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A researcher reports that boys show more physical aggression than girls in free play. She is able to demonstrate consistency of results across time, situations, and observers. Therefore, her findings are:
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  • Reliable
  • Valid
  • Proven
  • All of the above

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A researcher uses looking preferences to assess categorisation abilities of babies who cannot yet speak. She is able to demonstrate that the measure she uses accurately reflects the variables that are under study. Therefore, her findings are:
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  • Reliable
  • Valid
  • Proven
  • All of the above

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A researcher measures children’s language development by administering questionnaires to parents. Possible problems?
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  • Parental questionnaires are never valid.
  • Parental answers are seldom reliable.
  • Parental answers are not suitable for assessment of children’s verbal behaviour
  • May be inferior to measuring the behaviour directly.

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A researcher measures children’s cognitive development by asking questions about a hypothetical situation. Possible problems?
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  • Children may know something but be unable to explain it.
  • Different children may get different prompts, depending on their previous answers.
  • Experimenter may be biased in interpreting the answers.
  • May be inferior to measuring the behaviour directly.
  • All of the above.

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A researcher measures play behaviour of a few children over a long period of time, in daily structured play sessions. Possible problems?
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  • Children will get bored with this and underperform.
  • Results will be insufficient to draw valid conclusions
  • Results may not generalise to other children.
  • All of the above

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Say that we found that watching a lot of violence on TV is correlated with disruptive behaviours in children. What conclusions can be drawn from this?
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  • TV violence may cause disruptive behaviour.
  • Parents of disruptive children allow them to watch more TV programmes
  • Disruptive children prefer to view programmes with violent contents.
  • None of the above is true.
  • All of the above could be true.

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A researcher reported that 3-year-old children have longer attention span than 2-year-old children, as they remembered more pictures shown in a test. She used a cross-sectional design, and tested 25 children in each group.
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  • Data are not valid or reliable.
  • Data are not generalisible to other 2- and 3-year-olds
  • Data cannot tell us about the development of individual children.
  • All of the above is true.

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Recommended for women in general: up to 14-21 units / week, so up to 2-3 units per day is OK. How much is it safe to drink in pregnancy?
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  • No drinking at all
  • One unit per day
  • Two units per day
  • Three units per day

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Birth experience for babies is…
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  • Quite stressful
  • Not very stressful at all
  • Very stressful
  • Torturous

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For parents, especially the mother, is there a sensitive period for emotional bonding in first 6-12 hours after birth?
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  • Yes – this is crucial for the full acceptance of a new baby.
  • No, there is no such thing as sensitive period.
  • It may be helpful but it is not necessary.
  • It may be helpful not to see the baby immediately, until mother is properly rested and hormones return to normal.

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You show preschool children Manyard the Cat. Then, in front of them, you place a dog mask on the cat’s face. You ask the children, does he bark or meow? They will say
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  • meow
  • bark
  • can do either as he chooses
  • neither

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Genetic epistemology, Piaget's academic specialty, could be defined as the study of the:
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  • child's social relations with others such as peers.
  • inheritance of developmental disability.
  • inheritance of behavioral habits.
  • development of knowledge.

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In Piaget's theory, balance between the child's thoughts and the environment is called:
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  • tertiary circular reaction.
  • phylogenetic scaffolding
  • early constructivism
  • cognitive equilibrium

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Which of these is NOT among Piaget's four cognitive developmental stages?
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  • Formal operations stage.
  • Pre-operational stage
  • Proximal zone stage
  • Sensorimotor stage

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Object permanence refers to the understanding that:
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  • ● durable toys are preferred over those that break soon.
  • ● existence continues even when something is out of sight.
  • ● inanimate objects have the ability to "hide" actively.
  • ● lost objects will always be located later.

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Three-year-old Bethan gets scared when her mum dresses up in a dinosaur costume on Halloween. This child shows:
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  • a phylogenetic development
  • assimilation and accommodation
  • lack of object (person) permanence
  • misunderstanding of the appearance/reality distinction.

