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Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the patterns and processes of human growth and change throughout the lifespan, from conception to old age. This course examines key theories, research methods, and findings related to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development. Major topics include prenatal development, attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, and the impact of family, culture, and societal factors on development. Students will gain an understanding of typical and atypical development, as well as the application of developmental principles in educational, clinical, and community settings.
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Child Development 1st canadian Edition by John W Santrock
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The ___________________ processes involve changes in an individual's relationships with other people,changes in emotions,and changes in personality.
A)cognitive
B)biology
C)socioemotional
D)cultural
Answer: C
Q2) Vygotsky portrayed the child's development as inseparable from
A)social activities.
B)cultural activities.
C)social and cultural activities.
D)None of these.
Answer: C
Q3) After setting up a hypothesis,what is the next step in the scientific research approach?
A)collecting data
B)interpreting data
C)revising research conclusions.
D)None of these.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings
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Q1) Which of the following is a possible cause of a man's infertility problems?
A)The male may produce too few sperm.
B)The sperm may lack motility (the ability to move adequately).
C)The male may have a blocked passageway.
D)All of these
Answer: D
Q2) In 1996 research by Sharma,McGue,and Benson,it was found that the later adoption occurs,the more problems the adoptees have.Infant adoptees who have the most adjustment issues are those adopted after they are ________ years of age.
A)4
B)6
C)8
D)10
Answer: D
Q3) Which one of the following diseases is not caused by genetic abnormalities?
A)cystic fibrosis
B)diabetes
C)hemophilia
D)All of these are genetically linked.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Nettie is in the postpartum stage of her pregnancy.Her mother-in-law is concerned because of signs she sees in the baby's mother that she believes should be treated by a professional counsellor.Which one of the following signs should not cause her worry?
A)excessive worrying
B)depression
C)the need to talk with her husband about the baby
D)extreme changes in her appetite
Answer: C
Q2) Kristin just had a baby.The typical approach to childbirth these days is to
A)use as much mediation as necessary to take away all pain.
B)use some medication and educate the mother about the process.
C)use no medication at all.
D)avoid education about the process in order to keep the mother calm.
Answer: B
Q3) List the three periods of prenatal development.
Answer: germinal,embryonic,and fetal
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Chapter 4: Physical Development and Health
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Q1) Which one of the following mothers can breastfeed her baby?
A)the mother who is infected with AIDS
B)the mother who has already breastfed three of her other children
C)the mother who has active tuberculosis
D)the mother who is taking an unsafe drug that can be transmitted through her milk
Q2) _______________________ are powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream.
A)Gonads
B)Structures
C)Hormones
D)Pituitary glands
Q3) The reason why adolescents have an increase in risk taking and other problems is due to
A)an immature prefrontal cortex but active limbic system.
B)lateralization.
C)cognitive delay.
D)hippocampus extension.
Q4) Describe the difference between left-brain and right-brain thinking.
Q5) There are cultural variations in infant sleeping patterns.Give several examples.
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Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
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Q1) ____________________ involves integrating information from two or more sensory modalities,such as vision and hearing.
A)Taste
B)Smell
C)Intermodal perception
D)Elementary perception
Q2) Describe the difference between habituation and dishabituation.
Q3) __________________,exploratory forms of intermodal perception exist in newborns.
A)Intermediate
B)Crude
C)Excellent
D)None of these.
Q4) Gannon reacted to the pan dropping on the floor by arching his back and throwing his head,arms,and legs out,which demonstrates what reflex?
A)movement
B)rooting
C)sucking
D)Moro
Q5) Explain the difference between sensation and perception.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches
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Q1) The symbolic function substage and the intuitive thought substage are substages of ________ thought.
A)concrete operational
B)sensorimotor
C)preoperational
D)formal operational
Q2) Kamehameha Elementary Education Program (KEEP)is a program that reflects A)Vygotsky's theories.
B)that the zone of proximal development is the key element in the program.
