1. Dr. Tabago's research interest is the effect of early a.

Germinal, fetal, embryonic

attachment on the psychological adjustment of adolescents. b. Embryonic, fetal, germinal
It is most likely that Dr. Tabago is_________ a/an c. Germinal, embryonic, fetal
psychologist. d. Fetal, embryonic, germinal
1/1
9. Eunice is beginning to use symbols, such as language
a. educational and pretend play. As a normal child, Eunice would be in
b. cognitive which age group?
c. developmental 1/1
d. psychodynamic
a. 1-2 years old
2. Which of the following is true about developmental b. 2-3 years old
theories? c. 3-6 years old
0/1 d. 5-7 years old

a. Theories are based on assumptions. 10. Orja started school at age 5, began college at age 18,
b. Theories and research are interwoven. got married at age 25, and retired from a long career with a
c. Theories change to incorporate new findings. utility company at age 62. These events in Orja's life would
d. All of the above be classified as which type of developmental influences?
1/1
3. If Sarah’s behavior is passive and reactive, he would be
perceived as demonstrating the____model of behavior. a. normative-age graded
1/1 b. normative-history graded
c. nonnormative
a. naturalistic d. typical
b. mechanistic
c. organismic 11. Azaleah is having problems with her memory and her
d. maturationistic search for meaning in life has become extremely important.
If Azaleah is typical of other adults her age, she is in which
4. A prestigious university in town has three full-time faculty age range?
members in its Developmental Psychology program. Dr. 0/1
Czarina is concerned with the basic mechanics of learning,
Dr. Jhonny prefers to use tests to measure individual a. 20-40
differences in cognitive abilities, and Dr. Jessie looks at b. 40-65
changes in the quality of cognitive functioning. In order c. 65 and over
(Czarina, Jhonny, Jessie), each professor's respective d. 12-20
approach to studying cognitive development is?
1/1 12. Paul Baltes and his colleagues identified the following as
key principles of the lifespan developmental approach
a. psychometric, behaviourist, Piagetian except:
b. behaviourist, psychometric, Piagetian 1/1
c. behaviourist, Piagetian, psychometric
d. Piagetian, behaviourist, psychometric a. Development is influenced more by biological
factors than by cultural context.
5. Changes in Camille's language abilities and moral b. Development is lifelong.
reasoning would be classified under which developmental c. Development is modifiable.
domain? d. Development occurs within a context.
1/1
13. Which of the following is not a basic issue for theorists in
a. Cognitive explaining development?
b. Physical 1/1
c. Psychosocial
d. Personality a. The relative weight given to heredity and
environment.
6. If Myra’s behavior is viewed as active and self- b. Whether people are active or passive in their own
determining, he would be perceived as demonstrating the development.
__________ model of behavior. c. Whether development is continuous or occurs in
1/1 stages.
d. The role of researchers' inherent values and
a. organismic personal experiences.
b. mechanistic
c. animalistic 14. A mechanistic model of Jinky’s drinking behaviour would
d. naturalistic look at:
0/1
7. The notion that development occurs in stages____
0/1 a. Environmental influences, such as advertising and
consequences imposed by the college administration
a. assumes the learning perspective. for drunkenness.
b. endorses the discontinuity view b. Hereditary factors, such as a genetic
c. endorses the continuity view predisposition to alcoholism in the family.
d. assumes that behaviour is mainly determined by c. The types of friends she chose, for example, those
behaviour. who like to party or those who like to drink.
d. Interactions between biological and environmental
8. Which of the following is the correct order of the three
influences.
stages of human prenatal development?
1/1
15. As Antonette stands in line at the grocery store, she c. ZPD
noticed the checker frowns and is rude to customers in line d. modelling
ahead of her. She decided to try out what she learned in her
psychology class, so when her turn, she told her, "Rough 21. After years of teaching, Professor Ella realized it was the
day, huh?" The checker immediately smiles at her, thanks students who disrupted her class by chatting who would say
her for her concern, and Antonette noticed that she is nice to her class was boring. Professor Ella could determine that the
all the customers behind her. She leave the store feeling students disrupt class because they are bored, are bored
good for cheering her up. This illustrates: because they aren't paying attention, or that some other
0/1 factor(s) lead to both boredom and chatting in class. This
underscores a basic limitation of correlational research,
a. An organismic approach. which is that with correlations a researcher___
b. A mechanistic approach. 0/1
c. Bidirectional influence.
d. Multidimensional approach a. cannot establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
b. is likely to encounter problems of observer bias.
16. It was Erik Erikson, not Freud, who stressed the c. cannot generalize the results to other people and
importance of____ other situations.
1/1 d. is not able to define the variables being studied.

a. unconscious thoughts, feelings, and motivations. 22. The Ethical Guidelines of the American Psychological
b. the role of childhood experiences in forming Association ensure that research participants have all of the
personality. following protections except the right to___.
c. the presence from birth of sexual urges. 1/1
d. the influences of society and culture on
development. a. informed consent.
b. be paid for their participation
17. Negative reinforcement c. privacy and confidentiality
1/1 d. decline or withdraw from an experiment at any
time
a. is the same thing as punishment.
b. tends to suppress the likelihood of a targeted 23. As an adult, Kelly spends considerable time each day
behavior. cleaning her apartment, arranging her socks in a drawer until
c. tends to increase the likelihood of a targeted they are just right, and making schedules on a calendar.
behavior. According to Freud, Kelly is probably fixated in the
d. is not as powerful in modifying behavior as either __________ stage.
positive reinforcement or punishment. 1/1

