developmental psychology Flashcards
The boy of Averyon was :
a- the son of piaget
b- a boy from a romanian orphanage who was bought over to the uk and his development was assessed after a few years
c- a boy likely to be abandoned in the woods as an infant who was attempted to be rehabilitated
c- the wild boy of averyron was called Victor , he was likely to have been left in the woods, he survived with no input from society, he therefore was very animalistic and had no concept of speech. Itard caught him and took him in to study, he attempted to train the boy to speak but failed and gave up.
John Locke had the theory of :
a- The mind is indivisible unlike the body
b- The brain is a clean slate in which our experiences develop over time
c-That speech is inbuilt into our minds
b- ‘ the blank slate theory’ - the development of the brain is reliant on the things around the person
Plato was :
a - a nativist
b- an empiricist
c-a mechanoist
a- Plato was an Nativist , he believed that the genes establish who a person becomes.
Aristotle was :
a- a environmentalist
b- a empiricist
c- a naturalist
B- Aristotle believed that the environment and experiences shape who a person becomes
The main ways to study children are :
A- visual preferance paradigm - based on where babies look (Robert Fantz) , Habituation - studying a baby over a long period of time , Looking time study - violating expectancy of a child
B- Longitudinal , Cross sectional , Step functions
C- Visual preferance paradigm - based on where babies look , preference to a stimulus (robert Fantz ) , habituation - getting a baby familiarised with a stimulus by exposing it to it repeatedly, Looking time study - usually uses a magic trick - violating expectancy of a child
C- Visual preferance paradigm - based on where babies look , preference to a stimulus (robert Fantz ) , habituation - getting a baby familiarised with a stimulus by exposing it to it repeatedly, Looking time study - usually uses a magic trick - violating expectancy of a child.
Longitudinal studies are :
A- studying the length of a baby
B- Studying a mixture of ages of children
C- Studying a child over a period of time
C- Longitudinal studies study a sample of children over a long period of time , these studies can be costly and are not always chosen over other methods because there is a high drop out rate.
A study where a sample of children at a range of ages is called a :
A- cross- sectional research
B- cross- sample research
C- cross-suitable research
A- cross sectional research takes a sample of children at a range of ages to collect research under a cohort bias
Reaction speed plotted on a graph would show what shape curve ?
A- continuous increase
B- upright U shape
C- inverted U shape
C- inverted U shape- the reaction speed will increase as a child ages, but will decrease in ability as they reach old age
True or false : A graph plotting the stepping reaction would give a upright U shape ?
True. Newborns can do stepping actions when supported , this behaviour drops off as they reach a bit older because they gain weight. The behaviour will increase again when their muscles in their legs grow and can support their weight.
If there is a 3rd variable in a study it can lead to :
A- Causal relationships
B- error
C- continuous data
A- causal relationships can be caused by introducing a third variable , however a separate experiment would need to be done to prove the causal relationship.
The study where babies were grasping at pictures as if they were objects was done by :
A- Joan Deloache
B- Piaget
C- Judy Deloache
C- Judy Deloache noticed that babies would grasp at pictures of objects as if they were the objects themselves. The experiment found that the more realistic photos were the ones grasped at more than the line drawings.
What is the difference between organismic world view and Mechanistic world view ?
A- There is no difference
B- organismic views are that development is driven by internal mechanisms , mechanistic are views that there are external influences on the origin of change.
C- organismic views are that the external influences are what drives development , mechanistic views are that there is a internal mechanism driving the development of an organism
B - organismic views are that development is driven by internal mechanisms , mechanistic are views that there are external influences on the origin of change.
Piaget believed in :
A- core theory - that changes don’t occur in the underlying structures , that there is elaborations of the development
B- stage theory - development occurs at one stage of a persons life
C- stage theory - development undergoes reconstruction at each stage, every stage is significantly different to others
C- stage theory - development undergoes reconstruction at each stage, every stage is significantly different to others
Perception is :
A- a process that allows us to see the world and the organisms in it
B - a process where the sensory input s represented in a way the brain can use and understand
C- the stimulation of a sensory organ
B- perception is the sensory input put into a representation the brain can use and understand
( c- the stimulation of a sensory organ is sensation)
Areas of interest on a face for a newborn baby will be :
A- areas of high contrast such as under the chin
B- only their mothers face
C- the eyes
A - Babies will have a preference for their mothers face after a few hours but they will be drawn to look at under the chin, the hair line and the neck because these are areas of high contrast that the newborn can see.
