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1. Which of the following sequences correctly orders the components of a language, from the smallest or most specific to the broadest?

C) phoneme → semantics → syntax

2) Which of the following language acquisition stages or phenomena is correctly matched with an illustrative example?

A) babbling-"Goo goo, ga ga."

3) Some theorists argue that a critical period exists for language that can be characterized by which of the following?

B) It is the period in which children are particularly sensitive to language cues and most easily acquire language.

4) Tina is 6 months old, Vincenzo is 2 years and 7 months old, and Wayne is 3 years and 6 months old. Which alternative below correctly pairs each child with the appropriate language acquisition stage or phenomenon?

B) Tina babbling; Vincenzo telegraphic speech; Wayne overgeneralization

5) Ken is able to form many possible versions and visions of what characteristics a God or other deity may have. He has clearly capable of

D) hypothetical thinking

6) Jerry is not able to tie his shoes on his own

C) Lev Vygotsky's social learning theory, because it includes the concept of zone of proximal development

7) Max is a graduate student who wants to find a relation between identity formation and the influence of the environment. For this purpose, he interviews a group of 6-year-olds, a group of 10-year-olds, and a group of 15-year-olds, and asks them what they plan to be

research method.

B) cross-sectional

8) Mary Ainsworth's research indicates that a toddler with a secure attachment style is most likely to do which of the following when left with a caregiver, such as a babysitter, for the first time?

A) Show distress when left, calm down and play, and run to the mother when she returns

9) Which of the following is an example of longitudinal research?

B) Dr. Stewart has been studying a group of people every 15 years since they were development.

the toys, even though Rebecca is close by. When Rebecca leaves the room to fill out some forms, Adam becomes extremely upset and remains inconsolable. When Rebecca returns, Adam stays close to her, holding onto her leg. However, Adam makes it very clear he does not want her to touch him or pick him up. In fact, he starts kicking and hitting her. In the style?

context of the findings of Mary Ainsworth, which term best describes Adam's attachment

B) ambivalent

11) Maura and Trish are eighth graders who have been caught smoking. Maura's parents yell at her and refuse to let her explain things. They ground her for a month and take away her television and Internet privileges for two months. Trish's parents talk to her about their disappointment and concern; additionally, they make her spend every afternoon for a week at the library, researching the dangers of smoking and discussing her findings with them each night at dinner. Most likely, Maura's parents are_

C) authoritarian; authoritative

12) One baby receives an X chromosome from its mother and an X chromosome from its father, it will develop as a

B) female; male

13) Walter's parents strongly believe that Walter should make his own decisions, so they set very few rules regarding homework, bedtime, and household chores. Since they believe that freedom and responsibility are important, they patiently tolerate all of Walter's behavior, whether childish or mature. The parenting style adopted by Walter's parents is called

B) permissive.

14) Piaget propose which of the following?

He suggested that movement from one stage to the next occurs when a child reaches an appropriate level of maturation and is exposed to relevant types of experiences

15) Dr. Arceneaux has developed several alternative plans to increase the number of online practice quizzes his students complete. Which plan below is incorrectly matched with the related schedule?

C) I bonus point awarded every now and then (about 2 weeks on average) if two or more quizzes have been completed recently-variable-ratio

16) Ramona takes her 4-year-old daughter to a park. While her daughter plays in the sand pit, Ramona sits and chats with her friends. When she hears two girls fighting, she does not worry as she recognizes that it's not her daughter's voice. The given scenario illustrates

B) stimulus discrimination.

17) Every time Danny walks by the McDonald's in his neighborhood and sees the golden arches, he finds himself salivating even if he doesn't even smell the food. This is an example of

A) higher-order conditioning

18) Which of the following best illustrates vicarious learning as described in Bandura'» social-cognitive theory?

B) A teenager stops speeding after seeing a friend receive a traflle ticket for deiving to fast.

19) Identify the type of consequence that is correctly matched with an example.

B) negative reinforcement-Jeff puts up his umbrella when it starts to sprinkle so he won't get wet.

