Question: Angie does not notice when her mother leaves the day-care center and ignores her mother when she returns. Angie’s behavior is:

Answer Options:
A. secure attachment.
\nB. disoriented attachment.
\nC. insecure-resistant attachment.
\nD. insecure-avoidant attachment.

Answer: D. insecure-avoidant attachment.

Question: An infant is all

Answer Options:
A. Unconscious.
\nB. Id.
\nC. Ego.
\nD. Superego.

Answer: B. Id.

Question: Professor Cook is conducting a research study on the cognitive abilities of infants and young children. Professor Cook follows subjects from birth to age 7; she assesses small groups from different ages. She then collects data from 1 year olds, 3 year olds, 5 year olds, and 7 year olds. When she finished the study, she assessed 40 children. Which of the following describes the research method that Dr. Cook is using?

Answer Options:
A. experimental
\nB. case study
\nC. cross-sectional
\nD. longitudinal

Answer: C. cross-sectional

Question: To find out if older people are wiser than younger people, Samantha gives 20-year-old, 40-year-old, and 60-year-old people a “wisdom test.” Ten years later, she breaks the 3 groups and gives them another “wisdom test.” What type of study is Samantha using?

Answer Options:
A. Cross-sectional
\nB. Longitudinal
\nC. Sequential
\nD. Experiment

Answer: B. Longitudinal

Question: The cohort effect is most noticeable with which level of analysis?

Answer Options:
A. macrosystem analysis.
\nB. microsystem analysis.
\nC. exosystem analysis.
\nD. chronosystem analysis.

Answer: D. chronosystem analysis.

Question: The strongest theory is explaining human development is a stage or discontinuous theory.

Answer Options:
A. True
\nB. False

Answer: B. False

Question: True or False. The skin becomes looser and muscle mass decreases during young adulthood and beyond.

Answer Options:
A. True
\nB. False

Answer: A. True

Question: According to this author’s 1924 work, “The Surrealist Manifesto,” the point of Surrealism was to reunite conscious and unconscious realms of experience so fully that the world of dream and fantasy would join the everyday rational world?

Answer Options:
André Breton
\nSigmund Freud
\nMarcel Duchamp
\nSalvador Dalí

Answer: André Breton

Question: If my parenting philosophy is there in an interplay between personality, event interpretation and interaction, I follow reciprocal determinism. I influence the world, and the world influences me. The actions I show my child impacts my child, how my child sees me and my actions my child shows me impacts my parenting. These themes all fit under which theorist/theory?

Answer Options:
A. Vygotsky’s social learning theory
\nB. Bandura’s social learning theory
\nC. Vygotsky’s cognitive development
\nD. Bandura’s behaviorism
\nE. Bioecological/social learning theory

Answer: B. Bandura’s social learning theory

Question: Researcher Smith uses a variety of techniques to learn as much as possible about Mr. Jordan who had to relocate to Houston after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. Researcher Smith is using which method of research?

Answer Options:
A. Experiment
\nB. Survey
\nC. Cross-sectional study
\nD. Case study

Answer: D. Case study

Question: You just came back from class in which the topic was egocentrism in the preoperational stage. You have a 4-year-old and thought that you would see if what you learned was accurate. You are sitting directly across from her and ask her to look at the front and back cover of her favorite book. After she did this you asked her to describe “the part of the book I am looking at.” What does she tell you?

Answer Options:
A. what she sees
\nB. the number of pages of the book
\nC. what the story is about
\nD. what you see

Answer: A. what she sees

Question: Erik Erikson felt that one of the MOST important tasks of the twenties was to develop a sense of:

Answer Options:
A. Initiative by doing more things for oneself.
\nB. Intimacy through a close partner relationship.
\nC. Trust.
\nD. Generativity.

Answer: B. Intimacy through a close partner relationship.

Question: When Sammy sees Mommy roll the thick ball of dough into a thin circle for pie crust, he says: Now there is more dough because it’s bigger. His sister, Sally, tells Sammy: No, it’s the same amount because Mommy could just roll it back again and it would look the same. According to Piaget’s framework, Sammy _____.

Answer Options:
A. can’t conserve; can’t conserve
\nB. can’t conserve; can conserve
\nC. can conserve; can conserve
\nD. can conserve; can’t conserve

Answer: B. can’t conserve; can conserve

Question: According to this author’s 1924 work, “The Surrealist Manifesto,” the point of Surrealism was to reunite conscious and unconscious realms of experience so fully that the world of dream and fantasy would join the everyday rational world?

Answer Options:
André Breton
\nSigmund Freud
\nMarcel Duchamp
\nSalvador Dalí

Answer: André Breton

Question: The difference between gross and fine motor skills is whether they:

Answer Options:
A. involve mental or physical skills.
\nB. are controllable.
\nC. are due more to nature or nurture.
\nD. involve bigger or smaller muscles.

Answer: D. involve bigger or smaller muscles.

Question: This stage is experienced in early adulthood, according to Erikson.

Answer Options:
A. Identity vs. role confusion
\nB. Trust vs. mistrust
\nC. Industry vs. inferiority
\nD. Intimacy vs. isolation

Answer: D. Intimacy vs. isolation

Question: The term “holophrase” is used to denote:

Answer Options:
A. the infant’s use of one word to express a whole thought.
\nB. the use of two words to label the place of an era.
\nC. the relationship of object permanence to language development.
\nD. a word that is entirely of meaning.

Answer: A. the infant’s use of one word to express a whole thought.

Question: Which theorist am I?

Answer Options:
A. Freud
\nB. Brofenbrenner
\nC. Piaget
\nD. Erikson

Answer: D. Erikson

Question: If you want to know someone’s socioeconomic status, you would ask:

Answer Options:
A. What is your value?
\nB. What is your income?
\nC. What is your country of origin?
\nD. What is your medical history?

Answer: B. What is your income?