Midterm Exam Ch 1 -6

A  4 years old

B  14 years old

C  7 years old

D  2 years old

A  The motor cortex develops before the frontal lobes.

B  The motor cortex is not fully mature until middle childhood.

C  The frontal lobes develop before the motor cortex.

D  The frontal lobes are not fully mature until children are 6.

A  4

B  2

C  1

D  3

A  friendly.

B  logical.

C  fearless

D  imaginative.

A  the careful consideration of all options.

B  an emphasis on laws and social order.

C  trying to gain the approval of others.

D  an emphasis on reward and punishment.

A  What is your income?

B  What is your medical history?

C  What is your country of origin?

D  What is your cohort?

A  Unconscious

B  Ego

C  Superego

D  Id

A  a word that is empty of meaning.

B  the infant’s use of one word to express a whole thought.

C  the use of two words to take the place of one.

D  the relationship of object permanence to language development.

A  reflexes.

B  anticipation.

C  first acquired adaptations.

D  active experimentation.

A  disoriented attachment.

B  insecure-resistant attachment.

C  insecure-avoidant attachment.

D  secure attachment.

A  stage five.

B  stage six

C  stage three.

D  stage four.

A  are controllable.

B  involve bigger or smaller muscles.

C  are due more to nature or nurture.

D  involve mental or physical skills.

A  exosystem analysis

B  macrosystem analysis

C  chronosystem analysis

D  microsystem analysis

A  Freud

B  Piaget

C  Vygotsky

D  Pavlov

A  The Dick-Read method.

B  The Chambers method.

C  The Leboyer method

D  The Lamaze method.

A  The sound of the bell.

B  The jumping when a bell is sounded.

C  The administration of the shock.

D  Jumping to the shock.

A  trial and error learning

B  classical conditioning

C  operant conditioning

D  social learning theory

A  Birth of dizygotic triplets.

B  Birth of dizygotic twins.

C  Births of monozygotic triplets.

D  Birth of monozygotic twins.

A  The fetal stage

B  The germinal stage

C  The embryonic stage

D  Failure rates are the same throughout prenatal development.

A  heart damage.

B  all of these

C  liver damage.

D  bone damage.

A  23 chromosomes

B  23 genes

C  46 chromosomes

D  46 pair of genes

A  The duration of stress.

B  The person whose stress level is measured.

C  The level of stress.

D  The strength of the immune system.

A  intimacy vs. isolation

B  trust vs. mistrust

C  identity vs. role confusion

D  industry vs. inferiority

A  Operational.

B  Sensorimotor.

C  Post formal.

D  Preoperational.

A  The superego.

B  The ego.

C  The id.

D  The ‘looking-glass’ self.

A  the anal stage

B  the genital stage

C  the oral stage

D  the latent stage

A  Experiment

B  Case study

C  Survey

D  Cross-sectional study

A  Secondary analysis.

B  The use of simple random samples.

C  Confirmation bias.

D  Observational studies.

A  the importance of the physical environment, including pollutants, in affecting development. .

B  the extent to which a person acts according to the “pleasure principle” or the “reality principle.”

C  the relationship between the individual and the environment including social systems such as family, community and school.

D  the comparison of social systems in cultures with various types of subsistence patterns with and emphasis on hunter-gatherers and herding societies

A  arguing

B  shopping

C  smoking

D  going to night clubs

A  underclass

B  none of these

C  working class

D  working poor