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Developmental Psychology - Module 2 Exam
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7: Growth development - Answer✔child adds about 2-3 inches and 6 pounds per year
locomotor skills - Answer✔running, jumping, skipping
lateralization - Answer✔growth of the corpus collosum, helps create functional specialization of
left and right hemispheres
left brain - Answer✔language, logic analysis, math
right brain - Answer✔intuition, creativity, art/music, spatial perception
reticular formation - Answer✔regulates attention and concentration
hippocampus - Answer✔transfer of information to long term memory
handedness - Answer✔appears very early in life (2-6 years old), research suggests a genetic link
eating patterns - Answer✔- often eat less than when babies
- food aversions surface
- eating behaviors bring on family conflicts
- may not consume the majority of daily calories at mealtime
illnesses - Answer✔- 4-6 bouts of brief sickness every year
- high levels of family stress = more sick children
- 25% of U.S. children under 5 have one accident in any one year requiring medical treatment
- more common among boys
child abuse - Answer✔physical or psychological injury resulting from an adult's intentional
exposure of a child to potentially harmful stimuli, sexual acts, or neglect (1-5% of children)
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socio-cultural factors of child abuse - Answer✔personal or cultural values that regard physical
abuse as morally acceptable
characteristics of the child of child abuse - Answer✔physical/mental disabilities, difficult
temperaments
characteristics of the abuser of child - Answer✔depressed, lacking in parenting skills and
knowledge, history of abuse themselves, substance abusers
family stress of child abusers - Answer✔poverty, unemployment, inter parental conflicts
consequence of abuse - Answer✔- PTSD
- delays in all domains of development
- children removed from abusive situation appear to catch up
prevention of abuse - Answer✔educate parents!!
Piaget's Preoperational stage - Answer✔- increased proficiency in the use symbols
- still have difficulty thinking logically
centration - Answer✔child tendency to think of the word in terms of one variable at a time
egocentrism - Answer✔tendency to look at things from his or her own perspective
Piaget three-mountain task - Answer✔how mountains look to the doll across the table
animism - Answer✔the belief that inanimate objects are alive
irreversibility - Answer✔the inability to mentally reverse actions or ideas
conservation - Answer✔the understanding that matter can change appearance without
changing in quality (inability)
challenge to Piaget's views - Answer✔children as young as 2-3 seem to have at least some
ability to understand that another person sees things or experiences things differently than
they do
Flavell's perspective-taking ability - Answer✔- Level one -> child knows that other people
experience things differently (2-3 years old)
- Level two -> child develops a series of complex rules to figure out precisely what the other
person sees or experiences (4-5 years)
Theories of mind - Answer✔- 18 months -> rudimentary beginnings
- Age 3 -> some aspects of link between people's thinking, feelings, and behavior
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- Age 4 -> basic principle that each person's actions are based on their representation of reality
- 4-5 year olds -> can't understand that other can think about them or most knowledge can be
derived from inference
- 5-7 -> understand reciprocal natural of thought
False belief principle - Answer✔children can look at a problem from another's POV and discern
what information causes a person to believe something that isn't true
Influences on Development of a Theory of Mind - Answer✔- Correlated with performance on
Piaget's tasks
- Pretend play
- Shared pretense with other children
- Discussion of emotion-provoking events with parents
- Language skills
- Some research suggests cross-cultural replication
Neo-Piagetian Theories: Robbie case - Answer✔- short-term storage space (STTS)
- operational efficiency
- matrix classification
short-term storage space (STTS) - Answer✔refers to child's working memory
operational efficiency - Answer✔limited number of schemes to which a child can attend,
improves through practice and brain maturation
matrix classification - Answer✔requires a child to place a given stimulus in two categories
simultaneously
Information Processing Theories - Answer✔metamemory & metacognition
metamemory - Answer✔knowledge about and control of memory processes (2-6 poor memory)
metacognition - Answer✔knowledge about and control of thought processes (enables chid to
generate strategies to solve problems)
Stages of Cognitive Development (Vygotsky's Socio-Cultural Theory) - Answer✔1) Primitive
stage
2) Naiive psychology stage
3) Private speech stage
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Developmental Psychology - Module 2 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers 100%
Verified.
