Developmental Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the systematic psychological changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from infancy through late adulthood. The course examines physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development, emphasizing theoretical perspectives and empirical research. Key topics include attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, moral development, and the influence of family, culture, and environment. Students will gain an understanding of both normative developmental milestones and atypical patterns, preparing them to critically evaluate current issues and methodologies in the field.
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Developmental Psychology 1st Edition by Frank Keil
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Chapter 1: Approaching Psychological Development
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Q1) Michelle has gone from feeling good to having a flushed face and feeling warm.Based on these early cold symptoms, you would say she has had:
A) a quantitative change in how she feels
B) a qualitative change in how she feels
C) both a quantitative and a qualitative change in how she feels
D) a global change in how she feels
Answer: B
Q2) The donor funding your research has asked that you make sure your findings can apply to children of different ages.You decide to:
A) conduct your observation making sure you have ecological validity
B) conduct your observation making sure you have test-retest reliability
C) conduct your experiment making sure you have test-retest reliability
D) conduct your experiment using a cross-sectional design
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Development
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Q1) ________ lead(s) to changes in gene expression without changes to DNA sequences.
A) Epigenetic regulation
B) Feedback loops
C) Genetic parameterization
D) Regulatory cascades
Answer: A
Q2) Molecular biologists refer to the sequence of bases that make up genes as having two main parts.The ________ sequence directs the assembly of particular proteins.
A) functional
B) amino acid
C) regulatory
D) structural
Answer: D
Q3) Differentiate between meiosis and mitosis.
Answer: Meiosis is a special kind of cell division that produces the egg and sperm cells.Normal human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes.One chromosome of each parent goes to the sperm and egg cells.Mitosis gives rise to other kinds of cells throughout the body.The chromosomes from both parents are copied and appear in all the new cells during mitosis.
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Chapter 3: Coming to Perceive the World
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic taste categories?
A) bitter
B) salty
C) sweet
D) umami
Answer: D
Q2) A person who has ___________ will perceive stimuli at different orientations with different levels of acuity.
A) astigmatism
B) cataracts
C) macular degeneration
D) strabismus
Answer: A
Q3) What type of depth cues are infants most likely to rely on in the visual cliff paradigm?
A) binocular cues
B) dynamic cues
C) monocular cues
D) pictorial cues
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Action
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Q1) Describe the process of classical conditioning using the correct terminology.
Q2) When held, baby Jamal moves his head toward the side of his face that is stroked.Jamal is exhibiting the:
A) Moro reflex
B) stepping reflex
C) patellar reflex
D) rooting reflex
Q3) In order to study mirror neurons, researchers implanted electrodes into monkeys': A) pons
B) medulla
C) occipital lobe
D) premotor cortex
Q4) You've been running on a treadmill for about a half hour.Finishing your workout, you hop off the treadmill and find that the world around you seems to be moving very differently than you're used to.Describe what has happened to your perceptual-motor abilities and how.
Q5) What are mirror neurons, how are they important for human development, and how unique are they?
Q6) How might attention be both a punisher and a reinforcer of behavior?
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Chapter 5: Coming to Understand the Physical World
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Q1) Spatial relations that reference where things are relative to landmarks are considered:
A) schematic
B) thematic
C) egocentric
D) allocentric
Q2) The development and use of number concepts occurs:
A) in both animals and people
B) only in people
C) only in westernized people
D) only in collective cultures
Q3) Describe spatial and temporal contiguity and how these ideas are important for understanding infants' understanding of causation.Refer to the use of the red and green blocks described in the text.
Q4) Briefly describe an infant making the A-not-B error.What would Piaget say making this error means?
Q5) Briefly describe and track a child's development through Piaget's stages.
Q6) Describe how an infant's manipulation of objects progresses through most of the sensorimotor period (that is, through the first year and a half of life).
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Chapter 6: Connecting with the Social World
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Q1) The majority of infants are classified as:
A) type A infants
B) type B infants
C) type C infants
D) type D infants
Q2) Stacy, a young infant, is exploring a new environment.She gets scared and crawls back to her mother.The term ethological theorists would use to refer to what the mother is providing in this situation is a(n):
A) protective center
B) safe harbor
C) secure base
D) shielding presence
Q3) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Only a few fortunate infants form bonds with their primary caregiver.
B) Bonds between infant and caregivers can be inferred through certain sets of behaviors.
C) Disrupting the bond between infant and caregiver has little effect.
D) The first meaningful bond is generally between sibling and infant.
Q4) What are some of the limitations associated with the learning theory approach to infant-parent bonds?
