Development
Section of development for AP review.
- 1.If research suggested that a pregnant mother's use of an artificial sweetener caused harm to the fetus, the artificial sweetener would be considered a(N):
- A.
FAS
- B.
Form of DNA
- C.
Depressant
- D.
Teratogen
- E.
Neurotransmitter
- 2.Newborns have been observed to show the greatest visual interest in a :
- A.
Rectangular shape
- B.
Circular shape
- C.
Bull's eye pattern
- D.
Drawing of a human face
- E.
Triangular shape
- 3.The relative lack of neural connections in the brain at the time of the birth, most directly contributes to:
- A.
Conventional mortality
- B.
Poor memory for early life experiences
- C.
An inability to take another person's point of view
- D.
The fear of strangers commonly displayed by infants
- 4.Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child
- A.
Is like a blank slate at birth
- B.
Is not heavily influenced by maturation
- C.
Comprehends reality differently form the way an adult does
- D.
Is heavily dependent on the child's personality
- 5.Nancy thought all nurses were young females until a middle aged male nurse took care of her. Nancy altered conception of a "nurse" illustrates the process of:
- A.
Habituation
- B.
Accommodation
- C.
Attachment
- D.
Assimilation
- E.
Imprinting
- 6.According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the _______ stage.
- A.
Concrete operational
- B.
Sensorimotor
- C.
Formal operational
- D.
Preoperational
- 7.According to Piaget, egocentrism is to conservation as the ____ stage is to the _____ stage.
- A.
Preoperational;sensorimotor
- B.
Concrete operational; preoperational
- C.
Sensorimotor;preoperational
- D.
Concrete operational; formal operational
- E.
Preoperational; concrete operational
- 8.A critical period is a phase during which:
- A.
Children frequently disobey and resist their parents.
- B.
Children become able to think hypothetically and reason abstractly
- C.
Parents frequently show impatience with a child's slowness in becoming toilet-trained
- D.
Certain events have a particularly strong impart on development
- 9.Authoritarian parents demonstrate _________ levels of parental control and ________ levels of parental responsiveness.
- A.
High;high
- B.
Low; low
- C.
High; low
- D.
Low; high
- E.
Medium; high
- 10.A person who does not cheat on her income tax because she might get caught and sent to jail is demonstrating Kohlberg's _________ stage of morality.
- A.
Conventional
- B.
Postconventional
- C.
Preconventional
- D.
Operational
- E.
Formal operational
- 11.Critics of Kohlbergs' theory of moral development have suggested that postconventional morality is more characteristic of _____ than of ________.
- A.
Men; women
- B.
Democrats; Republican
- C.
Socialist; capitalist
- D.
African Americans; white Americans
- E.
Catholics; Protestants
- 12.A researcher who administers a personality test to the same children every 3 years as they progress through school is conducting a(n) _______study.
- A.
Longitudinal
- B.
Experimental
- C.
Cross sectional
- D.
Chronological
- 13.Alex, a 70 year old retired teacher, feels that his life hasnot been of any real value or significance. According to Erikson, Alex has failed to achieve a sense of:
- A.
Basic trust
- B.
Intimacy
- C.
Autonomy
- D.
Integrity
- E.
Generativity
- 14.The Eriksonian ________ crisis takes place during adolescence.
- A.
Autonomy
- B.
Trust
- C.
Identity
- D.
Inimacy
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