EPPP DEVELOPMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 2024-2025 WITH
ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED DETAILED RATIONALES
ANSWERS |FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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The ability to understand that changing an object's appearance doesn't change the object's physical
qualities typically develops during years:
A. 0 to 2
B. 2 to 6
C. 7 to 10
D. 11 to 13
C.
Conservation is the ability to understand that changing an object's appearance doesn't change the
object's physical qualities. For example, water poured from a tall thin glass into a short wide glass will
be conserved, or understood to be the same amount of water. Conservation develops during the
concrete operations stage (7 to 12 years). Note that there may be slight variations between age
ranges that you have studied and the age ranges presented in test questions. In this case, the most
correct choice is 7 to 10 years, which falls within the 7 to 12 year range. Choice D, 11 to 13 years,
overlaps between the high end of concrete operations and the low end of formal operations (12
onward) - which is not as good a choice for the typical development of concrete operations.
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,Which of the following is the most valid predictor of post-divorce adjustment in children two years after
the divorce?
A. whether children got to live with the parent they wanted
B. the degree to which parents fought before the divorce
C. whether or not parents are engaged in ongoing conflict after the divorce
D. how the children felt during the divorce process.
C.
Many researchers have noted that continued exposure of children to parental conflict -- whether it be
while their parents are married, during the divorce process, or after a divorce -- is associated with a
variety of adverse effects and is a very high risk factor for maladjustment.
A boy beginning high school gets a haircut that is substantially shorter than desired or requested. The
boy feels like people are always looking at him and talking about his haircut. This is an example of:
A. personal fable
B. identity foreclosure
C. imaginary audience
D. psychological reactance
C.
According to Elkind, adolescent egocentrism is evident through the personal fable (the belief that one
is unique and invulnerable) and the imaginary audience (the belief that everyone is looking or feeling
like one is 'on stage'), as described in the question. Psychological reactance (d.) occurs when an
individual has been asked to do something and does the opposite
An intervention targeting Bronfenbrenner's microsystem will focus on:
A. family members.
B. family members and/or classmates.
C. school and church.
D. parents' work and friends.
B.
Bronfenbrenner's ecological model distinguishes between four interacting environmental levels that
range from the most proximal to the most global. The microsystem is the individual's immediate
environment and includes parents, siblings, caregivers, classmates, and teachers.
Jean Piaget's work is often cited as the inspiration for constructivism in teaching and learning. From a
Piagetian perspective, the term "constructivism" refers to the notion that:
A. knowledge construction is a direct function of biological development and growth.
B. others actively construct knowledge for learners by transmitting social beliefs and norms from
generation
to generation.
C. learners actively construct knowledge by interpreting their environment and filtering new information
through previous experience.
D. learners construct knowledge primarily through contemplation and self-reflection.
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,C.
Constructivism refers to the notion that learning is not a matter of passive transmission of knowledge
from one person to another. Rather, learners actively create and construct their own knowledge by
way of interaction with their environment. According to Piaget, children learn through environmental
interactions by adapting cognitive structures based on these interactions. This adaptation takes place
via two specific processes: assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation involves assimilating new
information into existing cognitive schema or structures. For example, if a child sees a zebra for the
first time and calls it a horse, she would be assimilating new information into her cognitive
representation of a horse as a rather large animal with four legs. Accommodation refers to the
process of changing internal cognitive structures to increase their consistency with external reality.
For example, when a child m
Children's memory for early events:
A. cannot be recalled by most after age 3
B. is limited and constant
C. changes after age 2
D. changes as it develops over time
D.
Recent research has found that babies memories are not lost, rather they are updated continually as
learning progresses. Their ability to recall is influenced by the same factors and conditions that impact
recall in older children and adults. These include: the nature of the events; the number of times they
experience them; and the availability of cues or reminders. Children from ages one to three are all
capable of both immediate and long-term recall of specific events in their lives. Infants tested at two,
four, and six months can recall details about hidden objects, their location, and size. The failure in
retrieving memories from the first years of life (a.) refers to the phenomenon of infantile amnesia.
Infantile amnesia has been theorized to be the result of a lack of schematic organization of
experience, a different in way of encoding in early childhood, and, more recently, the importance of
language devel
Research examining methods of informing children with cancer about their illness suggests that:
A. providing young children with limited information is best since they are unable to understand the
illness and only become confused when given details about it.
B. limiting information to responses to children's direct questions is better than "volunteering" details
about their illness or treatment.
C. children are better off when they are given information about their diagnosis, prognosis, and
treatment procedures.
