MCQ practice Flashcards
A defined age group in a society is called an age:
grade
Nature is to nurture as:
maturation is to learning
In order to stop drunk driving, police in your town put up significantly more random check-stops on the highway. This strategy appears to be focusing on using the ________ to deal with the issue.
exosystem
A true experiment involves the ________ of the independent variable.
manipulation
What is an advantage of using a quasi-experiment?
Researchers can study variables that do not permit random assignment of participants to conditions.
A ________ is a group of people born in a specified, limited span of years (e.g., the 1960s).
cohort
For her senior project, Shantae wants to study children’s moral reasoning. During the Fall semester, she interviews 20 individuals in each of the following grades: first, fourth, seventh, tenth, and college sophomores. She asks each participant to solve a practical moral dilemma. What sort of research design is Shantae using?
cross-sectional
Jane, who is assessing the eating habits in a group of 40-year-olds, and who will follow and assess this same group when they get to ages 60 and 80. What research design is this?
longitudinal
While I am the fastest to conduct research design, one big disadvantage I have is that I do not generate information about the development of individuals. Which research method am I?
cross-secitonal
The notion that development is impacted by the time in which we live is a key element of what Bronfenbrenner referred to as the chronosystem. T/F?
false
The cultural context in which most bioecological systems are embedded is called the
Macrosystem
John Locke believed that human nature was:
determined by a person’s experineces
Jerome believes that development proceeds through a series of developmental stages, each of which represents distinct changes. He might BEST be called a(n) ________ theorist.
discontinuity
During the ________ stage of development individuals lack the ability to use symbols.
sensorimotor
Bandura is best known for developing _____ cognitive theory
social
Tony and Tina can tell at birth that something is wrong with their son. Genetic tests indicate that the child has an extra chromosome in its cells and that chromosome is a sex chromosome. Which of the following does the child have?
Klinefelter syndrome
________ involves conducting DNA tests on the first cells after the mitosis of a fertilized egg.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
The fact that parents provide their children with both their genes and an environment that is impacted by their own genetic make-up defines the gene-environment correlation of:
passive genotype-environment
An ______gene-environment relationship exists when a child’s genotype elicits specific reactions from others.
evocative
Genetic epistemology is BEST defined as the study of:
the emergence of the knowledge of reality
Once while she was about to take a nap, baby Carolyn accidentally sucked on her blanket. Now she repeatedly sucks on the blanket when she’s going to sleep. This new behavior is an example of:
secondary circular reaction
A true sense of curiosity and novelty first emerges during the ________ stage of development.
tertiary circular reactions
Piaget stated that the preoperational stage of development normally begins around:
2 years
Virginia tells her mom that “there is no Santa Claus,” and as evidence presents the fact that most of the gifts that are supposed to come from Santa have labels from Target, Wal-Mart, and other retail stores. Virginia’s questioning of Santa appears to be based on the concept of:
perceptual salience
Okezie has just acquired the ability to accurately solve conservation tasks. Given this description, Okezie is BEST classified as being in Piaget’s ________ stage of development.
concrete operations
Bell is shown a set of jars and is asked to arrange a group of jars from shortest to tallest. This is a test for:
seriation
At which age do people do better on recall tasks than on recognition tasks?
no age group does better
The research study of infant memory involving a ribbon tied to an infant’s foot relied heavily on ________ conditioning techniques.
operant conditioning
an ____memory occurs as the result of a deliberate, intentional effort
explicit
Which aspect of language deals with the meanings assigned to words?
semantics
Willow knows that when referring to more than one tree she must add an “s” to the end of the word tree (i.e., trees) to make it plural. Understanding this rule demonstrates Willow’s awareness of the ________ of English.
morphology
During the ________ phase of reading a child is first able to “read” something that they have memorized during a previous reading session.
prealthabetic
The personality principle of ________ concerns situation-specific ways in which people adapt to their environment.
dispositional traits
Children first begin to define themselves as part of a group around ________ years of age.
8
Children’s initial recognition of themselves as physically separate from others corresponds with Erikson’s ________ psychosocial stage?
trust vs mistrust
