PSY 244 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
A researcher was interested in whether watching violence watched the nonviolent film
affected children's behaviors. To examine this, he showed
a violent film to one group and a nonviolent film to
another group. following the film, the behaviors of the
two groups were compared. In this study the comparison
group was the children who:
Brain cells that respond to actions performed by mirror neurons
someone else mirroring this action are called:
The concept of a cohort is important because individuals historical
in the same cohort experience the same ___
circumstances.
Unlike Freud, Erikson's psychosocial theory emphasizes: the social and cultural environment
A dog learns to shake paws on command because it has operant conditioning
been given dog biscuits for doing so. This is___
The fact that something as destructive as war may not the power of continuity
have a major impact on a child's development supports
the concept of:
What species development is used as an example of starfish
continuous development?
What system in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model Exosystem
encompasses community, public systems, and mass
media?
Gene interaction some genes behave differently depending on which parent they come from
The chief chromosomal feature of fragile-X syndrome is a single gene has more than 200 repetitions of one triplet
that:
The heritability of nearsightedness in monozygotic twins 90%
is almost:
What is a characteristic of children born with Klinfelter They will be phenotypically male, but genetically female
syndrome
, What are the chances of a 44-year-old woman carrying a 1 in 16
fetus with DS?
Which statistic accurately reflects the vulnerability of Only 31 percent of all conceptions become living newborn babies
prenatal development?
How much weight will the average fetus gain during the 4.5 pounds
last three months of gestation?
Because Suzanne is pregnant, she drinks only one glass Each drug might intensify the effects of the other
of wine a day and smokes fewer cigarettes than
previously. What should she should be told?
The fragile and tiny cell mass that is composed of cells a blastocyst
from the duplicated, divided, and differentiated zygote is
called:
How many possibilities for chromosome combinations 64 trillion
exist between one mother and one father?
What is NOT true about stem cells They can be extracted from an adult human
From birth to 2 years, the density of dendrites in the fivefold
cortex increases:
Which of the following explains with a 13-month-old boy The child has made a connection to previous harsh expressions and tones from
will respond negatively to a harsh look on his mother's his mother
face, but will respond neutrally to a harsh look on a
stranger's face?
Chronsky's theory of language acquisition? children have an inborn ability to learn language
When comparing information processing theory to output
Piaget's theory of cognitive development, what Piaget
would call proof of object-permanence, an information
processing theorist would call?
When infants observe others' actions and then imitate deferred initiation
them at a later time, they have exhibited:
When Caitlin falls and hurts herself, she runs to her distal parent
mother crying. Rather than comforting Caitlin, her mother
offers her a toy to distract her. Her mother is a
The research method most commonly used to study observation
infant temperament is?
CORRECT Answers
A researcher was interested in whether watching violence watched the nonviolent film
affected children's behaviors. To examine this, he showed
a violent film to one group and a nonviolent film to
another group. following the film, the behaviors of the
two groups were compared. In this study the comparison
group was the children who:
Brain cells that respond to actions performed by mirror neurons
someone else mirroring this action are called:
The concept of a cohort is important because individuals historical
in the same cohort experience the same ___
circumstances.
Unlike Freud, Erikson's psychosocial theory emphasizes: the social and cultural environment
A dog learns to shake paws on command because it has operant conditioning
been given dog biscuits for doing so. This is___
The fact that something as destructive as war may not the power of continuity
have a major impact on a child's development supports
the concept of:
What species development is used as an example of starfish
continuous development?
What system in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model Exosystem
encompasses community, public systems, and mass
media?
Gene interaction some genes behave differently depending on which parent they come from
The chief chromosomal feature of fragile-X syndrome is a single gene has more than 200 repetitions of one triplet
that:
The heritability of nearsightedness in monozygotic twins 90%
is almost:
What is a characteristic of children born with Klinfelter They will be phenotypically male, but genetically female
syndrome
, What are the chances of a 44-year-old woman carrying a 1 in 16
fetus with DS?
Which statistic accurately reflects the vulnerability of Only 31 percent of all conceptions become living newborn babies
prenatal development?
How much weight will the average fetus gain during the 4.5 pounds
last three months of gestation?
Because Suzanne is pregnant, she drinks only one glass Each drug might intensify the effects of the other
of wine a day and smokes fewer cigarettes than
previously. What should she should be told?
The fragile and tiny cell mass that is composed of cells a blastocyst
from the duplicated, divided, and differentiated zygote is
called:
How many possibilities for chromosome combinations 64 trillion
exist between one mother and one father?
What is NOT true about stem cells They can be extracted from an adult human
From birth to 2 years, the density of dendrites in the fivefold
cortex increases:
Which of the following explains with a 13-month-old boy The child has made a connection to previous harsh expressions and tones from
will respond negatively to a harsh look on his mother's his mother
face, but will respond neutrally to a harsh look on a
stranger's face?
Chronsky's theory of language acquisition? children have an inborn ability to learn language
When comparing information processing theory to output
Piaget's theory of cognitive development, what Piaget
would call proof of object-permanence, an information
processing theorist would call?
When infants observe others' actions and then imitate deferred initiation
them at a later time, they have exhibited:
When Caitlin falls and hurts herself, she runs to her distal parent
mother crying. Rather than comforting Caitlin, her mother
offers her a toy to distract her. Her mother is a
The research method most commonly used to study observation
infant temperament is?
