Quiz 1_Human Development

Which of the following words BEST describes the focus of the study of human development?

• Change
• Relationship
• Cause and effect
• Parenthood

What is the purpose for developmental scientists to understand how language develops in determining the needs for speech therapy?

• Intervene
• Describe
• Predict
• Explain

Life-span studies are based on which of the following ideas?

• There is little continuity over the life span.
• Development occurs early in life, not during adulthood.
• Every portion of the life span is influenced by earlier events and will in turn affect later events.
• There is no development that takes place in the late adulthood stage.

Raja is 14 months old and having great difficulty when left with the babysitter. His separation anxiety is an example of interaction between which two types of development?

• Cognitive and physical
• Physical and emotional
• Cognitive and social
• Social and language

A child born today in Malaysia will have different experiences than children born in the United States. Other than genetic content that might give differences in terms of physical appearance experiences, what is another element that make the children different? 

• Biological context.
• Social and historical context.
• Climate context.
• Maturation period.

Which of the following is an example of Erikson’s stage of initiative versus guilt?

• An infant learning that she can depend on being fed.
• A 3-year-old trying to fill a cup with water and cheerfully wiping up the water when it spills.
• A 10-year-old learning to read fluently.
• A teenager conforming to peer pressure.

Which of the following is NOT one of the cognitive stages through which a child progresses, as theorized by Jean Piaget?

• Post-conceptual
• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete operations

According to Jean Piaget, what is the primary goal or need that leads children to change their ways of thinking to adapt to new experiences?

• Satisfaction of id impulses
• Equilibrium
• Stable sense of identity
• Approval from parents

Which theory of human development is universally accepted as the theory that best explains all facets of development?

• Psychoanalytic
• Behavioristic
• Sociocultural
• No one theory is able to do this.

What regulates the genetic action that triggers the development of the body and brain?

• The specific strength and viability of growth genes.
• Hormone levels that stimulate genes.
• Amount of stress present in the environment.
• Adevelopmental process.