DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2025 GRADED A+
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS EXAM NEW
EDITION
7: Growth development - child adds about 2-3 inches and 6 pounds per year
locomotor skills - running, jumping, skipping
lateralization - growth of the corpus collosum, helps create functional specialization of left and right
hemispheres
left brain - language, logic analysis, math
right brain - intuition, creativity, art/music, spatial perception
reticular formation - regulates attention and concentration
hippocampus - transfer of information to long term memory
handedness - appears very early in life (2-6 years old), research suggests a genetic link
eating patterns - - 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 - - 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 - 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)
socio-cultural factors of child abuse - personal or cultural values that regard physical abuse as morally
acceptable
characteristics of the child of child abuse - physical/mental disabilities, difficult temperaments
characteristics of the abuser of child - depressed, lacking in parenting skills and knowledge, history of
abuse themselves, substance abusers
family stress of child abusers - poverty, unemployment, inter parental conflicts
consequence of abuse - - PTSD
- delays in all domains of development
- children removed from abusive situation appear to catch up
prevention of abuse - educate parents!!
Piaget's Preoperational stage - - increased proficiency in the use symbols
- still have difficulty thinking logically
centration - child tendency to think of the word in terms of one variable at a time
egocentrism - tendency to look at things from his or her own perspective
Piaget three-mountain task - how mountains look to the doll across the table
animism - the belief that inanimate objects are alive
irreversibility - the inability to mentally reverse actions or ideas
, conservation - the understanding that matter can change appearance without changing in quality
(inability)
challenge to Piaget's views - 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 - - 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 - - 18 months -> rudimentary beginnings
- Age 3 -> some aspects of link between people's thinking, feelings, and behavior
- 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 - 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 - - 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 - - short-term storage space (STTS)
- operational efficiency
- matrix classification
short-term storage space (STTS) - refers to child's working memory
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS EXAM NEW
EDITION
7: Growth development - child adds about 2-3 inches and 6 pounds per year
locomotor skills - running, jumping, skipping
lateralization - growth of the corpus collosum, helps create functional specialization of left and right
hemispheres
left brain - language, logic analysis, math
right brain - intuition, creativity, art/music, spatial perception
reticular formation - regulates attention and concentration
hippocampus - transfer of information to long term memory
handedness - appears very early in life (2-6 years old), research suggests a genetic link
eating patterns - - 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 - - 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 - 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)
socio-cultural factors of child abuse - personal or cultural values that regard physical abuse as morally
acceptable
characteristics of the child of child abuse - physical/mental disabilities, difficult temperaments
characteristics of the abuser of child - depressed, lacking in parenting skills and knowledge, history of
abuse themselves, substance abusers
family stress of child abusers - poverty, unemployment, inter parental conflicts
consequence of abuse - - PTSD
- delays in all domains of development
- children removed from abusive situation appear to catch up
prevention of abuse - educate parents!!
Piaget's Preoperational stage - - increased proficiency in the use symbols
- still have difficulty thinking logically
centration - child tendency to think of the word in terms of one variable at a time
egocentrism - tendency to look at things from his or her own perspective
Piaget three-mountain task - how mountains look to the doll across the table
animism - the belief that inanimate objects are alive
irreversibility - the inability to mentally reverse actions or ideas
, conservation - the understanding that matter can change appearance without changing in quality
(inability)
challenge to Piaget's views - 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 - - 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 - - 18 months -> rudimentary beginnings
- Age 3 -> some aspects of link between people's thinking, feelings, and behavior
- 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 - 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 - - 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 - - short-term storage space (STTS)
- operational efficiency
- matrix classification
short-term storage space (STTS) - refers to child's working memory
