HAHP 2000 In class Quiz Questions Week 1, Week 2, Week 4

The idea that no age period dominates development highlights the lifespan perspective that development is:

• Plastic

• Contextual

• Multidimensional

• Lifelong

Lifelong

Neglected children can thrive if placed in nurturing, stimulating environments. This example shows that development is:

• Multidisciplinary

• Plastic

• Static

Plastic

The demolishing of Africville in the north end of Halifax in the 1960’s is an example of the significant influence of context and a history-graded influence on Black Nova Scotians’ health and development.

• True

• False

True

The median age of the Canadian population is about 40, which means that:

• Most Canadians are getting younger

• Half of the population is older, and the other half is younger

• The fertility rate is higher for half of the population

Half of the population is older, and the other half is younger

If a person’s physical health (physiological processes) is in excellent shape for their chronological age, then their ___ age may be lower than their chronological age.

• Biological

• Social

• Psychological

• Mental

Biological

In the nature vs nurture debate on development, nature refer to a person’s _____, while nurture refers to ______.

• Personality traits; abilities

• Biological inheritance; environmental experiences

• Acquired traits; heredity

Biological inheritance; environmental experiences

A psychologist who recognizes that the neglect a person suffered as a child is having a significant impact on the person’s ability to form healthy attachments as an adult would recognize impact of stability in a person’s development

• True

• False

True

Dr. Amy Bombay at Dalhousie University is studying the impact of residential schools on indigenous people’s health and wellbeing, and the intergenerational impacts of drama. This could be described as an example of a cohort effect.

• True

• False

True

Which theory believes that development is beyond our awareness (primarily unconscious)?

• Ethological

• Information processing

• Psychoanalytic

• Social cognitive

Psychoanalytic

Jack, who is almost 2 years old, is trying to establish his independence, waiting to do everything himself and saying “big boy”. According to Erikson, Jack Is in the ___ stage. Being allowed to be independent will result in Jack developing confidence in his own abilities.

• Truse vs mistrust

• Industry vs inferiority

• identity vs identity confusion

• autonomy vs shame and doubt

autonomy vs shame and doubt

According to Piaget, when a child begins to represent their would with words and images, they are in the:

• sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

Preoperational stage

In elementary school, children often engage in peer reading programs. The premise is that when a skilled reader regularly helps a child to learn, this will advance a child’s reading skills and communicate to that child that reading is an important activity. This program aligns with:

• Vygotsky’s sociocultural cognitive theory

• Information processing theory

• Ethological theory

Vygotsky’s sociocultural cognitive theory

In parenting, associating behaviour with consequences can shape the probability of a behaviour occurring. This is associated with:

• Operant conditioning

• Classical conditioning

• Ethological theory

Operant conditioning

A little boy watches his mother tuck his baby sister into bed. He later goes and tucks his stuffed animal into bed. This behaviour fits with:

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Social cognitive theory

Social cognitive theory

Theorists who believe that behaviour is strongly influenced by biology and subject to critical or sensitive periods are aligned with the:

• Humanist approach

• Social cognitive theory

• Bioecological theory

• Ethological theory

Ethological theory

One of the most important application of ethological theory to human development involves:

• Pavlov’s classical conditioning

• Bandura’s observational learning

• Bowlby’s theory of attachment

Bowlby’s theory of attachment

Theorists who believe that behaviour is strongly influenced by biology and subject to critical or sensitive periods are aligned with the:

• Humanist approach

• Social connive theory

• Bioecological theory

• Ethological theory

Ethological theory

One of the most important applications of ethological theory to human development involves:

• Pavlov’s classical conditioning

• Bandura’s observational learning

• Bowlby’s theory of attachment

Bowlby’s theory of attachment

Which of Bronfenbrenner’s environmental system consists of the patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as sociohistorical circumstances?

• The mesosystem

• The chronosystem

• The microsystem

• The ecosystem

The chronosystem

Rogers believed that people strive to become the best they can be, and to establish congruence between their ideal self and perceived self. This fits with the:

• Bioecological theory

• Humanist approach

• Ethological theory

• Social cognitive theory

Humanist approach

What is the primary function of the frontal lobe?

• Vision

• Hearing

• Touch

• Voluntary movement

Voluntary movement

Object permanence is the:

• idea that events continue to exist even when they cannot be directly viewed

• vanity of properties that objects possess

• reproduction of an interesting event that happens by chance

idea that events continue to exist even when they cannot be directly viewed

The “sticky mitten” experiment showed that experience supports motor development.

• True

• False

True

Rovee Collier’s research with infants demonstrated that infants cannot retain information from a learning experience.

• True

• False

False

in the TED talk by Patricia Kuhl, “the linguistic genius of babies”, her research showed that it takes a human being for infants to learn a language - the social brain is controlling infants’ ability to learn another language

• True

• False

True

Emotional expressions are important for infants to communicate and develop relationships with others.

• True

• False

True

Jealousy, empathy, embarrassment, pride, shame and guilt are examples of:

• Primary emotions

• Self-conscious emotions

Self-conscious emotions

The Harlow and Zimmerman (1959) study with infant monkeys concluded that contact comfort is more important for attachment than feeding. What evidence was used to support this finding?

• Baby monkeys tired when separated from their mothers, and stopped crying when reunited with them

• Baby monkeys spent more time with cloth surrogate mothers, regardless of whether the cloth mothers fed them or not

• Baby monkeys spent more time with wire surrogate monkeys, regardless of whether the cloth mothers fed them or not

• Baby monkeys spent more time with surrogate mothers who fed them, regardless of whether the mothers were wire or cloth

Baby monkeys spent more time with cloth surrogate mothers, regardless of whether the cloth mothers fed them or not

Caregivers who respond consistently to their babies’ need tend to have:

• Securely attached infants

• Insecurely attached infants

• Insecure resistant infants

Securely attached infants

Secure attachment is linked with positive emotional health and social outcomes

• True

• False

True