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Chapter 7: The Origins of Emotion, Temperament, and Personality
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Q1) Colby is a challenging child.However, his mother is able to guide him well and they have a strong relationship.This represents:
A) environmental selectivity
B) goodness of fit
C) parental matching
D) situation selection
Q2) Jamal is a toddler who is able to effectively shift his attention and focus on tasks.Jamal would be considered high on:
A) affect modification
B) effortful control
C) rhythmicity
D) surgency
Q3) Differentiate between difficult babies and "slow to warm up" babies.
Q4) In which of the following environments would an easy infant fare better than a difficult infant?
A) a drought area in East Africa
B) a day care center where there are many children and few teachers
C) a large, poor family where there is much competition among children
D) a small family which is not under stress
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Chapter 8: Language Development
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Q1) Distinguish between syntax and grammar.
Q2) How does parental responsiveness affect language development?
Q3) What evidence suggests that there may be a critical period for language acquisition?
Q4) Vanessa has a newborn son.At what age can she expect her son to start putting together strings of words in utterances of two or more words?
A) 1 year
B) 1¹/ years
C) 2 years
D) 2¹/ years
Q5) Mat and cat are words that differ in their initial sounds.The "m" and "c" represent different:
A) holophrases
B) lexicons
C) phonemes
D) universal constraints
Q6) What are two limitations of behaviorist models of language learning?
Q7) Describe the language acquisition device proposed by Chomsky.
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Q8) Explain the concept of generativity and its importance for language.
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Chapter 9: The Growth of Knowledge
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Q1) ________ is the belief that living things have underlying realities that are responsible for their surface properties.
A) Animism
B) Centration
C) Essentialism
D) Vitalism
Q2) ________ are patterns of understanding and interacting with the world.
A) Cognitive maps
B) Constructs
C) Schemes
D) Sensorimotor reflexes
Q3) Each year, Stacy's doctor tracks how much weight she has gained in her medical chart.Stacy displays small yearly increases in weight, which illustrates:
A) foundational change
B) qualitative change
C) quantitative change
D) structural change
Q4) Differentiate between foundational and emergent constraints.
Q5) Differentiate between qualitative versus quantitative development.
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Chapter 10: The Growth of Cognitive Skills
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Q1) What is infantile amnesia, why does it occur, and what cutoff age is typically associated with it?
Q2) Briefly, summarize the findings on chess expertise in children; then describe why that research was important.
Q3) Generally, researchers agree that at some point in learning to read, children obtain phonological awareness, or:
A) an awareness of word meaning from their use in sentences
B) an ability to understand sound units and word structure
C) an ability to retain sounds in working memory long enough to get their meaning
D) an ability to retain sounds in sensory memory long enough to get their meaning
Q4) Angelle is learning to read by learning letters, their sounds, and how to combine them.She is being taught to read using a ________ approach.
A) phonics
B) whole language
C) bootstrapping
D) fluency
Q5) What are the three components of attention, and how are they different?
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Chapter 11: Intelligence and Schooling
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Q1) The Waldorf School encourages children to question everything and take charge of their learning with teachers serving as guides along the way.This school is closest to the ________ model.
A) Dewey
B) Flynn
C) platoon
D) behavioral
Q2) The instructional technique whereby children are urged to discover new ideas through hands-on learning is called:
A) metacognitive awareness
B) guided discovery
C) domain-specific learning
D) holistic learning
Q3) Carroll's three-stratum theory is composed of:
A) g, broad abilities, and narrow abilities
B) g, verbal abilities, and performance abilities
C) g, fluid intelligence, and crystallized intelligence
D) narrow abilities, fluid intelligence, and crystallized intelligence
Q4) Briefly describe and defend Spearman's description of intelligence.
Q5) What is IQ and how is it computed (both historically and now)?
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Chapter 12: Morality in Thought and Action
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Q1) There are laws about driving on a particular side of the road and laws against stealing.What most accurately describes how each of these rules would be considered?
A) Both would be considered social conventions.
B) Only laws about driving on a certain side would be considered a social convention.
C) Only laws against stealing would be considered a social convention.
D) Both would be considered moral laws.
Q2) Greg was diagnosed with conduct disorder.Explain this condition and what typical behavior is for individuals like Greg.
Q3) Iku is growing up in Japan and Natalie is growing up in the United States.Describe why Iku's culture is considered collectivist and Natalie's culture is considered individualist.In what ways are these cultural differences likely to influence the development of moral thought?
