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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Prepared and Screened by: Prof. Gabrielle Anne Canlas, RPm Instructions: Read and analyze each of the following statements carefully. Choose the best answer among the presented options 1) Stage theories of development assume that __________ a) Development is like climbing a staircase, with each step corresponding to a more mature reorganized way functioning. b) People undergo rapid periods of transformation as they move from one stage to the next. c) All individuals follow the same sequence of development. d) All the options are correct. 2) Which stage of labor is the longest? Lasting up to 12 to 14 hours for the first birth and 4 to 6 hours with later birth. a) Stage 1 b) Stage 2 c) Stage 3 d) Stage 4 3) If there is family history of intellectual disability, psychological disorders, physical defects, or inherited diseases, a genetic counselor interviews the couple and prepares a __________, a chart that diagrams the inheritance of a trait or health condition through generations of a family. This picture is then used to estimate the likelihood that parents will have an affected child. a) Family tree b) Genogram c) Pedigree d) Punnett Square 4) Which among the following is an age-graded influence primarily determined by social customs? a) The age of menarche b) The age of puberty c) The age of alcohol drinking d) The age of menopause 5) What is the function of the Moro reflex? a) It may have helped infants cling to their mother. b) Allows child to take in nutrients; protects against choking. c) Help babies find the nipple for nursing. d) Assist the baby move from danger in water and survive until a caregiver can come to its rescue. 6) Jennifer is a 24-year-old African American woman with 4 children from a previous marriage. Their family is known in their hometown for having lots of twins and triplets. Which among the following factors about Jennifer is least likely linked to multiple pregnancies? a) Her race b) Her number of children c) Her age d) Her heredity 7) __________ was coined by Jeffrey Arnett to refer to a distinct phase between adolescence and adulthood. a) Mid-life crisis b) Emerging adulthood c) Moratorium d) Senescence 8) Which psychological figure described adolescence to be a period of “storm and stress”? a) Erik Erikson b) G. Stanley Hall c) Anna Freud d) Margaret Mahler 9) According to the evolutionary perspective, women tend to prioritize the following traits the most when choosing a male partner, except __________ a) Emotionally committed. b) Earning power. c) Ambition. d) Capacity for reproduction. 10) Negative stereotypes of aging __________ a) More likely affect women than men. b) Equally affect men and women. c) More likely affect men than women. d) Equally effect all women, regardless of social class. 11) The term “crack baby” is a term used to refer to __________ a) Babies who have received prenatal exposure drugs like cocaine, heroin, and methadone. b) Babies who are born with hairline skull fractures as a result extreme pressure during normal delivery. c) Babies who suffer from a range of mental, physical, and behavioral outcomes because of being dropped on their heads as a baby. d) Babies who suffer from cyanosis or blueness of the skin due to low oxygen levels in the blood. 12) Jenna and Mike cohabitated when they were both 19 years old before getting married at the age of 26. Based on the research on cohabitation, what is their greatest risk factor for divorce? a) Premarital cohabitation at an early age. b) Length of cohabitation. c) Premarital cohabitation per se. d) Both a and b are correct. 13) Martial Law under the Marcos Regime was declared on September 21, 1972. Generation X babies born in the mid-1960s to early 1980s, and Silent Generation” babies born in between 1928 to 1945 would most likely have a very different experience of this day. Their difference in experience is due to __________ a) Age-graded influences b) History-graded influences c) Non-normative influences d) None of the options are correct. No difference in their experience should have been observed. 14) A skipped generation family means __________ a) A family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, or other relatives. b) Children live with relative or nonrelative adults who have been approved by the State, or by an agency licensed by the State, to provide them with shelter and care. c) Instead of having biological children, couples decide to adopt a child with whom they have no relation to. d) Grandparents take care of their grandchildren in the absence of parents. 15) What is the strongest predictor of frequent, face-to-face interaction of grandparents and their young grandchildren? 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a) Desire to affect development of grandchildren. b) Living nearby. c) Same sex between grandparent and grandchild. d) Number of grandchild sets (households with grandchildren). 