Child Development I Professor McKay Midterm Exam March 19, 2018 Name______________________________ 1. If researchers want to keep the attention of 8 week old infants, they would use these colors: a. blue and green b. yellow and blue c. green and red d. green and yellow 2. In the Still Face Experiment, the baby reacts with despair because a. She has lost her ability to read her mother’s mood b. She has lost her ability to socially engage her mother c. She has lost her ability to regain her mother’s engagement d. All of these 3. A mother goes to the pediatrician, and she asks at what age the infant began to crawl. The mother answers “Seven months.” This is called a. Normative development b. Individual development c. Behavioral Organization d. Evolution 4. This researcher claimed that an unavailable mother could cause a non-integrated personality in her infant a. Freud b. Horney c. Bandura 5. Erikson theorized a Stage Development theory, but unlike Freud’s psycho-sexual stages, it is a. psychoanalytical b. information processing c. psychosocial 6. If a 25-year-old person cannot find a relationship partner with similar interests and experiences constant breakups, Erikson would claim that she had not moved elegantly through this prior stage: a. Intimacy v. Isolation b. Initiative v. Guilt c. Phallic d. Identity v. Role Confusion 7. If you have a question about whether a newborn knows his mother’s voice, and you wish to do research on this topic, you frame a statement, “Newborns recognize their mothers’ voices at two days old.” This statement is your a. Research question b. Hypothesis c. Lab experiment 8. A research design where experimenters control the situation in a closed environment and manipulate a variable to rule out other influences is a a. Natural observation b. Lab experiment c. Interview 9. The pregnant mother feels her best during this trimester a. first b. second c. third 10. A problem with controlled experiments is a. No one knows if it will also pertain to situations in the natural environment. b. The experimenter has to pay his/her subjects. c. The experimenter must find random subjects. d. The experimenter must train his/her confederate subjects. 11. An 8-year old child explains that a playground fight she observed could have been avoided if the two children involved had first “talked things out.” This is an example of a. Piaget’s Preoperational Stage b. Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage c. Sociocultural Theory d. Proximal Development 12. The theory that explains thought processes by comparing them to a computer is a. Sociocultural Theory b. Piaget’s Formal Operational Theory c. Information-Processing Theory d. Psychoanalytical Theory 13. A ten year old child is taught Algebra by his father who is a math professor, and is placed in a math enrichment class. The difference between the child’s math ability in the average class (prior ...

1. Child Development I
Professor McKay
Midterm Exam
March 19, 2018
Name______________________________
1. If researchers want to keep the attention of 8 week old
infants, they would use these colors:
a. blue and green
b. yellow and blue
c. green and red
d. green and yellow
2. In the Still Face Experiment, the baby reacts with despair
because
a. She has lost her ability to read her mother’s mood
b. She has lost her ability to socially engage her mother
c. She has lost her ability to regain her mother’s engagement
d. All of these
3. A mother goes to the pediatrician, and she asks at what age
the infant began to crawl. The mother answers “Seven months.”
This is called
a.
Normative development

2. b. Individual development
c.
Behavioral Organization
d. Evolution
4. This researcher claimed that an unavailable mother could
cause a non-integrated personality in her infant
a. Freud
b. Horney
c. Bandura
5. Erikson theorized a Stage Development theory, but unlike
Freud’s psycho-sexual stages, it is
a.
psychoanalytical
b. information processing
c. psychosocial
6. If a 25-year-old person cannot find a relationship partner
with similar interests and experiences constant breakups,
Erikson would claim that she had not moved elegantly through
this prior stage:
a.
Intimacy v. Isolation
b. Initiative v. Guilt
c.
Phallic

3. d. Identity v. Role Confusion
7. If you have a question about whether a newborn knows his
mother’s voice, and you wish to do research on this topic, you
frame a statement, “Newborns recognize their mothers’ voices
at two days old.” This statement is your
a.
Research question
b. Hypothesis
c. Lab experiment
8. A research design where experimenters control the situation
in a closed environment and manipulate a variable to rule out
other influences is a
a.
Natural observation
b. Lab experiment
c. Interview
9. The pregnant mother feels her best during this trimester
a. first
b. second
c. third
10. A problem with controlled experiments is
a. No one knows if it will also pertain to situations in the
natural environment.

