CHILD DEVELOPMENT EXAM 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
d Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following best illustrates physical
development as a developmental domain?
A. Timothy is increasingly able to understand other people's points of
view.
B. Thomas learns how to count by practicing counting with a variety of
household objects.
C. Mark can watch a basketball player and critique his movements.
D. Tammy can hold and use a pencil more easily than she could last
year.
b Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following best illustrates social-emotional
development as a developmental domain?
A. Annika cries in pain when she steps on a sharp pebble.
B. Carlos is learning how to play cooperatively with his preschool
classmates.
C. Thomas used to think that the earth was flat, but now he knows that
it's round.
D. Pamela has decided to get a fashionable new haircut.
b Ans✓✓✓Many psychologists are interested in the influence of
"nature versus nurture" in child development. Which one of the
following examples illustrates the influence of nature?
,A. Two-year-old Sophia is learning to speak two languages because her
parents speak Spanish at home but everyone at her preschool speaks
English.
B. Fourteen-year-old Deborah is starting to grow pubic hair, and she's
just had her first menstrual period.
C. Ten-year-old Bart loves being outdoors. As far back as he can
remember, his family has gone camping almost every weekend during
the summer months.
D. Eight-year-old Yannie goes to his Aunt Jane's house after school
every day. As he watches television, Jane gives him as much candy and
other sweets as he wants, and so he is becoming increasingly
overweight.
a Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following statements reflects what
developmentalists mean by the term maturation?
A. Developmental changes that are controlled largely by heredity
B. Changes related specifically to children's emotional development
C. Changes related specifically to children's physical development
D. Changes that reflect increasingly appropriate social behavior
d Ans✓✓✓Many developmental theorists are interested in the influence
of "nature versus nurture" in child development. The term nurture refers
to:
A. Genetically controlled maturational changes
B. The loving bonds that exist between children and their parents
C. A child's characteristics at birth
, D. Environmental conditions that influence development.
b Ans✓✓✓Leanna believes that children have a natural curiosity that
makes them eager to learn. LeRoy believes that children's motivation to
learn is fostered by good nutrition, positive relationships with other
people, and opportunities to explore a complex environment. This
difference in viewpoints best reflects the issue of:
A. Universality vs. diversity
B. Nature vs. nurture
C. Quantitative vs. qualitative change
D. Progression vs. regression
b Ans✓✓✓Three of the following statements are true regarding the
interplay between heredity and environment in child development.
Which statement is false?
A. Children's inherited tendencies may make them more or less
susceptible to particular environmental conditions.
B. Heredity is more influential when children live in extremely
impoverished circumstances than when they have good nutrition and
other environmental supports.
C. Inherited predispositions have a large influence in some aspects of
development, whereas environment is more influential in other aspects.
D. Certain environmental experiences may have a greater impact at
some ages than at other
c Ans✓✓✓The concept of universality in development refers to:
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
d Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following best illustrates physical
development as a developmental domain?
A. Timothy is increasingly able to understand other people's points of
view.
B. Thomas learns how to count by practicing counting with a variety of
household objects.
C. Mark can watch a basketball player and critique his movements.
D. Tammy can hold and use a pencil more easily than she could last
year.
b Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following best illustrates social-emotional
development as a developmental domain?
A. Annika cries in pain when she steps on a sharp pebble.
B. Carlos is learning how to play cooperatively with his preschool
classmates.
C. Thomas used to think that the earth was flat, but now he knows that
it's round.
D. Pamela has decided to get a fashionable new haircut.
b Ans✓✓✓Many psychologists are interested in the influence of
"nature versus nurture" in child development. Which one of the
following examples illustrates the influence of nature?
,A. Two-year-old Sophia is learning to speak two languages because her
parents speak Spanish at home but everyone at her preschool speaks
English.
B. Fourteen-year-old Deborah is starting to grow pubic hair, and she's
just had her first menstrual period.
C. Ten-year-old Bart loves being outdoors. As far back as he can
remember, his family has gone camping almost every weekend during
the summer months.
D. Eight-year-old Yannie goes to his Aunt Jane's house after school
every day. As he watches television, Jane gives him as much candy and
other sweets as he wants, and so he is becoming increasingly
overweight.
a Ans✓✓✓Which one of the following statements reflects what
developmentalists mean by the term maturation?
A. Developmental changes that are controlled largely by heredity
B. Changes related specifically to children's emotional development
C. Changes related specifically to children's physical development
D. Changes that reflect increasingly appropriate social behavior
d Ans✓✓✓Many developmental theorists are interested in the influence
of "nature versus nurture" in child development. The term nurture refers
to:
A. Genetically controlled maturational changes
B. The loving bonds that exist between children and their parents
C. A child's characteristics at birth
, D. Environmental conditions that influence development.
b Ans✓✓✓Leanna believes that children have a natural curiosity that
makes them eager to learn. LeRoy believes that children's motivation to
learn is fostered by good nutrition, positive relationships with other
people, and opportunities to explore a complex environment. This
difference in viewpoints best reflects the issue of:
A. Universality vs. diversity
B. Nature vs. nurture
C. Quantitative vs. qualitative change
D. Progression vs. regression
b Ans✓✓✓Three of the following statements are true regarding the
interplay between heredity and environment in child development.
Which statement is false?
A. Children's inherited tendencies may make them more or less
susceptible to particular environmental conditions.
B. Heredity is more influential when children live in extremely
impoverished circumstances than when they have good nutrition and
other environmental supports.
C. Inherited predispositions have a large influence in some aspects of
development, whereas environment is more influential in other aspects.
D. Certain environmental experiences may have a greater impact at
some ages than at other
c Ans✓✓✓The concept of universality in development refers to:
