Question 1

A strong correlation between the adult weight of adoptees and that of their biological parents indicates weight:

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A)  is determined entirely by genetics. 
B)  is determined entirely by the environment. 
C)  is heavily influenced by genes. 
D)  can be influenced only by diet and exercise. 
A)  is determined entirely by genetics. 
B)  is determined entirely by the environment. 
C)  is heavily influenced by genes. 
D)  can be influenced only by diet and exercise.

Question 2

During middle childhood, girls are generally better than boys at:

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A)  jumping. 
B)  catching. 
C)  skipping. 
D)  throwing. 
A)  jumping. 
B)  catching. 
C)  skipping. 
D)  throwing.

Question 3

When Michael Cole and his colleagues presented to-be-remembered items in a story rather than a list in random order, nonschooled Liberian children:

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A)  recalled items easily. 
B)  used simple memory strategies. 
C)  used categories to remember the items. 
D)  were aware that longer stories would be more difficult to remember. 
A)  recalled items easily. 
B)  used simple memory strategies. 
C)  used categories to remember the items. 
D)  were aware that longer stories would be more difficult to remember.

Question 4

The prefrontal cortex aids all of the following EXCEPT:

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A)  controlling one's thoughts. 
B)  regulating one's feelings. 
C)  controlling one's behaviors. 
D)  regulating one's emotions. 
A)  controlling one's thoughts. 
B)  regulating one's feelings. 
C)  controlling one's behaviors. 
D)  regulating one's emotions.

Question 5

Sternberg's "triarchic" theory of intelligence proposes that there are three kinds of intelligences:

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A)  linguistic, logical-mathematical, and spatial. 
B)  linguistic, logical-mathematical, and musical. 
C)  analytic, creative, and practical. 
D)  analytic, bodily-kinesthetic, and social. 
A)  linguistic, logical-mathematical, and spatial. 
B)  linguistic, logical-mathematical, and musical. 
C)  analytic, creative, and practical. 
D)  analytic, bodily-kinesthetic, and social.

Question 6

When the frontal lobes of a person are damaged, the person is:

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A)  easily distracted and unable to maintain goals. 
B)  unable to engage in self-reflection. 
C)  unable to correctly solve Piagetian conservation tasks. 
D)  found to have more theta wave activity in her brain. 
A)  easily distracted and unable to maintain goals. 
B)  unable to engage in self-reflection. 
C)  unable to correctly solve Piagetian conservation tasks. 
D)  found to have more theta wave activity in her brain.

Question 7

Professor Schmidt is conducting a study where she combines results from multiple scientific studies. What kind of study is this?

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A)  correlational study 
B)  experimental study 
C)  meta-analysis 
D)  cross-sectional design 
A)  correlational study 
B)  experimental study 
C)  meta-analysis 
D)  cross-sectional design

Question 8

Bidziil, a Navajo child and Ellie, a European American child are shown a schematic drawing of a maze and asked to find the most direct, obstacle-free path from their school to their home with a stop at the store. What is most likely to happen?

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A)  Bidziil and Ellie will both finish at the same time, but Bidziil will make more mistakes. 
B)  Bidziil and Ellie will both finish at the same time, but Ellie will make more mistakes. 
C)  Ellie will take more time planning but will make fewer mistakes. 
D)  Bidziil will take more time planning but will make fewer mistakes. 
A)  Bidziil and Ellie will both finish at the same time, but Bidziil will make more mistakes. 
B)  Bidziil and Ellie will both finish at the same time, but Ellie will make more mistakes. 
C)  Ellie will take more time planning but will make fewer mistakes. 
D)  Bidziil will take more time planning but will make fewer mistakes.

Question 9

Jamie collects coins and has been able to organize them by country and metal. What aspect of concrete operations is Jamie exhibiting?

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A)  conservation 
B)  classification 
C)  planning 
D)  metacognition 
A)  conservation 
B)  classification 
C)  planning 
D)  metacognition

Question 10

Which country commissioned Simon and Binet to create a test for diagnosing mental subnormality?

