Developmental Psychology Questions

6.4-6.6 Which of the following scenarios best describes what Erik Erikson thought someone might experience in early adulthood?A) Frances was a good student who socialized mostly with other good students, but recently she has started socializing with a different crowd and places less importance on her grades.B) Liz has tried to do things independently but has not been successful, so now she feels bad about herself.C) Mohammed has dated a few people but has not been very successful, so he has decided to give up on dating.D) Thomas has a difficult time trusting people.E) Jazmin feels like she is unfulfilled and living a mundane life.

6.3 Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development?A) sensorimotorB) preoperational C) postformalD) concrete operations E) formal operations

6.4-6.6 Lawrence Kohlberg used which of the following techniques to illustrate the stages of his theory?A) Presenting people with the three mountain taskB) presenting people with a conservation taskC) having people solve moral dilemmas D) having people study law caseE) having people think about how they felt about a certain issue

6.4-6.6 Shamir wants to be a doctor like both of his parents when he gets older. He never thought of doing anything else. Which of the following best explains Shamir's decision?A) He has not fully developed his identity.B) His parents have a permissive parenting style, which has left him with an underdeveloped identity.C) He is in a moratorium state of identity.D) He is identity foreclosed.E) He is in a state of identity diffusion.

6.4-6.6 Rik, who is an adolescent, was always studious and quiet throughout childhood. His parents are concerned because he suddenly dyed his hair, pierced his tongue, and started hanging out with a different crowd. A few months later, he tried out for the football team and became so active in sports that he neglected his schoolwork. According to psychologists, which of the following would best explain Rik's changes in behavior?A) His parents had an authoritarian parenting style as he was growing up, so he is confused.B) He is having a difficult time getting along with peers.C) He is going through the process of exploring his identity that many adolescents experience.D) The neural pathways in his cerebellum are not fully developed.E) He is the middle child in his sibling group

6.7 Gender differences have most often been found in which of the following?A) aggressionB) short-term memoryC) auditory discrimination D) visual acuityE) pattern matching

6.7 Sabrina plays on a rugby team and collects antique dolls. Peter is on a football team and loves to cook. Both Sabrina and Peter demonstrate a high degree of A) sex-role stereotypingB) sex-role confusionC) gender constancy D) androgyny E) sex-role identity

6.1-6.2 Jamie, a six month old, is fussy and does not transition well between situations. According to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, this behavior is part of Jaime'sA) attachment style B) temperament C) cognitive development D) physical development E) external locus of control

6.1-6.2 Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's A) ego strength B) intelligence C) reaction timeD) attachment E) incidental learning

6.3 Amehd, a fifth grader, is passing a note to his friend in class while his teacher is teaching a new type of math problem. When he is later tested on the material, he is unable to recall how to solve a similar problem. Which of the following theories best explains Amehd's difficulty in recalling how to do this type of problem?A) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, because it focuses on how children think about the worldB) The information processing approach, because it focuses on pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that produces a reflexive response so that the neutral stimulus triggers the reflexive responseC) The information processing approach, because it focuses on encoding and retrieving informationD) Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning approach, because it focuses on how children think about the worldE) Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning approach, because it focuses on pairing a ne

6.3 A baby looks under the sofa for a ball that has just rolled underneath it. According to Jean Piaget, the baby's action shows development ofA) conservation of massB) reversibility C) object permanence D) logical thinking E) metacognition

6.1-6.2 Researchers want to study the effects of teratogens. They should conduct A) an experiment using pregnant ratsB) correlation research on an adolescent rat and a prenatal rat's exposure to teratogens C) an experiment on adolescent rats D) an experiment using pregnant humans E) correlation research on an infant's exposure to teratogens and the development delays the infant experiences

6.1-6.2 Researchers hypothesize that the older a baby is when it begins to crawl, the longer it will take the baby to stop exhibiting earlier rocking behaviors. The researchers go into the infant room of a day care center every day for six weeks. Every time a baby rocks, the researchers record it. They document which babies are already crawlers and at what age each started crawling. What will help the researchers with their investigation?A) sharing the researcher's hypothesis with parents before the study begins B) surveying 100 parents about prenatal careC) their knowledge that babies develop fine motor skills before they develop gross motor skills D) their knowledge that rocking behavior develops before crawling behavior and that rocking behavior eventually goes away once crawling behavior begins E) randomly assigning the babies to crawling versus not-crawling conditions

6.1-6.2 Trinna and Suzanne are identical twins who were the same length at birth. They were adopted by different families at birth and then reconnected in their early thirties. Trinna is two inches shorter and was a severely selective eater as a child. A researcher was conducting an investigation about twins separated at birth. What research method and explanation best fit this scenario?A)A longitudinal study, because heredity is much more important than environment in determining length and heightB)A case study, because environment is much more important than heredity in determining length and height.C)A case study, because both heredity and environment are important in determining length and height.D)A longitudinal study, because environment is much less important than heredity in determining height in early childhood.E)A correlational study, because parents' height levels have little correlation with their c

6.1-6.2 When a newborn infant is touched on the check, the infant will turn its head toward the source of stimulation. This behavior is known asA) rooting B) suckling C) the patellar reflexD) the moro reflexE) the babinski reflex

Which phonological processes should not be evident in typically developing children aged 24-36 months?

For a child who is exposed to 2 languages, which one would be the dominant one?

pruning, frontal lobe not yet fully developed as body matures sexually

children seek to fit in with groups, more willing to succumb to peer pressure

how information processing skills are used by adolescents