PSYCH 100 PRACTICE EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Melissa suffered a severe viral infection during her fourth month of pregnancy that
caused her baby to be born with an abnormal heart valve. In this instance, the virus was
clearly a(n) - ✔✔teratogen
✔✔Teratogens - ✔✔agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo
or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
✔✔Mr. Hersch triggered a rooting reflex in his infant son by touching him on the -
✔✔cheek
✔✔Infant motor development is typically characterized by individual differences in
________ of the major developmental milestones. - ✔✔the age-related timing but not
the sequence
✔✔Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child... - ✔✔develops through a series of
stages
✔✔sensorimotor stage, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational -
✔✔What are Piaget's stages?
✔✔Birth-2yrs; uses senses and motor skills, items known by use. Object permanence
learned. - ✔✔Sensorimotor Stage
✔✔2-6yrs; symbolic thinking, language used; egotistic thinking. Imagination/ experience
grow, child decenters - ✔✔Preoperational
✔✔7-11yrs; logic applied, has objective/rational interpretations. Conservation, numbers,
ideas, classifications. - ✔✔Concrete operational
✔✔12yrs-adulthood; thinks abstractly, hypothetical ideas (boarder issues). Ethics,
politics, social/ moral issues explored. - ✔✔Formal Operational
✔✔What does developmental psychology examine? - ✔✔It examines our physical,
cognitive, and social development across the life span, with a focus on three major
issues; Nature and nurture, continuity and stages, stability and change.
✔✔Lawerence Kohlberg - ✔✔created the most influential theory of moral developement
by expanding Piaget's theory into Preconventional morality, Conventional morality, and
Postconventional morality for some.
, ✔✔Erik Erikson - ✔✔Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development; Basic
Trust, Autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, intimacy, Generativity, and Integrity
✔✔Jean Piaget - ✔✔Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor, 2.
preoperational, 3. concrete operational, and 4. formal operational. He said that the two
basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth-assimilation and
accomodation
✔✔fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - ✔✔physical and cognitive abnormalities in children
caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include
noticeable facial misproportions
✔✔prenatal development - ✔✔zygote, embryo, fetus
✔✔Habituation - ✔✔decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants
gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and
they look away sooner.
✔✔Maturation - ✔✔biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in
behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
✔✔Brain Development - ✔✔development of the association areas of the cortex- those
linked with thinking, memory, and language
✔✔motor development - ✔✔the progression of muscular coordination required for
physical activities
✔✔cognitive development - ✔✔the development of thinking, problem solving, and
memory
✔✔cognition - ✔✔all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
✔✔scale errors - ✔✔attempting to do things that their body size makes impossible
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
✔✔accommodation - ✔✔adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate
new information
✔✔object permanence - ✔✔the awareness that things continue to exist even when not
perceived
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Melissa suffered a severe viral infection during her fourth month of pregnancy that
caused her baby to be born with an abnormal heart valve. In this instance, the virus was
clearly a(n) - ✔✔teratogen
✔✔Teratogens - ✔✔agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo
or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
✔✔Mr. Hersch triggered a rooting reflex in his infant son by touching him on the -
✔✔cheek
✔✔Infant motor development is typically characterized by individual differences in
________ of the major developmental milestones. - ✔✔the age-related timing but not
the sequence
✔✔Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child... - ✔✔develops through a series of
stages
✔✔sensorimotor stage, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational -
✔✔What are Piaget's stages?
✔✔Birth-2yrs; uses senses and motor skills, items known by use. Object permanence
learned. - ✔✔Sensorimotor Stage
✔✔2-6yrs; symbolic thinking, language used; egotistic thinking. Imagination/ experience
grow, child decenters - ✔✔Preoperational
✔✔7-11yrs; logic applied, has objective/rational interpretations. Conservation, numbers,
ideas, classifications. - ✔✔Concrete operational
✔✔12yrs-adulthood; thinks abstractly, hypothetical ideas (boarder issues). Ethics,
politics, social/ moral issues explored. - ✔✔Formal Operational
✔✔What does developmental psychology examine? - ✔✔It examines our physical,
cognitive, and social development across the life span, with a focus on three major
issues; Nature and nurture, continuity and stages, stability and change.
✔✔Lawerence Kohlberg - ✔✔created the most influential theory of moral developement
by expanding Piaget's theory into Preconventional morality, Conventional morality, and
Postconventional morality for some.
, ✔✔Erik Erikson - ✔✔Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development; Basic
Trust, Autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, intimacy, Generativity, and Integrity
✔✔Jean Piaget - ✔✔Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor, 2.
preoperational, 3. concrete operational, and 4. formal operational. He said that the two
basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth-assimilation and
accomodation
✔✔fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - ✔✔physical and cognitive abnormalities in children
caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include
noticeable facial misproportions
✔✔prenatal development - ✔✔zygote, embryo, fetus
✔✔Habituation - ✔✔decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants
gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and
they look away sooner.
✔✔Maturation - ✔✔biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in
behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
✔✔Brain Development - ✔✔development of the association areas of the cortex- those
linked with thinking, memory, and language
✔✔motor development - ✔✔the progression of muscular coordination required for
physical activities
✔✔cognitive development - ✔✔the development of thinking, problem solving, and
memory
✔✔cognition - ✔✔all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
✔✔scale errors - ✔✔attempting to do things that their body size makes impossible
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
✔✔accommodation - ✔✔adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate
new information
✔✔object permanence - ✔✔the awareness that things continue to exist even when not
perceived
