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Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Basic Concepts and Methods
Chapter 02: Theories of Development Chapter
03: Prenatal Development and Birth1
Chapter 04: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
Chapter 05: Cognitive Development in Infancy
Chapter 06: Social and Personality Development in Infancy1 Chapter
07: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood Chapter
08: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood Chapter
09: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence Chapter
12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence Chapter 13:
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood Chapter 14:
Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood Chapter 15:
Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood Chapter 16:
Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood Chapter 17:
Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood Chapter 18:
Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood Chapter 19:
Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Chapter 01: Basic Concepts and Methods
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Developmental psychology is the scientific study of in our bodies, behaviour,
thinking, emotions, social relationships, and personalities.
A) maturity and stability
B) age-related changes
C) social and cultural norms
D) genetic and biological influences
Difficulty: 1
Question ID: 01-1-01
Page-Reference: 2
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> B) age-related changes
2.The belief that humans must seek redemption and lead a disciplined life to reduce the
influence of innate tendencies toward acting immorally is associated with the
philosophical doctrine of
A) innate goodness.
B) original sin.
C) empiricism.
D) blank slate.
Difficulty: 1
Question ID: 01-1-02
Page-Reference: 3
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> B) original sin.
3.A developmental psychologist who espouses the ideas of the philosopher Jean-
Jacques Rousseau would suggest that the basis for human development is
A) life experiences and external environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual.
B) preprogrammed sequential stages and genetically inherited traits.
C) the struggle between an individual's selfish/sinful nature and redemption.
D) an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.
Difficulty: 2
QuestionID: 01-1-03
Page-Reference: 3
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> D) an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.
4. A developmental psychologist who espouses the ideas of the English philosopher John
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Locke would suggest that the basis for human development is
A) the struggle between an individual's selfish/sinful nature and redemption.
B) an individual's effort to achieve his or her inborn potential.
C) preprogrammed sequential stages and genetically inherited traits.
D) environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual.
QuestionID: 01-1-04
Page-Reference: 3
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> D) environmental influences that shape a "blank slate" malleable individual.
5.Which scientist contributed the concept of developmental stages to the scientific study of
human development?
A) Charles Darwin
B) John Watson
C) Arnold Gesell
D) G. Stanley Hall
Difficulty: 1
QuestionID: 01-1-05
Page-Reference: 3
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> A) Charles Darwin
6. are recognized as the first scientific studies of child development.
A) Darwin's baby biographies
B) Gesell's studies of maturation
C) Hall's questionnaires and interviews
D) Piaget's cognitive theories
Difficulty: 2
QuestionID: 01-1-06
Page-Reference: 5
Skill: Knowledge
ANS >> C) Hall's questionnaires and interviews
7.Early developmental psychology pioneer G. Stanley Hall believed that
developmentalists should identify to further the field's understanding of child
development.
A) milestones
B) norms
C) developmental stages
D) maturation processes
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