Question 1

What is Bronfenbrenner's term for the changes that occur in developmental circumstances over time,both with respect to individual development and to historical changes?

Accepted Answer

A)  mesosystem 
B)  exosystem 
C)  macrosystem 
D)  chronosystem

Question 2

Although economic growth has been strong for the past decade,what region remains the poorest region in the world?

Accepted Answer

A)  Africa 
B)  South America 
C)  Southeast Asia 
D)  Western Australia

Question 3

Frank is a researcher at a large university and is nervous about an important meeting with a group who will scrutinize his research proposal while judging whether or not it follows reasonable ethical guidelines.Frank is meeting with _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  an institutional review board 
B)  a rank and tenure committee 
C)  a president's board committee 
D)  a funding and endowment board

Question 4

Describe a research question an evolutionary psychologist might investigate.

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

The theorist who developed the ecocultural theory is _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  Bandura 
B)  Piaget 
C)  Rogoff 
D)  Weisner

Question 6

What developed country is projected to have the steepest decline in population between now and 2050?

Accepted Answer

A)  the United States 
B)  Germany 
C)  Japan 
D)  Canada

Question 7

Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory has ____ key levels or systems that play a part in human development.

Accepted Answer

A)  3 
B)  4 
C)  5 
D)  6

Question 8

What time period included major climate change that allowed humans to cultivate plants and domesticate animals?

Accepted Answer

A)  Neolithic 
B)  Jurassic 
C)  Paleolithic 
D)  Monolithic

Question 9

A researcher is interested in examining how well children who are good at delaying gratification do academically.The researcher would state "children who can delay gratification get better grades in school than children who cannot delay gratification." What step of the scientific method was just accomplished?

Accepted Answer

A)  identifying a question of scientific interest 
B)  forming a hypothesis 
C)  selecting a research method and a research design 
D)  collecting data

Question 10

The ____ variable is the variable that is different for the experimental group than for the control group.

Accepted Answer

A)  quasi-experimental 
B)  correlational 
C)  dependent 
D)  independent

Question 11

What type of design follows the same group of people over time and collects data on two or more occasions?

Accepted Answer

A)  survey method 
B)  longitudinal method 
C)  cross-sectional method 
D)  correlational method

Question 12

Which type of research design combines the cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches?

Accepted Answer

A)  cross-longitudinal 
B)  longitudinal-sequential 
C)  time consistent 
D)  cross-sequential

Question 13

How long did it take the human population to double from 500 million to 1 billion?

Accepted Answer

A)  150 years 
B)  300 years 
C)  450 years 
D)  600 years

Question 14

Recent models of the information-processing still focus on _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  unconscious drives 
B)  reinforcements and punishments 
C)  modeling 
D)  attention and memory

Question 15

What is the most commonly used method in social science research?

Accepted Answer

A)  case study 
B)  questionnaire 
C)  experiment 
D)  correlational study

Question 16

What will happen to the populations of developed countries during the next few decades and beyond? They will _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  increase more than developing countries 
B)  remain stable in population 
C)  decrease 
D)  increase slowly

Question 17

Evolutionary biologists believe that the larger brains of early Homo babies meant that babies were born less mature than they were for earlier hominids,resulting in ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  a greater likelihood of death at birth 
B)  a longer time before the rest of the body could support the head in infancy 
C)  a longer period of dependency of infants on their parents 
D)  a great likelihood that its head would get stuck in the pelvic opening

Question 18

When did the human population reach 500 million people?

Accepted Answer

A)  400 years ago 
B)  1,000 years ago 
C)  4,000 years ago 
D)  10,000 years ago

Question 19

Carlo is very good at coloring in the lines.When given a detailed picture,he goes outside the lines a few times.His teacher assists him in erasing the marks outside of the lines.His teacher is providing _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  accommodation 
B)  scaffolding 
C)  assimilation 
D)  zone of proximal development

Question 20

The feeling of self-confidence that comes with the belief that one has the ability to complete tasks and reach goal is referred to as _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  self-esteem 
B)  self-concept 
C)  self-efficacy 
D)  self-reverence

Exam 1: A Cultural Approach to Child Development