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1
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According to Lewis, what type of emotion requires social learning such as embarrassment, shame, and guilt?

a) secondary
b) primary
c) elementary
d) primitive

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a) secondary

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According to Piaget, an individual’s cognitive development is driven by ____.

a) an effort to understand and influence the surrounding environment
b) an effort to satisfy the id while working with the superego
c) the need to satisfy a deficient cognitive state
d) the need for superiority due to innate deficiencies

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a) an effort to understand and influence the surrounding environment

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What did Piaget call the cognitive structures for processing, organizing, and interpreting information?

a) schemes
b) active processing
c) assimilation
d) accommodation

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a) schemes

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____ is when new information is altered to fit an existing scheme, whereas ____ is when a scheme is changed to adapt to new information.

a) Assimilation; accommodation
b) Accommodation; assimilation
c) Retrieval; encoding
d) Encoding; retrieval

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a) Assimilation; accommodation

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Infants in this sensorimotor substage learn to repeat bodily movement that occurred initially by chance; they then repeat this chance behavior intentionally.

a) substage 2: first habits and primary circular reactions
b) substage 1: simple reflexes
c) substage 3: secondary circular reactions
d) substage 4: coordination of secondary schemes

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c) substage 3: secondary circular reactions

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When an infant’s actions first become intentional and goal-directed, rather than reactive, he or she is in sensorimotor substage ____.

a) substage 4: coordination of secondary schemes
b) substage 1: simple reflexes
c) substage 2: first habits and primary circular reactions
d) substage 3: secondary circular reactions

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a) substage 4: coordination of secondary schemes

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Which of the following is a major criticism of Piaget’s theories of cognitive development?

a) he underestimated the cognitive
abilities of infants
b) he overestimated the cognitive
abilities of children
c) his theories are not supported by
modern research
d) his sample size was too large and
over representative

A

a) he underestimated the cognitive
abilities of infants

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Piaget’s stages views cognitive growth as ____, whereas the information-processing approach views cognitive changes as ____.

a) discontinuous; continuous
b) external; internal
c) internal; external
d) continuous; discontinuous

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a) discontinuous; continuous

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Which of the following areas make up Arnold Gesell’s developmental quotient (DQ)?

a) motor skills, language use, adaptive behaviors, and personal-social behavior
b) reflexive index, score on a 16PF rating, Apgar score, and adaptive functioning
c) muscular strength, lung capacity, language use, and social-emotional rating
d) intelligence quotient, functional behavioral assessment rating, and Apgar score

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a) motor skills, language use, adaptive behaviors, and personal-social behavior

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An infant who scores extremely low on the Bayley scales ____.

a) may have serious development problems and needs immediate attention
b) may need the intervention of a social psychologist and pediatric dietitian
c) is predicted to do extremely well on an IQ test
d) is doing extremely well and above normal development milestones

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a) may have serious development problems and needs immediate attention

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Longitudinal studies examining attention have found that compared to “long-lookers,” “ short-lookers” in infancy tend to have ____.

a) higher IQ scores later in development
b) lower IQ scores later in development
c) lower attention scores later in development
d) higher attention scores later in development

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a) higher IQ scores later in development

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In what type of speech do adults talk to infants by raising the pitch of their voices, exaggerating their intonation, and repeating words?

a) infant-directed speech
b) slow-down speech
c) baby talk
d) neuro-stimulating speech

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a) infant-directed speech

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Early in life, infants accumulate fat. This helps the infant ____.

a) maintain a constant body temperature
b) maintain high energy level
c) build muscle
d)create brain cells

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a) maintain a constant body temperature

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____ is comprised of personal attributes such as irritability, soothability, emotional reactivity, and sociability.

a) Temperament
b) Attachment
c) Intelligence quotient
d) Developmental quotient

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a) Temperament

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Miriam has a regular sleep-and-eat pattern, is generally in a positive mood, and adapts well to new situations. According to Thomas and Chess what is her temperament style?

a) easy
b) difficult
c) slow-to-warm-up
d) undifferentiated

A

a) easy

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According to the goodness-of-fit model, babies with a negative temperamental quality find which of the following parental approaches most desirable?

a) high understanding and high tolerance
b) high demandingness and low tolerance
c) low tolerance and high understanding
d) low demandingness and high tolerance

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a) high understanding and high tolerance

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According to Lewis, what type of emotions are the most basic, such as anger, fear, disgust, surprise, and happiness?

a) primary
b) secondary
c) elementary
d) primitive

A

a) primary

18
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What is one of the reasons that toddlers who have been sleeping through the night start waking up again between when they are between 18 and 24 months old?

a) They have a resurgence of teething.
b) They have a huge growth spurt that tends to be painful.
c) They have more difficulties with digestion.
d) They begin having difficulties with insomnia.

A

a) They have a resurgence of teething.

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An infant who climbs up a set of stairs is an example of ____.

a) gross motor movement
b) fine motor movement
c) ambidextrous motor movement
d) outward motor movement

A

a) gross motor movement

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Which of the following are signs that a toddler might be ready to begin toilet training?

a) staying dry for a few hours during the day, having regular bowel movements, and increased anticipation of urine or bowel movement
b) increased regular sleep-wake cycles, staying dry during naps, and increased motions to remove a diaper
c) staying awake during nap time, increased motions to remove a diaper, and increased temper tantrums at bedtime
d) increased motions to remove a diaper, increased crying when a diaper put on, and increased regular feeding patterns

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a) staying dry for a few hours during the day, having regular bowel movements, and increased anticipation of urine or bowel movement