Cognitive Development
The famous cognitive psychologist known for child development stages is..
A) B.F. Skinner
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Tom Cruise
D) Jean Piaget
D) Jean Piaget
Isaac wants to borrow the car for the weekend to go camping with friends. Isaac and his parents discuss it and compromise, allowing Isaac to use the car for one night. This is an example of which type of parenting?
Authoritative or Democratic
What did Genie hoard in the Wild Child documentary?
A) Liquids or cups
B) Cards
C) Dolls
D) Pieces of food
A) Liquids or cups
Who believed that the need for social approval is the most important aspect of social development?
A) Lawrence Kohlberg
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Erik Erickson
D) Jean Piaget
C) Erik Erickson believed that social approval is the most important in developing a sense of identity and learning right from wrong
The period of life in which the human brain develops the most is.....
A) Adolescence
B) Early Childhood
C) Adulthood
D) Old Age
B) Early Childhood
This Piaget stage involves infants from 0-2 years old.
A) Formal Operational
B) Preoperational
C) Sensorimotor
D) Concrete Operational
C) Sensorimotor
Daily Double:
What kind of development occurs during this stage?
Connor is grounded for one month because he did not get an "A" on the math test. This is an example of which type of parenting?
Authoritarian
Children rarely lie about sexual abuse.
True or False?
True
This psychologist believed that children are born with powerful sexual and aggressive urges?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
D) Jean Piaget
A) Sigmund Freud
Which stage in the process of dying is the person in if they are asking a higher power to extend their life in exchange for better life choices in the future?
A) Denial
B) Acceptance
C) Anger
D) Bargaining
D) Bargaining
According to Piaget, a child seeing a zebra for the first time and calling it "a horse" is an example of the child doing what?
A: Sublimating the information
B: Assimilating the information
C: Accommodating the information
D: Acquiring object permanence
B: Assimilating the information
Assimilation: fitting new information into existing schemas
Mandy's parents are divorced. Mandy gets caught stealing cigarettes and her mother threatens to ground Mandy. However, Mandy responds that she wants to live with her father, so the mother decides to remove the consequence, fearing the actualization of Mandy's threat. This is an example of which type of parenting?
Permissive or Laissez-faire
In the Ted Talk "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime", Dr. Burke says that you can measure a person's susceptibility to illness by measuring their __________ score.
Acronym is fine
ACE scores
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Which of the following is the first stage of a child's moral development, according to Lawrence Kohlberg?
A: Right or wrong depends on what is fair or just
B: Right or wrong depends on positive rewards or negative consequences to oneself
C: Right or wrong depends on whether one receives punishment
C: Right or wrong depends on whether one receives punishment
All of the following statements about adolescence are true EXCEPT....
A: Teens today are at risk for depression and anxiety
B: Adolescence is a period of hormonal stability
C: Belonging to a social group is important
B: Adolescence is a period of hormonal stability
It is the exact opposite!!
What stage of Piaget's theory sees children beginning to use generalizations, concepts of time, space, volume, and number?
A) Formal Operational
B) Preoperational
C) Sensorimotor
D) Concrete Operational
D) Concrete Operational
Jane is not allowed out at all on weekends because of her parents' fears. They will not discuss it and give immediate consequences if Jane attempts to go out with friends. This is an example of which type of parenting?
Authoritarian
Beth Thomas (Child of Rage) had which issue?
A: Developmental Disabilities due to severe neglect
B: Depression due to severe neglect
C: Reactive Attachment Disorder due to severe abuse
C: Reactive Attachment Disorder due to severe abuse
Joan uses the "Golden Rule: Do to others as you would want them to do to you" as her guide in making moral judgements. She is considered to be in which stage of Kohlberg's framework?
A) Stage 5 - Understanding justice as an instrumental relativist
B) Stage 6 - Universal Principle of Ethics
C) Stage 3 - Good boy / Good Girl Attitude
B) Stage 6 - Universal Principle of Ethics
Moral imperatives are more important than laws or directions.
Which of the following is NOT true about language development?
A: Children born deaf will not acquire language
B: Language acquisition propels the child into further intellectual development
C: The child's ability to use jokes shows a degree of flexibility in language use
A: Children born deaf will not acquire language
A child in Piaget's "Preoperational stage" would play monopoly in which of the following ways?
A: Use complex and hypothetical transactions unique to each game.
B: Play the game, but make up their own rules and not understand directions
C: Put the houses, hotels, dice, and "chance" cards in their mouth.
B: Play the game, but make up their own rules and not understand directions
What are two skills that a child may not develop if the parent is too overprotective?
Remember the Hyper Parents, Coddled Kids video.
Possible answers:
Anxiety, worry, coping skills, phobias, fear of failure, depression, low self-esteem, low self-motivation, bullying target, indecisiveness, entitlement, narcissism, delinquency
Exposure to early adversity affects the development of a child's brain. What part of the brain affects decision-making?
A) Medulla oblongata
B) Prefrontal cortex
C) Cerebellum
D) Dopamine
B) Prefrontal cortex
Which stage of Freud's psycho sexual development has children going through the process of sublimation?
A) Latency Stage
B) Oral Stage
C) Genital Stage
D) Phallic Stage
A) Latency Stage
Sublimation is where sexual thoughts are repressed and child focuses on developing social and intellectual skills
What is the term used for roles that involve a flexible combination of traditionally male and female characteristics?
A) Stereotypical
B) Individual
C) Androgynous
D) Sharezees
Androgynous
Daily Double:
What is the study of dying and death called?