20) Four-year-old Rebecca states that the two lines in set A have the same number of dots but that the second line in set B has more dots than the first line has. Rebecca's inability to report that the tio rows in set B contain the same number of dots reflects a lack of

C) conservation.

21) 15-year-old Susanna comes home from school, takes her jacket off, drops her bookbag in the middle of the living room and lays down to play with her dogs, oblivious to the fact that

demonstrates the concept of

mom is trying to vacuum the rug and dad is carrying packages through the room. This

B) adolescent egocentrism.

22) Which of the following scenarios exemplifies negative reinforcement?

A) Vanna fastens her seatbelt as soon as she gets in her car to stop the annoying alert sound.

23) Which of the following is an example of positive punishment?

B) getting a speeding ticket

24) Alexis uses cocaine, which activates her sympathetic nervous system. Expecting her dealer, her hands shake and her heart pounds when she hears a knock on the door. Which alternative below correctly identifies the neutral stimulus, the CS, and the UCS?

C) neutral stimulus-knock on the door; CS-knock on the door; UCS-cocaine

25) According to the ecological systems theory, a parent's workplace would best be described as a child's

C) exosystem.

26) Shaquil has a close relationship with his parents but does not entirely subscribe to their liberal belief systems. However, he has too much going on to give his own values and ideas much thought so he simply adopts the values of his parents uncritically. Marcia would most likely say that he is in which stage of identity development?

A) Foreclosure

27) JD figured out that he had more than six ACEs in his early childhood. According to the research, which of the following is he LEAST likely to experience?

C) higher-than-average intellectual achievement

28) Larry has been brought up being taught that boys are supposed to be big, strong, muscular and athletic. This is most clearly an example of

B) gender roles.

29) A man's penis and a woman's vagina are examples of

A) primary

30) Roger is a playful 2-year-old. During his playtime, his father sometimes hides one of his toys to see if Roger realizes that the toy is missing. Roger begins a prompt search for the toy as soon as he notices that it is missing. According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Roger appears to be in the

C) sensorimotor stage.

31) Lev Vygotsky proposed that

B) we cannot understand cognitive development without taking into account the social and cultural aspects of learning.

32) Which of the lines in the graph shown above represents the fixed interval reinforcement schedule?

D) Line D

33) 80-year-old Estelle has noticed that she frequently finds herself confused and disoriented and sometimes fails to recognize how familiar objects in her house work. Yesterday, she found a child in her house that she did not realize was actually her grandson. She is probably suffering from dementia. Which neurotransmitter is likely lacking in dementia?

B) acetylcholine

34) Maria, a 47-year-old woman, stopped menstruating last year. She sometimes experiences sudden sensations of heat, and, to treat this symptom, she is currently undergoing a hormone therapy (HT). This biological change in Maria's body is called

B) menopause.

35) Sam is happily playing with a playdough ball. His sister comes along and smashes it flat with her hand Sem cries at the apparent loss of his toy. This is because he has not mastered the concept of

A) conservation.

36) Yolanda is 24, Zachary is 44, and Andrew is 73. Assume that each successfully completes the identity crisis associated with his or her current Eriksonian stage. Which of the following alternatives matches each individual with the correct developmental outcome?

A) Yolanda: intimacy; Zachary: generativity, and Andrew: integrity

37) Lorenz waited for some baby ducks to hatch. Right before they did, he removed the mother duck and sat in her place. Soon, the baby ducks crowded around him and followed him around the yard wherever he went. This is most clearly an example of

A) imprinting

38) Albert Bandura's research supported the importance of which of the following concepts in his Social Learning Theory.

C) modeling

39) Laura and Celia are identical twins. They were adopted at birth by different families and raised in different environments. However, there are a lot of behavioral similarities between

phenomenon?

A) Their similarities reflect the influence of nature on development.

40) Based on the bar graph above, which of the following conclusions is most accurate?

C) The more genetically related people are, the more similar.