HDFS 210 Exam 1, 2, and 3 | All Questions and Correct Answers | Verified Answers | Just Released

HDFS 210 Exam 1, 2, and 3 | All Questions
and Correct Answers | Verified Answers |
Just Released

HDFS 210 Exam #1

In a study of the behavioral adjustment of a group of children placed in foster
care, the children were assessed once a year over a period of 10 year. This is an
example of a ________ study.
a. developmental
b. cross-sectional
c. longitudinal
d. sequential ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c




Infants, like all people, are exposed to massive amounts of information; therefore,
they must focus their attention and select information so as not to be
overwhelmed. Thus, children must __________ selectively.
a. retrieve
b. encode
c. automate
d. store ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------B

,Which term refers to an infant's various levels of wakeful behaviors, such as
alertness fussing and crying, and different levels of sleep?
a. sensitive period
b. rhythm
c. alternation
d. state ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------D




______________ is an example of a biological universal event that occurs at
relatively the same time throughout all societies.
a. adulthood
b. young adulthood
c. death
d. puberty ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b




Who is considered the predominant theorist in cognitive development?
a. Jean Piaget
b. Sigmund Freud
c. B.F. Skinner
d. Albert Bandura ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A




Piagets theory of development assumed that all children pass though a series of
__________ universal stages in fixed order from birth to adolescent. These are
__________

,a. three; preoperational, concrete, operational and formal operational
b. five; sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
and maturation
c. four; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal
operational
d. six; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational,
assimilation and accommodation ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c




An infant who learns that smiling at his or her parents bring positive attention and
therefore begins to smile more often is demonstrating what type of learning?
a. habituation
b. classical conditioning
c. modeling
d. operant conditioning ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------d




An observable trait - a trait that is actually seen- is labeled _____
a. dominant
b. phenotype
c.recessive
d. a genotype ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b




Baby Polly is usually calm, happy baby when she is around her parents and
siblings. When her parents take her to her family reunions, though, her behavior

, changes. Her face crinkles up in a frown and she stares at unfamiliar people with
suspicion. Baby Polly is demonstrating ______.
a. stranger anxiety
b. distress
c. nonverbal encoding
d. emotion ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a




What is the term for developing child from 8 weeks after conception until birth?
a. embryo
b. fetus
c. baby
d. zygote ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b




What did Piaget call the process in which people understand a new experience in
terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking.
a. schemes
b. accommodation
c. cognition
d. assimilation ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------d




The information-processing approaches emphasize the type of ________ that
people use when they problem solve.