Psychology- Developmental

Your newborn starts digging its head into your chest, nodding and turning, trying to suckle. This is an example of the:

• rooting reflex
• grasping reflex
• patellar reflex
• nursing reflex

Jessica thinks the newborn loves her because he always grabs her finger. In fact, this is merely an example of what reflex:

• branch reflex
• rooting reflex
• patellar reflex
• grasping reflex

Babies show preference for stories read to them while still in the womb. This demonstrates:

• innate learning
• neonatal learning
• geriatric learning
• infantile learning

This method of research, contrasted with Longitudinal Studies, is less time consuming, less expensive and can study individuals simultaneously:

• Survey
• Naturalistic Observation
• Case Study
• Cross- Sectional Study

One problem with longitudinal studies, people dying or leaving the study, is called:

• cohort effect
• abomination
• absolution
• attrition

Cohort effect is best described as:

• differences in the outcome of the study stemming from participant knowledge about the study
• differences in the outcome of the study because their collective experience is different
• differences in the outcome of the study because the number studied was too small
• differences in the outcome of the study stemming from participant death and absence

Grace is going to buy me a pregaphone for Christmas so that:

• my pregnant wife can talk to me
• I can easily get my wife pregnant
• I can better hear my baby
• I can talk or read to my baby

Tabula Rasa, coined by John Locke, means that:

• children are born with everything they need, the ‘full box’
• children are born with an empty brain, the ‘blank slate’
• children are born with an empty brain, the ‘empty box’
• children are born with everything they need, the ‘complete package’

The onset of adulthood:

• immediately follows puberty
• immediately follows adolescence
• depends on cultural expectations
• depends on when you have a baby

Which of the following is a secondary sex characteristic:

• testicles
• ovaries
• clitoris
• breasts