quiz on life span development

1. Chapter 10 Development
1. Which type of developmental research involves comparing many
individuals of different ages to discover the differences between older
people and younger people?
A. cross-sectional research
B. longitudinal research
C. case study research
D. correlational research
2. During the period of time right before birth, the unborn baby is known as
a(n)
A. embryo.
B. placenta.
C. zygote.
D. fetus.
3. The developing brain of a baby is especially sensitive to damage from
outside influences during what period of time?
A. The first three months
B. The fourth and fifth months
C. Right before birth
D. Up until age 2
4. Babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to
A. engage in criminal behavior as adults.
B. become smokers themselves.
C. be unusually large at birth.
D. be smaller and suffer mental retardation.
5. Because of his emphasis on biological forces that control development,
Piaget's theory represents a(n) ______ view of development.
A. reductionist
B. organismic
C. contextual
D. environmental
6. When someone adjusts his or her understanding of the world to adapt to a
new experience, it is an example of
A. accommodation.
B. assimilation.
C. suspension.
D. perception.

2. 7. During the stage of concrete operations, a chid develops the ability to
A. think logically about real-world objects and situations.
B. think logically about hypothetical, abstract ideas.
C. recognize that objects still exist even when out of sight.
D. use language to represent the world symbolically.
8. In Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children at the
preconventional level of morality will base their moral decisions on
A. which choice will satisfy the largest number of people.
B. whether a certain behavior will be rewarded or punished.
C. how an action will be viewed by other important people.
D. whether the behavior obeys the rules of society.
9. The most consistent psychological differences between men and women
are in
A. pure mathematical ability.
B. emotional expressions and responsiveness.
C. academic and intellectual performance.
D. areas relating to sex and mating.
10. In Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, the first stage
addresses the conflict of
A. identity vs. role confusion.
B. industry vs. inferiority.
C. autonomy vs. shame & doubt.
D. basic trust vs. basic mistrust.
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. D
Multiple choice Questions- Life span development

3. 1)In which of Piaget’s stages would a child be who has just developed object
permanence?
a) sensorimotor
b) preoperational
c) concrete operations
d) formal operations
2)What kind of attachment,is shown by a baby who explores the room, gets upset when
the mother leaves but is easily soothed, and is happy to see the mother when she returns?
a)secure
b) avoidant
c)ambivalent
d) disorganized–disoriented
3)children are unaware of perspectives other than their own – they believe that everyone
else perceives the environment the same way they do . the stage is and concept is
a) preoperational- conservation
b) Sensori motor- object permanence
c) Preoperational stage- egocentrism
d) sensori motor- assimilation
4)Which of the following is the clearest example of egocentric thinking?
a) A writer who uses someone else’s words without giving credit
b)A politician who blames others for everything that goes wrong
c)A professor who gives the same complicated lecture to a freshman class as to a
convention of professionals
5). In which of Piaget’s stages is each of these children? Just write the stages
a. Child understands conservation but has trouble with abstract and hypothetical
questions-
b. Child performs well on tests of object permanence but has trouble with conservation.
c. Child has schemata but does not speak in complete sentences and fails tests of object
permanence.
d. Child performs well on hypothetical questions and other tasks.
6) If peter is upset he thinks his sister has got 2 sandwiches because her sandwich has
been cut in half, this shows that peter has not mastered
a)object permanence
b) Animism
c) centrism
d)conservation
7)In a famous series of experiments with infant monkeys were separated from their
mothers at birth. The infants were then given two surrogate mothers (a terry-cloth

4. "mother" and a wire "mother"), each of which alternately had a nursing bottle that
provided food to the infants. The experimental results showed that the infants
a)were more likely to become aggressive toward the wire mother than toward the terry-
cloth mother
b)preferred the wire mother, even when the terry-cloth mother had the nursing bottle
c)preferred the terry-cloth mother, even when the wire mother had the nursing bottle
d)would run and cling to whichever mother had the nursing bottle.
8) The famous series of infant monkeys experiment was conducted by
a) Mary Ainsworth
b) Kohlberg
c) Harry Harlow
d) Erik Erikson
9) The rooting reflex is an infant’s tendency to:
a)Throw legs up in the air
b) Wave arms when startled
c) Open mouth and turn head when touched on the cheek
d)Grasp nearby objects
10) Piaget's developmental sequences follow in which order?
a) pre-operational, sensory-motor, concrete operational, formal operational
b)sensory-motor, operational, concrete operational, formal operational
c) sensory-motor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
d) sensory-motor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational
11) Name the founder who emphasized the role of environmental factors in
development.
12) Being able to play guitar well is an example of possessing good
a) Fine motor skills
b)Gross motor skills
c) Reflexes
d) Locomotor skill
13) Which period of development is characterized by establishing independence,
developing an identity, and thinking more abstractly?
a) middle childhood
b)late childhood
c)adolescence
d) early adulthood
14) When someone adjusts his or her understanding of the world to adapt to a new
experience, it is an example of
a) accommodation.

5. b) assimilation.
c) suspension
d) perception.
15) Assuming that all things are living like them and they attribute inanimate objects to
have life like qualities in them. This is known as
a) Egocentrism
b) Animism
c) centration
d) Assimilation
16) The 4 year old Alex was using the broken frisbee as a car steering wheel and playing
with it sitting on his chair. This is known as
a) Transitivity
b) seriation
c) reversibility
d) Symbolic play
17) The two principles that are followed by early physical development are the
development that proceeds from head to foot known as _______and the development
that proceeds from near to far known as_________
a) the cephalocaudal principle; proximodistal principle
b) Micro system; Exo system
c) Centration; Reversibility
d) Preconventional; post conventional