C)that most learning activities take place in small groups.
D)All of these.
Q3) _______________________ are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.
A)Cognitions
B)Schemes
C)Social impacts
D)Organizations
Q4) Jean Piaget has a set of stages that support cognitive development.Explain how a child moves from birth through adulthood by means of these stages.Use the names of the stages in your answer.
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Chapter 7: Information Processing
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Q1) How fast children can articulate a series of words is an example of:
A)cognitive resources.
B)assimilation.
C)abundance.
D)processing speed.
Q2) A memory strategy in which a child arranges items into categories is called:
A)imagery.
B)rehearsal.
C)elaboration.
D)organization.
Q3) _____ states that when individuals reconstruct information,they fit it into information that already exists in their minds.
A)Network theory
B)Schema theory
C)Cognitive-memory theory
D)Metacognition
Q4) Explain the basic concepts of the information-processing approach.
Q5) List and describe the three ways children will allocate their attention.
Q6) Identify and give one example of the following learning strategies: (1)Organization (2)Elaboration (3)Imagery
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) According to Sternberg,students with high analytic ability:
A)do well in classes in which the teacher lectures and gives objective tests.
B)typically get good grades.
C)do well on traditional IQ tests.
D)all of these.
Q2) What is the formula for the intelligence quotient?
A)IQ = MA/CA × 100
B)IQ = CA/MA × 100
C)IQ = MA/CA ÷ 100
D)IQ = CA/MA ÷ 100
Q3) Which one of the following is not an example of Gardner's eight types of intelligence?
A)Verbal skills
B)Bodily-kinesthetic skills
C)Intrapersonal skills
D)Memory skills
Q4) Gardner and Sternberg are among the contemporary theorists related to intelligence.Compare and contrast their views about intelligence.
Q5) Identify four methods of guiding a child's creativity.
Q6) Describe three areas of increased intelligence found in brain imagery.
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) How many morphemes are in the word farmer?
A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
Q2) Three-year-old Elizabeth says to her mother,"We went to the playground." Her mother asks her,"When did you go to the playground?" This strategy used to enhance Elizabeth's language is called:
A)echoing.
B)labelling.
C)recasting.
D)expanding.
Q3) What is bilingualism? Describe the preferred strategy for teaching a child a second language.What do advocates of bilingual education argue?
Q4) _____ is the use of irony,derision,or wit to expose folly or wickedness.
A)Similarity
B)Satire
C)Metaphor
D)Vocabulary
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Research on attachment shows that at about 6 to 7 months of age,the infant's attachment to the caregiver intensifies.This finding supports whose view of attachment?
A)Lorenz
B)Bowlby
C)Harlow
D)Erikson
Q2) What theorist argues that genetic and temperament characteristics are more important to developing a child's social competence than the attachment bond in infancy?
A)Bowlby
B)Stroufe
C)Kagan
D)Ainsworth
Q3) From adolescence into early adulthood,most individuals:
A)show fewer emotional mood swings.
B)become more responsible.
C)engage in less risk-taking behaviour.
D)all of these.
Q4) Identify the two implications of the functionalist view of emotions.
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Chapter 11: The Self and Identity
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Q1) Seven-year-old Abbey's reference to herself as Jewish and a Brownie scout provides an example of the ______________ aspect of self,which emerges in the elementary years.
A)cognitive
B)personal
C)social
D)recognition
Q2) What drives the changes from infancy through adolescence in terms of self-understanding? Perspective taking,which is linked to Piaget's cognitive theory,is one possibility.Explain how perspective taking and the answer you give are connected.
Q3) A person's cognitive representation of self is referred to as the individual's A)self-esteem.
B)self-orientation
C)self-recognition.
D)self-understanding.
Q4) Compare and contrast self-esteem and self-concept.
Q5) Identify the five main characteristics of self-understanding in young children.
Q6) List the five forms of self-image with which an adolescent will relate.
Q7) Describe and give one example of social cognition.