7: Growth development - Answer✔child adds about 2-3 inches and 6 pounds per year
locomotor skills - Answer✔running, jumping, skipping
lateralization - Answer✔growth of the corpus collosum, helps create functional specialization of
left and right hemispheres
left brain - Answer✔language, logic analysis, math
right brain - Answer✔intuition, creativity, art/music, spatial perception
reticular formation - Answer✔regulates attention and concentration
hippocampus - Answer✔transfer of information to long term memory
handedness - Answer✔appears very early in life (2-6 years old), research suggests a genetic link
eating patterns - Answer✔- often eat less than when babies
- food aversions surface
- eating behaviors bring on family conflicts
- may not consume the majority of daily calories at mealtime
illnesses - Answer✔- 4-6 bouts of brief sickness every year
- high levels of family stress = more sick children
- 25% of U.S. children under 5 have one accident in any one year requiring medical treatment
- more common among boys
child abuse - Answer✔physical or psychological injury resulting from an adult's intentional
exposure of a child to potentially harmful stimuli, sexual acts, or neglect (1-5% of children)
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socio-cultural factors of child abuse - Answer✔personal or cultural values that regard physical
abuse as morally acceptable
characteristics of the child of child abuse - Answer✔physical/mental disabilities, difficult
temperaments
characteristics of the abuser of child - Answer✔depressed, lacking in parenting skills and
knowledge, history of abuse themselves, substance abusers
family stress of child abusers - Answer✔poverty, unemployment, inter parental conflicts
consequence of abuse - Answer✔- PTSD
- delays in all domains of development
- children removed from abusive situation appear to catch up
prevention of abuse - Answer✔educate parents!!
Piaget's Preoperational stage - Answer✔- increased proficiency in the use symbols
- still have difficulty thinking logically
centration - Answer✔child tendency to think of the word in terms of one variable at a time
egocentrism - Answer✔tendency to look at things from his or her own perspective
Piaget three-mountain task - Answer✔how mountains look to the doll across the table
animism - Answer✔the belief that inanimate objects are alive
irreversibility - Answer✔the inability to mentally reverse actions or ideas
conservation - Answer✔the understanding that matter can change appearance without
changing in quality (inability)
challenge to Piaget's views - Answer✔children as young as 2-3 seem to have at least some
ability to understand that another person sees things or experiences things differently than
they do
Flavell's perspective-taking ability - Answer✔- Level one -> child knows that other people
experience things differently (2-3 years old)
- Level two -> child develops a series of complex rules to figure out precisely what the other
person sees or experiences (4-5 years)
Theories of mind - Answer✔- 18 months -> rudimentary beginnings
- Age 3 -> some aspects of link between people's thinking, feelings, and behavior
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- Age 4 -> basic principle that each person's actions are based on their representation of reality
- 4-5 year olds -> can't understand that other can think about them or most knowledge can be
derived from inference
- 5-7 -> understand reciprocal natural of thought
False belief principle - Answer✔children can look at a problem from another's POV and discern
what information causes a person to believe something that isn't true
Influences on Development of a Theory of Mind - Answer✔- Correlated with performance on
Piaget's tasks
- Pretend play
- Shared pretense with other children
- Discussion of emotion-provoking events with parents
- Language skills
- Some research suggests cross-cultural replication
Neo-Piagetian Theories: Robbie case - Answer✔- short-term storage space (STTS)
- operational efficiency
- matrix classification
short-term storage space (STTS) - Answer✔refers to child's working memory
operational efficiency - Answer✔limited number of schemes to which a child can attend,
improves through practice and brain maturation
matrix classification - Answer✔requires a child to place a given stimulus in two categories
simultaneously
Information Processing Theories - Answer✔metamemory & metacognition
metamemory - Answer✔knowledge about and control of memory processes (2-6 poor memory)
metacognition - Answer✔knowledge about and control of thought processes (enables chid to
generate strategies to solve problems)
Stages of Cognitive Development (Vygotsky's Socio-Cultural Theory) - Answer✔1) Primitive
stage
2) Naiive psychology stage
3) Private speech stage
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