Assignment:
Developmental Psychology Questions
1. Ricardo believes that, rather than progressing through a sequence of stages, mental processes gradually get more complex and efficient. Ricardo is most likely a proponent of ____________________.
- Piaget's theory
- Kohlberg's theory
- Information processing theory
- Erikson's theory
2. Louis discovers that the experiences he has in his developmental psychology class help him to deal with the children he works with at a daycare center. This relationship is best described by Bronfenbrenner's notion of _____________________.
- mesosystem
- exosystem
- macrosystem
- microsystem
3. Dr. Lund stages a fire drill at the elementary school in order to study how children respond to potential emergency situations. Dr. Lund's method would best be described as a(n) _____________________.
- structured observation
- naturalistic observation
- self-report
- experiment
4. You are reading the results of a study that tracked how a particular individual's religious beliefs changed over the course of her life. The study you are reading is most likely a(n) ______________________ study.
- longitudinal
- cross-sectional
- sequential
- experimental
5. Which statement is not consistent with ethical research?
- Subject responses should be confidential.
- Never tell subjects if they've been deceived.
- Minimize the risks to subjects.
- Give subjects the right to withdraw from the research without penalty.
6. Which results would not support the idea that genes play a significant role in behavior?
- finding dizygotic twins to be more similar than monozygotic twins
- finding children to be more similar to their biological parents than to their adoptive parents
- finding similarities between biological siblings
- finding monozygotic twins to be more similar than pairs of unrelated individuals
7. Halley is 40-years-old, and she and her daughter Berry, 20, are both currently pregnant. Which statement concerning these two mothers is most accurate?
- Berry has a greater risk of giving birth to a baby with sickle-cell anemia.
- Halley is twice as fertile as Berry.
- Berry's odds of having a baby with Down Syndrome are three times higher than Halley's.
- Halley has a greater risk of having a miscarriage.
8. How many of the following (aspirin, nicotine, cocaine, caffeine) are potential teratogens?
9. Maternal stress is most likely to negatively impact a developing embryo/fetus when that stress is _____________________________.
- intermittent and extreme
- intermittent and moderate
- chronic and extreme
- chronic and moderate
10. Huntington's disease is an unusual genetic disorder in that it is a fatal disease caused by dominant alleles that ________________________.
- impact late enough in life so that the individual can reproduce
- are controllable through diet
- both must come from mom
- strike only males
11. Self-reports are a rather easy and quick way to gather information, there are fewer potential ethical issues than many other forms of research, and they are relatively inexpensive. Why aren't they the method of choice for developmental research?
- respondents can refuse to participate
- selective non-responses to certain questions
- respondents don't tell the truth or distort their beliefs or facts about their life (socially desirable responses)
- respondents cannot elaborate on answers and can only choose from available option