Quiz 1A

Question 1

True or False? Watching someone do something challenging can inspire you to believe you can do it.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False? Hanging around with bad company won’t affect an individual’s behavior.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or False? Teenagers should question the moral codes of their parents to gain their own moral codes.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or False? Teenagers should be expected to conform to the Moral Codes of their parents.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or False? Elderly people, accepting that they need walkers to remain mobile, is an example of psychosocial development.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True or False? Gamblers, who win small and lose big, but keep playing, is an example of operant conditioning.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False? When we consider the laws affecting the lives of children we are referring to ecological influences.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False? When we consider the IQ of a human being, that’s considered to be a nurture influence.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False? When we consider the cultural impact on a human being, that’s considered a nature influence.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

In ecological systems theory, what is the name of the connections between the child’s immediate settings.

Answer 10

Mesosystem

Question 11

What is the participant observation of a culture called?

Answer 11

Ethnography

Question 12

What graded influence explains why agemates tend to share distinguishing characteristics?

Answer 12

History Graded

Question 13

What type of science deals with the study of constancy and change throughout a lifespan?

Answer 13

Developmental Science

Question 14

What is the name of Freud’s theory that emphasizes the management of early sexual and aggressive drives?

Answer 14

Psychosexual

Question 15

What is the name of the learning theory that emphasizes the role of modeling in the development of behavior?

Answer 15

Social Learning Theory

Question 16

What’s the name of the developmental psychology that studies the adaptive value of a species’ mental competencies?

Answer 16

Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

Question 17

In ecological systems theory, what are the temporal changes in children’s environments called?

Answer 17

Chronosystem

Question 18

What is the name of Piaget’s developmental theory which states that children actively construct knowledge through exploration?

Answer 18

Cognitive Developmental Theory

Question 19

What is the name of the systems theory that states that children develop within complex relationships, affected by the environment?

Answer 19

Ecological Systems Theory

Question 20

What type of influences affect one or a few people and do not follow a predictable timetable?

Answer 20

Non-Normative Graded

Question 21

What is the name of Erikson’s theory that focuses on the resolution of psychological conflicts over the lifespan?

Answer 21

Psychosocial Theory

Question 22

What emphasizes the study of directly observable events?

Answer 22

Behaviorism

Question 23

Which approach deals with age related averages that are computed to represent typical development?

Answer 23

Normative Approach

Question 24

In ecological systems theory, what are the activities and interaction patterns in the child’s immediate surroundings called?

Answer 24

Microsystem

Question 25

In ecological systems theory, what are the cultural characteristics that influence inner levels of the environment called?

Answer 25

Macrosystem

Question 26

According to what perspective is development lifelong, multidimensional, plastic and context-dependent?

Answer 26

Lifespan

Question 27

Which interview method uses a flexible, conversational style?

Answer 27

Clinical

Question 28

What is the name of the controversy that deals with the debate concerning whether development is influenced more by genes or by the environment?

Answer 28

Nature-Nurture

Question 29

What is the study of the adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary history called?

Answer 29

Ethology

Question 30

What's the name of Freud's perspective which states that children develop in stages, negotiating biological drives and social expectations.

Answer 30

Psychoanalytic

Question 31

Which graded influences are fairly predictable in their timing and duration?

Answer 31

Age Graded

Question 32

What type of interview is it when the researcher asks all participants the same questions in the same way?

Answer 32

Structured

Question 33

Which view of development believes that development gradually adds to innate skills?

Answer 33

Continuous