Question 1

Making a child do extra chores when she doesn't clean her room is an example of positive reinforcement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Professor Fischer observes three different age groups over a period of 10 years to chart changes in memory. What kind of research is this?

Accepted Answer

A)  cross-sectional design. 
B)  longitudinal design. 
C)  longitudinal-sequential design. 
D)  microgenetic design.

Question 3

A strength of correlational research is that it can be used to determine cause and effect.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Adolescents who do not meet the challenge of developing an identity will not establish truly intimate relationships.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Michael and Lisa are new parents and they believe that their actions will influence their new son. They don't think that their son's behavior will influence their parenting. Michael and Lisa's views of parenting are consistent with the ________ position of the ________ issue.

Accepted Answer

A)  nature; nature-nurture 
B)  passive; active-passive child 
C)  connection; connection of domains 
D)  continuity; continuity-discontinuity

Question 6

Summarize the five developmental perspectives (e.g., biological, psychodynamic, etc.) and list which theories belong with each perspective.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Summarize the five developmental perspectives (e.g., biological,...

Question 7

Piaget stated that children's theories about the world

Accepted Answer

A)  remain the same until adulthood. 
B)  undergo three major changes during development. 
C)  are never tested by the children. 
D)  are based on what adults tell them.

Question 8

Irina wants to study infant language development. She decides to watch 10 babies once a month from birth to 2 years of age and write down the sounds they make and the words they use. Irina
Is using

Accepted Answer

A)  self-report. 
B)  systematic observation. 
C)  sampling behavior with tasks. 
D)  interviews.

Question 9

__________ was a theorist who was primarily interested in ways that adults convey cultural beliefs to children.

Accepted Answer

A)  Piaget 
B)  Skinner 
C)  Freud 
D)  Vygotsky

Question 10

Jackie feels that superior genes are the primary reason her daughter Jacqueline is intellectually gifted. Jackie believes in the importance of

Accepted Answer

A)  the active child. 
B)  continuity. 
C)  nature. 
D)  the connection of domains.

Question 11

A researcher is interested in how toddlers perceive emotions. The researcher brings toddlers into a room and presents them with different photographs of faces, each representing a different emotion. The toddlers are asked to point to different emotions as the researcher reads them aloud. This is an example of what type of research design?

Accepted Answer

A)  correlational 
B)  sampling behavior with tasks 
C)  self-report 
D)  naturalistic observation

Question 12

Cohort effects are most likely to be a problem in __________ studies.

Accepted Answer

A)  experimental 
B)  correlational 
C)  longitudinal 
D)  cross-sectional

Question 13

Research measures that involve watching children's unprompted behavior in real-life settings are referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  structured observations. 
B)  tasks that sample behavior. 
C)  self-report measures. 
D)  naturalistic observations.

Question 14

The moral agent in a child's personality is the

Accepted Answer

A)  ego. 
B)  superego. 
C)  primitive instincts. 
D)  id.

Question 15

If Mohammed took the same achievement test at three different times and received scores of 100, 55, and 75, the test would have low levels of

Accepted Answer

A)  validity. 
B)  representativeness. 
C)  sampling behavior. 
D)  reliability.

Question 16

Alvaro is interested in finding out how children's conceptions of death change with age. He decides to interview children and ask them questions such as "What happens when people die?" and "Do people eat when they die?" Alvaro is using a form of _________ to measure children's conceptions of death.

Accepted Answer

A)  naturalistic observation 
B)  self-report 
C)  sampling behavior with tasks 
D)  structured observation

Question 17

Which of the following statements best represents the prevailing view among developmentalists?

Accepted Answer

A)  Social development is not related to cognitive development. 
B)  Physical development is not related to cognitive development. 
C)  Social development is not related to physical development. 
D)  Physical, social, and cognitive development are interrelated.

Question 18

Heather believes her 12-month-old daughter will develop optimally if Heather gives her freedom to grow naturally and does not try to shape her development. Heather's beliefs about child rearing are most similar to those of

Accepted Answer

A)  Sigmund Freud. 
B)  Erik Erikson. 
C)  John Locke. 
D)  Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Question 19

Different sequences of children are tested longitudinally in a microgenetic design.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Different sequences of children are tested longitudinally in a study with a

Accepted Answer

A)  cross-sectional design. 
B)  longitudinal design. 
C)  longitudinal-sequential design. 
D)  microgenetic design.

Exam 1: The Science of Child Development

Making a child do extra chores when she doesn't clean her room is an example of positive reinforcement.

Professor Fischer observes three different age groups over a period of 10 years to chart changes in memory. What kind of research is this?

A strength of correlational research is that it can be used to determine cause and effect.

Adolescents who do not meet the challenge of developing an identity will not establish truly intimate relationships.

Michael and Lisa are new parents and they believe that their actions will influence their new son. They don't think that their son's behavior will influence their parenting. Michael and Lisa's views of parenting are consistent with the position of the issue.

Summarize the five developmental perspectives (e.g., biological, psychodynamic, etc.) and list which theories belong with each perspective.

Piaget stated that children's theories about the world

Irina wants to study infant language development. She decides to watch 10 babies once a month from birth to 2 years of age and write down the sounds they make and the words they use. Irina Is using

__________ was a theorist who was primarily interested in ways that adults convey cultural beliefs to children.

Jackie feels that superior genes are the primary reason her daughter Jacqueline is intellectually gifted. Jackie believes in the importance of

Cohort effects are most likely to be a problem in __________ studies.

Research measures that involve watching children's unprompted behavior in real-life settings are referred to as

The moral agent in a child's personality is the

If Mohammed took the same achievement test at three different times and received scores of 100, 55, and 75, the test would have low levels of

Alvaro is interested in finding out how children's conceptions of death change with age. He decides to interview children and ask them questions such as "What happens when people die?" and "Do people eat when they die?" Alvaro is using a form of _________ to measure children's conceptions of death.

Which of the following statements best represents the prevailing view among developmentalists?

Heather believes her 12-month-old daughter will develop optimally if Heather gives her freedom to grow naturally and does not try to shape her development. Heather's beliefs about child rearing are most similar to those of

Different sequences of children are tested longitudinally in a microgenetic design.

Different sequences of children are tested longitudinally in a study with a