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Suppose we asked children to make drawings of all the life forms that might occur on another planet. According to Piaget, the most novel, creative ideas of life forms are likely to come from children at the:
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  • sensorimotor stage of cognitive development
  • preoperational stage of cognitive development
  • concrete-operational stage of development
  • formal-operational stage of development

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Roxanne is 4 ½ years old. She often talks out loud even when other people are not listening. This habit is:
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  • unusual for boys but common for girls.
  • unusual for girls but common for boys
  • fairly common in all children her age but of no significance for her cognitive development.
  • fairly common in all children her age and helpful to her cognitive development

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If he were alive today, Vygotsky would identify the calculator you have on your phone as a(n):
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  • device for inner experimentation
  • tool of intellectual adaptation
  • zone of proximal development.
  • electronic scaffold

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Which statement is LEAST applicable to Vygotsky's theory?
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  • Cooperative interactions with skilled tutors are helpful.
  • Variations in cultural influences are acknowledged.
  • Developmental universals are sought and identified
  • Scaffolding assists the child with difficult tasks.

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In the mirror self-recognition test, the parent covertly places a red spot on 1-year-old Gareth’s face. The child is then presented with a mirror. What is he most likely to do?
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  • Deliberately ignore the red spot.
  • Stare at the red spot.
  • Touch their nose / wipe the red spot.
  • Interact with the mirror (kissing or touching it).

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When do children start learning their native language?
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  • ● about 12 months old
  • ● about 6 month old
  • ● soon after birth
  • ● before they are born

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. Some language developmental researchers claim that 8-month old infants can out-perform older children on certain language tasks. why?
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  • they are attention-, funds- and fame-seeking scientists
  • they are simply mistaken - other researchers disagree
  • there are large individual differences in development, some infants can be so advanced that they can outperform average preschoolers
  • this is actually true for all children in some aspects of comprehension

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Which type of parenting produces the happiest, best-adjusted children?
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  • ● Authoritative (high D/C and high A/R)
  • ● Authoritarian (high D/C and low A/R)
  • ● Permissive (Low D/C and high A/R)
  • ● Uninvolved (Low D/C and Low A/R)

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Jo has bad temper which often leads to crying and shouting. Jo’s mum tries to avoid public embarrassment by giving in to Jo’s demands when they are out. This makes it more likely that this situation will happen again. This fits with a
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  • parent effects model
  • child effects model.
  • transactional model.
  • universal model.

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Girls are more likely than boys to show which kind of aggression?
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  • ● Hostile
  • ● Instrumental
  • ● Relational
  • ● Bullying

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Jo hits Linda while their mum is not looking and as Linda gets distracted grabs her toy. This is an instance of which kind of aggression?
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  • ● Hostile
  • ● Instrumental
  • ● Relational
  • ● Bullying

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A strong advantage of the longitudinal design is
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  • that informed consent is not necessary.
  • its ability to discern amongst cohorts
  • that it follows development of individuals
  • that it protects from selective attrition

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The long-term stability of children’s temperament is most properly studied
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  • experimentally
  • cross-sectionally.
  • longitudinally
  • speculatively

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Which of these is NOT among the five measurements that make up the APGAR test for neonates?
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  • muscle tone
  • heart rate
  • reflex irritability
  • longitudinally

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In recent decades, the age of viability has advanced earlier in the period of the fetus because of
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  • the increasing rate of single parenthood.
  • the perfusion of toxic chemicals in food and water
  • better maternal nutrition
  • advances in medical technology

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In recent decades, the age of viability has advanced earlier in the period of the fetus because of
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  • the increasing rate of single parenthood
  • the perfusion of toxic chemicals in food and water
  • better maternal nutrition.
  • advances in medical technology.

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Reasoning by verbal analogy: MATERNITY BLUES are to POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION as __________ is to __________.
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  • PRIMATE / HUMAN
  • POSITIVE / NEGATIVE
  • FATHER / MOTHER
  • MILD / INTENSE

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When adults interpret emotions displayed by babies in their first months of life, they
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  • are unreliable and inaccurate
  • do better with negative emotions than with positive.
  • do better with positive emotions than with negative
  • are highly accurate regardless of the type of emotion.

