term storage capacity.
B) children's physical development and improved motor skills.
C) improvements in metacognition.
D) the acquisition of basic rules that are then applied to new problems on the basis of experience.
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Gender segregation is not common among boys and girls age 6 to 12 years old.
A)True
B)False
Q2) No correlation has been established between the Big Five personality traits and academic success.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the stage of industry versus inferiority, if children fail to read and write, they will enter adolescence with feelings of inferiority.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following children's statements illustrates the use of a psychological construct in describing an individual?
A) "She lives in a really nice house."
B) "She won't help anyone, and she is very selfish."
C) "Her bike is newer than anyone's."
D) "He has brown hair."
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following is an unlikely characteristic of a girl who experienced the major physical changes of puberty by age 10?
A) a positive body image
B) getting in trouble at home and at school
C) depression
D) involved with older misbehaving peers
Q2) When Nikolaos tries different solutions to a problem, he is using systematic problem-solving.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In females, menarche is the signal that puberty has begun.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Employment for working teens beyond 15 to 20 hours per week can be detrimental to academic success and achievement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Since 17-year-old Ahmed has lived in Canada for 12 years, he is likely to have adopted similar patterns of lifestyle behaviour as his Canadian-born friends.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The gender-related aspects of the psychological self are known as
A) gender role types.
B) sex role identities.
C) sexual preference.
D) gender formation
Q3) An individual whose sex-role orientation is ________ would perceive herself or himself as having both feminine and masculine traits.
A) ambivalent
B) androgynous
C) undifferentiated
D) indifferent
Q4) By age 13, most adolescents have had the experience of being in love.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) The risk of miscarriage and other complications of pregnancy is higher in a woman's twenties than in her thirties.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the key features of the human immune system?
A) the thymus gland and the bone marrow
B) the pancreas and the liver
C) neurotransmitters and hormones
D) fever, chills, and muscle aches
Q3) What is the context for most of the sexual violence in Canada?
A) social or romantic relationships
B) stalking of the victim by an unknown person
C) an unpremeditated attack by a stranger
D) marital rape
Q4) Moving beyond logic to include paradoxical thought is called
A) reflective judgment
B) dialectical thought
C) relativism
D) formal operational thought
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) After the birth of a child, marital satisfaction tends to increase.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Of the following couples, which would most likely report the lowest level of marital satisfaction?
A) Iman and Muhammed have been married a year, and they plan to start their family next year.
B) Sally and Sam have been married 10 years and have two children who are 8 and 6 years old.
C) Rita and Marcel are both 65 years old and have just retired from the grocery store they have owned and managed for 40 years.
D) Paul and Sarah have been married 20 years and have two children who are establishing themselves in professional careers.
Q3) In Robert Sternberg's view of love, the intimacy component of love includes feelings of sexuality and eroticism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) A man's life expectancy is greater than a woman's.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Middle-aged adults consistently outperform those who are younger on tasks that involve comprehending and remembering reading material
A)True
B)False
Q3) A researcher who is testing the cognitive functioning of middle-aged adults would find that her subjects ________ on well-rehearsed, familiar tasks and ________ on tests of unfamiliar or unpracticed skills.
A) perceive impaired performance; are unaware of the extent of their impairment
B) have difficulty performing; are unable to perform
C) have gradual declines; show improved performance
D) maintain or gain in skill; have steady declines
Q4) Research demonstrates that many individuals in the field of science produce their best work around the age of 40, not because the mind works better at that age, but because productivity is at its highest.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) Researcher and psychiatrist George Vaillant argued that there should be a stage between intimacy and generativity called "the keeper of meaning."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Both men and women in mid-life have a greater sense of control over their work lives than younger adults do.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best describes the nature of friendship in middle adulthood?
A) The social circle is smaller, but the friendships are as intimate and close as at earlier ages.
B) Adults have more friends in mid-life than at any other point in adulthood.
C) The increased role strain and role conflict of middle adulthood require additional emotional support from friends outside the family.
D) The need for a social network increases across mid-life.
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) As adults get older, their life expectancy decreases.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The physiological capacity to respond to sexual stimulation, unlike other aspects of functioning, appears not to diminish with age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Those with hearing loss, whether mild or more severe, tend to be perceived as being disoriented or suffering from poor memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The maximum human lifespan is approximately 100 years.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In Canada, people over 75 years of age have the highest rate of depression.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) Which of the following is an aspect of disengagement theory?
A) decreased individuality
B) increased responsibility
C) shrinkage of life space
D) inactive extrication from roles and relationships
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about family relationships in late adulthood?
A) Grandchildren are rarely a part of an elderly adult's close family network.
B) Older adults typically describe a sense of family solidarity and support.
C) Childless elders typically are less happy and less able to cope with the stresses of age than elders who have children.
D) When older adults need help that cannot be given by a spouse, aid typically is provided by children.
Q3) Which of the following accurately describes the general nature of social roles in late adulthood?
A) lowered risk of social isolation or alienation
B) a "licence for eccentricity"
C) less freedom to pursue or express individuality
D) increased role content which may lead to role strain and role conflict
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Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Q1) Studies suggest that immune system functioning might be compromised when patients respond to diagnoses of fatal illnesses with stoic acceptance or helplessness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a typical setting where hospice care may be given?
A) a community drop-in, urgent treatment clinic
B) a hospital
C) a homelike hospice centre
D) a home
Q3) When a deceased person is treated like a corpse, this is referred to as brain death.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Middle-aged and older adults who continue to be preoccupied with the past are more likely to be fearful and anxious about death.
A)True
B)False
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