Developmental Psychology Quiz 1A:
By the year 2040, the minority population in the United States is projected to rise to
50%
All of the following may be considered indirect effects of poverty EXCEPT
Breakdown in the nuclear family
Which of the following words BEST describes the focus of the study of human development?
Change
The establishment of research institutes at American universities such as Iowa, Minnesota, Berkeley, and Yale with professional practitioners marked the emergence of what area of psychology?
Child
Change and stability in mental abilities, such as learning, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, etc. would constitute which type of development?
Cognitive
Dr. Liefeld is conducting a study in which she observes hundreds of children to try to determine the average age at which they are able to climb the sliding chute without assistance. This research is concerned with the what kind of behavior?
Description
Which of the following is NOT one of the principles of life-span development identified by Baltes (1987)?
Development ends with childhood
The world outside the self and the learning that comes from experiences in this world are what kind of influence?
Environmental
An overgeneralization that obscures cultural difference within a group is a description of
Ethnic gloss
Socioeconomic status is determined by all of the following EXCEPT
Ethnicity
Life-span studies are based on which of the following ideas?
Every portion of the life span is influenced by earlier events and will in turn affect later events
A multigenerational kinship unit consisting of parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins is called a(n) ______ family.
Extended
Industrialization and the move to more populated areas are both cited as reasons for the decline in the
Extended family
All cultures use the eight periods of human life to describe the lifespan.
False
Development begins at birth.
False
Maturation is directed by environmental events.
False
Psychologists have always been interested in the study of human development.
False
The eight periods of the lifespan are: infancy; Toddlerhood; early and middle childhood; adolescence; young, middle, and old adulthood.
False
The phrase nuclear family indicates a heterosexual Man and Woman who may or may not have children.
False
Who was one of the first psychologists to become interested in the study of aging; publishing the book Senescence: The Last Half of Life at the age of 78?
G. Stanley Hall
Environmental or experiential factors that help define individual differences in development include all of the following EXCEPT
Genetic Inheritance
Historically, the study of child development gained impetus from:
Immunization to protect children from disease, child labor laws, and scientific discoveries about the nature of conception.
Shayla is dependent on adults to meet her basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter, and to provide attachment bonding. She is experiencing the needs of what developmental period?
Infancy
Marcus is 14 months old and having great difficulty when left with the babysitter. His separation anxiety is an example of interaction between which two types of development?
Intellectual and social
Becoming introspective and searching out meaning in life is characteristic of which of the following?
Late adulthood
The unfolding of a natural sequence of physical changes and behavior patterns describes
Maturation
Developmental researchers refer to typical events that happen at an atypical time, or atypical events that happen at a typical time, as __________ events.
Nonnormative
The impact of technological developments such as video games, computers, and the Internet are considered
Normative history-graded influences
Which type of development is most involved in the growth of body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health?
Physical
A change in the number or amount or frequency of a behavioral characteristic would be referred to as a __________ change.
Quantitative
A condition that would increase the likelihood of a negative outcome is a description of what?
Risk factors
According to your text, which of the following is NOT one of the major divisions of the life span?
Senescence
The existence of adolescence as part of the life span in many industrialized societies is an example of
Social construction
Which of the following is an example of qualitative change in human development?
TIna develops two new strategies for remembering
Anthropology is a discipline used by human developmentalists.
True
Anxiety about taking a test can cause a person to do worse on the test.
True
The study of children began with baby biographies.
True
Rubella has a disastrous impact if it is contracted during the first trimester of a pregnancy yet has hardly any impact if contracted at the end of a pregnancy. This is an example of
a critical period
A specific time when a given event, or the absence of that event, has the greatest impact on development is called a(n) __________ period.
critical
A groups total way of life, including customs, traditions, laws, beliefs, values, and language, is referred to as its
culture
Normative history-graded influences include all of the following EXCEPT
death of a spouse
To adapt by learning the language, customs, and attitudes needed to get along in the dominant culture while trying to preserve some of ones own culture is NOT
ethnic gloss, ethnicity. aggregation, or society.
Research in the field of adolescent development has increased in the past 100 years mainly due to the fact that:
it was not considered a stage of development until the twentieth century.
An event that is experienced in a similar way by most people in an age group is called a _________ influence.
normative age-graded
The critical period for language development is from early infancy to
puberty
Your cohort would include your
schoolmates
The concept of individual differences implies that people differ in
size and build, intelligence and personalities, and the socialites and relationships they have.