D. it is best to let the parents decide what and when to tell children about their illness.
C.
The research on this issue has generally found that open discussions with children about their illness
are associated with the best psychosocial outcomes. Of course, parents are ultimately responsible for
deciding what and when to tell children (response D), but a professional familiar with the research can
at least inform them of the findings to help them decide what to do.
A three-year-old sees a tree with droopy leaves and tells her father that the tree is "tired." This is an
example of:
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, A. magical thinking
B. animistic thinking
C. egocentricity
D. centration
B.
All of the responses are factors in Piaget's preoperational stage. Animistic thinking is believing that
objects, like the tree with droopy leaves, have lifelike qualities such as thoughts and feelings. Magical
thinking is believing one has control over objects or events. Egocentricity is believing that others
experience the world in the same way and centration refers to the tendency to focus on one detail
while neglecting others.
A baby whose mother used cocaine during pregnancy will most likely:
A. be unresponsive to noise and other stimuli
B. be difficult to comfort when upset
C. have minor cranial/facial abnormalities
D. be clingy and abnormally dependent
B.
Exposure to cocaine during prenatal development often causes oversensitivity to stimulation,
excessive irritability, and retarded growth. These babies are easily agitated and difficult to soothe.
Studies on gender differences in physical development suggest that, until about age _____, girls should
be able to compete effectively with boys in baseball and other sports.
A. 7
B. 10
C. 12
D. 15
C.
Most physical differences between boys and girls do not become prominent until puberty. Before
puberty, boys and girls are about equal, for instance, in terms of speed and strength, implying that
they should do about equally well in many sports
Of Kramer's stages of cognitive development in adulthood, which would most likely be improved by an
undergraduate university education?
A. absolutist reasoning
B. dialectical reasoning
C. inductive reasoning
D. relativist reasoning
D.
Kramer (1983) describes three stages or characteristics of adult cognitive development: an
understanding of the relativistic nature of knowledge (relativist reasoning); an acceptance of
contradiction as a part of reality; and an integrative approach to thinking. According to Kramer, the
stage of relativist reasoning includes an awareness of alternative perspectives on issues and the
importance of context when finding answers to questions and thus most likely to be facilitated by
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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 2024-2025 WITH
ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED DETAILED RATIONALES
ANSWERS |FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
|ALREADY GRADED
A+|NEWEST|GUARANTEED
PASS|LATEST UPDATE
The ability to understand that changing an object's appearance doesn't change the object's physical
qualities typically develops during years:
A. 0 to 2
B. 2 to 6
C. 7 to 10
D. 11 to 13
C.
Conservation is the ability to understand that changing an object's appearance doesn't change the
object's physical qualities. For example, water poured from a tall thin glass into a short wide glass will
be conserved, or understood to be the same amount of water. Conservation develops during the
concrete operations stage (7 to 12 years). Note that there may be slight variations between age
ranges that you have studied and the age ranges presented in test questions. In this case, the most
correct choice is 7 to 10 years, which falls within the 7 to 12 year range. Choice D, 11 to 13 years,
overlaps between the high end of concrete operations and the low end of formal operations (12
onward) - which is not as good a choice for the typical development of concrete operations.
1|Page
,Which of the following is the most valid predictor of post-divorce adjustment in children two years after
the divorce?
A. whether children got to live with the parent they wanted
B. the degree to which parents fought before the divorce
C. whether or not parents are engaged in ongoing conflict after the divorce
D. how the children felt during the divorce process.
C.
Many researchers have noted that continued exposure of children to parental conflict -- whether it be
while their parents are married, during the divorce process, or after a divorce -- is associated with a
variety of adverse effects and is a very high risk factor for maladjustment.
A boy beginning high school gets a haircut that is substantially shorter than desired or requested. The
boy feels like people are always looking at him and talking about his haircut. This is an example of:
A. personal fable
B. identity foreclosure
C. imaginary audience
D. psychological reactance
C.
According to Elkind, adolescent egocentrism is evident through the personal fable (the belief that one
is unique and invulnerable) and the imaginary audience (the belief that everyone is looking or feeling
like one is 'on stage'), as described in the question. Psychological reactance (d.) occurs when an
individual has been asked to do something and does the opposite
An intervention targeting Bronfenbrenner's microsystem will focus on:
A. family members.
B. family members and/or classmates.
C. school and church.
D. parents' work and friends.
B.
Bronfenbrenner's ecological model distinguishes between four interacting environmental levels that
range from the most proximal to the most global. The microsystem is the individual's immediate
environment and includes parents, siblings, caregivers, classmates, and teachers.
