Child Psychology Quiz 2 (30 MCQs)

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1. A ..... test is a good individual measure of IQ it covers four broad processing factors and is not culture dependent.
2. Argued that people imitate other people's behaviors, despite whether there are rewards or punishments involved. Social cognitive theory
3. Studied monkeys with a wire mx and a cloth mx. Physical contact was more important
4. Comparing 5 to 9 year old's, the older children were better at planning and ability to figure out the best sequence because they
5. The first memory strategy children apply is ..... reflecting the child's increased language proficiency.
6. The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas
7. Jot is having a hard time with Algebra. This is normal, according to Piaget, because he's only 10. He is in the ..... ..... stage.
8. A reflex when touched on the cheek, the infant turns the head looking for food
9. Which is the first stage in Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development?
10. Case proposes that efficient use of ..... is significant to making gains within a stage of thinking.
11. Preschoolers remember repeated events in ..... memory, they store general descriptions of what occurs and when in a given a situation.
12. Process of learning the rules of behavior of a culture within which an individual is born and will live.
13. Attachment style when a child shows distress when the caregiver is gone and welcomes her back
14. Time needed for processing information decreases from ages 6 to 11 years because of myelination and synaptic pruning particularly in the .....
15. A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned
16. Children and adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives
17. Specialized study of how an individual's physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential order as the individual matures
18. Fitting objects & experiences into one's schema.
19. Children's play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view
20. Knowing an object exists even when you can not see it.
21. Important for children in their development psychologically based on a study using monkeys.
22. There are 3 levels of moral reasoning, Preconventional, ....., and Postconventional.
23. 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
24. According to Piaget's work, logical thinking beings to develop during this stage
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. From 7 to 11 years of age children begin to understand conservation. Which stage of human development is this?
28. Sally understands the concept of conservation but struggles with abstract ideas. She is likely in the ..... stage of cognitive development.
29. 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.
30. The strategy that children need to develop to be effective learners by the end of middle-childhood is?