16) Bella wanted to get a set of toy trucks as a gift for Christmas. When asked what they think their brother would want for his birthday, Bella immediately said her brother would also like to get a truck. This is an example of __________ a) Animism b) Conservation c) Egocentrism d) Magical thinking 17) Time-out is a form of __________ that involves having your child removed from where the misbehavior happened. Your child is away from all things that are fun. She does not get any attention in time-out. She cannot interact with her parents or anyone else. a) Negative punishment b) Positive punishment c) Positive reinforcement d) Negative reinforcement 18) Janine, a 25-year-old law student, attended a family reunion for Christmas. The moment she arrived, her aunts and uncles would incessantly ask her questions like “Do you not have a partner yet?”, “When will you get married?”, “You really shouldn’t let yourself grow an old maiden”. These statements prompt Janine’s __________ a) Non-normative influences b) Social clock c) History-graded influences d) Biological clock 19) Which among the following is false about the regrets of mature, contented adults? a) Mature, contended adults report having little to no regrets in life. b) Mature, contended adults take corrective actions of what went wrong in the past. c) Mature, contented adults who have resolved their disappointments report better physical health and greater life satisfaction. d) None. A, B, and C are all factual statements. 20) Which among the following pertains to the teratogen that was widely prescribed between 1945 to 1970s to prevent miscarriages. However, as the children of these women aged into adolescence and adulthood, a significantly higher rate of reproductive abnormalities (vaginal/testicular cancer, infertility, malformations) were observed to occur among them. a) Thalidomide b) Isotretinoin c) Diethylstilbestrol d) Valproate 21) Which among the following is true about voluntary childlessness? a) The voluntarily childless are usually highly educated, have prestigious occupations, are very committed to their work, and are less-traditional in gender-role attitudes. b) Most voluntarily childless adults eventually express regret and discontent in their decision later on in life. c) Voluntarily childlessness adults subsume those who did not find a partner to share parenthood or those whose fertility treatments failed. d) Both a and b are true. 22) Your OB-GYN wants to quickly assess the physical condition of your newborn baby 1 and 5 minutes after birth. Which among the following are they most likely to use? a) Brazelton NBAS b) NNNS c) PGCS d) APGAR test 23) Which among the following is not an assumption of the lifespan perspective of development? a) Development is a life-long process. b) Development is explained by the gain-stability-loss model. c) Development is affected my multiple interacting forces. d) Development is highly plastic. 24) Red-green color blindness is caused by a recessive gene that appears on the X chromosome. Thus, __________ a) Males are more likely to suffer from red-green colorblindness. b) Females are more likely to suffer from red-green colorblindness. c) Both males and females are more likely to suffer from red-green colorblindness. d) Cannot say. Provided information is insufficient to come up with any valid conclusions. 25) The first time Sky saw a rabbit, he told himself “Rabbits are white and furry”. After a week, his mother showed him a white and furry creature, so Sky referred to it as a “rabbit”. His mother corrected him and told him that it was a “sheep”. For a while, he felt confused, so he observed and saw that “This is not a rabbit. Mommy called it a sheep. It’s white and furry but is also much bigger and has four legs”. Which among the following did Sky go through? a) Assimilation. b) Accommodation. c) Disequilibrium. d) All the options are correct. 26) Which among the following is true about autism and vaccination? a) Vaccines decrease the likelihood of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) but increase risk for autism. b) Research has found strong evidence for the causal relationship between MMR vaccination and autism. c) Thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative, played a vital role in the ASD epidemic in the 90s. This also sparked the move towards preservative-free vaccines. d) There is a coincidental temporal association between when vaccine is given and when ASD is first diagnosed/suspected. 27) You observed your 5-year-old niece, Jada, has frequently engaged in games such as playing house, acting as a nurse, imitating storybooks, or TV characters. Given your competent knowledge on childhood development, you can say that Jada is now engaging in __________ a) Functional play b) Constructive play c) Solitary play d) Make-believe play 28) It is prom night and Kurt has been panicking over the pimple on his nose. He keeps thinking that his friends will bully him and say he is in love with his date or that his crush might think he is unattractive because of it. This heightened self-consciousness among teenagers is known as __________ a) Personal fable b) Imaginary audience c) Illusion of invulnerability d) Centration 29) Tina was involved in a motor vehicular collision. He was not hearing a crash helmet. Paramedics assessed that he suffered whiplash, severe injuries to the head, multiple lacerations, and internal bleeding. Shortly after he manifests rattled breathing sounds, gasps, muscle spasms, and his regular heartbeat is slowly disintegrating. This is known as __________ a) The agonal phase b) Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this exam/material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the lecturer or the review center. 2