MBB2 Developmental Psychology MCQs

What is the difference between child developmental psychology and lifespan developmental psychology?

• Child developmental psychology focuses on children’s development.

• Lifespan psychology focuses on development across the lifespan.

• Lifespan developmental psychology is not interested in child development.

• Child developmental psychology is not interested in adult development.

Which of the following is an example of developmental continuity?

• Measuring the level of sophistication of a person’s cognitive skills, because these can increase or decrease over time.

• Measuring the type of cognitive skill that a person uses to solve a problem, because different skills can indicate different levels of development.

• Measuring multiple cognitive skills at once, because skills develop at different rates.

• Measuring how long a person’s cognitive skills persist, given that their development is continuous.

How has scholarly understanding of childhood changed over the past 200 years?

• Childhood used to be perceived as a time of naïvety, now it is perceived as a time of experience.

• Childhood used to be perceived to be a time of passivity, now it is perceived as as time of activity.

• Children used to be perceives as fit for specific jobs (e.g., child labour), now they are not.

• Children used to be perceived as under-developed adults, now they are perceived to have their own unique life period.

Which of the following is not an enduring theme of developmental psychology?

• Nature and nurture.

• Mechanisms for change.

• Cognitive development.

• Universality & context specificity.

A study that investigates the safest way to conduct research with infants and children is an example of which enduring theme of development?

• Research and children’s welfare.

• Research and all people’s welfare.

• Ethical responsibility.

• Universality & context specificity.

How does a hypothesis relate to a theory?

• A hypothesis is the same thing as a theory.

• A hypothesis is a type of theory.

• Hypotheses test the relationships between concepts that represent the broader theory.

• Hypotheses test the relationships between measure that represent the broader theory.

Being able to confirm predictions using research results is an example of which feature of a good theory?

• Falsifiability.

• Supported by data.

• Internal consistency.

• Academic integrity.

Asking a participant to fill in a survey is an example of what type of data collection?

• Self-report.

• Behavioural observation.

• Physiological measurements.

• Other-report.

You are part of a research team that wants to investigate the impact of various revision techniques to a students’ performance on a test. Which of the following would be the most appropriate research design?

• A case study of one student’s experience of revision.

• An experimental study using different revision techniques as different conditions.

• A correlation design of amount of revision and performance.

• All of the above.

The figure above is showing a correlation between wellbeing (Y) and number of hours spent watching television (X). What does this correlation indicate?

• A moderate positive correlation: the more that people watch television, the lower their wellbeing.

• A moderate positive correlation: the more that people watch television, the higher their wellbeing.

• A moderate negative correlation: the more that people watch television, the lower their wellbeing.

• A moderate negative correlation: the more that people watch television, the higher their wellbeing.