Infancy and childhood: practice questions

From ages 3 to 6, the brain's neural network is sprouting MOST rapidly in the _____ lobes.
- temporal
- occipital
- frontal
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From ages 3 to 6, the brain's neural network is sprouting MOST rapidly in the _____ lobes.
- temporal
- occipital
- frontal
frontal
Psychologists use the term _____ to refer to all of the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication.
(psychologists Jean Piaget studied what children's ____)
cognition
Morris is the son of a teenage mother. She could not handle taking care of him and put him up for adoption when he was 4 weeks old. Morris was moved from one foster family to another. He was never adopted. It is MOST likely that Morris will:
- become a normal adults with average intelligence
- have anxiety and lower intelligence
- become an abusive parent with aggressive tendencies
- have a great drive to succeed, but avoid attachments
have anxiety and lower intelligence
Carolym Rovee-Collier's research on infants revealed that:
- massaging or exercising babies can hasten motor development
- infants remember specific associations
- infantile amnesia occurs for events prior to age 4 years
- the back to sleep position may affect infant crawling
infants remember specific associations
preoperational children know that objects exist even when they are not visible. They can also:
- pretend that one is another
- conserve quantities
- think abstractly
- take another individual's point of view
pretend that one object is another
A researcher secretly puts a dab of rouge on a child's nose before placing him in front of a mirror. The child points to the rouge on the mirror's reflected image. From this example we can conclude that the child:
- lacks self-recognition
- has a theory of mind
- is likely between the ages of 15 to 18 months
- has acquired object permanence
lacks self-recognition
Imagine that 10-year-old children were shown photographs of 3-year-old preschoolers and asked to spot former classmates. What were the probable results?
- they were accurate 90 percent of the time
- they forgot all their classmates
- they recognized one out of three former classmates
- they remember the children with whom they were still friendly
they forgot all their classmates
the increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may suggest:
- cultural factors that results in ASD are changing
- a relabeling of childhood disorders
- that girls are being diagnosed with ASD more so than before
- environmental factors that result in ASD are increasing
a relabeling of childhood disorders
Latoya is 3 years old and her favorite book is Are You My Mother?, a short story about a baby bird who hatches while his mother is away. The baby bird then leaves the nest in search of his mother. The baby bird follows the first thing he sees. When he is told that it is not his mother, he then begins to follow the second thing he sees, and so forth. Which of these attachment concepts is an aspect of this story?
- critical period
- insecure attachment
- stranger anxiety
- imprinting
imprinting
Rebecca and John take their daughter to Disney World. When they asked their daughter two years later if she remembered going she answered no. Their daughter was MOST likely less than _____ years of age at the time of the trip to Disney World.
4 years
Christina is in the eighth grade and is taking pre-algebra. She is doing very well and will be in Algebra 1 next year. Christina is MOST likely in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development? - formal operationa; - concrete opertional - preoperational - sensorimotorformal operationalFive-year-old Ling is beginning to show signs of being able to plan ahead in a somewhat rational manner. At her age, this development is likely due to: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. - increased neurotransmitters available in her synaptic gaps - a decrease in myelin sheaths - an increase in dopamine pathways - neural networks sprouting in her frontal lobesneural networks sprouting in her frontal lobesThree-year-old Ross happily explores the attractive toys located in the dentist's waiting room while his mother is in the room. However, if she briefly leaves and then returns, he will return periodically to her side for brief moments. Ross MOST clearly displays signs of _____ attachment.secureA game of peekaboo with his dad excites William during the first 6 months of his life because William actually thinks his dad has disappeared. This is because William lacks _____.object permanenceAfter Nadia learned that penguins cannot fly, she had to modify her existing concept of birds. This BEST illustrates the process of: - conservation - habituation - accommodation - assimilationaccommodationMarcus is the son of a teenage mother. She could not handle taking care of him and put him up for adoption when he was 4 weeks old. Marcus was adopted by a family that loves and cares for him. It is MOST likely that Marcus will: - become a normal adult with average intelligence - have a great drive to succeed, but avoid attachments - have anxiety and lower intelligence - become an abusive parent with aggressive tendenciesbecome a normal adult with average intelligenceLuca's parents set firm rules but are responsive to his needs. They give him a chance to explain himself and also explain their position on why they cannot allow him to stay out past midnight. Luca's parents have a(n) ______ parenting style. - negligent - authoritative - permissive - authoritarianauthoritative