Applying Child Development

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This activity contains 14 questions.

Which of the following questions is most applicable to the COGNITIVE approach to lifespan development?

Are there ethnic and racial differences in intelligence?What determines the sex of the child?How can cross-race friendships be promoted in adolescence?How do adults cope with stress?None of the above are applicable to the COGNITIVE approach to development

According to Bronfenbrenner, in what part of a child’s ecological system are societal values placed?

The macrosystemThe mesosystemThe exosystemThe microsystem

Enrique experienced severe symptoms of stress after witnessing a destructive hurricane when he was 7-years old. This experience of stress is as a result of:

a normative history-graded eventa normative sociocultural graded eventa cohorta nonnormative life event

Most lifespan developmentalists believe that:

that intelligence is not at all influenced by nurturethat intelligence is not at all influenced by naturethe nature-nurture question is not at all controversialintelligence is influenced by both nature and nurturenone of the above

According to Freud, which of the following is described as the id?

a. The raw, unorganized, inborn part of personalityb. The part of the personality that is rational and reasonablec. The aspect of the personality that represents a person’s conscienced. The part of the personality that represents primitive drivesBoth a and d

Classical conditioning:

is most closely associated with the psychodynamic perspectiveis concerned with strengthening or weakening voluntary responsesis an Eriksonian conceptis a type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus

When a child is newly able to understand that a quantity of pennies is the same whether they are spread out or closely spaced, according to Piaget, what is he or she able to do?

AssimilateImitateRespond to operant conditioning Accommodate

The information processing approach:

is often compared to Piaget’s theory of cognitive developmentis not as concerned with how individuals store information as with how information is gained from interactions with othersoffers a complete explanation for behavior such as creativityis concerned with the influence of culture on cognitive development

The humanistic perspective is associated with the work of:

Freud and PiagetRogers and MaslowLorenz and BanduraRogers and DarwinPiaget and Darwin

A correlation coefficient of .89 most likely explains which of the following relationships?

The relationship between weight and marital statusThe relationship between grade point average and score on college entrance examsThe relationship between age and perceived happinessThe relationship between height and attendance at religious services

Researchers are interested in learning if attendance in after school programs during the preschool years impacts whether or not one graduates from high school. What would be the independent variable in this research question?

How many years one stays in schoolIf one attended after school programs during the preschool yearsYears in after school programsIf one graduates from high school

If a researcher was very concerned about the amount of time he had to complete his study, what type of research methodology might he choose to use?

A cross-sequential studyA longitudinal studyA cohort analysisA cross-sectional study

A benefit of longitudinal studies is that:

the time of testing is usually briefage-related changes can be studiedthe likelihood of participants dropping out of the study is minimalthe researcher can save money

In regard to ‘informed consent’, researchers must:

be sure all children over age 5 voluntarily agree to be in the studyobtain consent from participants before the start of the studyobtain written consent from participants after the study has startedobtain parental permission only for those children under the age of 12

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