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"Social referencing" refers to the child's ability to
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  • categorise people or animals as good or bad
  • use the reactions of others to interpret an ambiguous stimulus or situation.
  • hide one's own true inner feelings
  • understand that others' feelings differ from your own

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Which of these is NOT among the several methods for studying infants’ sensation / perception?
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  • habituation / dishabituation
  • high-amplitude sucking
  • deferred imitation
  • evoked potentials

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Sandra’s mum has no time to look into a mirror. Which flaws is 6-month-old Sandra LEAST likely to notice?
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  • very smudged eye shadow
  • a big bruise on mum’s nose
  • a piece of pasta hanging off mum’s chin
  • a crow’s nest in mum’s hair

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As little Benny masters object permanence, which behaviour represents the most advanced understanding?
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  • passively waiting for an object to reappear
  • anticipating invisible displacements
  • making an A-not-B error
  • looking at another toy as the first one disappears from view

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Ceri’s dad is upset and cries. Ceri gives her teddy to dad to hold, and tells dad he will feel better if he hugs that teddy. According to Piaget, Ceri is showing
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  • egocentrism
  • decentered emotionality.
  • sympathetic empathetic concern
  • animism

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Reasoning by verbal analogy, Piaget’s view is to Vygotsky’s view as is to
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  • egocentrism / other’s viewpoint
  • adolescence / childhood
  • flexibility / rigidity
  • solitary / social

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For Vygotsky, private speech is
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  • meaningless babbling.
  • entirely silent and cannot be heard by others.
  • passive reporting on thoughts after they have happened.
  • self-talk that helps children to plan their thoughts

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A basic definition of imitation is
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  • doing an action after seeing it done.
  • repeating an action after getting reinforcement.
  • varying a response to achieve reinforcement
  • repeating an action

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Generalised imitation, a higher-order skill investigated by researchers in Bangor and other behaviour analysts, denotes an
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  • ability to copy actions
  • ability to copy a variety of actions
  • ability to copy a variety of novel actions
  • ability to copy a variety of novel actions without external reinforcement

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A toddler is able to name many objects and events. He hears a familiar word /cat/. This makes him
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  • look to find a cat.
  • try to pet the cat.
  • do neither 1 or 2 but may echo the word ‘cat’.
  • do both 1 and 2 – and he may echo the word ‘cat’.

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The set of emotions that are closely tied to cognitive development, particularly self-recognition and an understanding of social norms is
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  • interest, distress, disgust, and contentment.
  • anger, surprise, fear, and sadness.
  • embarrassment, shame, guilt, and pride
  • joy, happiness, frustration, and boredom.

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Belinda is 8 months old. She turns away and starts crying when a stranger approaches her pram in the supermarket. This reaction would
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  • be unusual in a child at that age.
  • be evidence that Belinda was insecurely attached
  • be considered a typical response to a stranger for a child of that age (but not necessarily a universal response).
  • simply indicate that Belinda is tired or hungry.

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Emotional attachments between parent and child
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  • are the result of cultural effects of parenting in the Western countries.
  • vslowly rise from social interactions in the first months
  • emerge suddenly at birth, to the strongest level.
  • result from both persons' shared genetic relationship.

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Mary Ainsworth's (1978) "Strange Situation”
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  • identifies the child's level of visual imagination
  • provides training for the transition into foster care
  • measures the child's interest in novel unfamiliar items
  • assesses the child's attachment style

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The two common fears of infancy, separation anxiety and stranger anxiety, reflect the baby's preference for
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  • easy temperament.
  • familiarity.
  • social referencing.
  • learned helplessness

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Training to improve the sensitivity of parents to their child’s needs
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  • is doomed to fail because caregiving is genetically predetermined.
  • works and promotes secure attachment
  • is directed mainly to upper income parents
  • yields temporary gains that are lost within weeks.

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Sam, age five, turns away from the TV that shows a report of an earthquake, where people are hurt. Sam is likely to be feeling
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  • self-oriented distress
  • sympathetic empathetic arousal
  • a hostile attribution bias
  • learned helplessness

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Finnish school-based KiVa programme does NOT contain
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  • an online game training emotion recognition.
  • classroom activities that teach children to be helpful bystanders
  • psychological counseling to make bullied children less vulnerable
  • parental educational materials

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Bangor-made Food Dudes programmes are effective interventions that increase consumption of fruit and veg. They are usually delivered by
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  • parents.
  • researchers
  • children
  • teachers
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