Exam 1: Understanding Human Development

Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages of development focus on:

The term used to describe the entire arrangement of all human genes is:

Suppose you collect data about child abuse and find that mothers who have their first child before age 18 are more likely to be abusive than mothers who are older. However, you also note that young mothers are also more likely to be poor and have less access to prenatal care. Therefore, you cannot draw conclusions about maternal age and child abuse. The reason you cannot draw this conclusion is because your study involved:

In Dr. Arnold's developmental psychology class, she chooses to organize the course chronologically. This means that:

Sarah's parents attend parent-teacher meetings, serve as volunteers for class field trips, and are members of the school board. Sarah's progress at school is affected positively by her parents' close involvement with the teachers. According to Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, these connections exemplify the:

In contrast to earlier previous times, by the end of the Middle Ages, attitudes about children in Western societies had:

According to the text, the decade of the 1990s was labeled by President George H. W. Bush as "the decade of ____________."

Which of the following situations best exemplifies Vygotsky's view of development?

When George agrees to participate in a research study, he is told that he may quit at any point for any reason. The reason for this option of quitting is required by the ethical guideline the text refers to as:

Sam was going to steal candy from a store but feelings of guilt kept him from doing so. According to Freud, Sam's internalized sense of right and wrong and his feelings of guilt comes from his:

Which of the following statements comes closest to describing the principle central to Darwin's idea of natural selection?

Which of the following theorists placed the greatest emphasis on developmental events that occur early in life, especially during the first five years?

In an experiment testing the effects of a drug on behavior, whether or not a subject receives a drug represents the:

If you were to explain a particular behavior as being learned according to Vygotsky's social-cognitive learning theory, you would most likely emphasize which of the following in your explanation of that behavior?

In an experiment, the variable that the researcher manipulates is called the:

Martinez is interested in how thinking changes in adolescence and early adulthood. She identifies two hundred 18-year-olds and has them respond to a written set of questions. She then waits four years, contacts them all again, and has them respond to a similar set of questions. Finally, she waits another four years, contacts the people again (who are now 26 years old), and asks them one last time to respond to her questions. The study Dr. Martinez has conducted is best considered an example of:

Which of the following is generally NOT part of the sociocultural context for a given individual?

A researcher conducts in-depth interviews and observations of an individual survivor of the war in Afghanistan. What data collection method has she used?

A high school student who sucks his or her thumb when stressed is an example of:

Erik Erikson believed that human development proceeds through a series of planned, biologically programmed stages. He referred to this idea as: