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DP Midterm
Developmental Psychology Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychosocially, one of the most important tasks of a middle-school child is to: | Learn how to get along with peers. |
| The difference in the psychosocial development of young children as compared to middle school children is that: | Young children's engocentrism makes them less affected by another's acceptance or rejection. |
| The term "culture of children" means: | The particular habits and styles reflecting rules and rituals that are distinct from those of adult society. |
| Eleven-year-old Eric raised thousands of dollars for Katrina disaster victims. He believes that his efforts will help to improve some victims living conditions. He is demonstrating: | Social efficacy. |
| The __________ level emphasizes rewards and punishments; while the ___________ level emphasizes moral principles. | Preconventional; postconventional. |
| Kohlberg's view of children's development of moral reasoning was criticized because he: | did not recognize the shift from adult to peer values. |
| Research on social acceptance among children indicates that: | some children are well-liked, others aren't, and those in both groups change over time. |
| Rita, who is unpopular among her peers, frequently ridicules and antagonizes other children. Here behavior suggests that she is a (n): | aggressive-rejected child. |
| The ability to regulate one's emotions and actions through effort, not simply through natural inclination, is referred to as: | Effortful control. |
| Boys who bully tend to: | use physical aggression. |
| Norwegian researcher Dan Olweus's program to reduce bullying included the interventions of: | teaching students to befriend lonely children. |
| Which of the following statements concerning bullying is true? | Efforts to reduce bullying have rarely been successful; Programs to reduce bullying that appear to be good might actually be harmful; Intervention is less effective in the higher grades than in the younger grades. |
| Research on temperaments of monozygotic twins supports the finding that: | a mother's emotional attitudes toward her twins are one factor that influences the twins' behavior. |
| Family _______ refers to the legal and genetic relationships of related people living together, and family ____________ refers to the way a family works to care for its members. | structure; function. |
| Which statement regarding family function and structure is true? | Family structure does not determine family function, but family structure affects family function. |
| The family structure that is most rapidly increasing the U.S. is the: | single father, divorced, or never married. |
| Research indicates that parents in nuclear families tend to: | have personal and financial strengths that make them better parents. |
| According to your text, families who are very wealthy raise children with high rates of emotional problems. This is thought to be, in part, because: | of stress. |
| According to research, children who experience many family transitions are more like to: | quit school. |
| Between ages 6 and 11, children show psychosocial maturation by their ability to: | tell time and have set times of activities. |
| To say something is empirical means that it is: | based on data. |
| Developmentalists: | come from many different academic disciplines. |
| Dynamics-systems theory stresses: | fluctuations and transitions. |
| Brofenbrenner recommended a (an): | Ecological systems approach. |
| Which of the following is a characteristic of development named by your text? | Multidirectional |
| Which of the five characteristics of development identified by the text did Brofenbrenner emphasize? | Multicontextual. |
| Which of the following is true of socioeconomic status (SES) | Sometimes SES is called "social class". |
| According to your text, social scientists refer more often to "ethnicity" and "culture" than to "race" because: | "Race" is a misleading, socially constructed term. |
| Why would a scientist repeat a research study with a different group of participants, using the same procedures that were used in the original study? | To verify or dispute the original study's conclusions. |
| The story about the author's nephew David illustrates: | plasticity. |
| According to Berger, psychosocial development for children ages 2 to 6 is: | multifaceted, involving genes, gender, parents, peers, and culture. |
| Children who master ________________ have learned when and how to express emotions. | emotional regulation. |
| The belief in one's own ability, a personal estimate of success and worthiness is called: | self esteem. |
| A source of pride develops in preschoolers when they predict that they can accomplish impossible tasks. This is sometimes called: | protective optimism. |
| Both shame and guilt arise from social standards. Guilt, however, originates from within, while shame: | Depends upon other people. |
| The signs of a psychological disorder in children are usually first evident in their: | lack of impulse control, are unable to exercise enough control over their emotions, are unable to develop control. |
| At night, Brooks, age 4, is afraid of the sound of the train whistle and of going to bed without a light on. His excessive fears are an expression of: | lack of prefrontal cortex development. |
| ____________ is the understanding of the feelings and concerns of others and ___________ is the feelings of anger, distrust, and dislike toward another person. | Emapthy; antipathy. |
| Which of the follwing is a prerequisite for being able to read others' emotions accurately and thus display appropriate empathy? | theory of mind. |
| Many researchers have traced the effects of parenting on child development, but the researcher whose findings in this area are currently most influential is: | Baumrind. |
| ___________ are nurturing, accepting, and attentive to their children, while ___________ parents seem aloof and rarely show affection. | Permissive; authoritarian. |
| According to longitudinal studies, children who become successful, intelligent, happy, and generous adults generally have parents who were: | authoritative. |
| According to your text, one common cause of children both internalizing and externalizing problems is: | ineffective parenting. |
| In relating discipline to a young child's developmental characteristics, it is important to remember: | children are actively forming theory of mind and self concepts necessary for empathy and prosocial behaviors. |
| According to research, children of all ages who watch violence on television: | become more violent themselves. |
| American children of every ethnic and economic group spend ___________ daily exposed to electronic media. | 3 to 4 hours. |
| Longitudinal research has shown that: | depending on the content of TV programs, content can facilitate learning. |
| Research suggests that preschoolers who watched TV violence and imitated the actions of cartoon characters: | were more violent, were less creative, and went on to have lower grades. |
| Freud postulated that young boys have an unconscious desire to replace their fathers and win their mother's exclusive love. He called this: | the Oedipus complex. |
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