Hourly Exam 3 Flashcards
(53 cards)
According to Worthington, one ultimate goal of parenting is to raise a child who, as an adult, is the parent’s
friend
In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting, infants with a secure maternal attachment are most likely to
use their mothers as a base from which to explore the new surroundings
Which of the following is an example of imprinting?
A duckling demonstrates attachment to a bouncing ball
A special method in development psychology allows the investigation of multiple cohorts of participants with each being studied over a period of several measurement times. This method is called the
cross-lagged sequential design
A new dad, holding his baby for the first time, strokes his daughter;s cheek with his finger. The newborn will
turning her head toward his hand
Piaget promoted the idea that the mind of a child
develops through a series of stages
In talking about giving up the assumption of fertility when couples finally realize they can’t have a baby, Worthington talked about grief. He said there were three stages of grieving:
shocked numbness, obsessive cognitive and social review, decision to move on with life
We saw a Youtube excerpt of Mean Monkey. This non-Piaget demo showed that by age six, the child could
lie
According to research presented by Worthington, when a child is born, the marital satisfaction of both partners ________ and family satisfaction ____________
decreases; stays the same
Piaget is to development of cognition as Kohlberg is to development of
moral reasoning
Which is NOT a part of the Lamaze method of controlling the pain of childbirth?
self-hypnotism
Dr. Case is interested in the factors that cause people to become obese, or extremely overweight, and he suspects that obesity is more likely among older people. He collects information from a group of 75 people, and he divides them into three age-groups; young, middle-aged, and old. He then compares the information, looking for differences in obesity among the three age-groups. What research design has Dr. Case used?
cross-sectional
In Piaget’s conceptual framework, the term “schema” is
a mental picture or mental image
A five-year old was surprised to discover that a Band-Aids box contained pencils. He was able to anticipate his friend’s false belief about the contents of the box. This best illustrates that he had developed a
theory of mind
Worthington presented research on the Dutch hunger winter of 1944-5, in which Germany’s confiscation of food in the Netherlands resulted in starving many people in the Netherlands. This particularly affected mothers and in-utero unborn children. Many grew up to have metabolic syndrome (overweight, Type II diabetes,etc.) and have underweight children who similarly grew up to have a metabolic syndrome. Worthington’s point was:
sometimes things that look genetic can be due to situations
According to Erikson, trust is to infancy as identiy is to_______
adolescence
In developmental psychology more than any other type of psychology, questions arise related to whether
change is continuous or in discrete larger jumps
Worthington published a theory that explained which couples had difficulty with a normal life transition and which did not have trouble with it. He identified three factors making it more likely that the couple would have trouble. Which is NOT one of the three factors.
whether there were adolescent children in the home
Two characteristics of authoritarian parents are that they
impose rules and expect obedience
Amy Novotney (2012), in a recent article in the APA’s Monitor on Psychology, gave six guidelines for effective parenting. Which of the following was NOT one she recommended
restrict the privileges of teens, but do not use physical punishment
Daniel O’Leary’s research on rules and cheating suggest that to prevent cheating, a parent should
first tell the child what the rule is and then have young children repeat the rule
Worthington’s “Hey, World” technique was aimed at
giving social attention to a child that behaved in a way that showed he or she was developing the character traits that Worthington valued
Clarice was in a meeting with several other employees when her boss started to criticize a proposal Clarice had put together for the marketing department. As he reached the peak of his critique, Clarice’s heartbeat and respiration increased, and she could feel her face and hands become flushed and red. According to Selye’s general adaptation syndrome, Clarice was experiencing
a resistance reaction
What is the relationship of health psychology to behavioral medicine?
health psychology is a subfield of behavioral medicine
