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Question 1 of 46

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What is developmental Psychology concerned with?

Select one of the following:

  • a)Changes in psychological functioning.

  • b) Physical changes.

  • c) Both A and B

  • d) Neither

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Question 2 of 46

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Development is unpredictable changes in behaviour associated with age.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 46

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The adolescence stage of Life Span development is:

Select one of the following:

  • 6-15 years

  • 11-20 years

  • 11-16 years

  • 13-19 years

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Question 4 of 46

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Stages in life are all considered to be abrupt changes, called discontinuity.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 5 of 46

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To say that changes are developed by nature means that:

Select one of the following:

  • the changes are controlled by biological factors

  • development is molded by our experiences, especially our psychological environment

  • We are passively going through life, and are not drastically affected by what goes on around us.

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Question 6 of 46

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The Critical Period in development is a biologically determined period in the life of animals during which certain forms of learning can take place most easily.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 46

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The sensitive period is the least optimal for learning because children have trouble dealing with their feelings and are easily confused.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 46

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Dani's Story was used as an example in class. She..

Select one of the following:

  • Was a young, exceptionally smart girl who troubled psychologists regarding development because she was years ahead of her classmates.

  • Was a young girl who was isolated from social interaction, fed little, and behaved like a 6 month old at the age of 6.

  • is a girl who is part of a longitudinal study about development since the age of 6 months

  • is a girl raised by two deaf parents who has learned to speak solely from school.

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Question 9 of 46

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Normative investigations

Select one or more of the following:

  • Describe characteristics of a specific age or developmental stage

  • need support and catergorization

  • ex. First word- 1-3 years

  • Are based off of average, norms

  • ex. Sexual experimentation- 12-14 years

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Question 10 of 46

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Cross-sectional design is a way to study development that involves the study pf different groups of participants based on chronological ages observed at the same time.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 11 of 46

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Longitudinal design is:

Select one of the following:

  • repeated observation of testing the same people over time

  • Testing different people of different ages

  • Keeping someone in a room for a long duration to see how they are affected

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Question 12 of 46

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The advantages of a longitudinal design include:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Able to study longer term individual differences

  • Ages related changes cannot be confused with variations in different societal circumstances

  • More groups can be studied

  • Inexpensive compared to cross-sectional design

Explanation

Question 13 of 46

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Those who assess development can include:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Physicians

  • Nurses

  • Day care workers

  • therapists

  • teachers

  • psychologists

  • the child's parents

  • other parents

  • baby books

  • google

Explanation

Question 14 of 46

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Cognitive development is the study of the processes and products of the mind as they emerge and change over time.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 15 of 46

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John Locke (empiricism) believed...

Select one of the following:

  • infants are born with a tabula rasa, and experience shapes development, meaning we are a reflection of our external environment.

  • infants are born with an innate sense of right and wrong

  • infants inherit both the good and bad qualities as soon as they are born

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Question 16 of 46

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that infants enter the world with learned knowledge through evolutionary history which shapes development.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 17 of 46

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Jean believed that representations of change at different stages- needed for adaptation. He wasn't interested in the amount of knowledge. Mental structures that enable individuals to interpret the world are called . is the idea that we modify new environmental information to into what is already known, where is the restructuring or modifying of a child's schemes so that new information is for.

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Question 18 of 46

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Examples of assimilation:

Select one or more of the following:

  • red ball- bounce, red apple- red but doesn't bounce, pumpkin- not red, doesn't bounce

  • Puppy has 4 legs and fur. This animal meow's therefore not a puppy.

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Question 19 of 46

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A child realizing that the bacon they are eating is actually a pig is an example of Piaget's theory of assimilation.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 46

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The concrete operations stage is:

Select one of the following:

  • Ages 0-2: senses and motion without use of symbols, object permanence and mobility allowing for knowledge acquisition.

  • Ages 2-7: use of symbols, language matures, memory develops, imagination- most learning. Egocentrism, centration

  • Ages 7-11: Physical properties of objects don't change even though appearance might (reversibility). Logical systematic manipulation of symbols to create objects ex. 1+1=2, 2-1=1

  • 11-adult: abstract and hypothetical thinking, alternatives, logic, return to egocentric thinking.

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Question 21 of 46

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Egocentrism is/relates to:

Select one of the following:

  • the inability to take other's perspectives

  • believing that you are always wrong

  • knowing the world revolves around you

  • putting aside one's own ego in order to cater to others

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Question 22 of 46

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Centration is the tendency for attention to not focus on any part of an object, sometimes ignoring it altogether.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 46

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Renee had a contemporary cognitive view about He demonstrated that some aspects of Piaget's stages don't occur in order. This is called of expectation experiments, given the example of rudimentary object permanence actually occurred at a age, being 4-5 months.

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Question 24 of 46

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Theory of Mind...

