Exam 1: An Introduction to Child Development

Explain how changes in sociocultural factors are demonstrated with childcare outside of the home in Canada.

To examine the effectiveness of empathy training on children's sharing behaviour, 2 months of training are provided to 3-year-old children living in rural Saskatchewan. Six months later, the children's sharing behaviours are measured and compared to their pre-training sharing behaviour. Improvements are considered the result of the empathy training. Which factor is a potential source of internal invalidity?

The possibility that the correlation between two variables may actually be the result of an additional unspecified attribute is referred to as the _____ problem.

Which type of design compares the behaviour of groups of children who are of different ages?

Explain what effortful attention is and describe its components. What has been associated with difficulty in exerting effortful attention?

The term reliability does NOT refer to the:

Which description is NOT an ethical standard to which psychological researchers are expected to adhere?

Longitudinal design would be appropriate to examine:

With which statement would stage theorists NOT agree?

Which example illustrates discontinuity in development?

Which factor is an example of how children shape their own development?

Evidence for the enduring epigenetic impact of early experiences and behaviours on development comes from what type of research?

Which factor is NOT one identified by Scarr (1992) that can lead children from the same family to turn out very different from each other?

Which philosopher offered the argument that children should be provided with maximum freedom and no formal education prior to the age of reason at approximately age 12?

To examine whether or not children's cognitive development occurs in stages, Professor Blue observes four groups of children. Each child's performance on cognitive tasks is observed two or more times over a period of 2 years. Which group is MOST likely to lead Professor Blue to conclude that development occurs continuously?

A class of Grade 3 children is split into two groups through random assignment. Group A is given training in a new game, and group B is not. Group A is referred to as the _____ group, and group B is referred to as the _____ group.

Naturalistic observation would probably be the method of choice for a researcher interested in which topic?

Which statement about the troubled homes in Patterson's study is NOT true?

Of the following problems, which is the GREATEST limitation of laboratory experiments?

Which statement expresses a disadvantage of naturalistic observation?