Developmental Psychology

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Who is responsible for sociocultural theory?
Vygotsky
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Who is responsible for Core-Knowledge theory?
Spelke
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Who is responsible for information-processing theory?
Siegler
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Who is responsible for dynamic-systems theory?
Thelen
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Which theory can explain why children understand unobservable phenomenon (e.g. gravity)?
core-knowledge
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overlapping-waves theory forms part of which wider developmental theory?
information-processing
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due to perceptual narrowing, infants sensory discrimination is often...
better than adults
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Murray et al. (2016) shows what about intermodal perception
children can do this very early on
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Adolph's (1997) visual cliff experiment demonstrates what?
children have to learn to integrate perception to each new motor skill
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in Sub-Saharan Africa, motor stimulation is ____, and this ____ early motor development.
encouraged, promotes
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at what age is there a dramatic increase in executive functioning control?
3-5 years
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why does the 'sticky mittens' intervention suggest that experience influences understanding?
the intervention allows children to understand grasp changes/intent earlier in life
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which study suggests that a self/other desire distinction is apparent at 18 months?
Repacholi & Gopnick (1997)
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at what age can most children solve false belief tasks?
5 years old
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which group would argue that essentialism was essential for human survival and evolution?
nativists
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a decline in anger response around 24 months is due to...
increased communication skills and emotional regulation
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what is required for the expression of self-conscious emotions?
a sense of self, an understanding of external standards of behaviour
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which factor would make a child more likely to feel guilt than shame?
parenting that emphasises badness of the behaviour
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which emotion is associated more with empathy?
guilt
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which study demonstrated that children have emotional understanding and use it to guide behaviour (social referencing)?
Moses et al. (2001)
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At what stage in Bowlby's (1969) theory is separation anxiety most likely to occur?
Clear cut attachment
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What year was Ainsworth's famous 'strange situations' study?
1973
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what attachment type is characterised by clinginess and extreme distress?
insecure ambivalent
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the Bakermans-Kranenburg et al. (2012) study suggests what about the 5HTT-2 transporter gene?
it is protective against disorganised attachment for children living in institutions
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the autonomous adult attachment type matches what childhood attachment type?
secure
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intervention can help break the pattern of integrational transmission in attachment style, allowing parents to become...
earned-secure
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what do Frith-Happé animations clarify about theory of mind in people with ASD?
it is not spontaneous and intuitive
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which task is best at measuring cognitive flexibility?
Wisconsin card sorting task
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evidence from the embedded figures test shows support for what account of ASD?
weak central coherence
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which parenting style is associated with high warmth and high control?
authoritative
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which parenting style is most likely to cause low competence and self-confidence?
authoritarian
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is Baumrind's (1973) research on parenting style relevant cross-culturally?
yes, however there's more variation with regard to singular parenting behaviours
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who emphasises the importance of thinking of parents as people too
Rutter (2010)
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what is the most important factor when it comes to day care?
quality of care
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why might re-marriage of parents be harmful for children?
increased conflict
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when it comes to friend selection, is it true that birds of a feather flock together?
yes
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parental monitoring and knowledge during adolescence is associated with...
lower levels of substance abuse and delinquecy
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which theory on how puberty affects development has most support?
the early timing hypothesis
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at what stage in Kohlberg's theory do children understand that gender is stable across time but not context?
gender stability
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what main way does gender schema theory differ from Kohlberg's cognitive theory?
gender schema theory suggests that mental representations of gender begin as soon as labelling occurs
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why are biological theories of gender development often dismissed?
causality is hard to establish
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what theory of gender development does the baby x study support?
sociocultural theory
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which comes first in development?
canonical babbling
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who created the life-course persistent anti-social behaviour model?
Moffit (1993)
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According to Clonginger et al. (1982), criminality in both adoptive and biological parents poses what level of risk for the child?
40%
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who is more likely to have a hostile attribution bias?
aggressive people
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what does the Gunter et al. (2002) study suggest?
violent media does not increase aggression
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