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Quiz 1 - Foundations (Ch. 1-2) Question 1 Marks: 1 Which of the following statements is the BEST example of a hypothesis about human development? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 2 Marks: 1 Which of the following is the BEST example of an individual difference in development? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 4 Marks: 1 Which of the following operant conditioning techniques is likely to increase the reoccurrence of behavior? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 5 Marks: 1 Which of the following would most likely be considered a normative, age-graded developmental change? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 6 Marks: 1 Margaret has always been a highly sociable child. She has always surrounded herself with friends, and she has assumed several leadership positions at school and in the community. Which factor is MOST likely to have influenced Margaret's social development? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 8 Marks: 1 What is not an example of normative age-graded change? Choose one answer. Incorrect Marks for this submission: 0/1. Question 10 Marks: 1 Stella, age 12, is in the 6th grade, but still reads at a 3rd grade level. Developmentalists would suggest that there is a problem in which domain of development? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 11 Marks: 1 Which of the following would LEAST likely be a contributing factor to a person's development? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 13 Marks: 1 A caterpillar changing into a butterfly exemplifies what type of change? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 14 Marks: 1 Three-year-old Tran used to call all flying objects such as airplanes and slowly falling leaves birds. Now he correctly labels airplanes, butterflies, birds, and bees. Which Piagetian process has Tran accomplished? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 15 Marks: 1 What is a key proposal of Social-Cognitive Theory? Choose one answer. Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. a. Because human breast milk is a superior form of nutrition for infants, all newly-delivered women should be encouraged to breast feed their infants. b. Cross-cultural studies have determined that human breast milk provides the ideal nutrition for infant brain development. c. If breast milk is a superior supplement for infant brain development, children who were breast-fed as infants should perform better on psychological tests than children who were not breast fed. a. It has been found that economic hardship was largely beneficial to individual who were teenagers when the Great Depression of the 1930s struck full force, while it was generally detrimental to individuals who were children at this time. b. Psychologists have identified four basic gender role identities, determined by whether the individual is high or low on femininity, and whether he/she is high or low on masculinity. c. Japanese parents tend to believe that their children's achievement in school is directly related to effort, while American parents tend to believe that their children's achievement in school reflects their natural abilities. a. Punishment. b. Habituation. c. Reinforcement. a. Developing autism. b. Developing the ability to use mental symbols. c. Developing birth defects due to teratogens. a. Nurture. b. Both nature and nurture. c. Nature. a. Puberty. b. Death. c. Learning to walk. a. Cognitive. b. Physical. c. Social. a. Culture. b. Hair color. c. Age. a. Continuous. b. Qualitative. c. Quantitative. a. Object permanence. b. Accommodation. c. Assimilation. a. Behavior is shaped by rewards or punishments. b. Personality is based on social forces. c. Behavior is shaped by role models.