4. b. The experimenter has to pay his/her subjects.
c. The experimenter must find random subjects.
d. The experimenter must train his/her confederate subjects.
11. An 8-year old child explains that a playground fight she
observed could have been avoided if the two children involved
had first “talked things out.” This is an example of
a.
Piaget’s Preoperational Stage
b. Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage
c.
Sociocultural Theory
d. Proximal Development
12. The theory that explains thought processes by comparing
them to a computer is
a.
Sociocultural Theory
b. Piaget’s Formal Operational Theory
c.
Information-Processing Theory
d. Psychoanalytical Theory
13. A ten year old child is taught Algebra by his father who is a
math professor, and is placed in a math enrichment class. The
difference between the child’s math ability in the average class
(prior to being tutored) and the math enrichment class is an
example of

5. a. Information Processing
b. Zone of Proximal Development
c. Preoperational
d. Latency
14. Someone who constantly chews gum would be fixed in
which of Freud’s stages?
a. Genital Stage
b. Oral Stage
c. Anal Stage
d. Phallic Stage
15. Freud’s Stage Sub-Theory contained in the larger
Psychoanalytical Theory
a.
Psycho-social
b. Sociocultural
c. Psycho-sexual
16. This type of study retains the same group of people over
a long period and studies changes in their cognition, physical
development, or social-emotional development.
a.
Longitudinal

6. b. Cross-sectional
c. Contextual
17. Infants can demonstrate depression.
a.
True
b. False
18. Circle two: The following two circumstances can cause a
sudden performance change for a child in the classroom:
a. Culture
b. Parent unemployment
c. Poverty level
d. Homelessness
19. The special kind of cell division that occurs with egg and
sperm cells is
a. Mitosis
b. Homologous
c. Somatic
d. Meiosis
20. Each reproductive cell (egg or sperm) has this number of
chromosomes.
a.
46

7. b.
23
c. 24
d. 2 (X and Y)
21. When crossing over in mitosis occurs, it guarantees that
a. The gene assortment (other than identical twins) will be
unique
b. Even identical twins will have 75% different genes
c. Fraternal twins will not have different genes
22. What determines gender in a child is the 23rd pair of
chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father.
The configuration of XX or XY is determined by the
a.
mother
b.
father
c. either
d. neither
23. A zygote that splits into two identical zygotes that
reproduce in one amniotic sac
a.
Boy
b. Girl

8. c. Monozygotic Twins
d. Dizygotic Twins
24. The embryo’s life support system after the first week of
development
a. trophoblast
b. embryoblast
c. blastocyst
25. At what point in embryo development do the arms and legs
begin to form?
a.
14 days
b. 7 weeks
c. 4 weeks
d. 15-20 days
26. The fluid-filled environment that protects the fetus is the
a. Placenta
b. Amniotic sac
c. Umbilical cord
d. Mesoderm
27.
The baby’s Apgar Score can be affected by
a.
The baby’s sex

9. b. Birth complications
c.
The mother’s mental condition
d. hospital nursery care
28. When the baby learns to press a lever on his crib toy to
make a certain noise, this is which kind of learning?
a.
Classical conditioning
b. Operant Conditioning
c.
Shaping
d. Imitative Learning
29. When a baby practices walking with her little handbag on
her arm, this is an example of which kind of learning?
a.
Classical conditioning
b. Associative Learning
c.
Operant conditioning
d. Imitative Learning
30. Infants can see all primary colors at 4 weeks old
a.
True
b.
False
31. The first object that infants recognize is

