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1
Which of the following is NOT a critical aspect of developmental theory?
A)It must describe psychological change over time.
B)It must help organize and integrate existing information.
C)It must focus only on children or on childhood.
D)It must generate testable hypotheses.
2
Which of the following reflects current thinking among developmental psychologists?
A)Development is mostly influenced by the environment.
B)Children are active agents who help shape the course of their own development.
C)Development is best thought of as a discontinuous process.
D)Cultural influences on development have recently been found to be less important than previously thought.
3
Dr. Miller sees a school-age boy biting his fingernails and says, "That boy is fixated in the oral stage of development." Dr. Miller is likely to be a proponent of the
A)cognitive social learning perspective.
B)cognitive developmental perspective.
C)behaviorist perspective.
D)psychodynamic perspective.
4
Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning are key forms of learning in which theory?
A)Behavioural
B)Psychodynamic perspective
C)Ethological
D)Maturational
5
Maturationists argue that infants’ and children’s abilities are to a large extent determined by
A)Learning from parents
B)Social context
C)Cultural norms
D)Genetic Make-up
6
Dr. Thomas is examining the exact steps a child takes in solving a math problem. She describes those steps in terms of an input and an output. Dr. Thomas is working from a(n)
A)cognitive social learning perspective.
B)information-processing perspective.
C)Piagetian perspective.
D)psychodynamic perspective.
7
The importance of early relationships, the observation of children in their natural surroundings, and the adaptive value of behavior are ideas central to
A)ethological theory.
B)the behavioral perspective.
C)psychodynamic theory.
D)Piaget's approach
8
The Early Childhood phase of Erikson’s model of development is at the same age as which stage of Freud’s theory?
A)Phallic
B)Latency
C)Anal
D)None of the above
9
In Erikson’s model of development, adulthood is a time for ______________, whilst mature age is a time for ________________
A)Generativity; Integrity
B)Generativity; Intimacy
C)Intimacy; Industry
D)Industry; Intimacy
10
The behaviour exhibited by ducklings, where they attach themselves to and follow around an adult of an entirely different species is called
A)Following
B)Attachment
C)Imprinting
D)Love
11
Social Learning Theory has how many stages?
A)3
B)4
C)5
D)20
12
Which of these statements about Piaget’s theory of development is NOT true?
A)Children’s IQs are representative of their abilities
B)Children of the same ages get the same answers wrong
C)The errors of children at different ages differed in systematic ways
D)Children progress through the stages of cognitive development in an invariant fashion
13
Vygotsky believed in the importance of__________________ on development
A)Genes
B)Prenatal hormones
C)Training
D)Social and Cultural experience
14
In human information processing, the output may in the form of
A)An action
B)A Decision
C)A Memory stored for later use
D)All of the above
15
Connectionist models learn via
A)Programming
B)Training
C)Altering strengths of connections
D)None of the above





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