DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY MIDTERM QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
True or false? The United States of America is a world leader in policies
supporting maternity leave Ans✓✓✓False
According to Piaget's theory, in the sensorimotor stage, children
Ans✓✓✓"think" by acting on the world with their eyes, ears, hands, and
mouth
Newborns relax their facial muscles in response to a _____ taste
Ans✓✓✓sweet
Sperm live for up to Ans✓✓✓six days
Jessica believes that development takes place in stages where children
change rapidly as they step up to a new level and then change very little
for a while. Jessica views development as Ans✓✓✓discontinuous
True or false? Children are protected from effects associated with low
socioeconomic status because most children spend many hours in high
quality school. Ans✓✓✓False
A correlation of +.55 between preschool attendance and self-esteem
indicates that children who attend preschool have __________ self-
,esteem scores than children who do not attend preschool.
Ans✓✓✓moderately higher
Daughters of mothers who took __________ showed unusually high
rates of cancer of the vagina, malformations of the uterus, and infertility
as they reached adolescence and young adulthood.
Ans✓✓✓diethylstilbestrol (DES)
According to ecological systems theory, a parent's workplace is in the
Ans✓✓✓exosystem
The most poverty exists in families that consist of Ans✓✓✓women
with children under age 5
A survey of over 5,000 U.S. adults of childbearing age revealed that
more than 90% Ans✓✓✓already have children or are planning to have
them
Which of the following individuals is the most likely to score high in
impulsivity, according to research on smoking? Ans✓✓✓Daniel, who
has a DD genetic makeup and a mother who smoked during pregnancy
Denyse and David are both actors and have enrolled their children in
acting classes. This is an example of a(n) __________ gene-environment
correlation. Ans✓✓✓passive
,At birth, visual structures in Ans✓✓✓both the eye and the brain are not
yet fully formed
In the _____ reflex a newborn infant will turn its head toward anything
that strokes its cheek or mouth. Ans✓✓✓rooting
An ovum bursts from one of a woman's two __________ and is drawn
into one of two __________. Ans✓✓✓ovaries; fallopian tubes
The infant is born during Ans✓✓✓second stage of labor
_________ is the most common reason young infants cry.
Ans✓✓✓hunger
Cohort effects occur when Ans✓✓✓particular cultural and historical
conditions influence participants born at the same time
In an effort to overcome some of the limitations of traditional
developmental designs, Dr. Francisco conducted several similar cross-
sectional studies at varying times. Dr. Francisco used the __________
design. Ans✓✓✓sequential
Vacuum extractors Ans✓✓✓have been rapidly replaced by forceps in
most U.S. births
, Compared with those who give birth by lying on their backs, women
who choose an upright position are likely to ________ to __________.
Ans✓✓✓more; need an episiotomy
A recent theoretical perspective concerned with the adaptive, or survival,
value of behavior and its evolutionary history Ans✓✓✓ethology
Stage 1 of labor Ans✓✓✓climaxes with a brief phase called transition
Early contact with a baby in the period shortly after birth Ans✓✓✓is
essential for bonding because birth-related hormones facilitate parental
responsiveness
Lightening occurs when the Ans✓✓✓fetus's head drops low into the
uterus
The _______ becomes the nervous system. Ans✓✓✓ectoderm
Tonya is pregnant for a second time. She hopes to have a natural labor,
though her first delivery was cesarean. You should advise Tonya that
Ans✓✓✓a natural labor after a cesarean is associated with slightly
increased rates of rupture of the uterus but is still considered safer than a
second cesarean.
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
True or false? The United States of America is a world leader in policies
supporting maternity leave Ans✓✓✓False
According to Piaget's theory, in the sensorimotor stage, children
Ans✓✓✓"think" by acting on the world with their eyes, ears, hands, and
mouth
Newborns relax their facial muscles in response to a _____ taste
Ans✓✓✓sweet
Sperm live for up to Ans✓✓✓six days
Jessica believes that development takes place in stages where children
change rapidly as they step up to a new level and then change very little
for a while. Jessica views development as Ans✓✓✓discontinuous
True or false? Children are protected from effects associated with low
socioeconomic status because most children spend many hours in high
quality school. Ans✓✓✓False
A correlation of +.55 between preschool attendance and self-esteem
indicates that children who attend preschool have __________ self-
,esteem scores than children who do not attend preschool.
Ans✓✓✓moderately higher
Daughters of mothers who took __________ showed unusually high
rates of cancer of the vagina, malformations of the uterus, and infertility
as they reached adolescence and young adulthood.
Ans✓✓✓diethylstilbestrol (DES)
According to ecological systems theory, a parent's workplace is in the
Ans✓✓✓exosystem
The most poverty exists in families that consist of Ans✓✓✓women
with children under age 5
A survey of over 5,000 U.S. adults of childbearing age revealed that
more than 90% Ans✓✓✓already have children or are planning to have
them
Which of the following individuals is the most likely to score high in
impulsivity, according to research on smoking? Ans✓✓✓Daniel, who
has a DD genetic makeup and a mother who smoked during pregnancy
Denyse and David are both actors and have enrolled their children in
acting classes. This is an example of a(n) __________ gene-environment
correlation. Ans✓✓✓passive
,At birth, visual structures in Ans✓✓✓both the eye and the brain are not
yet fully formed
In the _____ reflex a newborn infant will turn its head toward anything
that strokes its cheek or mouth. Ans✓✓✓rooting
An ovum bursts from one of a woman's two __________ and is drawn
into one of two __________. Ans✓✓✓ovaries; fallopian tubes
The infant is born during Ans✓✓✓second stage of labor
_________ is the most common reason young infants cry.
Ans✓✓✓hunger
Cohort effects occur when Ans✓✓✓particular cultural and historical
conditions influence participants born at the same time
In an effort to overcome some of the limitations of traditional
developmental designs, Dr. Francisco conducted several similar cross-
sectional studies at varying times. Dr. Francisco used the __________
design. Ans✓✓✓sequential
Vacuum extractors Ans✓✓✓have been rapidly replaced by forceps in
most U.S. births
, Compared with those who give birth by lying on their backs, women
who choose an upright position are likely to ________ to __________.
Ans✓✓✓more; need an episiotomy
A recent theoretical perspective concerned with the adaptive, or survival,
value of behavior and its evolutionary history Ans✓✓✓ethology
Stage 1 of labor Ans✓✓✓climaxes with a brief phase called transition
Early contact with a baby in the period shortly after birth Ans✓✓✓is
essential for bonding because birth-related hormones facilitate parental
responsiveness
Lightening occurs when the Ans✓✓✓fetus's head drops low into the
uterus
The _______ becomes the nervous system. Ans✓✓✓ectoderm
Tonya is pregnant for a second time. She hopes to have a natural labor,
though her first delivery was cesarean. You should advise Tonya that
Ans✓✓✓a natural labor after a cesarean is associated with slightly
increased rates of rupture of the uterus but is still considered safer than a
second cesarean.
