Answer Options:
A. The level of stress.
\nB. The strength of the immune system.
\nC. The person whose stress level is measured.
\nD. The duration of stress.
Answer: A. The level of stress.
Question: To teach my child to clean up after himself, I reward him with a sticker when he cleans up. I also sometimes will say “thank you for cleaning up – I will finish this for you because I am so happy you are cleaning up your toys right now!” This type of training stems from which theory?
Answer Options:
A. behaviorism: operant conditioning
\nB. behaviorism: classical conditioning
\nC. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
Answer: A. behaviorism: operant conditioning
Question: If I was to create a survey, which of the following would I need to avoid to keep my study accurate?
Answer Options:
A. make sure you switch the participant if I like the survey
\nB. wording questions to avoid social desirability from participants
\nC. wording questions in a biased way
\nD. have every question have the option “undecided”
Answer: C. wording questions in a biased way
Question: The ecological-systems perspective of human development emphasizes
Answer Options:
A. the importance of the physical environment, including pollution, in affecting development.
\nB. the extent to which a person acts according to the “pleasure principle” or the “reality principle”.
\nC. the composition of social systems in cultures with various types of subsistence patterns with emphasis on hunter-gatherers and herding societies.
\nD. the relationship between the individual and the environment including social systems such as family, community and school.
Answer: D. the relationship between the individual and the environment including social systems such as family, community and school.
Question: This method of prepared childbirth encourages mothers to have a coach to help guide them through the birth process.
Answer Options:
A. The Chambers method.
\nB. The Dick-Read method.
\nC. The Lamaze method.
\nD. The Leboyer method.
Answer: C. The Lamaze method.
Question: Why can young children run and jump, long before they can follow the rules of games?
Answer Options:
A. The motor cortex is not fully mature until middle childhood.
\nB. The frontal lobes are not fully mature until children are 6.
Answer: B. The frontal lobes are not fully mature until children are 6.
Question: An organism is least likely to survive which stage of prenatal development?
Answer Options:
A. The germinal stage
\nB. The fetal stage
\nC. Failures are the same throughout prenatal development.
\nD. The embryonic stage
Answer: D. The embryonic stage
Question: In vitro fertilization is the most common procedure for infertility cases.
Answer Options:
A. True
\nB. False
Answer: A. True
Question: According to Erikson, a three-month-old is in which psychosocial stage?
Answer Options:
A. Integrity vs. despair
\nB. Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
\nC. Trust vs. mistrust
\nD. Caring vs. doing
Answer: C. Trust vs. mistrust
Question: If you were an authoritative parent, how would you handle a child who only wanted to eat a banana split for dinner? You would say ______.
Answer Options:
A. “It would be much better to eat a healthy dinner first and have a banana split for dessert if you are not full.”
\nB. “Great, let’s go for it!”
\nC. “Whatever, I don’t care.”
\nD. “Absolutely not, under no circumstance will I allow that!”
Answer: A. “It would be much better to eat a healthy dinner first and have a banana split for dessert if you are not full.”
Question: Select the theorist or perspective you would use to: (1) understand children’s different ideas about the world; (2) explain children’s learning at different stages; (3) figure out how memory operates.
Answer Options:
A. Piaget, Vygotsky, information processing
\nB. Piaget, information processing, Vygotsky
\nC. Vygotsky, Piaget, information processing
Answer: C. Vygotsky, Piaget, information processing
Question: Drives and urges are relatively quiet during this stage, according to Freud.
Answer Options:
A. the genital stage
\nB. the latent stage
\nC. the oral stage
\nD. the anal stage
Answer: B. the latent stage
Question: Sharon wants to show how third graders in the United States learn from “reading buddy” programs. She extracts several of these programs in area schools and then interviews the adults responsible. She constructs a survey to give to her colleagues who support the program and they are successful to the local school board to promote the growth of such programs. This example illustrates which aspect of research?
Answer: Observational studies
Question: Secure attachment makes a toddler:
Answer Options:
A. willing to explore.
\nB. well controlled.
\nC. try to talk.
\nD. cling to the mother.
Answer: A. willing to explore.