Participants in research have the right to concealment and
protection of their identities and information they have shared. This is known
as the right to:
a. Protection
from harm.
b. Privacy.
c. Informed
consent.
d. Knowledge
of results.
5 points
QUESTION 2
Developmental science is a field of study devoted to:
a. Proving
contemporary theories of development.
b. Understanding
abnormal development in children and adolescents.
c. Understanding
constancy and change throughout the lifespan.
d. Identifying
genetic contributions to disease and illness.
5 points
QUESTION 3
_____________________ study the relationship between changes
in the brain and the development of cognitive processing and behavioral
patterns. They are interested in identifying the types of experiences to which
the brain is sensitive at various ages.
a. Cognitive-developmental
theorists.
b. Behaviorists.
c. Developmental
cognitive neuroscientists.
d. Evolutionary
theorists.
5 points
QUESTION 4
The ___________________ measures behavior on a large number
of individuals in a particular age group and averages the results to represent
typical development for that group.
a. Information
processing approach.
b. Psychoanalytic
perspective.
c. Mental
testing movement.
d. Normative
approach.
5 points
QUESTION 5
The least developed sense at birth is the infant’s:
a. Hearing.
b. Vision.
c. Touch.
d. Smell.
5 points
QUESTION 6
A developmental design that minimizes problems with cohort
effects in other developmental designs is:
a. Experimental.
b. Correlational.
c. Sequential.
d. Cross-sectional.
5 points
QUESTION 7
Theorists who point to early experiences as establishing a
lifelong pattern of behavior emphasize:
a. Stages.
b. Discontinuity.
c. Stability.
d. Traits.
5 points
QUESTION 8
A criticism of Piaget’s theory is that:
a. He was
too focused on observable behavior.
b. He
underestimated the competencies of infants and preschoolers.
c. He was
too focused on early childhood experiences as determinants of behavior.
d. He only
considered what children learned through observing adult models of behavior.
5 points
QUESTION 9
Senior citizens in the United States today are:
a. Less
likely than Canadian seniors to be poverty stricken.
b. More
likely than any other group to be among the “near poor.”
c. More
likely to be homeless than in the past.
d. Less
likely to be healthy and independent than in the past.
5 points
QUESTION 10
A __________ interview is more efficient than a _________
interview because researchers can obtain written responses from an entire group
simultaneously.
a. Clinical;
naturalistic.
b. Structured;
naturalistic.
c. Clinical;
structured.
d. Structured;
clinical.
5 points
QUESTION 11
History-graded influences explain why ___________ tend to be
alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times.
a. Siblings.
b. Coworkers.
c. Cohorts.
d. Friends.
5 points
QUESTION 12
In reference to humans, information processing refers to
how:
a. People
manipulate, code, transform, and organize information.
b. Scientists
study cognitive related changes in the brain.
c. People
adapt behavior for survival.
d. All of
the above.
5 points
QUESTION 13
______________ views individuals as developing within a
complex system of multiple environmental relationships.
a. Psychoanalytic
theory.
b. Ecological
systems theory.
c. Social
learning theory.
d. Psychosocial
theory.
5 points
QUESTION 14
Dizygotic twins:
a. Have the
same genetic makeup.
b. Develop
more rapidly than children of single births.
c. Are no
more alike than ordinary siblings.
d. Are less
likely with each additional birth.
5 points
QUESTION 15
________________ weigh(s) the costs of the research to
participants in terms of risks versus benefits.
a. Informed
consent boards.
b. The
American Psychological Association.
c. Institutional
review boards.
d. Research
participant committees.
5 points
QUESTION 16
In the psychosexual theory of development, Freud described
that during the genital stage people are:
a. Directed
toward sucking.
b. Directed
toward controlling bladder and bowels.
c. Directed
toward genital stimulation.
d. Directed
toward sexual maturity.
5 points
QUESTION 17
_______________ is the research method that seeks to capture
a culture or distinct social group’s unique values and social processes with
extensive field notes from observations.
a. Clinical
interview.
b. Structured
interview.
c. Ethnography.
d. Case
study.
5 points
QUESTION 18
In ecological systems theory, the ________________ consists
of activities and interactions in the individual’s immediate surroundings.
a. Microsystem.
b. Macrosystem.
c. Chronosystem.
d. Mesosystem.
5 points
QUESTION 19
Of all Western nations, __________ has the highest
percentage of extremely poor children.
a. The
United States.
b. Canada.
c. Germany.
d. France.
5 points
QUESTION 20
Contributions of Piaget’s cognitive development theory
include:
a. Recognition
of children as active learners.
b. Encouragement
of educational programs that emphasize discovery learning.
c. Encouraging
research on how children perceive themselves and others.
d. All of
the above.