10. a.
Their hands
b.
Their mother’s face
c. Their mobile
32. Which shape gets a 4 month’s old attention?
a.
Triangle
b.
Square
c. Circle
33. Piaget’s stage where the children’s movement ability and
senses are developing is
a.
Preoperational
b. Sensorimotor
c. Concrete
d. Operational
34. With Object Permanence, at which stage will the baby
commit the “a not b” error?
a.
Stage 2
b. Stage 3
c. Stage 4

11. d. Stage 5
35. Winnicott explained that a transitional object is favored by
the child as
a. A substitute for a parent
b. A surrogate playmate
c. A bridge from the infant to the mother during the mother’s
absence
d. a favorite toy
36. Bowlby would say that the brain response smile when an
infant is 2 weeks old is a built-in mechanism to promote
a.
Bonding with strangers
b. Just a mechanism
c.
Bonding with parents
d. Socialization in general
37. In Ainsworth’s Strange Situation study, when the infant
ignores his/her mother upon her return into the room, the infant
has:
a. Anxious-Avoidant Attachment
b. Anxious-Resistant Attachment
c. Secure Attachment
d. Disorganized Attachment
38. In Ainsworth’s Strange Situation study, when the infant
greets the mother by ending his/her distress upon her return into
the room, the infant has:

12. a. Anxious-Avoidant Attachment
b. Anxious-Resistant Attachment
c. Secure Attachment
d. Disorganized Attachment
39. Kagan’s studies demonstrate that a child’s temperament is
apparent by 4 months old and usually remains stable throughout
life. This leans toward the following model:
a.
Nature
b.
Nurture
40. This experimenter studies the temperament of infants as
young as 4-5 months old and can predict the child’s disposition.
a. Winnicott
b. Kagan
c. Seligman
41.Placing a baby on its back to reduce the incidence of Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome at first caused a developmental delay in
infants’
a.
Crawling
b. Standing

13. c Walking
42.This physical milestone is the most evolutionarily exciting
for an infant.
a.
Walking
b. Standing
c. Sitting
43. An environmental substance that can cause a birth defect if
ingested during a critical prenatal period is called a(n)
a. Teratogen
b. Environmental Poser
c. CQS
44. When a woman’s eggs are surgically removed and fertilized
by sperm in a lab setting, this is called
a. Assisted Reproductive Technology
b. Artificial Insemination
c. In Vitro Fertilization
d. Both a and c
45. The sense most highly developed at birth is

14. a. touch
b. vision
c. taste
d. hearing
46. One “age of viability” for a fetus is
a. 12 weeks
b. 15 weeks
c. 18 weeks
d. 22 weeks
47. This birth phase has the hardest labor pains lasting
approximately 60 seconds each and occurs during which stage?
a. transition: first
b. crowning: second
c. transition: second
48. When an infant is in neonatal care and the mother spends
time with the baby skin to skin between her breasts for comfort,
this is called
a. ultimate environment
b. bonding
c. kangaroo care
49. A decrease in attention when a baby is shown a stimulus
numerous times means that the baby remembers the stimulus.

15. This decrease in attention is called
a. dishabituation
b. habituation
c. classical conditioning
50. In the Little Albert experiment, the white rat was the
a. unconditioned stimulus
b. conditioned stimulus
c. conditioned response
51. When a child takes his first steps, this is categorized as
a(n)
a.
Adaptation
b. Qualitative Change
c. Quantitative Change
d. Developmental Concept
52.
When a child stops crawling and continues to walk, this is
categorized as a(n)
a.
Adaptation

16. b. Qualitative Change
c. Quantitative Change
d. Developmental Concept
53.
Children crawl between the ages of 6 and 10 months. This is
called
a.
Normative development
b. Individual development
c.
Behavioral Organization
d. Evolution
54. Synapses are
a. Part of the cerebral cortex
b. Spaces between neurons
c. Nerve cells
d. The formations of neurons
55. With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome there can be
a. Mental Retardation
b. Hypersensitivity
c. Hyperactivity d. All of these
56. Obstetricians advise foods and drugs ingested during
pregnancy

