DEVELOPMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE EXAM _2026.DOCX
Practice Exam: Development and Mental Health
[This practice exam is not an official one! It doesn´t contain all topics and might include some
errors, still I hope it´ll help you to practice for your exam! Good luck, you got this :) ]
1. Indicate which of these examples are defined as qualitative changes.
1. Making a new friend in school
2. Learning a new recipe
3. A boy's voice is breaking for the first time
4. Learning to speak
A. 1. and 2. are qualitative
B. 3. and 4. are qualitative
C. 1. and 3. are qualitative
D. All of them are qualitative
2. Which of the following effects belong to the category of Dynamic cues
A. Stereopsis
B. Looming
C. Interposition
D. Texture gradients
3. Molly is a 6- month-old infant. She should have a preference for all the following EXCEPT:
A. Attractive faces over unattractive faces
B. Female faces over male faces
, C. Same-race faces over other-race faces
D. Monkey faces over human faces
4. Jamal was born with eye muscles that made his eyes excessively converge, resulting in
a “cross-eyed” condition. Although he had corrective surgery at age 7, his vision was
never what would be considered normal. This is an example of a(n):
A. decisive period effect
B. Critical period effect
C. Plastic period effect
D. Acute period effect
5. What are the results of studies with regards to newborn babies’ facial perception?
A. Newborn babies have a ‘preference’ for normal and distorted faces in comparison
with scrambled faces.
B. Newborn babies have a ‘preference’ for scrambled faces in comparison with
distorted or normal faces.
C. Newborn babies do not perceive a difference between normal, distorted, or
scrambled faces.
D. Newborn babies have a ´preference` for normal faces as compared to distorted or
scrambled faces
6. Which of the following is true about sounds to which the fetus is exposed?
A. Newborns are unable to hear sounds prenatally.
B. The sounds a fetus hears while in the mother´s uterus do not affect later auditory
preferences
C. Newborns prefer a stranger´s voice as they are habituated to hearing their mother´s
Practice Exam: Development and Mental Health
[This practice exam is not an official one! It doesn´t contain all topics and might include some
errors, still I hope it´ll help you to practice for your exam! Good luck, you got this :) ]
1. Indicate which of these examples are defined as qualitative changes.
1. Making a new friend in school
2. Learning a new recipe
3. A boy's voice is breaking for the first time
4. Learning to speak
A. 1. and 2. are qualitative
B. 3. and 4. are qualitative
C. 1. and 3. are qualitative
D. All of them are qualitative
2. Which of the following effects belong to the category of Dynamic cues
A. Stereopsis
B. Looming
C. Interposition
D. Texture gradients
3. Molly is a 6- month-old infant. She should have a preference for all the following EXCEPT:
A. Attractive faces over unattractive faces
B. Female faces over male faces
, C. Same-race faces over other-race faces
D. Monkey faces over human faces
4. Jamal was born with eye muscles that made his eyes excessively converge, resulting in
a “cross-eyed” condition. Although he had corrective surgery at age 7, his vision was
never what would be considered normal. This is an example of a(n):
A. decisive period effect
B. Critical period effect
C. Plastic period effect
D. Acute period effect
5. What are the results of studies with regards to newborn babies’ facial perception?
A. Newborn babies have a ‘preference’ for normal and distorted faces in comparison
with scrambled faces.
B. Newborn babies have a ‘preference’ for scrambled faces in comparison with
distorted or normal faces.
C. Newborn babies do not perceive a difference between normal, distorted, or
scrambled faces.
D. Newborn babies have a ´preference` for normal faces as compared to distorted or
scrambled faces
6. Which of the following is true about sounds to which the fetus is exposed?
A. Newborns are unable to hear sounds prenatally.
B. The sounds a fetus hears while in the mother´s uterus do not affect later auditory
preferences
C. Newborns prefer a stranger´s voice as they are habituated to hearing their mother´s
