Final Exam Flashcards
Imitation can be seen in infants as young as:
2-3 weeks
What is telegraphic speech
Early utterances of young children such as , “Throw ball,” that contain only the words necessary to convey the message. Less important words, such as articles, are omitted
Temperament
A basic disposition; a child’s inborn characteristics that impact how he or she interacts with the world and forms the beginnings of personality
An individual who is obsessively neat, stingy, perfectionistic, and passive aggressive is:
fixated on the anal stage
Glenn is a new dad. According to the research presented in the textbook, he should do all of the following EXCEPT
b.
deliver punishment in a way that makes his child fear him
Jean has parents who have intense work demands. She is in day care 50 hours a week and is then picked up by a nanny. Her parents interact with her for only a few hours a day. Which outcome is most likely?
d.
Jean’s attachment to her parents is the strongest of all her attachments.
Why is it important to study child development from a multicultural perspective?
“Minority” Americans will become the majority in this century as Anglo-Americans become a smaller group proportionally
Different cultures have different belief systems, ways of interacting, and communication styles
Nonwhite children are often not included or are misrepresented in developmental research
All of the above
Specific bonds
6-7 months
Which of the following is true of children with rejected sociometric status?
These children are likely to exhibit a range of academic and social problems that persist into middle and high school
Enrolled in low quality child care
Have an increased risk of SIDS
Are more likely to be socially rejected
Show poorer academic progress than other children relative to their apparent ability
Are rated as having more behavior problems
all of the above
The degree to which the findings from a laboratory study are due to the manipulation of the independent variable reflects the study’s:
Internal Validity
What is pruning
The disposing of neural connections and abilites that are not relevant to the child’s particular culture and exerience
What is the importance of touch to babies?
In preemies, massage causes faster growth, calmer babies and better development.
Babies who are massaged daily develop movement earlier, sleep more soundly and have less colic.
A & B
What approach to language learning is supported by Noam Chomsky?
nativist approach
________ refers to a phenomenon in which the fetus is sometimes able to slow down the rate of growth when it senses environmental stresses and drops in nutrition.
Thrifty pehnotype hypothesis
Joanna understands that her conversational partner is using irony in telling a story. Joanna is showing an awareness of the ________ aspects of language
Pragmatic
Changes within a culture over time that lead to differences among your study groups are especially a problem for:
cross-sectional studies
Otitis media
It is a bacterial infection of the middle ear, the most commonly diagnosed disease among infants and preschool children.
It can cause a buld up of fluid that can produce a mild to moderate hearling loss lasting for months after the disease has been treated.
Young children with recurring infections may have difficulties with speech and language development.
All of the above
As an infant, Macie develops arm control before leg control. This is an example of: Answers: a. bilateral development b. antedistal development c. proximodistal development d. cephalocaudal development
Cephalocaudal development
Which of the following is true of Amala & Kamala’s language?
A&B
The younger girl, Amala, made promising progress towards speech, babbling and cooing noises that mark the first stage in a normal child’s learning to talk
Kamala, the older girl, showed much slower progress in learning language
Based on the sociometric method, how are controversial children rated by their peers?
many positive ratings and many negative ratings
Which of the following practices lead to increased empathy in children?
B&C
Responsive, nonpunitive parenting
Explaining to children the effect of their behavior on others
What type of parent would say: “Do it because I say so!”?
authoritarian
An individual who has strong characteristics that are considered feminine and strong characteristics that are considered masculine is described as:
Androgynous
Why is increased television watching associated with more problems with attention?
Watching television fosters development of brain circuits, or “habits of mind,” that result in increased aggressiveness, lower tolerance levels and decreased attention span, in lieu of developing language circuits in the brain’s left hemisphere
Television-watching deprives children of hours that could be spent fostering creativity, self-reliance, learning and social interaction
Television is a mentally passive activity
All of the above
Which theorist’s approach underlies most current theories of attachment?
Bowlby
Which of the following are examples of resiliency factors?
