Lifespan of Human Development Final Exam Questions AND
Correct Answers
According to Dodge's social information-processing model, the
main thing wrong with teenagers who commit violent,
antisocial acts is, - ✔✔The way they interpret and process
social cues.
At or before nine months of age, most children begin to
______. This activity is one of the earliest milestones in
developing a theory of mind. - ✔✔Engage in joint attention.
Coercive family environments refer to situations where family
members, - ✔✔Are locked in power struggles.
Empathy refers to, - ✔✔Vicariously experiencing another's
feelings.
Evolutionary-based research on altruism has demonstrated
that, - ✔✔Humans may have a genetic make-up that
predisposes them to behave both antisocially and prosocially.
, For Bandura, ______ is the key mechanism that monitors and
evaluates one's actions and produces moral actions. - ✔✔Self-
regulation.
Having a theory of mind indicates that individual, -
✔✔Understands that mental states exist and guide behavior.
In a study using the false belief task with four-year-olds of
average intelligence, four-year-olds with Down syndrome, and
slightly older children with autism, Baron-Cohen found that, -
✔✔Both the average intelligence children and the children
with Down syndrome passed the test.
Kohlberg's cognitive developmental theory of moral
development claims that, - ✔✔A person's stage of moral
development is determined by the person's thoughts, rather
than his or her actions.
Moral reasoning is best defined as the, - ✔✔Thought process
used to determine if an act is right or wrong.
Prosocial behavior is defined as, - ✔✔A positive social act
reflecting a concern for others.
Correct Answers
According to Dodge's social information-processing model, the
main thing wrong with teenagers who commit violent,
antisocial acts is, - ✔✔The way they interpret and process
social cues.
At or before nine months of age, most children begin to
______. This activity is one of the earliest milestones in
developing a theory of mind. - ✔✔Engage in joint attention.
Coercive family environments refer to situations where family
members, - ✔✔Are locked in power struggles.
Empathy refers to, - ✔✔Vicariously experiencing another's
feelings.
Evolutionary-based research on altruism has demonstrated
that, - ✔✔Humans may have a genetic make-up that
predisposes them to behave both antisocially and prosocially.
, For Bandura, ______ is the key mechanism that monitors and
evaluates one's actions and produces moral actions. - ✔✔Self-
regulation.
Having a theory of mind indicates that individual, -
✔✔Understands that mental states exist and guide behavior.
In a study using the false belief task with four-year-olds of
average intelligence, four-year-olds with Down syndrome, and
slightly older children with autism, Baron-Cohen found that, -
✔✔Both the average intelligence children and the children
with Down syndrome passed the test.
Kohlberg's cognitive developmental theory of moral
development claims that, - ✔✔A person's stage of moral
development is determined by the person's thoughts, rather
than his or her actions.
Moral reasoning is best defined as the, - ✔✔Thought process
used to determine if an act is right or wrong.
Prosocial behavior is defined as, - ✔✔A positive social act
reflecting a concern for others.
