PSY301 FINAL OLEMISS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. **The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life
span.
Answer:
Development
Question:
2. **The ______________ approach emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood, as well as
child hood.
Answer:
Life-span
Question:
3. **this girl has a kid and its more important to know that than it is to know her age of either 20 or 30,
what concept of age is this demonstrating? (i think its psychosocial)
Concepts of Age:
1. ______ person's age in terms of health.
2. ______ person's adaptive capacities compared to others of same age.
3. _____ connectedness with others.
4. _____ exact number of age.
Answer:
1. Biological Age
2. Psychological Age
3. Social Age
4. Chronological Age
Question:
4. **the controversy between heredity and environment (ans: i think nature vs. nurture)
Those who emphasize ______1_____ believe that basic growth is genetically programmed into humans.
Those who emphasize _____2______ believe that experiences run the gamut from a person's biological
environment to their social environmental experiences.
Answer:
1. Nature
2. Nurture
Question:
5. **matching - Psychoanalytical Theory - As children grow up, their focus of pleasure shifts from oral,
anal, phallic, latency, to genitals.
Answer:
Freud
,Question:
6. **know all of erikson's stages and names
Psychosocial Theory - Developmental change occurs throughout the lifespan instead of first 5 years. The 8
stages of development include overcoming a crisis.
Answer:
Erikson
Question:
7. *Piaget's 4 Stages:
1. ______ infants understand through coordinating senses and physical actions.
2. ______ child begins to represent world with words and images.
3. ______ child can now logically reason about non-abstract events.
4. ______ adolescent reasons in a more abstract manner.
Answer:
1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete Operational
4. Formal Operational
Question:
8. **matching Operant Conditioning - consequences of behavior produce changes in the probability of
behavior's recurrence.
Answer:
Skinner
Question:
9. 1. ____ complex molecule in chromosomes that contain genetic information.
2. ____ units of hereditary information small segments of deoxyribonucleic acid.
3. ____ person's genetic material. **4. ____ person's observable characteristics.
Answer:
1. DNA
2. Genes
3. Genotype
4. Phenotype
Question:
10. Five Prenatal Diagnostic Tests:
1. high-frequency sound waves directed into the woman's abdomen.
2. Tiny tissue samples from the placenta.
3. Sample of amniotic fluid withdrawn.
**4. Mother's blood test
5. Baby brain imaging technique.
, Answer:
1. Ultrasound
2. Chorionic Villus Sampling
3. Amniocentesis
4. Maternal Blood Screening
5. Fetal MRI
Question:
11. What are the three stages of pregnancy and their time frames?
Answer:
**Germinal (conception - 2 weeks) Embryonic (2 - 8 weeks) **Fetal (2 months to birth)
Question:
12. Any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral
outcomes.
Answer:
Teratogen
Question:
13. Types of Teratogens.
1. ___________ drugs include antibiotics, antidepressants, and hormones.
2. __________ drugs include diet pills and aspirin.
3. _________ drugs include caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, marijuana.
4. _________ these hazards are from industrial world and can endanger the embryo.
5. _________ these can be passed down or produce defects in offspring by crossing placental barrier.
6. ________ inadequate diet affecting development. Incompatible blood types, advanced maternal age, and
maternal stress are also teratogens.
Answer:
1. prescription
2. nonprescription
3. psychoactive
4. environmental hazards
5. maternal diseases
6. nutritional deficiencies
Question:
14. The longest stage of birth including uterine contractions lasting 6-12 hours.
Answer:
1rst stage of birth
Question:
15. Stage of birth that begins when the baby's head moves through the cervix and birth canal and ends
when the baby emerges from the mother's body; lasts about 45 minutes.
Answer:
2nd stage of birth
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. **The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life
span.
Answer:
Development
Question:
2. **The ______________ approach emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood, as well as
child hood.
Answer:
Life-span
Question:
3. **this girl has a kid and its more important to know that than it is to know her age of either 20 or 30,
what concept of age is this demonstrating? (i think its psychosocial)
Concepts of Age:
1. ______ person's age in terms of health.
2. ______ person's adaptive capacities compared to others of same age.
3. _____ connectedness with others.
4. _____ exact number of age.
Answer:
1. Biological Age
2. Psychological Age
3. Social Age
4. Chronological Age
Question:
4. **the controversy between heredity and environment (ans: i think nature vs. nurture)
Those who emphasize ______1_____ believe that basic growth is genetically programmed into humans.
Those who emphasize _____2______ believe that experiences run the gamut from a person's biological
environment to their social environmental experiences.
Answer:
1. Nature
2. Nurture
Question:
5. **matching - Psychoanalytical Theory - As children grow up, their focus of pleasure shifts from oral,
anal, phallic, latency, to genitals.
Answer:
Freud
,Question:
6. **know all of erikson's stages and names
Psychosocial Theory - Developmental change occurs throughout the lifespan instead of first 5 years. The 8
stages of development include overcoming a crisis.
Answer:
Erikson
Question:
7. *Piaget's 4 Stages:
1. ______ infants understand through coordinating senses and physical actions.
2. ______ child begins to represent world with words and images.
3. ______ child can now logically reason about non-abstract events.
4. ______ adolescent reasons in a more abstract manner.
Answer:
1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete Operational
4. Formal Operational
Question:
8. **matching Operant Conditioning - consequences of behavior produce changes in the probability of
behavior's recurrence.
Answer:
Skinner
Question:
9. 1. ____ complex molecule in chromosomes that contain genetic information.
2. ____ units of hereditary information small segments of deoxyribonucleic acid.
3. ____ person's genetic material. **4. ____ person's observable characteristics.
Answer:
1. DNA
2. Genes
3. Genotype
4. Phenotype
Question:
10. Five Prenatal Diagnostic Tests:
1. high-frequency sound waves directed into the woman's abdomen.
2. Tiny tissue samples from the placenta.
3. Sample of amniotic fluid withdrawn.
**4. Mother's blood test
5. Baby brain imaging technique.
, Answer:
1. Ultrasound
2. Chorionic Villus Sampling
3. Amniocentesis
4. Maternal Blood Screening
5. Fetal MRI
Question:
11. What are the three stages of pregnancy and their time frames?
Answer:
**Germinal (conception - 2 weeks) Embryonic (2 - 8 weeks) **Fetal (2 months to birth)
Question:
12. Any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral
outcomes.
Answer:
Teratogen
Question:
13. Types of Teratogens.
1. ___________ drugs include antibiotics, antidepressants, and hormones.
2. __________ drugs include diet pills and aspirin.
3. _________ drugs include caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, marijuana.
4. _________ these hazards are from industrial world and can endanger the embryo.
5. _________ these can be passed down or produce defects in offspring by crossing placental barrier.
6. ________ inadequate diet affecting development. Incompatible blood types, advanced maternal age, and
maternal stress are also teratogens.
Answer:
1. prescription
2. nonprescription
3. psychoactive
4. environmental hazards
5. maternal diseases
6. nutritional deficiencies
Question:
14. The longest stage of birth including uterine contractions lasting 6-12 hours.
Answer:
1rst stage of birth
Question:
15. Stage of birth that begins when the baby's head moves through the cervix and birth canal and ends
when the baby emerges from the mother's body; lasts about 45 minutes.
Answer:
2nd stage of birth
