CLEP Human Growth and Development EXAM LATEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | AGRADE
Which of the following thinkers sugguested that children are innately good? - (answers)Jean-
Jacques Rousseau
According to Freud, ego - (answers)Provides rational ways of coping with frustration
Freud called his theory of child development - (answers)Psychosexual
Erikson called a period of serious questioning and soul searching - (answers)An identity crisis
Johnny has been wetting the bed. A special pad is placed under him while he is sleeping. If the
pad becomes wet, a circuit closes, causing a bell to ring. Johnny wakes up, and finishes his
urination by going to the bathroom. Over time, Jonny stops wetting the bed altogether. This is an
example of the application of what theory to treating bed-wetting? - (answers)Learning
Albert Bandura is a - (answers)Social cognitive theorist
Which of the following statements would be consistent with social cognitive theory? -
(answers)Identification occurs as children imitate the behavior patterns of others
Which of the following theorist would be most interested in how children perceive and mentally
represent the world ? - (answers)Piaget
Ethology is an example of - (answers)A biological oriented theory of development
Cross-cultural studies examine the effects of - (answers)Macro Systems
, Dr. Manquero has the hypothesis that ingesting chocolate prior to an exam will improve exam
performance. She gives half of her participants chocolate and the other half gum and then give
them the exam. In this experiment, which is the experimental group? - (answers)The group that
eats chocolate
An experiment seeks to determine the influence of - (answers)Independent variable on the
dependent variable
In an experiment, subjects given various amounts of alcohol drive a course marked by Orange
pylons. The independent variable in this experiment is the - (answers)Various amounts of alcohol
The repetition of an experiment by another experimenter at another time and place is called -
(answers)Replication
The first two weeks of prenatal development is called the - (answers)Germinal development
Which of the following represents cephalocaudal development? - (answers)The fact that we tend
to develop from the head down
The amniotic - (answers)Helps the developing fetus maintain an even temperature
Environmental agents that can harm the embryo or fetus are called - (answers)Teratogens
HIV CANNOT be transmitted by - (answers)HIV CAN be transmitted all of these ways
Which of the following features is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome? - (answers)Smaller-
than-average brain
Polygenic traits - (answers)Are transmitted by combinations of pairs of genes
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | AGRADE
Which of the following thinkers sugguested that children are innately good? - (answers)Jean-
Jacques Rousseau
According to Freud, ego - (answers)Provides rational ways of coping with frustration
Freud called his theory of child development - (answers)Psychosexual
Erikson called a period of serious questioning and soul searching - (answers)An identity crisis
Johnny has been wetting the bed. A special pad is placed under him while he is sleeping. If the
pad becomes wet, a circuit closes, causing a bell to ring. Johnny wakes up, and finishes his
urination by going to the bathroom. Over time, Jonny stops wetting the bed altogether. This is an
example of the application of what theory to treating bed-wetting? - (answers)Learning
Albert Bandura is a - (answers)Social cognitive theorist
Which of the following statements would be consistent with social cognitive theory? -
(answers)Identification occurs as children imitate the behavior patterns of others
Which of the following theorist would be most interested in how children perceive and mentally
represent the world ? - (answers)Piaget
Ethology is an example of - (answers)A biological oriented theory of development
Cross-cultural studies examine the effects of - (answers)Macro Systems
, Dr. Manquero has the hypothesis that ingesting chocolate prior to an exam will improve exam
performance. She gives half of her participants chocolate and the other half gum and then give
them the exam. In this experiment, which is the experimental group? - (answers)The group that
eats chocolate
An experiment seeks to determine the influence of - (answers)Independent variable on the
dependent variable
In an experiment, subjects given various amounts of alcohol drive a course marked by Orange
pylons. The independent variable in this experiment is the - (answers)Various amounts of alcohol
The repetition of an experiment by another experimenter at another time and place is called -
(answers)Replication
The first two weeks of prenatal development is called the - (answers)Germinal development
Which of the following represents cephalocaudal development? - (answers)The fact that we tend
to develop from the head down
The amniotic - (answers)Helps the developing fetus maintain an even temperature
Environmental agents that can harm the embryo or fetus are called - (answers)Teratogens
HIV CANNOT be transmitted by - (answers)HIV CAN be transmitted all of these ways
Which of the following features is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome? - (answers)Smaller-
than-average brain
Polygenic traits - (answers)Are transmitted by combinations of pairs of genes
