PSY 302: CHILD DEVELOPMENT
MIDTERM EXAM
What are the goals of developmental science? - Correct Answers -describe, explain,
and apply
Quantitative Change - Correct Answers -gradual changes in the amount, frequency, or
degree of behaviours (a child growing)
Qualitative Change - Correct Answers -a progression through a sequence of distinct
changes in thoughts and actions (a teenager shaving for the first time)
normal distribution - Correct Answers -where people fall on a certain scale
group differences - Correct Answers -the difference between two or more groups (men
on average are taller than women)
individual differences - Correct Answers -the spread/variability among children in
various aspects of development, including age onsets, rates of change, and the forms
that skills take (does not matter what group you're in)
age of onset - Correct Answers -approx. age when specific skills emerge (first words,
first steps)
rate of change - Correct Answers -refers to the course of change over time, including
how fast children progress in their skills (ie. language development)
form of skills - Correct Answers -what behaviour looks like with diverging experiences
(the Brazil tribe)
sensorimotor period - Correct Answers -cognitive structures are limited to sensory
experiences and motor activities. Birth-2yrs
Preoporational period - Correct Answers -capable of mental representation of thought,
growth of language, symbolic play, deferred imitation, understanding of object
permanence. 2-7yrs
concrete operational period - Correct Answers -develop logical, flexible, organized,
rational thinking, limited to concrete experiences. 7-11yrs
MIDTERM EXAM
What are the goals of developmental science? - Correct Answers -describe, explain,
and apply
Quantitative Change - Correct Answers -gradual changes in the amount, frequency, or
degree of behaviours (a child growing)
Qualitative Change - Correct Answers -a progression through a sequence of distinct
changes in thoughts and actions (a teenager shaving for the first time)
normal distribution - Correct Answers -where people fall on a certain scale
group differences - Correct Answers -the difference between two or more groups (men
on average are taller than women)
individual differences - Correct Answers -the spread/variability among children in
various aspects of development, including age onsets, rates of change, and the forms
that skills take (does not matter what group you're in)
age of onset - Correct Answers -approx. age when specific skills emerge (first words,
first steps)
rate of change - Correct Answers -refers to the course of change over time, including
how fast children progress in their skills (ie. language development)
form of skills - Correct Answers -what behaviour looks like with diverging experiences
(the Brazil tribe)
sensorimotor period - Correct Answers -cognitive structures are limited to sensory
experiences and motor activities. Birth-2yrs
Preoporational period - Correct Answers -capable of mental representation of thought,
growth of language, symbolic play, deferred imitation, understanding of object
permanence. 2-7yrs
concrete operational period - Correct Answers -develop logical, flexible, organized,
rational thinking, limited to concrete experiences. 7-11yrs
