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Review of Developmental Psychology
  
 
Multiple Choice Test
1. Which of the following is not one of Piaget's developmental stages?
2. Which of the following is one of the "functional invariants" that Piaget thought drove cognitive development?
3. John Bowlby is best known for his theory of:
4. Children in Piaget's "preoperational stage" do not have which of the following cognitive abilities:
5. Harlow found that when he frightened the young monkeys he had raised in isolation, they tended to seek comfort from:
6. Harlow found that monkeys that were raised in isolation and then introduced into a social group:
7. The male hormone testosterone is associated with:
8. In the context of the Strange Situation Test, children who cry when their mothers leave but are quickly comforted when their mothers return are labeled:
9. The development of visual acuity depends on:
10. Piaget's preoperational stage lasts approximately between the ages of:
11. Cross-sectional studies look at separate groups of children at different ages. Studies that look at a single group of children over time are called:
12. Because of practical and ethical limitations, developmental psychologists often cannot directly manipulate the variable of interest. Instead, they conduct:
13. Piaget's theory of development and information- processing theories of development are examples of:
14. Piaget's theory of development has been criticized for several reasons. Pick the item below that is NOT a valid criticism of his theory.
15. One of Chomsky's original arguments for the innateness of language was that:
16. Children with Williams syndrome are interesting because:
17. Freud believed that the driving force behind psychosexual development was:
18. Erikson disagreed with Freud about the driving force behind development. He thought it was:
19. What is the name for children's tendency to use words to describe a broader class of objects than adults do (e.g. calling all animals "dog")?
20. What is the name for children's tendency to use words to describe a smaller class of objects than adults do (e.g. using "dog" to describe a pet but not other dogs)?
21. Bob, a four-year-old, keeps saying "goed" instead of "went" and "runned" instead of "ran." What kind of error is Bob making?
22. Deaf children who are raised in a signing environment learn to sign:
23. Young children's inability to remember that they once had a false belief is a failure of:
24. If a young child is shown a piece of white paper that is then put behind a blue filter, the child will say that the paper is now blue. This demonstrates a failure to distinguish between:
25. In order to deceive another person purposefully, a child must be able to understand:
26. Autistic children show deficits in:
27. The Oedipal complex arises during which of Freud's psychosexual stages?
28. Because humans infants are almost entirely helpless, humans are:
29. An information-processing theorist might say that:
30. Ethology is the study of:
31. Secure attachment, as measured by the Strange Situation Test, predicts:
32. The naming burst refers to:
33. The "poverty of the stimulus" is a phrase introduced into psychology by:
34. The production of nonsense syllables by the nine- to ten-month-old child is called:
35. Chomsky called the innate mechanism for language learning the:
36. What is the primary function of babbling?
37. In Piaget's theory, "accommodation" refers to the process of:
38. In Piaget's theory, "assimilation" refers to:
39. The first stage of Erikson's developmental theory focuses on:
40. Piaget's sensorimotor stage lasts from ages:
41. Which of the following is not an argument for an innate language learning module?
42. The theorist who focused most strongly on the role of the social environment in cognitive development was:
43. Freud's theory of development has been criticized for many reasons. Which of the following is NOT one those reasons?
44. Bowlby's theory of attachment was strongly influenced by both:
45. The cognitive abilities of pre-speech children are frequently measured using:
46. Development is most powerfully determined by:
47. Boys' groups tend to differ from girls' groups in that:
48. Vygotsky believed that cognitive skills were acquired through a relationship he called:
49. Indicate the stage that comes last in Freud's theory of psychosexual development:
50. Attachment theory and Freudian theory have which of the following characteristics in common?
51. The theorist that emphasized changing social needs throughout the life course was:

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