Exam 1 Practice Test

Sensitive periods are times in an organism's development when:

• a particular experience (or lack of it) has a more pronounced effect on development.

Which of the following is a central claim of BOTH Piaget and Vygotsky?

• Children actively construct their own knowledge.

A psychology instructor analyzing exam scores notices that the better her students performed on the lecture-based questions, the more poorly they performed on the textbook-based questions. She has discovered:

• a negative correlation between scores on the two parts of the exam.

Which of the following questions is BEST answered using a longitudinal research design?

• What is the sequence of a child's concept of gender development?

Psychologists who adopt the sociocultural framework differ from adopters of the other frameworks of development in:

• including the culture of the child's social group as a factor in development.

Which of the following is an example of symbolic communication?

• Angela writes her best friend a note to explain her feelings