Life Span Development Exam 3 Possible Reading List Questions

Front 1

In general, intelligence is significantly related to both ? and ? prestige.

Back 1

income,
occupational

Front 2

Research suggest that ? influences socioeconomic status, which in turn influences health.

Back 2

IQ

Front 3

Shaie's study on IQ changes in adults showed that ? intelligence usually declines earlier and more steeply than ? intelligence.

Back 3

Fluid,
Crystallized

Front 4

? intelligence is the ability to use your mind actively to solve novel problems.
? intelligence is the use of knowledge acquired through. schooling and other life experiences which can be tested by asking/answering test of general information e.g. at what temp does water boil?

Back 4

Fluid,
Crystallized

Front 5

The ? effect shows that over the 20th century the average IQ scores have increased in all countries studied. This study shows that a group of adults born in 1980 willl score on average 3-4 pts higher than a similar group of adults born in 1970 and 6-8 pts higher than a similar group born in 1960, etc.... extending back 100yrs.

Back 5

Flynn

Front 6

? factors may provide some upper and lower limits on what is possible, but ? can play a significant role in determining what and where within these broad limits, behaviors fall.

Back 6

Genetic,
environment

Front 7

Language is largely a product of the ? hemisphere of the brain, with a region called ?'s area associated with speech production and another region called ?'s area asociated with comprehension.

Back 7

left,
Broca's,
Wernicke's

Front 8

With language the left hemispere shows increased activity when ? to speech and the right hemisphere is active when processing the ? or ? of speech.

Back 8

listening,
melody or rhythm

Front 9

MRI studies show that areas in both hemispheres are active in ?'s brains when processing language, where as activity in ?'s brains is more typically localized in the left hemisphere.

Back 9

women's,
men's

Front 10

With language ?'s they believe that babies are born with the ability to acquire language.

Back 10

nativist

Front 11

With language ?'s they believe that milestones in cognitive development and that maturation and environment interact to guide both cognitive and language development.

Back 11

interactionists'

Front 12

Students that thrive on challenges and persist in the face of failure, believing that their increased effort will pay off are said to have ? orientation.

Back 12

mastery

Front 13

Students that have low expectancies of success and tend to give up and blame their failures on internal and stable causes are said to have ? orientation.

Back 13

helpless

Front 14

Termins longitudinal study of gifted children showed that a high % of these members in their 60's-70's were highly ?, involved, ? and happy people.

Back 14

active,
healthy

Front 15

Two problems seem to be especially linked to being sexually abused. First about a 3rd of survivors engage in abnormal ? behavior and 2nd about a 3rd of survivors display symptoms of ? involving nightmares and flashbacks.

Back 15

sexualized,
post-traumatic-stress-disorder

Front 16

Object permanence occurs during Piaget's preoperational stage of cognition. T or F ?

Back 16

False, It occurs during the sensory motor stage

Front 17

Infantile amnesia occurs during the sensorimotor stage of cognition from 0-2 yrs of age. T or F ?

Back 17

True

Front 18

Hypothetical and abstract thinking occurs during concrete operational thought. T or F ?

Back 18

False; it occurs during the formal operational stage.

Front 19

Difficulty with conservation tasks occur during preoperational thought. T or F ?

Back 19

True; conservation tasks develop in the concrete operations stage from 7-12 yrs

Front 20

Metacognition means thinking about your own thinking. T or F ?

Back 20

True

Front 21

Adolescent brain development occurs from the front of the brain towards the back. T or F

Back 21

False; it occurs from back to front

Front 22

Teens rely heavily on the amygdala for processing emotional information. T or F

Back 22

True

Front 23

The basal ganglia helps teens prioritize information. T or F

Back 23

True

Front 24

Vygotsky believed in a sociocultural perspective to cognitive development. T or F

Back 24

True

Front 25

Private speech is speech to oneself that guides one's own thoughts and behavior. T or F

Back 25

True

Front 26

Gardner proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence. T or F

Back 26

False; it was proposed by Sterngberg

Front 27

Intrapersonal intelligence refers to knowing oneself. T or F

Back 27

True

Front 28

Autisctic children have social and communication dysfunctions. T or F

Back 28

True

Front 29

The "simian crease" is characteristic of individuals with autism. T or F

Back 29

False; it is a characteristice of down syndrome

Front 30

Echolatic speech and pronoun reversals are characteristics of Down Syndrome. T or F

Back 30

False; these are characteristics of Autism

Front 31

Natural language is composed of both verbal comprehenison and fluency. T or F

Back 31

True

Front 32

A phoneme is the shortest speech unit in which a change produces a new meaning. T or F

Back 32

True

Front 33

Connotation is the strict dictionary definition of a word. T or F

Back 33

False; a denotationis the stritct dictionary meaning of a word.

Front 34

Sing language is an example of an artificial language. T or F

Back 34

True

Front 35

Child directed Speech is thought to be universal as it is found in many languages. T or F

Back 35

True