Child Psychology Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. Preschoolers remember repeated events in ..... memory, they store general descriptions of what occurs and when in a given a situation.
2. Process of learning the rules of behavior of a culture within which an individual is born and will live.
3. Attachment style when a child shows distress when the caregiver is gone and welcomes her back
4. Time needed for processing information decreases from ages 6 to 11 years because of myelination and synaptic pruning particularly in the .....
5. A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned
6. Children and adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives
7. Specialized study of how an individual's physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential order as the individual matures
8. Fitting objects & experiences into one's schema.
9. Children's play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view
10. Knowing an object exists even when you can not see it.
11. Important for children in their development psychologically based on a study using monkeys.
12. There are 3 levels of moral reasoning, Preconventional, ....., and Postconventional.
13. Marshall is very smart and has dreams of becoming an engineer, however, Marshall does not apply himself in school and rarely attends. Which area of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs will probably not be met
14. According to Piaget's work, logical thinking beings to develop during this stage
15. Infants do not recall the actions of a televised model as well as they recall a face-to-face model of behavior. This lack of memory for televised models is called the ..... effect.
16. In the social ..... theory the child strives to communicate and their efforts lead the care-giver to engage in more appropriate language experiences based on the child's cues.
17. From 7 to 11 years of age children begin to understand conservation. Which stage of human development is this?
18. Sally understands the concept of conservation but struggles with abstract ideas. She is likely in the ..... stage of cognitive development.
19. The ..... theory proposes infants are born with a set of innate knowledge systems for example they can naturally discriminate differences in amount up to three.
20. The strategy that children need to develop to be effective learners by the end of middle-childhood is?