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A)  the United States 
B)  England 
C)  France 
D)  Germany 
A)  the United States 
B)  England 
C)  France 
D)  Germany

Question 11

Concrete operational thinking allows children to mentally combine, separate, order, and transform objects and actions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The "Flynn effect" refers to:

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A)  IQ score differences across different countries. 
B)  IQ score similarities across different countries. 
C)  a steady increase in IQ scores worldwide in the last 100 years. 
D)  a steady decline in IQ scores worldwide in the last 100 years. 
A)  IQ score differences across different countries. 
B)  IQ score similarities across different countries. 
C)  a steady increase in IQ scores worldwide in the last 100 years. 
D)  a steady decline in IQ scores worldwide in the last 100 years.

Question 13

A cross-cultural study by Raphael Nyiti (1982) comparing performances of 10- and 11-year- old children from different cultural groups on a conservation task, suggests that developmental lags may be due to:

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A)  parenting style. 
B)  previous training. 
C)  differences in quality of school instruction. 
D)  inadequate experimenter/subject communication. 
A)  parenting style. 
B)  previous training. 
C)  differences in quality of school instruction. 
D)  inadequate experimenter/subject communication.

Question 14

Psychologists' use of the term rehearsal refers to:

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A)  the ability to follow complex directions. 
B)  the role-playing games preschoolers play. 
C)  self-repetition of material to be remembered. 
D)  the way preschoolers repeatedly perform the same actions. 
A)  the ability to follow complex directions. 
B)  the role-playing games preschoolers play. 
C)  self-repetition of material to be remembered. 
D)  the way preschoolers repeatedly perform the same actions.

Question 15

Cross-cultural research comparing digit span performance of U.S. children to Chinese children between 4 and 6 years of age showed that:

Accepted Answer

A)  neither group of children was capable of digit span tasks. 
B)  the U.S. children were superior in digit span performance. 
C)  the Chinese children were superior in digit span performance. 
D)  the children from both countries were comparable in their performance. 
A)  neither group of children was capable of digit span tasks. 
B)  the U.S. children were superior in digit span performance. 
C)  the Chinese children were superior in digit span performance. 
D)  the children from both countries were comparable in their performance.

Question 16

The event that signals a transition to more independence for the Ngoni of Malawi is the:

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A)  onset of walking. 
B)  loss of milk teeth. 
C)  beginning of puberty. 
D)  appearance of first words. 
A)  onset of walking. 
B)  loss of milk teeth. 
C)  beginning of puberty. 
D)  appearance of first words.

Question 17

Which of the following is true of metamemory?

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A)  Before the age of 8, children have no understanding of their own memory processes. 
B)  When shown a set of 10 pictures, 5-year-olds know they cannot remember all of them. 
C)  5- and 8-year-olds have approximately equivalent knowledge of their own memory abilities. 
D)  5-year-olds have some understanding of their own memory process but not as much as do 8-year-olds. 
A)  Before the age of 8, children have no understanding of their own memory processes. 
B)  When shown a set of 10 pictures, 5-year-olds know they cannot remember all of them. 
C)  5- and 8-year-olds have approximately equivalent knowledge of their own memory abilities. 
D)  5-year-olds have some understanding of their own memory process but not as much as do 8-year-olds.

Question 18

When presented with a free-recall task, Liberian children who had never been to school performed:

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A)  better than children who had gone to school. 
B)  poorly, because they had not developed their memory span. 
C)  poorly in middle childhood but improved once they reached adolescence. 
D)  poorly, because they did not use organizational strategies. 
A)  better than children who had gone to school. 
B)  poorly, because they had not developed their memory span. 
C)  poorly in middle childhood but improved once they reached adolescence. 
D)  poorly, because they did not use organizational strategies.

Question 19

John says there is the same number of pennies in two rows spread out equally. An experimenter spreads the top row of pennies out, increasing the distance between each penny. John then says there are more pennies in the top row. According to Piaget, John is exhibiting:

Accepted Answer

A)  conservation of number. 
B)  failure to conserve number. 
C)  reversibility. 
D)  compensation. 
A)  conservation of number. 
B)  failure to conserve number. 
C)  reversibility. 
D)  compensation.

