PSYC 2070 MIDTERM COMPREHENSIVE
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED REVIEW RESOURCE
●● A study that seeks to examine how stable shyness is across the life
span is focused on __________ development.
Answer: personality
●● The financial crisis of the 2010s exerted what type of effect on the
cohort of children growing up during this period?
Answer: history-graded influences
●● Shalise believes that child development is a process of continuous
change. Her classmate Evan says that development follows a pattern of
discontinuous change. Who is correct?
Answer: Both: A child's development is marked by both continuous and
discontinuous change.
●● Erikson's __________ theory was created as an alternative
psychodynamic view emphasizing social interaction with other people.
Answer: psychosocial development
,●● Which statement describes the difference between classical
conditioning and operant conditioning?
a)Classical conditioning involves voluntary responses and operant
conditioning involves automatic responses.
b)Classical conditioning involves automatic responses and operant
conditioning involves voluntary responses.
c) Classical conditioning involves cognitive responses and operant
conditioning involves behavioral responses.
d) Classical conditioning involves behavioral responses and operant
conditioning involves cognitive responses.
Answer: b) Classical conditioning involves automatic responses and
operant conditioning involves voluntary responses.
●● Which perspective emphasizes how people internally represent and
think about the world?
Answer: cognitive perspective
●● Which perspective contends that people have a natural capacity to
make decisions about their lives?
Answer: humanistic perspective
●● What is the developmental perspective that considers the relationship
between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social
worlds?
Answer: contextual factors
,●● Which perspective seeks to identify behavior that is the result of our
genetic inheritance?
Answer: evolutionary perspective
●● Some lifespan developmentalists use a(n) __________ approach,
drawing on several perspectives simultaneously.
Answer: eclectic
●● A(n) __________ is a prediction stated in a way that permits it to be
tested.
Answer: hypothesis
●● What is the best type of study to determine if daily reading with a
parent can increase the speed at which a child learns to read
independently?
Answer: experimental
●● Alan has decided to conduct a naturalistic observation of children
and friendships. Which location would produce the most accurate
results?
Answer: a playground
, ●● In an experiment, the __________ is exposed to the treatment
variable being studied; the __________ is not.
Answer: treatment group; control group
●● A scientist is interested in the processes of cognitive change during
childhood and decides to see how many words children of various ages
can remember after one exposure to a list of words. What type of
research is this scientist conducting?
Answer: theoretical research
●● Which type of research design takes the longest amount of time to
complete?
Answer: longitudinal
●● Researchers must obtain __________ from participants before their
involvement in a study.
Answer: informed consent
●● About an hour or so after a sperm enters the ovum, these two cells
suddenly fuse, becoming one cell called __________.
Answer: a zygote
●● When a child receives different forms of a certain gene from her or
his parents, how would a geneticist describe that child?
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED REVIEW RESOURCE
●● A study that seeks to examine how stable shyness is across the life
span is focused on __________ development.
Answer: personality
●● The financial crisis of the 2010s exerted what type of effect on the
cohort of children growing up during this period?
Answer: history-graded influences
●● Shalise believes that child development is a process of continuous
change. Her classmate Evan says that development follows a pattern of
discontinuous change. Who is correct?
Answer: Both: A child's development is marked by both continuous and
discontinuous change.
●● Erikson's __________ theory was created as an alternative
psychodynamic view emphasizing social interaction with other people.
Answer: psychosocial development
,●● Which statement describes the difference between classical
conditioning and operant conditioning?
a)Classical conditioning involves voluntary responses and operant
conditioning involves automatic responses.
b)Classical conditioning involves automatic responses and operant
conditioning involves voluntary responses.
c) Classical conditioning involves cognitive responses and operant
conditioning involves behavioral responses.
d) Classical conditioning involves behavioral responses and operant
conditioning involves cognitive responses.
Answer: b) Classical conditioning involves automatic responses and
operant conditioning involves voluntary responses.
●● Which perspective emphasizes how people internally represent and
think about the world?
Answer: cognitive perspective
●● Which perspective contends that people have a natural capacity to
make decisions about their lives?
Answer: humanistic perspective
●● What is the developmental perspective that considers the relationship
between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social
worlds?
Answer: contextual factors
,●● Which perspective seeks to identify behavior that is the result of our
genetic inheritance?
Answer: evolutionary perspective
●● Some lifespan developmentalists use a(n) __________ approach,
drawing on several perspectives simultaneously.
Answer: eclectic
●● A(n) __________ is a prediction stated in a way that permits it to be
tested.
Answer: hypothesis
●● What is the best type of study to determine if daily reading with a
parent can increase the speed at which a child learns to read
independently?
Answer: experimental
●● Alan has decided to conduct a naturalistic observation of children
and friendships. Which location would produce the most accurate
results?
Answer: a playground
, ●● In an experiment, the __________ is exposed to the treatment
variable being studied; the __________ is not.
Answer: treatment group; control group
●● A scientist is interested in the processes of cognitive change during
childhood and decides to see how many words children of various ages
can remember after one exposure to a list of words. What type of
research is this scientist conducting?
Answer: theoretical research
●● Which type of research design takes the longest amount of time to
complete?
Answer: longitudinal
●● Researchers must obtain __________ from participants before their
involvement in a study.
Answer: informed consent
●● About an hour or so after a sperm enters the ovum, these two cells
suddenly fuse, becoming one cell called __________.
Answer: a zygote
●● When a child receives different forms of a certain gene from her or
his parents, how would a geneticist describe that child?
