DEP2004 | Developmental Psychology in Psychology - Rasmussen university

DEP2004 Human Growth and Development Module 3 Midterm Exam

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This exam will randomly draw 30 questions from a question pool. This is a timed exam, and is set for 60 minutes. You only have one opportunity to complete this exam. During the exam, you will be alerted when you have used half your time, and again when you have 5 minutes, 1 minute, and 30 seconds remaining. Once time has expired, your exam will be automatically submitted.

By starting this exam you agree to abide by the Academic Misconduct Policy set forth in the course syllabus. You acknowledge that your failure to do so could result in being expelled from the course. Question 1School-age children with a strong sense of attachment security and whose parents use a(n) __________ child-rearing style feel especially good about themselves.

1. authoritative

2. authoritarian

3. permissive

4. uninvolved

Question 2__________ fosters a more positive, coherent early self-concept.

1. Permissive parenting

2. A warm, sensitive parent-child relationship

3. Authoritarian parenting

4.Strong identification with an other-sex parent

Question 3__________ disrupts the brain's regulation of hunger and metabolism.

1. Self-regulation

2. Frequent eating out

3. Reduced sleep

4. Using screen media

Question 4__________ is the least-developed of the newborn baby's senses.

1. Taste

2. Sound

3. Vision

4. Touch

Question 5Children in middle childhood are in Piaget's __________ stage, which extends from about 7 to 11 years.

1. sensorimotor

2. preoperational

3. concrete operational

4. formal operational

Question 6__________ refers to quickness and intensity of emotional arousal, attention, and motor activity.

1. Temperament

2. Reactivity

3.Effortful control

4. Self-regulation

Question 7

1. 6 months; 4 months

2.1 year; 4 months

3. 1 year; 6 months

4. 2 years; 6 months

Question 8 Spatial skills __________.

1. increase exponentially in early childhood

2.support children's improved executive function

3.develop gradually over childhood and adolescence

4. are typically housed in the left hemisphere

Question 9 Language skills __________.

1. peak during adolescence

2. are usually located in the right hemisphere

3. develop gradually during early childhood

4.expand at an astonishing pace in early childhood

Question 10According to social learning theory, __________ come(s) before __________ in the development of gender identity.

1.behavior; self-perceptions

2. self-perceptions; gender awareness

3. self-perceptions; behavior

4. gender constancy; gender awareness

Question 11According to __________ theory, modeling is a powerful source of development.

1. reinforcement

2. operant conditioning

3. social learning

4. classical conditioning

Question 12Nine-month-old Avery can retrieve his ball when his mother hides it under a blanket. Avery has begun to master __________.

1.the tertiary circular reaction

2. reflexive schemes

3. object permanence

4. deferred imitation

Question 13Erikson's sense of __________ combines several developments of middle childhood: a positive but realistic self-concept, pride in accomplishment, moral responsibility, and cooperative participation with agemates.

1. trust

2. autonomy

3. identity

4. industry

Question 14 Developmental science is __________ because it has grown through the combined efforts of people from many fields of study.

1.interdisciplinary

2. empirical

3.applied

4. theoretical

Question 15__________ does not rank well on any key measure of children's health and well-being.

1.Sweden

2. Spain

3.Australia

4. The United States

Question 16Heaven was born several weeks before her due date. Although she was small, her birth weight was appropriate, based on time spent in the uterus. Heaven is a __________ infant.

1. small-for-date

2. small-for-weight

3. mature

4. preterm

Question 17Piaget believed that __________ leads to internal images of experience, which children then label with words.

1. imagination

2. intentional behavior

3. sensorimotor activity

4. role playing

Question 18Currently, most kinship findings support a __________ role for heredity in __________.

1.strong; intelligence

2. moderate; intelligence

3. strong; anxiety

4. weak; personality

Question 19According to Erikson, the danger in middle childhood is __________, reflected in the pessimism of children who lack confidence in their ability to do things well.

1. shame

2. mistrust

3. inferiority

4. despair

Question 20Self-esteem takes on a hierarchical structure in __________.

1.toddlerhood

2. preschool

3. middle childhood

4. adolescence

Question 21The leading cause of childhood mortality in industrialized nations is __________.

1.malnutrition

2. diarrhea

3. childhood diseases

4.unintentional injuries

Question 22According to the cognitive perspective of perceptual development, babies __________.

1. are blank slates

2. impose meaning on what they perceive

3. actively search for discontinuous stimuli

4. seek variant features in the environment

Question 23School-age children master concrete operational tasks __________.

1. all at once

2. gradually, in a continuum of acquisition

3. much later than Piaget believed

4. after they master abstract thinking

Question 24The term teratogen refers to __________.

1.any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period

a limited time span during which a part of the body is biologically prepared to develop rapidly
a rapid period of prenatal neurological development
a synthetic hormone used to prevent miscarriage

Question 25A __________ is a means of building schemes in which an infant who has stumbled onto a new experience caused by his or her own motor activity tries to repeat the event again and again.

1. sensorimotor reflex

2. circular reaction

3. mental representation

4. goal-directed behavior

Question 26Fraternal twins are __________.

1. genetically identical

2. no more alike than ordinary siblings

3. less common than other types of multiple offspring

4. less likely with each additional birth

Question 27Freud believed that moral development is largely complete by __________ years of age.

1. 1 to 2

2.3 to 4

3. 5 to 6

4. 8 to 10

Question 28In all societies studied, the most common attachment quality is the __________ pattern.

1. insecure-avoidant

2. insecure-resistant

3. disorganized/disoriented

4. secure

Question 29Vygotsky saw __________ as the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.