Q4) Research suggests that:
A) punishment delivered early is more effective for dogs but not children
B) punishment delivered early is more effective for children but not dogs
C) punishment delivered early is more effective for both children and dogs
D) punishment delivered late is more effective for children and dogs
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Chapter 13: Knowing Ourselves, Knowing Others
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Q1) Marshall is a 10-year-old with autism.He will likely:
A) fail both false-belief and false-photograph tasks
B) fail false-belief tasks and pass false-photograph tasks
C) fail false-photograph tasks and pass false-belief tasks
D) pass both false-belief and false-photograph tasks
Q2) Mei is a 5-year-old growing up in Japan.She and her mother hear a story about a young girl who is very aggressive.What are Mei and her mother most likely to think will happen to the protagonist when she grows up?
A) Both will believe the protagonist of the story will become even meaner.
B) Mei is more likely than her mother to expect positive change for the protagonist.
C) Her mother is more likely than Mei to expect positive change for the protagonist.
D) Both will believe the protagonist of the story will become nice.
Q3) Rona is 4 years old and her sister, Amelia, is 10 years old.Explain how you would expect both girls to perform in a delayed gratification task and provide a possible explanation for your predictions.
Q4) Differentiate between the private self and the conceptual self.
Q5) Define the fundamental attribution error and provide an example of this bias.
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Chapter 14: Becoming Part of the Family
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Q1) Stanley is the oldest child in his family.He has a younger brother, Phil, and a younger sister, Amy.What is the most likely outcome?
A) Stanley's parents will have the most influence on his gender role qualities.
B) Phil will have the most influence on Stanley's gender role qualities.
C) Amy will have the most influence on Stanley's gender role qualities.
D) Stanley's parents and siblings will have equal influence on Stanley's gender role qualities.
Q2) Jim commonly discusses science problems with his teenage son and daughter.Which of the following is most likely in the context of these conversations?
A) Jim will refrain from using cognitively demanding speech with either of his children.
B) Jim will use more cognitively demanding speech with his son.
C) Jim will use more cognitively demanding speech with his daughter.
D) Jim will use an equally high level of cognitively demanding speech with both of his children.
Q3) Describe the methodological challenges of studying family relationships and interactions.
Q4) How can stress at work affect parenting styles?
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Chapter 15: Becoming Part of the Community
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Q1) All of the following statements about social groups in preschool are true EXCEPT:
A) preschoolers form groups, which tend to be temporary, centering on a particular activity
B) girls tend to play in larger groups of same sex peers than do boys
C) girls playing in groups of the same sex tend to be more cooperative than boys playing in groups of the same sex
D) boys playing in groups of the same sex tend to engage in more roughhouse play than do girls playing in groups of the same sex
Q2) Dr.Coie's research focuses on analyzing a group's internal structures and the particular position that an individual occupies in these structures.He is investigating ________ status.
A) inimical
B) popularity
C) relational
D) sociometric
Q3) Explain how boys and girls tend to act out against friends in different ways during the elementary school years.
Q4) How do friendships change with the transition to adolescence?
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Chapter 16: Psychopathology in Childhood
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Q1) Jamal does not like any changes to be made to his room.This is just one sign of his obsession with the preservation of sameness.This may be a sign of:
A) autism
B) depression
C) general anxiety disorder
D) unipolar disorder
Q2) Adam has severe problems with social interaction and communicating with others.These are defining characteristics of:
A) anxiety
B) autism
C) conduct disorder
D) elective mutism
Q3) All of the following statements are true about the DSM-V compared to earlier versions of the manual EXCEPT:
A) the DSM-V lists the same diagnostic features of autism as earlier manuals
B) the DSM-V decreased the strictness of the diagnostic criteria
C) the DSM-V removed the formal diagnosis of Asperger's disorder
D) the DSM-V removed the formal diagnosis of PDD-NOS
Q4) Describe why autism is often referred to as a pervasive developmental disorder.
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Chapter 17: Development after Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) What are some of the reasons that an individual's personality may change over the course of the lifespan?
Q2) What are some reasons that older adults are more likely to demonstrate a positivity bias than younger adults?
Q3) Jenny is a teenager.According to Erikson, her most important relations will be with her:
A) primary caregiver
B) family
C) peer group
D) partner
Q4) Dr.Lodi is studying cognitive functioning in older and younger adults.What consideration does she need to give to the time of day that she completes her cognitive testing? That is, how does time of day interact with patterns of cognitive functioning in older and younger adults?
Q5) ________ proposed eight stages of psychosocial development.
A) Adler
B) Erikson
C) Freud
D) Levinson
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