Jean Piaget's work is often cited as the inspiration for constructivism in teaching and learning. From a
Piagetian perspective, the term "constructivism" refers to the notion that:
A. knowledge construction is a direct function of biological development and growth.
B. others actively construct knowledge for learners by transmitting social beliefs and norms from
generation
to generation.
C. learners actively construct knowledge by interpreting their environment and filtering new information
through previous experience.
D. learners construct knowledge primarily through contemplation and self-reflection.
2|Page
,C.
Constructivism refers to the notion that learning is not a matter of passive transmission of knowledge
from one person to another. Rather, learners actively create and construct their own knowledge by
way of interaction with their environment. According to Piaget, children learn through environmental
interactions by adapting cognitive structures based on these interactions. This adaptation takes place
via two specific processes: assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation involves assimilating new
information into existing cognitive schema or structures. For example, if a child sees a zebra for the
first time and calls it a horse, she would be assimilating new information into her cognitive
representation of a horse as a rather large animal with four legs. Accommodation refers to the
process of changing internal cognitive structures to increase their consistency with external reality.
For example, when a child m
Children's memory for early events:
A. cannot be recalled by most after age 3
B. is limited and constant
C. changes after age 2
D. changes as it develops over time
D.
Recent research has found that babies memories are not lost, rather they are updated continually as
learning progresses. Their ability to recall is influenced by the same factors and conditions that impact
recall in older children and adults. These include: the nature of the events; the number of times they
experience them; and the availability of cues or reminders. Children from ages one to three are all
capable of both immediate and long-term recall of specific events in their lives. Infants tested at two,
four, and six months can recall details about hidden objects, their location, and size. The failure in
retrieving memories from the first years of life (a.) refers to the phenomenon of infantile amnesia.
Infantile amnesia has been theorized to be the result of a lack of schematic organization of
experience, a different in way of encoding in early childhood, and, more recently, the importance of
language devel
Research examining methods of informing children with cancer about their illness suggests that:
A. providing young children with limited information is best since they are unable to understand the
illness and only become confused when given details about it.
B. limiting information to responses to children's direct questions is better than "volunteering" details
about their illness or treatment.
C. children are better off when they are given information about their diagnosis, prognosis, and
treatment procedures.
D. it is best to let the parents decide what and when to tell children about their illness.
C.
The research on this issue has generally found that open discussions with children about their illness
are associated with the best psychosocial outcomes. Of course, parents are ultimately responsible for
deciding what and when to tell children (response D), but a professional familiar with the research can
at least inform them of the findings to help them decide what to do.
A three-year-old sees a tree with droopy leaves and tells her father that the tree is "tired." This is an
example of:
3|Page
, A. magical thinking
B. animistic thinking
C. egocentricity
D. centration
B.
All of the responses are factors in Piaget's preoperational stage. Animistic thinking is believing that
objects, like the tree with droopy leaves, have lifelike qualities such as thoughts and feelings. Magical
thinking is believing one has control over objects or events. Egocentricity is believing that others
experience the world in the same way and centration refers to the tendency to focus on one detail
while neglecting others.
A baby whose mother used cocaine during pregnancy will most likely:
A. be unresponsive to noise and other stimuli
B. be difficult to comfort when upset
C. have minor cranial/facial abnormalities
D. be clingy and abnormally dependent
B.
Exposure to cocaine during prenatal development often causes oversensitivity to stimulation,
excessive irritability, and retarded growth. These babies are easily agitated and difficult to soothe.
Studies on gender differences in physical development suggest that, until about age _____, girls should
be able to compete effectively with boys in baseball and other sports.
A. 7
B. 10
C. 12
D. 15
C.
Most physical differences between boys and girls do not become prominent until puberty. Before
puberty, boys and girls are about equal, for instance, in terms of speed and strength, implying that
they should do about equally well in many sports
Of Kramer's stages of cognitive development in adulthood, which would most likely be improved by an
undergraduate university education?
A. absolutist reasoning
B. dialectical reasoning
C. inductive reasoning
D. relativist reasoning
D.
Kramer (1983) describes three stages or characteristics of adult cognitive development: an
understanding of the relativistic nature of knowledge (relativist reasoning); an acceptance of
contradiction as a part of reality; and an integrative approach to thinking. According to Kramer, the
stage of relativist reasoning includes an awareness of alternative perspectives on issues and the
importance of context when finding answers to questions and thus most likely to be facilitated by
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