Question 1

Which of the following is the term that refers to the difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the help of a teacher?

Accepted Answer

A)  scaffolding 
B)  conservation 
C)  hypothetical thinking. 
D)  zone of proximal development

Question 2

Mary is an adolescent who currently has a small pimple on her cheek that is causing her to be overly self-conscious. She is convinced that everyone she meets stares at and talks about her pimple. Mary's behavior exhibits __________

Accepted Answer

A)  a sense of idealism. 
B)  imaginary audience. 
C)  personal fable. 
D)  puberty.

Question 3

The placenta is __________

Accepted Answer

A)  the tube through which a developing baby receives nourishment. 
B)  the technical name for the "belly button." 
C)  a specialized organ that provides nourishment for the developing baby. 
D)  the name for the developing organism until it is 8 weeks old

Question 4

Professor Sanchez is interested in studying development of motor skills. She collects data from 200 one-year-olds and follows and assesses them for a period of five years. What type of research design is Professor Sanchez using?

Accepted Answer

A)  cohort design 
B)  longitudinal design 
C)  behavior genetics design 
D)  cross-sectional design

Question 5

Bronfenbrenner's contexts of development includes __________, contexts that are not experienced directly by the individual but do influence settings in which the individual has personal experiences.

Accepted Answer

A)  the microsystem 
B)  the exosystem 
C)  the mesosystem 
D)  the macrosystem

Question 6

What priority does physical attractiveness have when 3- to 5-year-old children are deciding with whom to be friends?

Accepted Answer

A)  high 
B)  medium 
C)  low 
D)  virtually none

Question 7

Television programs such as Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer __________

Accepted Answer

A)  have a positive effect on cognitive development. 
B)  have a negative effect on cognitive development. 
C)  have a mixed effect on cognitive development. 
D)  have no effect on cognitive development.

Question 8

Which sense is the LEAST functional at birth?

Accepted Answer

A)  touch 
B)  taste 
C)  smell 
D)  vision

Question 9

Lev Vygotsky believed that one trend common to all children was __________

Accepted Answer

A)  they move from a reliance on assimilation to an ability to accommodate. 
B)  their tendency to talk aloud to themselves gradually turns into inner thought. 
C)  their thinking becomes less animistic and more abstract as they learn about the world. 
D)  their sensorimotor thought becomes less tied to perception as they develop language.

Question 10

What term is used to describe a child's inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes except his or her own?

Accepted Answer

A)  disparity 
B)  narcissism 
C)  egocentrism 
D)  autonomy

Question 11

At birth, newborns seem most responsive to __________

Accepted Answer

A)  female voices. 
B)  hip hop music. 
C)  moderate voice pitches. 
D)  rock and roll music.

Question 12

Dr. Ahmandi is a developmental psychologist who studies memory development. In one of her research projects she tested memory in a group of five-year-old children. Then she gave the same test to a group of nine-year-olds and compared the results of the two groups to see how memory changes over this time span. This is a type of __________

Accepted Answer

A)  longitudinal study. 
B)  cross-sectional study. 
C)  case study. 
D)  experimental study.

Question 13

What did Harry Harlow demonstrate in his experiment with monkeys? Why is this important for human beings?

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

Explain the adolescent concepts of the personal fable and imaginary audience.

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

Which type of parents tend to make rules and expect unquestioned obedience to them?

Accepted Answer

A)  authoritative 
B)  authoritarian 
C)  permissive 
D)  over-involved

Question 16

How early does the fetus begin being very responsive to sounds?

Accepted Answer

A)  five weeks of gestation 
B)  ten weeks of gestation 
C)  fifteen weeks of gestation 
D)  twenty-five weeks of gestation

Question 17

Humans have a total of __________ chromosomes in normal developmental cases.

Accepted Answer

A)  46 
B)  23 
C)  21 
D)  22

Question 18

List and explain the three types of temperament described by Chess and Thomas.

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

The __________ asserts that the language learning process is a genetic characteristic of all members of the human species.

Accepted Answer

A)  learning view theory 
B)  nativist position 
C)  interactionist perspective 
D)  socialization view

Question 20

The stage of embryonic development ends when __________

Accepted Answer

A)  the child is born. 
B)  the internal organs begin to form. 
C)  bone cells begin to form. 
D)  the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall.

Exam 8: Child Development