Question 20

The store of information that children can draw on to relate new memories to is their:

Accepted Answer

A)  memory span. 
B)  knowledge base. 
C)  memory capacity. 
D)  strategic knowledge. 
A)  memory span. 
B)  knowledge base. 
C)  memory capacity. 
D)  strategic knowledge.

A strong correlation between the adult weight of adoptees and that of their biological parents indicates weight:

During middle childhood, girls are generally better than boys at:

When Michael Cole and his colleagues presented to-be-remembered items in a story rather than a list in random order, nonschooled Liberian children:

The prefrontal cortex aids all of the following EXCEPT:

Sternberg's "triarchic" theory of intelligence proposes that there are three kinds of intelligences:

When the frontal lobes of a person are damaged, the person is:

Professor Schmidt is conducting a study where she combines results from multiple scientific studies. What kind of study is this?

Bidziil, a Navajo child and Ellie, a European American child are shown a schematic drawing of a maze and asked to find the most direct, obstacle-free path from their school to their home with a stop at the store. What is most likely to happen?

Jamie collects coins and has been able to organize them by country and metal. What aspect of concrete operations is Jamie exhibiting?

Which country commissioned Simon and Binet to create a test for diagnosing mental subnormality?

Concrete operational thinking allows children to mentally combine, separate, order, and transform objects and actions.

The "Flynn effect" refers to:

A cross-cultural study by Raphael Nyiti (1982) comparing performances of 10- and 11-year- old children from different cultural groups on a conservation task, suggests that developmental lags may be due to:

Psychologists' use of the term rehearsal refers to:

Cross-cultural research comparing digit span performance of U.S. children to Chinese children between 4 and 6 years of age showed that:

The event that signals a transition to more independence for the Ngoni of Malawi is the:

Which of the following is true of metamemory?

When presented with a free-recall task, Liberian children who had never been to school performed:

John says there is the same number of pennies in two rows spread out equally. An experimenter spreads the top row of pennies out, increasing the distance between each penny. John then says there are more pennies in the top row. According to Piaget, John is exhibiting:

The store of information that children can draw on to relate new memories to is their:

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A strong correlation between the adult weight of adoptees and that of their biological parents indicates weight:

During middle childhood, girls are generally better than boys at:

When Michael Cole and his colleagues presented to-be-remembered items in a story rather than a list in random order, nonschooled Liberian children:

The prefrontal cortex aids all of the following EXCEPT:

Sternberg's "triarchic" theory of intelligence proposes that there are three kinds of intelligences:

When the frontal lobes of a person are damaged, the person is:

Professor Schmidt is conducting a study where she combines results from multiple scientific studies. What kind of study is this?

Bidziil, a Navajo child and Ellie, a European American child are shown a schematic drawing of a maze and asked to find the most direct, obstacle-free path from their school to their home with a stop at the store. What is most likely to happen?

Jamie collects coins and has been able to organize them by country and metal. What aspect of concrete operations is Jamie exhibiting?

Which country commissioned Simon and Binet to create a test for diagnosing mental subnormality?

Concrete operational thinking allows children to mentally combine, separate, order, and transform objects and actions.

The "Flynn effect" refers to:

A cross-cultural study by Raphael Nyiti (1982) comparing performances of 10- and 11-year- old children from different cultural groups on a conservation task, suggests that developmental lags may be due to:

Psychologists' use of the term rehearsal refers to:

Cross-cultural research comparing digit span performance of U.S. children to Chinese children between 4 and 6 years of age showed that:

The event that signals a transition to more independence for the Ngoni of Malawi is the:

Which of the following is true of metamemory?

When presented with a free-recall task, Liberian children who had never been to school performed:

John says there is the same number of pennies in two rows spread out equally. An experimenter spreads the top row of pennies out, increasing the distance between each penny. John then says there are more pennies in the top row. According to Piaget, John is exhibiting:

The store of information that children can draw on to relate new memories to is their:

The Study of Human Development

Biocultural Foundations

Prenatal Development and Birth

The First 3 Months

Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Social and Emotional Development in Infancy

Language Acquisition

Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood

Contexts of Development

School As Context for Development

Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood

Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Social and Emotional Development in Adolescence

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