CSCC PSY 2340 SECTION 1 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

CSCC PSY 2340 SECTION 1 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Developmental Psychology - Answers Scientific Study of human behaviors and mental processes throughout life 4 goals of Psychology - Answers Describe, Explain, Predict, Modify Behavior Topical Approach - Answers Physical, Cognitive, Psychosocial Development Age Range: Conception- Birth - Answers Prenatal Period Age Range: Birth-3 - Answers Infancy and toddlerhood Age Range: 3-6 - Answers Early Childhood Age Range: 6-11 - Answers Middle Childhood Age Range: 11-20 - Answers Adolecance Age Range: 20-40 - Answers Young Adulthood Age Range: 40-65 - Answers Middle Adulthood Age Range: 65-Death - Answers Late Adulthood Physical Development - Answers Development involving the body's physical makeup, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses Cognitive Development - Answers Development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person's behavior Psychosocial Development - Answers A series of eight stages, in which a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood. Milestones - Answers An ability that is achieved by most children by a certain age. It can involve physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and communication skills such as walking, sharing with others, expressing emotions, recognizing familiar sounds, and talking. Nature - Answers refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are - from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture - Answers refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture. Normative Influences - Answers Cohort/history-graded influences, Age-graded influences, Sociocultural-graded influences Cohort/History-Graded Influences - Answers Things that happened to generations Age-Graded Influences - Answers Specific things experienced because of age Sociocultural-Graded Influences - Answers Ethnicity and social class based experiences Non-normative Life Events - Answers Unique Timing of an event Critical Period - Answers Causes long lasting permanent developmental issues Sensitive Period - Answers Have the ability to recover from event Freud- Psychodynamic - Answers 5 stages Id-ego-Superego Unconscious mind Erikson- Psychodynamic - Answers 8 stages Relationship with others is the focus of development Identity Identity - Answers Child figuring out what they truly believe and trying new things Classical Conditioning - Answers Organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally doesn't bring about that kind of response Operant Conditioning - Answers A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative consequences Modeling - Answers a method used in certain techniques of psychotherapy whereby the client learns by imitation alone Piaget- Cognitive - Answers Schema (Idea) Humanisitc - Answers People want to become there best self Bronfenbrenner- Contextual - Answers Your whole development is influenced from larger influences Vygotsky- Contextual - Answers Scaffolding (Help people master things) Steps of Scientific Method - Answers 1. Literature review 2. Develop hypothesis 3. Analyze data 4. Publish and replicate 5. Build a theory Hypothesis - Answers Testable statement Theories - Answers Broad explanations, and predictions about phenomena of interest Descriptive Research - Answers Goal to describe what you are studying/looking at Qualitative Research - Answers No numbers but still structured Quantitative Research - Answers Numbers involved Naturalistic Observation - Answers Observe someone in their natural enviornment Case Study - Answers Study one individual Correlational Research - Answers Are two things changing in the same way Positive Correlation - Answers Both factors improve or decrease Negative Correlation - Answers One factor improves while the other decreases Psychophysiological Research - Answers Brain imaging studies Independent Variable - Answers Experimental and control Dependent Variable - Answers Data Sample - Answers Group of participants chosen for the experiment Field Study - Answers Research investigation carried out in a naturally occurring setting Laboratory Study - Answers Research investigation conducted in a controlled setting explicitly designed to hold events constant Theoretical Research - Answers Research designed specifically to test some developmental explanation and expand scientific knowledge Applied Research - Answers Research meant to provide practical solutions to immediate problems Longitudinal Research - Answers Research in which the behavior of one or more participants in a study is measured as they age Cross-sectional Research - Answers Research in which people of different ages are compared at the same point in time Sequential Studies - Answers Research in which researches examine a number of different age groups over several points in time Zygote - Answers The new cell formed by the process of fertilization Genes - Answers The basic unit of genetic information DNA - Answers The substance that genes are composed of that determines the nature of every cell in the body and how it will function Chromosomes - Answers rod-shaped portions of DNA that are organized in 23 pairs Monozygotic Twins - Answers Identical Twins Dizygotic Twins - Answers twins who are produced when two separate ova are fertilized by two separate sperm Dominant Trait - Answers one trait that is expressed when two competing traits are present Recessive Trait - Answers trait within an organism that present but not expressed Genotype - Answers Genetic material that is not outwardly visable Phenotype - Answers An observable trait Homozygous - Answers Inheriting from parents similar genes for a given trait Heterozygous - Answers Inheriting from parents different forms of a gene for a given trait Polygenic Inheritance - Answers inheritance in which a combination of multiple gene pairs is responsible for the production of a particular trait X-Linked genes - Answers Genes that are considered recessive and located only on the X chromosomes Behavioral Genetics - Answers the study of the effects of heredity on behavior Down Syndrome - Answers A syndrome produced by the presence of an extra chromosome on the 21st pair Genetic Counseling - Answers The discipline that focuses on helping people deal with issues relating to inherited disorders