Question 1

Which of the following questions would an information-processing theorist ask?

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A)  How do unconscious drives contribute to personality development?
B)  How do cultural values shape development?
C)  Are declines in memory during old age evident on all types of tasks or only some?
D)  Why are some individuals more aggressive than others?

Question 2

One limitation of longitudinal research is that participants' performance may improve as a result of

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A)  biased sampling.
B)  random assignment.
C)  practice effects.
D)  cohort effects.

Question 3

John Bowlby argued that

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A)  behaviors such as smiling,babbling,and crying are innate social signals that encourage parents to interact with their infants.
B)  infants become attached to their parents because parents are associated with the reduction of primary drives,such as hunger and thirst.
C)  parents and infants are both instinctively attached to each other.
D)  attachment patterns are difficult to study in humans.

Question 4

Jackson,a professional baseball player,is convinced that his two sons will both be outstanding athletes.Jackson probably believes that athletic ability is mostly determined by

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A)  nurture.
B)  stages.
C)  early experiences.
D)  nature.

Question 5

Dr.Kostel believes that development takes place in stages.This belief is consistent with the _________ perspective.

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A)  nurture
B)  continuous
C)  discontinuous
D)  nature

Question 6

Research on Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory indicates that

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A)  he overestimated the competencies of infants and young children.
B)  he overemphasized the role of social and cultural influences on development.
C)  discovery learning facilitates learning better than adult teaching.
D)  children's performances on Piagetian tasks can be improved with training.

Question 7

History-graded influences explain why ___________ tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times.

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A)  siblings
B)  coworkers
C)  cohorts
D)  friends

Question 8

Professor Pedagogy's research shows that participation in extracurricular activities is correlated with grades in school.Based on this study's findings,what can Professor Pedagogy conclude?

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A)  Participation in extracurricular activities causes grade differences.
B)  Grades cause differences in participation in extracurricular activities.
C)  Participation in extracurricular activities is related to grades.
D)  A third variable,such as intelligence,is causing both participation in extracurricular activities and grade differences.

Question 9

Kim is interested in comparing the language development of shy versus outgoing preschoolers.Kim is most likely interested in ______________ that shape development.

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A)  genetic factors
B)  the contexts
C)  therapeutic techniques
D)  historical factors

Question 10

According to ___________ theory,children learn primarily through modeling.

Accepted Answer

A)  reinforcement
B)  operant conditioning
C)  social learning
D)  classical conditioning

Question 11

To overcome some of the limitations of traditional developmental designs,investigators sometimes use

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A)  longitudinal studies.
B)  correlational research.
C)  sequential designs.
D)  cross-sectional designs.

Question 12

Within the ________________ view of development,new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.

Accepted Answer

A)  discontinuous
B)  nature
C)  continuous
D)  nurture

Question 13

A major limitation of systematic observation is that it

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A)  provides little information on how participants actually behave.
B)  underestimates the capacities of individuals who have difficulty putting their thoughts into words.
C)  tells investigators little about the reasoning behind responses and behaviors.
D)  ignores participants with poor memories,who may have trouble recalling exactly what happened.

Question 14

In an experiment on the effects of music versus acting lessons on intelligence,the independent variable would be

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A)  the type of lessons (music versus acting) .
B)  a measure of intelligence.
C)  the type of music lessons.
D)  the frequency of the acting lessons.

Question 15

The ______________ variable is the one the investigator expects to cause changes in another variable.

Accepted Answer

A)  correlational
B)  independent
C)  dependent
D)  coefficient

Question 16

One limitation of the ethnographic method is

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A)  investigators' cultural values sometimes lead them to misinterpret what they see.
B)  it provides little information on how children and adults actually behave.
C)  it relies on unobtrusive techniques,such as surveillance cameras and one-way mirrors.
D)  it provides little information about the reasoning behind participants' responses.

Question 17

A(n) _______________ design permits inferences about cause and effect.

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A)  structured
B)  observational
C)  experimental
D)  correlational

Question 18

__________ is concerned with the adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary history.

Accepted Answer

A)  Ethology
B)  Developmental cognitive theory
C)  Social learning theory
D)  Psychoanalytic theory

Question 19

Describe the similarities and differences between Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory.

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Piaget did not regard direct teaching by...

Question 20

Research that combines ____________ and ______________ designs is increasingly common because it permits correlational and causal inferences.

Accepted Answer

A)  longitudinal;sequential
B)  experimental;developmental
C)  cross-sectional;developmental
D)  correlational;experimental

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Kim is interested in comparing the language development of shy versus outgoing preschoolers.Kim is most likely interested in ______________ that shape development.

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One limitation of longitudinal research is that participants' performance may improve as a result of

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Jackson,a professional baseball player,is convinced that his two sons will both be outstanding athletes.Jackson probably believes that athletic ability is mostly determined by

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History-graded influences explain why ___________ tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times.

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Within the ________________ view of development,new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.

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Dr.Kostel believes that development takes place in stages.This belief is consistent with the _________ perspective.

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According to ___________ theory,children learn primarily through modeling.

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John Bowlby argued that

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Professor Pedagogy's research shows that participation in extracurricular activities is correlated with grades in school.Based on this study's findings,what can Professor Pedagogy conclude?

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