PSYC1003 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The embryonic period - ✔✔From the beginning of the third week to about the eighth
week of gestation. Most important period in the development of the central nervous
system and of the organs.
✔✔Teratogens - ✔✔Environmental agents that harm the embryo or foetus: drugs,
radiation, viruses, cigarettes, maternal stress.
✔✔Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - ✔✔Born with numerous physical deformities and a
wide range of mental abnormalities.
✔✔Presbycusis - ✔✔The inability to hear high-frequency sounds
✔✔Automatisation - ✔✔Refers to the process of executing mental processes with
increasing effi- ciency so that they require less and less attention.
✔✔Metacognition - ✔✔Involves cognition that reflects on, monitors and regulates an
individual's thinking.
✔✔Metamemory - ✔✔Knowledge about one's own memory and about strategies that
can be used to help remember.
✔✔Processing speed, children's knowledge base, automatisation, more efficient use of
cognition strategies and metacognition. - ✔✔Variable's involved in cognition
development.
✔✔Neo-Piagetian theorists - ✔✔Attempt to integrate an understanding of the broad
stages of Piaget's theory with an information-processing approach.
✔✔Case's theory - ✔✔According to this theory, the main variable responsible for
cognitive development across stages is expansion of working memory capacity.
✔✔Perspective taking - ✔✔The ability to understand other people's viewpoints or
perspectives.
✔✔Theory of mind - ✔✔An implicit set of ideas about the existence of mental states,
such as beliefs and feelings, in oneself and others.
✔✔Social development - ✔✔Changes in interpersonal thought, feeling and behaviour
throughout the life span.
, ✔✔Attachment - ✔✔The enduring ties of affection that children form with primary
caregivers.
✔✔Contact comfort - ✔✔Perceived security is the crucial element in forming attachment
relationships. The ties that bind an infant to its caregiver.
✔✔Imprinting - ✔✔A phenomenon studied by ethologist Lorenz which refers to the
tendency of young animals of certain species to follow an animal to which they were
exposed during a sensitive period early in their lives.
✔✔Separation anxiety - ✔✔Distress at separation from
their attachment figures beginning at 6 to 7 months or when infants begin to crawl.
✔✔John Bowlby's attachment theory - ✔✔Attachment, like imprinting, evolved as a
mechanism for keeping infants close to their parents while they are immature and
vulnerable.
✔✔Secure attachment style - ✔✔Readily comforted by their attachment figures.
✔✔Avoidant attachment style - ✔✔Tend to shut off their needs for attachment.
✔✔Ambivalent attachment style - ✔✔Have difficulty being soothed.
✔✔Disorganised attachment style - ✔✔Behave in contradictory ways, indi- cating
helpless efforts to elicit soothing responses from the attachment figure.
✔✔Internal working models - ✔✔Mental representations of attachment relationships that
form the basis for expectations in close relationships.
✔✔Adult attachment - ✔✔Refers to ways of experiencing attachment relation- ships in
adulthood.
✔✔Intermodal processing - ✔✔The ability to associate sensations of an object from
different sense or to match their own actions to behaviours they have observed visually.
✔✔Infantile amnesia - ✔✔Complete lack of explicit memory for events before age three
or four.
✔✔Infant retention - ✔✔Improves dramatically over the first 2 years of life.
✔✔Object permanence - ✔✔The recognition that objects exist in time and space
independent of the child's actions on, or observation of, them.
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The embryonic period - ✔✔From the beginning of the third week to about the eighth
week of gestation. Most important period in the development of the central nervous
system and of the organs.
✔✔Teratogens - ✔✔Environmental agents that harm the embryo or foetus: drugs,
radiation, viruses, cigarettes, maternal stress.
✔✔Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - ✔✔Born with numerous physical deformities and a
wide range of mental abnormalities.
✔✔Presbycusis - ✔✔The inability to hear high-frequency sounds
✔✔Automatisation - ✔✔Refers to the process of executing mental processes with
increasing effi- ciency so that they require less and less attention.
✔✔Metacognition - ✔✔Involves cognition that reflects on, monitors and regulates an
individual's thinking.
✔✔Metamemory - ✔✔Knowledge about one's own memory and about strategies that
can be used to help remember.
✔✔Processing speed, children's knowledge base, automatisation, more efficient use of
cognition strategies and metacognition. - ✔✔Variable's involved in cognition
development.
✔✔Neo-Piagetian theorists - ✔✔Attempt to integrate an understanding of the broad
stages of Piaget's theory with an information-processing approach.
✔✔Case's theory - ✔✔According to this theory, the main variable responsible for
cognitive development across stages is expansion of working memory capacity.
✔✔Perspective taking - ✔✔The ability to understand other people's viewpoints or
perspectives.
✔✔Theory of mind - ✔✔An implicit set of ideas about the existence of mental states,
such as beliefs and feelings, in oneself and others.
✔✔Social development - ✔✔Changes in interpersonal thought, feeling and behaviour
throughout the life span.
, ✔✔Attachment - ✔✔The enduring ties of affection that children form with primary
caregivers.
✔✔Contact comfort - ✔✔Perceived security is the crucial element in forming attachment
relationships. The ties that bind an infant to its caregiver.
✔✔Imprinting - ✔✔A phenomenon studied by ethologist Lorenz which refers to the
tendency of young animals of certain species to follow an animal to which they were
exposed during a sensitive period early in their lives.
✔✔Separation anxiety - ✔✔Distress at separation from
their attachment figures beginning at 6 to 7 months or when infants begin to crawl.
✔✔John Bowlby's attachment theory - ✔✔Attachment, like imprinting, evolved as a
mechanism for keeping infants close to their parents while they are immature and
vulnerable.
✔✔Secure attachment style - ✔✔Readily comforted by their attachment figures.
✔✔Avoidant attachment style - ✔✔Tend to shut off their needs for attachment.
✔✔Ambivalent attachment style - ✔✔Have difficulty being soothed.
✔✔Disorganised attachment style - ✔✔Behave in contradictory ways, indi- cating
helpless efforts to elicit soothing responses from the attachment figure.
✔✔Internal working models - ✔✔Mental representations of attachment relationships that
form the basis for expectations in close relationships.
✔✔Adult attachment - ✔✔Refers to ways of experiencing attachment relation- ships in
adulthood.
✔✔Intermodal processing - ✔✔The ability to associate sensations of an object from
different sense or to match their own actions to behaviours they have observed visually.
✔✔Infantile amnesia - ✔✔Complete lack of explicit memory for events before age three
or four.
✔✔Infant retention - ✔✔Improves dramatically over the first 2 years of life.
✔✔Object permanence - ✔✔The recognition that objects exist in time and space
independent of the child's actions on, or observation of, them.