A secure attachment in infancy
A good sense of humor
A positive self-concept
All of the above
Teratogen
Environmental chemicals such as alcohol or other recreational drugs, medications, or environmental pollutants that can cause birth defects or threaten a fetus
What of the following is true of reactive attachment disorder (RAD)?
It is characterized by markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate ways of relating socially in most contexts
It is the diagnostic term for a severe disorder of attachment that can affect children
It arises from a failure to form normal attachments to primary caregiving figures in early childhood
It can result from severe early experiences of neglect, abuse, abrupt separation from caregivers between the ages of six months and three years, frequent change of caregivers, or a lack of caregiver responsiveness to a child’s communicative efforts
All of the above
Which of the following is FALSE regarding premature infants?
.
The more immature the preterm infant is at birth, the higher the risk of medical problems just in infancy but not in childhood and beyond
What level of language proficiency is reached when someone learns a language well enough for academic success?
CALP
All of the following are hypotheses about infantile amnesia EXCEPT:
the traumatic experiences of infancy lead to repression of those painful memories
child who explores objects with her mouth is most likely in which Piagetian stage?
Sensorimotor
Perceptions of how one should behave as a girl or boy are referred to as:
Gender roles
What taste do infants prefer?
Sweet
Baby Stephan is participating in a study designed to test infants’ depth perception. The researchers place him on an apparatus, which consists of a large, transparent pane of glass with two checker-patterned displays below it. On the far side, the pattern is roughly 3 feet below to give the impression of a sudden drop-off. Baby Stephan is on a:
Visual Cliff
According to Gilligan, an individual in the postconventional stage of moral reasoning considers which of the following factors when making moral decisions?
Both care about the self and care about others
When rat mothers lick their offspring more, that increased care can turn on gene pathways that produce more neurotransmitters involved in reducing anxiety. This is an example of a(n): a. parent effect b. child effect c. epigenetic effect d. inducible effect
Epigenetic effect
Lucian grew up in a Romanian orphanage under conditions of severe deprivation. All of the following statements are true of extremely deprived children such as Lucien compared to typically developing children EXCEPT: a. less myelination b. smaller overall brain size c. reduced pruning d. reduced physiological activity
Reduced pruning
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ refers to an organism’s ability to adjust to environmental changes. a. Sensitivity b. Plasticity c. Hardiness d. Malleability
Plasticity
How can alcohol impact the developing fetus?
Alcohol passes very quickly through the placenta to the fetus, and the unborn baby feels a drink almost as fast as a pregnant woman
It can lead to irreversible damage
It can lead to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
All of the above
Those low on emotional intelligence
a.
have difficulty understanding both their emotions and others’ emotions
b.
only have difficulty recognizing their own emotions
c.
too quickly recognize others’ emotions as well as their own
d.
only have difficulty inferring other’s emotional states
have difficulty understanding both their emotions and others’ emotions
What is the meaning of Dominant Inheritance?
Child inherits a genetic disease when one parent (who has the disease) passes along a single faulty gene
What is emotional regulation
The individual’s ability to soothe uncomfortable feelings, manage feelings of anger and frustration, and to otherwise handle his or her emotions
You want to study number concepts in infants. Your best choice of research methods would be to:
habituate an infant to 3 blocks, and see if dishabituation occurs when you show 1 block
Which of the following is true of Gilligan's theory of moral development? It is based on an ethic of justice It is based on an ethic of care It applies more to males than females All of the above None of the above
It is based on an ethic of care
________ neurons may play a role in emotional contagion by linking action and perception such that the same neurons fire when a person either expresses an emotion or observes that emotion in others.
Mirror
How does culture impact children’s emotional development?
An individual’s culture may call for the free expression of an emotion or hiding that emotion
The culture provides the structure for when it is considered appropriate or inappropriate to feel and express various emotions
The culture shows the child how and when to express their feelings appropriately
All of the above
True of preterm births
They have increased in the US over the last 20 years
In the developing world, these are usually due to the mother’s overall health and nutrition
Adolescents who are not fully physically mature have a higher liklihod of having a preterm baby
They are more likely when a woman is under great stress
All of the above