Psychology - Developmental Psychology Pre Quiz 8

Which of the following groups is most likely to be involved in extracurricular activities?

Private speech may be a way for children to practice the practical skills required in conversation, also known as __________

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What is the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale? How is it used for research purposes?

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Some children of heavy drinkers develop ____________________

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In the 1960s, young people in the United States typically finished school, left home, got a job, got married, and had children. By the 1990s, only ________ of emerging adults followed this sequence.

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Our awareness of what exactly constitutes a storage or retrieval strategy is known as

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Negative teacher expectations fall disproportionately on:

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David Wechsler objected to the Stanford-Binet IQ test's overemphasis on

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The capacity to feel pain begins ______.

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One childbirth method is based on the principle that childbirth should be as natural as possible and involve no medication or medical intervention

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Marital quality refers to __________

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Which of the following accurately describes what happens to unused synapses in the brain?

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Your cousin has just had a baby and you have come to visit her. After rocking the baby to sleep, you want to lay the baby down in a bassinet. How should you place the baby in the bassinet?

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Describe longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs. What are strengths and weaknesses of each design?

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What are some of the positive outcomes of adolescents working part-time while in school?

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A husband automatically has standing to sue on behalf of his wife.

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The process of habituation and recovery seems to be an especially effective early index of intelligence because it ________.

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For parents who own a handheld device, approximately __________% admit to allowing their child to use a handheld video player while they are out running errands together

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Protein-coding genes ________

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A __________ is a segment of DNA that serves as a template for making one or more proteins.

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Which of the following disorders refers to the weak and irregular breathing that is typical of preterm babies?

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One disadvantage of cross-sectional studies is that repeated testing may change participants' behaviors

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Discuss the effect of diabetes on psychosocial functioning. What negative behaviors often result?

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Which game would a child age 4 likely have enough fine motor skills to play?

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When the brain is sorting out and attending only to the most important messages from the senses, it is engaged in the process of _____.

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Renaldo and Clara spend time with their baby, teaching her to say what she wants and to tell her parents how she feels. What is this style of speech called?

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Under current federal law, children with learning disabilities must be

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Yolanda wonders about her own thoughts and emotions. This illustrates:

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An enduring contribution of Freud’s theory is his proposal that difficulties in ________________ contribute to later development

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According to the strategy choice model, teachers should discourage children from counting on their fingers

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How do contextual factors and ageist stereotypes affect older workers?

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What behavior would an infant display that would lead a competent doctor to accurately suspect the child has an autism spectrum disorder?

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Who wrote the groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species and is responsible for the birth of the evolutionary perspective?

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Two-year-old Luis does a great imitation of a train engineer. Luis plays for hours with his toy train set. Luis's train sounds are so realistic that sometimes his parents think that there is a real train going by their house

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What can a parent do to help prepare their child to succeed in school?

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While on a walk with her mother, Sofia comes across a dog. She notices that her mother is smiling at the dog, so Sofia also shows a positive reaction to it. Sofia's reaction illustrates ______________

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The average financial costs of medical care for a very-low-birthweight infant during the first 3 years of life may be between __________ and __________ times higher than medical costs for a full-term child

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Approximately how many infants in the United States die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) each year?

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What are some characteristics of children who labor and what type of work do they perform?

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In males, semen volume, sperm motility, and percentage of normal sperm decrease gradually after age

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How long can Bart, an American, expect to live in good health, free of disabilities?

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According to cross-cultural studies, what games are popular all over the world in middle childhood?

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Research confirms that a ________ correlation exists between personality and vocational choice; which supports the conclusion that ________.

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In Western cultures the idea that a certain amount of adolescent rebellion is normal and perhaps even healthy reflects a:

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Briefly describe how the absence of religion in the worldviews of today’s Danish emerging adults is explained

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Judy has a 3-month-old baby. Whenever someone tickles the baby's cheeks or chin, she moves her head toward that person's fingers and puts them in her mouth. This is most likely due to the _____

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The psychometric approach to studying cognitive development analyzes intelligence using

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As a child, Chester was physically abused by his mother. He has now begun to physically abuse his daughter. His behavior best exemplifies

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What age did G. Stanley Hall designate as the end of adolescence?

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Between the ages of 7 and 11, pruning results in a 50% loss in the circuits in the brain that control

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Professor Wisdom studies the effects of TV on cooperative play. He uses parental interviews, child interviews, correlation, and experiments. All his results show consistently that children who watch the least TV are most cooperative. He applies the principle of

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Arteriosclerosis frequently leads to

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The basic premise of a hereditary view concerning the nature of intelligence is that:

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Which of the following are the two largest criticisms of Piaget's theory of formal operations?

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Research suggests that about ________% of those diagnosed as ADHD in childhood still persist with major symptoms as adults.

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