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Chapter 12: Gender
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Q1) What are the pros and cons for androgyny education programs in the public schools? Explain each.
Q2) Recent research has shown that infants are aware of their own gender as early as ________ months.
A)12 to 14
B)14 to 16
C)17 to 19
D)30
Q3) If parents adopt the parenting role that William Pollack calls the "boy code," what behaviours would you expect to see in their sons?
Q4) What is a criticism of the social-cognitive learning theory of gender?
A)Children become gender-typed much earlier than 5 years of age.
B)Gender development is not as passively acquired as the theory indicates.
C)Children become masculine or feminine even when the same-sex parent is not present in the family.
D)Parents often reward gender-inappropriate behaviour and punish gender-appropriate behaviour.
Q5) Describe the ages and examples of the first signs of gender-typed play.
Q6) Compare and contrast an androgynous girl and boy.
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Chapter 13: Moral Development
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Q1) Which of the follow processes has been invoked to explain how individuals learn certain responses and why their responses differ from one another?
A)reinforcement
B)punishment
C)imitation
D)All of these.
Q2) Conduct problems in children are best explained by a confluence of causes,or risk factors,operating over time.Which of the following is not an example of the risk factors?
A)genetic influences
B)ineffective parenting
C)living in a middle-class neighbourhood
D)living in a violent neighbourhood
Q3) Compare and contrast the intrapersonal and interpersonal dimensions of moral development.
Q4) The idea of the hidden curriculum in schools is an approach to teaching moral development.What are the pros and cons of this approach?
Q5) List four of the seven characteristics of parents who raise children that display moral behaviour.
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Chapter 14: Families
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Q1) Judy Dunn described three characteristics of sibling relationships.Identify these three characteristics.
Q2) Although occasional exceptions have been found,evidence linking authoritative parenting with competence on the part of the child occurs in research across a wide range of
A)ethnic groups.
B)social strata.
C)cultures.
D)All of these.
Q3) Parents need to adapt parenting to developmental changes in the child.Trace some of these changes as the child passes through early childhood to junior high school.
Q4) Infants who have more extensive scaffolding experiences with their parents are more likely to A)take turns as they interact with their peers. B)engage in scaffolding with their own children. C)be securely attached.
D)have easy temperaments.
Q5) Define reciprocal socialization and provide two examples.
Q6) Identify the pros and cons of coparenting.
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Chapter 15: Peers
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Q1) Cliques and crowds assume more important roles in the lives of _____ than _____.
A)children; adolescents
B)adolescents; children
C)children; adults
D)adults; adolescents
Q2) _____ believed that play is an excellent setting for cognitive development.He was especially interested in the symbolic and make-believe aspects of play.
A)Freud
B)Vygotsky
C)Skinner
D)Erikson
Q3) Which statement is a suggestion on how to reduce bullying? Teachers can:
A)get older peers to serve as monitors.
B)tell older peers not to intervene in any bullying.
C)form friendship groups for adolescents who are regularly bullied by peers.
D)have older peers serve as monitors and form friendship groups for adolescents who are bullied by their peers.
Q4) Describe the difference between an early and a late bloomer.
Q5) Compare and contrast friendships between boys and girls.
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Chapter 16: Schools and Technology
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Q1) Which of the following does not characterize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
A)high levels of physical activity
B)low intelligence
C)distractibility
D)short attention span
Q2) Which is not an argument against the direct instruction approach?
A)Children turn into passive learners.
B)Children are not challenged to think.
C)The direct instruction approach does not give enough attention to content.
D)The direct instruction approach does not lend itself to creativity.
Q3) According to the NAEYC,which of the following is considered a developmentally inappropriate practice?
A)providing physical, social, cognitive, and emotional experiences
B)allowing children to select an activity from a list provided by a teacher
C)setting clear limits
D)measuring children's performance using standardized tests
Q4) Compare and contrast mastery motivation and performance orientation.
Q5) What behaviours would you expect from a boy who watches violent television shows?
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