PSY 205 WEEK 8 FINAL EXAM 1
PSY 205 Week 8 Final
Exam 1
1.
Link the correct
attachment style to the following descriptions: (1) thrilled when reunited with
a caregiver, (2) confused, erratic response when reunited with a caregiver, and
(3) doesn't care when reunited with a caregiver.
2.
Your grandmother
was born in 1925. You were born in 1990. If you both took the IQ test at age 7,
who would probably get more items correct?
3.
A cohort refers
to a:
4.
Carlo weighed 2
pounds at birth and is being discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit.
What realistic statement about Carlo's prognosis might you make to his worried
parents?
5.
Name the
theorist who would give each piece of advice: “Don't respond when your one year
old cries out from the crib,” “Be as responsive as possible during the first
year of life.”
6. You are devising a
checklist to help parents evaluate early child-care settings. All are questions
that should appear on your list EXCEPT:
7. The branching
structure at the end of each neuron is the:
8. Compared to the early
l970s, what fraction of elementary school children are now overweight or obese?
9. Which young child is
MOST likely to obey the rule “Don't touch this toy till dinner”?
10. How would an
evolutionary psychologist describe 1-year-old Ned's need to be close to his mom
at all times?
11. Someone tells you that
the heritability of IQ is .75. What should you think?
12. Pick the twin/adoption
study.
13. Based on the
information-processing section, parents can help children “remember” by doing
all of the following EXCEPT:
14. All things being
equal, which student is MOST at risk of NOT graduating from high school?
15. Krissy hates when
parents use baby talk, so she speaks to her 1-year-old son exactly like an
adult. What should you be thinking?
16. During the
little-scientist phase, babies engage in:
17. Clarrisa gets a C on
her first test in this class and decides to work very hard because she knows
she can succeed. According to cognitive behaviorists, Clarrisa has:
18. A teratogen:
19. Which child is MOST at
risk of having problems adjusting to day care?
20. Your psychology
professor asks you to help him with his study of aggressive children. Your job
is to go to a playground and record the frequency of aggressive acts among a
sample of first graders. Your measurement technique is called:
21. You are using
scaffolding in teaching baseball if you:
22. When Mom tosses the
action figures into the toy box and slams the lid, Robie cries, “No! They're
scared of the dark!” Susie assumes that grandma knows she went to the beach
yesterday, even though she didn't tell her: Robbie's comment shows ________ and
Susie's illustrates ________.
23. Gerontologists study:
24. What is the long-term
impact of attending preschool on low-income children?
25. Pick the part of the
brain that develops last.
26. If a friend is
concerned that her 18-month-old son refuses to eat a balanced diet, what should
you say?
27. Based on your
understanding of brain plasticity, what would you say to frantic parents whose
baby has suffered an injury to the language centers of the brain?
28. A social worker who
counsels Down syndrome teens asks what will happen to her clients in their
forties and fifties. What should you say?
29. Infant mortality in
the United States:
30. A baby sees a new
image on a screen and looks up to see what's going on. The name for this
process is ________.
31. With regard to sex
differences in elementary school motor skills:
32. It's Christmas, you
are at the mall, and a mom places her 1-year-old on the store Santa's lap. You
might expect:
33. What is the
relationship between walking early and later intelligence?
34. Which statement about
the lifespan is most TRUE?
35. You are a doctor and
your patient tells you she is pregnant. Under which situation would you MOST
strongly urge chorionic villus sampling (CVS)?
36. Which of the following
is NOT an ability involving executive functions?
37. All are reasons why
eighteenth and nineteenth century doctors were relatively ineffective during
labor and birth EXCEPT:
38. Which of these people
is likely to live the longest?
39. A friend asks, “Who
does a baby get attached to at age 1?” Your answer:
40. Jack and Diane
desperately want a son. When they read up on the overall odds of male/female
conception, what would they find?
41. Pick the example of
autobiographical memory.
42. A traditional
behaviorist is giving childrearing advice. She would say all of the following
EXCEPT:
43. Your friend's baby has
colic. What should you be thinking?
44. Studies exploring
social cognition now show babies:
45. You put a compelling
object in front of your baby nephew, then cover it, and he acts as if it's no
longer there. Your nephew is:
46. Which research
question MUST be tested by a correlational study?
47. When Sammy sees mommy
roll the thick ball of dough into a thin circle for a pie crust he says, “Now
there is more dough, because it's bigger.” His sister Sara tells Sammy “No,
it's the same amount because mommy could just roll it back again and it would
look the same.” According to Piaget's framework, Sammy ________ and Sara
________.
48. Your friend's
preschooler has been diagnosed with ADHD and she asks, “Will my son still have
this condition as he gets older?” What is the BEST answer?
49. What area of the
lifespan did scientists first study?
50. You are writing a
paper on the effects of prenatal drinking on the baby. You should make all of
the following comments EXCEPT:
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