17. a.
Stricter than in 1995
b. More lenient than in 1995
57. If an adult finds it difficult to commit in their love
relationship, they probably had this kind of attachment
relationship with their mother.
a. secure
b. anxious-resistant
c. anxious-avoidant
58. The two researchers with opposing views of language in
children are
a. Chomsky/Watson
b. Skinner/Chomsky
c. Skinner/Erikson
59. The psychological community now claims that language is
___________by children.
a. learned
b. acquired
60. An infant’s first attempt at communication is
a. cooing
b. crying

18. c. canonical babbling
d. conversational babbling
61. The word “unlovable” can be broken into 3 syllables: (1)
un (2) love and (3) able.
These are known as
a. phonemes
b. morphemes
c. syntax
62. Children ___________the social rules of conversation.
a. learn
b. acquire
63. At 3 months old, infants have the ability to discern the
sounds of every language in the world.
a. true
b. false
64. “Up!” is an example of a
a. protoword
b. holophrase

19. c. babbling
65. “You can’t have a dog! I have a dog!” This is an example
of a child’s
a. over-regularization
b. over-extension
c. under-extension
66. Child changes her verb from “haved” to “had” without
correction from mom.
a. Chomsky
b. Skinner
67. Child changes her verb from “haved” to “had” when mom
hugs her and claps.
a. Chomsky
b. Skinner
68. Child coos and mom coos back smiling.
a. Chomsky
b. Skinner
69. Child coos to show he is content and happy.
a. Chomsky

20. b. Skinner
70. With this type of crawling, the infant pulls himself forward
on his stomach.
a. Scooting
b. Traditional
c. Commando
71. With this type of crawling, the infant slides/hops on her
bum.
a. Scooting
b. Traditional
c. Commando
72. The tip of an infant’s tongue is sensitive to sweetness to
encourage feeding
a. True
b. False
73. Bilingual children’s vocabularies are slightly smaller but
more sophisticated than monolingual children.
a. True
b. False
74. A neurological Language Acquisition Device innate to all

21. humans
a. Pinker
b. Skinner
c. Chomsky
d. Bohannon
75. When a fetus does not turn head down prior to birth, his
position is called
a. lotus
b. transverse
c. breach
76. Children walk up steps alternating feet from the start
a. True
b. False
77. The term for a zygote that begins specialized cell
differentiation is
a. fetus
b. embryo
c. infant
c. animal-like walk
d. all of these
78. With this type of speech, infants use consonant and vowel
sounds with gestures and intonation.

22. a. cooing
b. canonical babbling
c. conversational babbling
79. Electrical conduction carries messages to the brain via this
long branchlike part of a neuron to this awaiting shorter
branchlike part of the next neuron.
a. dendrite; axon
b. neurotransmitter; synapse
c. axon; dendrite
80. Social learning Theory emphasizes this role when children
learn the behaviors of their society through observation and
reward/correction.
a.
Fixation
b. Stage
c. Modeling
81. This theorist emphasized adaptation and said that an
infant’s grasping reflex is innate so that the mother will feel
warmth and bond with her baby.
a.
Bowlby
b. Freud
c. Vygotsky

23. d. Erikson
82. This type of study researches different groups of people
who share a similar factor over a short period of time.
a.
Longitudinal
b. Cross-sectional
c. Contextual
83. The adult who acts needy and anxious in a love relationship
most likely had this type of relationship with his/her mother.
a. secure
b. anxious-resistant
c. anxious-avoidant
84. After infants stop breastfeeding, we should always give
them whole milk, rather than skim, because they need the fat
nutrients for this area of the neuron:
a. myelin sheath
b. dendrite
c. axon terminal buttons
85. This part of the neuron contains the neurochemicals that
fire the electrical conduction over the synapse.
a. Myelin sheath
b. dendrite
c. axon terminal buttons

24. Essay: (15 points)
Analyze the socio-emotional development of a child in The
Beginning Years. Include the theories of (1) Horney, (2)
Winnicott, (3) Kagan, (4) Erikson, (5) Ainsworth. You should
write at least 2 paragraphs for each of the five theorists
explaining their theories in detail.