Select one or more of the following:

  • is the idea that we start to see the perspective of others through our own eyes

  • is the framework for initial understanding called foundational theories (accumulation of experiences)

  • includes the False belief Task

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 25 of 46

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Lev Vygotsky (Internalization)- the process of absorbing from the social and cultural context that has a impact on how cognition unfolds over time. The zone of is the difference between what a learner can do without and what he or she can do with .

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Question 26 of 46

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Fluid intelligence shows a greater increase with age.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 27 of 46

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Social development is how an individual's social interactions and expectations remain the same over time.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 46

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Erikson's psychosocial stages represent

Select one of the following:

  • 8 conflicts or crises that every individual must face through the life span

  • the stages of development

  • the stages of psychological development

  • how people interact with each other based on their chronological age

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Question 29 of 46

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Erikson's psychosocial stages are:
0-1 1/2 vs.
1 1/2 - 3 vs.
3-6 vs.
6-puberty vs.
Adolescent- vs.
Early adult- vs.
Middle adult- vs.
Later adult- vs.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Trust
    Mistrust
    Autonomy
    self-doubt
    Initiative
    Guilt
    Competence
    Inferiority
    Identity
    Confusion
    Intimacy
    isolation
    generativity
    stagnation
    Ego integrity
    despair

Explanation

Question 30 of 46

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At 18 months, a child develops

Select one or more of the following:

  • a variety of basic emotions

  • Envy, embarrassment, empathy emerge

  • learn rules and performance standards

  • display guilt

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Question 31 of 46

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Socialization is a lifelong process through which an individual's behaviour patterns, values, standards, skills, attitudes, and motives are shaped to conform those regarded as desirable in a particular society.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 46

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What is temperament?

Select one of the following:

  • Biological levels of emotional and behavioural response to the environment

  • the amount of anger or temper one possesses

  • one's personality

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 33 of 46

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( Attachment, Detachment, Love, Clingyness ) is intense social-emotional relationship with mother, father, or regular caregiver. Some species experience ( imprinting, hatred, lust, the emotions ) of the first moving object they see (Konrad Lorenz). John Bowlby says that humans are biologically predisposed to form attachments. He agreed with Maslow. He says attachment forms lifelong schema for relationships called ( internal working model, external working model, the force theory, socialization ). In class we watched a video portraying this, demonstrating Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation Test. The three main types of attachment style are secure, insecure-avoidant, and ( insecure-ambivalent/resistant, pseu-secure, minor resistant ).This can be highly predictive of ( child's, yo momma's ) later behaviour and interactions with others.

Explanation

Question 34 of 46

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Parenting styles are based off of demandingness and their ability to keep a child inline.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 46

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If a parent is INDULGENT, their parenting style is:

Select one of the following:

  • Underdemanding, low in control attempts and accepting, responsive, and child-centred.

  • Underdemanding, low in control attempts and rejecting, unresponsive, parent-centred.

  • Demanding, controlling and accepting, responsive, and child-centred.

  • Demanding, controlling and rejecting, unresponsive, parent-centred.

Explanation

Question 36 of 46

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Freud's Cupboard Theory is that bonding has many purposes, including feeding, loving, learning and safety.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 46

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There have been several monkey studies. Harry Harlow and Stephen Suomi both did these experiments. They found that:

Select one of the following:

  • The monkey's were more attached to the robot monkey feeding them.

  • The monkey's were equally attached to the feeding robot and the soft robot monkey.

  • The monkey's weremore attached to the soft robot monkey.

Explanation

Question 38 of 46

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Adolescent ego-centrism is the quality of thinking that leads some adolescents to believe that they are the focus of attention in social situations, to believe that their problems are unique to be unusually hypocritical, and to be "pseudostupid".

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 46

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The main aspects of social development for adults are:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Intimacy- capacity to make full commitment to another, well-being, selective social interaction theory

  • Generativity- commitment beyond oneself to family, work, society, or future generations.

  • Self-sufficient- having ones own house/apartment, income, social life

Explanation

Question 40 of 46

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In regards to adulthood, personality is fairly stable over time, and changes are predictable.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 41 of 46

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According to Kubler-Ross there are five stages of death and dying

Select one or more of the following:

  • Denial

  • Anger

  • Bargaining

  • Depression

  • Acceptance

Explanation

Question 42 of 46

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Morality is a system of beliefs, values, and underlying judgements about the rightness or wrongness of human acts

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 46

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Lawrence and the theory of moral - studied moral reasoning in stages. This was shaped by , changing importance of consequences of and . Moral used to evaluate reasons for moral . Children do not see morality as adults do- they are more interested in what others think.

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    development
    seven
    Piaget
    Kohlberg
    acts
    intentions
    dilemmas
    decisions

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Question 44 of 46

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Kohlberg's model states that:

Select one of the following:

  • An individual can be at only one stage at a given time

  • Everyone goes through the stages in a fixed order

  • Each stage is more comprehensive and complex than the preceding

  • the same stages occur in every culture

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 45 of 46

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Carol Gilligan believed that both males and females based their morality on caring for others and maintaining harmony in social relations

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 46 of 46

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There is less activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) when someone is lying.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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