PSY 658 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Tarasoff Case - ANSWER Mental health professionals have a legal obligation to
break confidentiality to protect a potential victim/ victims/ from a client's imminent
violence. *Tarasoff is not triggered if the client says they're going to spread HIV or
aids
Tarasoff rule Lmft - ANSWER General rule: a person does not owe a duty to warn
3rd party concerning the dangerous conduct of another.
Tarasof considered exception due to the "special relationship" between therapist
and client
Which of the following is not a factor that contributes to resilience - ANSWER
Stoic Parenting
What is Stoic Parenting? - ANSWER
People move through a series of stages and confront conflicts between biological
drives and social expectations - ANSWER Psychoanalytic - freud
What are Teratogens - ANSWER
Who created the psycho-social theory of development - ANSWER Erikson
In the sensorimotor stage, who thinks with their eyes ears hands and other
sensory-motor equipment - ANSWER Infants
t/f: When children watch tv, the shows are less effective as teaching tools if they
have many social cures - ANSWER False
A key theorist in the area of attachment - ANSWER Bowlby
Which of the following is not an attachment style - ANSWER Secure assimilated
What are the attachment styles - ANSWER secure
avoidant (aka dismissive, or anxious-avoidant in children)
,anxious (aka preoccupied, or anxious-ambivalent in children)
disorganized (aka fearful-avoidant in children)
t/f: Mothers tend to play more physical games with bursts of excitement than
fathers do - ANSWER False
With academic learned helplessness, what do children attribute to ability -
ANSWER Failures
In middle childhood, physical aggression tends to - ANSWER Decrease
School refusal is most commonly related to - ANSWER Phobias
Does poverty affect physical, not cognitive growth - ANSWER Yes
The most effective interventions for childhood obesity and diabetes are - ANSWER
Family-based
Piaget's cognitive stage for early childhood - ANSWER Preoperational
Who developed a sociocultural theory of development - ANSWER Vygostky
In early childhood, children experience cognitive improvement in all of the
following except - ANSWER Memory for lists
Whose theory included the zone of proximal development - ANSWER Vygostky
Who researched moral development in children - ANSWER Kohlberg and piaget
WHich of the following is not part of the five states of infant arousal - ANSWER
Sustained awareness
An abnormal high pitched infant crying may indicate any of tho following except -
, ANSWER Fatigue
An enclosed bed for preterm babies is a - ANSWER Isolette
t/f: History graded influences refers to a phenomenon where people born around
the same time tend to be alike - ANSWER True
t/f Schemes refer to psychological structures that are an organized way of making
sense of experiences - ANSWER True
t/f: Mental health professionals help parents encourage children to behave in
accordance with socially endorsed gender roles - ANSWER False
A child's organically influenced dispositions interact with complex systems of
bidirectional relationships - ANSWER Bioecological model of development
What kind of classrooms benefit from working collaboratively and teaching
tailored to each child - ANSWER Social Constructive
t/f: In middle childhood children have not yet learned socially accepted ways of
expressing negative emotions - ANSWER False
t/f: White children who have more interracial interaction and exposure show more
in group favoritism towards their own group - ANSWER False
t/f: Schools where there are high perceptions of teachers as unfair have higher rates
ANSWERS
Tarasoff Case - ANSWER Mental health professionals have a legal obligation to
break confidentiality to protect a potential victim/ victims/ from a client's imminent
violence. *Tarasoff is not triggered if the client says they're going to spread HIV or
aids
Tarasoff rule Lmft - ANSWER General rule: a person does not owe a duty to warn
3rd party concerning the dangerous conduct of another.
Tarasof considered exception due to the "special relationship" between therapist
and client
Which of the following is not a factor that contributes to resilience - ANSWER
Stoic Parenting
What is Stoic Parenting? - ANSWER
People move through a series of stages and confront conflicts between biological
drives and social expectations - ANSWER Psychoanalytic - freud
What are Teratogens - ANSWER
Who created the psycho-social theory of development - ANSWER Erikson
In the sensorimotor stage, who thinks with their eyes ears hands and other
sensory-motor equipment - ANSWER Infants
t/f: When children watch tv, the shows are less effective as teaching tools if they
have many social cures - ANSWER False
A key theorist in the area of attachment - ANSWER Bowlby
Which of the following is not an attachment style - ANSWER Secure assimilated
What are the attachment styles - ANSWER secure
avoidant (aka dismissive, or anxious-avoidant in children)
,anxious (aka preoccupied, or anxious-ambivalent in children)
disorganized (aka fearful-avoidant in children)
t/f: Mothers tend to play more physical games with bursts of excitement than
fathers do - ANSWER False
With academic learned helplessness, what do children attribute to ability -
ANSWER Failures
In middle childhood, physical aggression tends to - ANSWER Decrease
School refusal is most commonly related to - ANSWER Phobias
Does poverty affect physical, not cognitive growth - ANSWER Yes
The most effective interventions for childhood obesity and diabetes are - ANSWER
Family-based
Piaget's cognitive stage for early childhood - ANSWER Preoperational
Who developed a sociocultural theory of development - ANSWER Vygostky
In early childhood, children experience cognitive improvement in all of the
following except - ANSWER Memory for lists
Whose theory included the zone of proximal development - ANSWER Vygostky
Who researched moral development in children - ANSWER Kohlberg and piaget
WHich of the following is not part of the five states of infant arousal - ANSWER
Sustained awareness
An abnormal high pitched infant crying may indicate any of tho following except -
, ANSWER Fatigue
An enclosed bed for preterm babies is a - ANSWER Isolette
t/f: History graded influences refers to a phenomenon where people born around
the same time tend to be alike - ANSWER True
t/f Schemes refer to psychological structures that are an organized way of making
sense of experiences - ANSWER True
t/f: Mental health professionals help parents encourage children to behave in
accordance with socially endorsed gender roles - ANSWER False
A child's organically influenced dispositions interact with complex systems of
bidirectional relationships - ANSWER Bioecological model of development
What kind of classrooms benefit from working collaboratively and teaching
tailored to each child - ANSWER Social Constructive
t/f: In middle childhood children have not yet learned socially accepted ways of
expressing negative emotions - ANSWER False
t/f: White children who have more interracial interaction and exposure show more
in group favoritism towards their own group - ANSWER False
t/f: Schools where there are high perceptions of teachers as unfair have higher rates
