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Chapter 8 - Quick Quiz 2
1. Dr. Ahmandi is a developmental psychologist who studies memory development. In one of her research projects she tested memory in a group of five-year-old children. Then she gave the same test to a group of nine-year-olds and compared the results of the two groups to see how memory changes over this time span. This is a type of __________
longitudinal study.
cross-sectional study.
case study.
experimental study.
2. Highly active fetuses tend to __________
become highly active children.
become less active as children.
experience their emotions intensely.
be more responsive to sounds.
3. Javier was born 3 days ago. His parents have noticed that he has several reflexes which the doctors have been testing. Which of the following is not a reflex exhibited by healthy newborns?
a) Moro reflex
b) rooting reflex
c) walking reflex
d) stepping reflex
4. When an infant becomes accustomed to a stimulus and stops responding to it, he/she has become __________
over-stimulated.
habituated.
sensitized.
adjusted.
5. __________ pioneered the use of a procedure called the “strange situation” in studying the mother-child interactions in the home during the infant’s first year.
Harry Harlow
Jerome Kagan
Alexander Thomas
Mary Ainsworth
6. Piaget believed that children learn by using __________ to adjust their cognitive schemes.
object permanence and conservation
habituation and conservation
assimilation and accommodation
sensation and perception
7. Lev Vygotsky believed that one trend common to all children was __________
they move from a reliance on assimilation to an ability to accommodate.
their tendency to talk aloud to themselves gradually turns into inner thought.
their thinking becomes less animistic and more abstract as they learn about the world.
their sensorimotor thought becomes less tied to perception as they develop language.
8. Infants do not recognize that objects, once removed from their view, continue to exist. The information processing approach would say this is due to __________
a lack of object permanence.
limited short-term memory.
the zone of proximal development.
an inability to perform converging operations.
9. Sarah’s Dad held the door open for two people to walk through at the store in the mall. Sarah said “Daddy, why are you doing that?” Sarah’s Dad remarked that this is what nice people do, they help each other. What process is occurring in the interplay between Sarah and her Dad?
socialization
positive parenting
overregularization
generalization
10. Television viewing has been linked to __________ in children
sleep problems
overregularization
centration
teratogens
Chapter 8 - Quick Quiz 2
Answer Key
1. b Explanation: A cross-sectional study involves comparing groups of participants of
different ages on a particular skill or quality at the same time. (Page 265, Applied, LO 8.2)
2. a Explanation: There does seem to be a relationship between high fetal activity and high
activity in childhood. (Page 268, Conceptual, LO 8.4)
3. c Explanation: Correct. This is not one of the 5 mentioned in the book. (Page 270, Applied,
LO 8.6)
4. b Explanation: Habituation refers to a decrease in response or attention to a stimulus as an
infant becomes accustomed to it. (Page 272, Factual, LO 8.8)
5. d Explanation: The strange situation experiment was first contemplated by Mary
Ainsworth. (Page 275, Factual, LO 8.10)
6. c Explanation: These are the two processes that children use, with assimilation coming
earlier and accommodating developing later. (Page 277, Conceptual, LO 8.12)
7. b Explanation: Vygotsky felt that private speech is an essential component of cognitive
development. (Page 285, Factual, LO 8.15)
8. b Explanation: This model suggests that children simply do not remember where the item
was, and that short-term memory does not develop in this fashion until about 15 months. (Page 285, Conceptual, LO 8.16)
9. a Explanation: Socialization is the process of learning socially acceptable behaviors,
attitudes, and values. (Page 290, Applied, LO 8.20)
10. a Explanation: Children who watch television have been reported to have a higher
incidence of sleep difficulties. (Page 294, Factual, LO 8.22)
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