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Development Psychology Unit - reading comprehension

Quiz by Ronald Sarcos

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  • Q1
    Alcohol is a teratogen that can slip through the ______________ and damage the fetus or embryo.
    placenta
    nervous system
    zygote
    womb
    30s
  • Q2
    Even as newborns, we prefer sights and sounds that facilitate social responsiveness. This can be seen by a newborn’s preference for
    loud music.
    low pitched sounds.
    face-like images
    soft music.
    30s
  • Q3
    As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. The decrease in an infant’s responsiveness is called
    habituation
    stability
    teratogens
    transference
    30s
  • Q4
    Which question expresses the developmental issue of stability and change?
    To what extent do certain traits persist through the life span?
    How much of development occurs in distinct stages?
    Are individuals more similar or different from each other?
    Which traits are most affected by life changes and experience?
    30s
  • Q5
    What is the prenatal development sequence?
    Zygote, fetus, embryo
    Embryo, zygote, fetus
    Zygote, embryo, fetus
    Fetus, zygote, embryo
    30s
  • Q6
    Some people think development occurs much in the way a tree grows, slowly and steadily adding one ring each year. Others think that there are rather abrupt developmental jumps, like the transformation of a tadpole into a frog. Which of the following issues would this difference of opinion relate to?
    Nature and nurture
    Stability and change
    Maturation and learning
    Continuity and stages
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of the following is the longest prenatal stage?
    Conception
    Fetus
    Embryonic stage
    Zygote
    30s
  • Q8
    As the infant’s brain develops, some neural pathways will decay if not used. This use-it-or-lose-it process is known as
    pruning.
    maturation.
    accommodation
    motor development.
    30s
  • Q9
    Which of the following is true of the early formation of brain cells?
    They form slowly during the prenatal period, and then the rate increases after birth.
    They are overproduced early in the prenatal period, and then the rate decreases and stabilizes
    They form at a constant rate throughout the prenatal period.
    They begin forming slowly, and then the rate increases throughout prenatal development.
    30s
  • Q10
    Neural networks grow more complex by
    keeping the nervous system immature
    branching outward to form multiple connections.
    associating behaviors that would not normally be associated together.
    controlling one another with a restricted response system
    30s
  • Q11
    Your friend’s baby brother, Matt, loves to play with his pet cat. When he sees a puppy, he points and calls it “Mi Mi,” which is what he calls his cat. Matt is demonstrating Piaget’s process of
    conservation.
    accommodation.
    assimilation.
    object permanence.
    30s
  • Q12
    If you showed a 2-year-old that you’d hidden a toy behind the bed in a model of her bedroom, she would not be able to find the toy in her real bedroom because she lacks
    random thinking.
    egocentric thinking.
    symbolic thinking.
    schematic thinking.
    30s
  • Q13
    Vygotsky called the space between what a child could learn with and without help the
    theory of mind.
    zone of developmental readiness.
    zone of abstract logic.
    zone of proximal development.
    30s
  • Q14
    Which of the following is a current belief of researchers that differs from Piaget’s original theories?
    Schemas don’t form until later than Piaget believed.
    Accommodation is a process that doesn’t occur in young children.
    Infants learn more by verbal explanations than Piaget believed.
    Object permanence develops earlier than Piaget believed.
    30s
  • Q15
    Which of the following cognitive abilities is possible only at the formal operational stage?
    Reversing arithmetic operations.
    Using a theory of mind to predict the behavior of others
    Using symbolic thinking for pretend play
    Using hypothetical situations as the basis of moral reasoning
    30s

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