18. The information processing approach to cognitive a. oral

development____ b. anal
0/1 c. phallic
d. genital
a. suggests that development occurs in four
qualitatively different stages. 24. Danny, a rather demonstrative 7-year-old, hits her
b. suggests that children's cognitive development brother for laughing at him, and feels guilty about it
occurs when new information is internalized through afterward. According to Freud, Danny’s guilty feelings reflect
the dual processes of assimilation and the operation of the____.
accommodation. 1/1
c. attempts to explain cognitive development by
analyzing the processes involved in perceiving and a. Id
handling information. b. Ego
d. uses brain imaging and studies of people with c. Superego
brain injuries to understand cognitive processes. d. Unconscious

19. Regine is conducting a research about Bronfenbrenner's 25. Which of these is NOT a function of a useful
model and looks at all the different influences on developmental theory?
development. In the part of her paper that talks about the 1/1
macrosystem, she will focus on__ a. It will generate research.
1/1
b. It will be consistent with one's philosophy of life.
a. the setting in which individuals interact with others c. It organizes observations.
on an everyday, face-to-face basis. d. It serves as a guide to action.
b. society's overall cultural patterns.
26. The id is primarily involved in which of the following
c. the linkages between two or more microsystems.
activities, according to Freud?
d. the effects of time on other developmental 1/1
systems.
a. solving problems in geometry
20. Bren, a fourth-grader, is teaching his 8-year-old brother b. contemplating the meaning of life
to put together a model airplane. First, Bren shows Brix how c. thumb-sucking behavior
to set up the pieces, then how to glue pieces together. Next
d. convincing a friend to plant a garden
Bren guides is brother's hands as they glue two more pieces
together. Finally, Bren watches Brix glue pieces by himself. 27. Freud's oral stage of development is paralleled with
Vygotsky suggested this type of learning occurs in___ Erikson's ______ stage.
1/1 1/1
a. a microsystem. a. infancy
b. a contextual setting. b. toddler
c. early childhood b. suppresses; aversive or unpleasant
d. adolescence c. suppresses; positive or pleasant
d. increases; negative or unpleasant
28. The resolution of the crisis of early childhood results in
Erikson's basic strength of 35. Noah is watching a horse race. He knows that his
1/1 dog at home has four legs, a tail, and fur. When he sees the
horses, he shouts out “Doggies.” Noah is demonstrating
a. trust. 1/1
b. love.
c. will. a. Assimilation.
d. purposefulness. b. Accommodation.
c. Animation
29. Payment by piece rate (for example, paying a d. Artificialism
bricklayer a set amount for each brick laid) most closely
approximates which schedule of reinforcement? 36. In the 1950s, the British psychologist
1/1 __________extended ethological principles to the study of
human development, focusing attention on the mother-infant
a. fixed-interval bond and the bonding process that produces attachment.
b. variable-interval 1/1
c. fixed-ratio
d. variable-ratio a. Mary Ainsworth
b. John Bowlby
30. Every time someone flushes a toilet in the c. Konrad Lorenz
apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and d. Niko Tinbergen
causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person
begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, 37. The leader of a mother and baby workshop tells
before the water temperature changes. What is the new mothers that attachment between an infant and
unconditioned stimulus in this situation? caregiver must occur during a critical period to ensure
0/1 normal development. Which developmental perspective does
this workshop leader support with this statement?
a. Jumping back 1/1
b. Flush of the toilet
c. Apartment a. Behavioral
d. Changes in the water temperature b. Ethological
c. Psychoanalytic
31. An individual receives frequent injections of drugs, which d. Informative-processing
are administered in a small examination room at a clinic. The
drug itself causes increased heart rate but after several trips 38. According to the __________ perspective, development
to the clinic, simply being in a small room causes an can be understood only when individual behavior is observed
increased heart rate. The said situation is an application of in interaction with the environment.
what learning theory? 1/1
1/1
a. environmental
a. Operant conditioning b. contextual
b. Classical conditioning c. ethological
c. Observational learning d. behavioural
d. Insightful learning
39. Dr. Parel is studying the way in which infant
32. An example of Erikson’s stage of initiative versus siblings interact with one another in the home. According to
guilt would be the ecological approach, Dr. Parel is studying the children in
1/1 their
1/1
a. an infant learning that she can depend on being
fed. a. microsystem.
b. a 3-year-old trying to fill a cup with water and b. mesosystem.
cheerfully wiping up the water when it spills. c. exosystem.
c. a 10-year-old learning to read fluently. d. macrosystem
d. a teenager conforming to peer pressure.
40. Which theory of human development is
33. A child learns to whine to get items at the store universally accepted as the theory that best explains all
because when she whines, her parents get frustrated and facets of development?
give her the desired items. She is basically being rewarded 1/1
for her whining even though her parents do not seem to
realize this and are frustrated because the whining is a. Psychoanalytic
increasing. This is an example of______. b. Behavioristic
1/1 c. Sociocultural
d. No one theory is able to do this.
a. operant conditioning
b. classical conditioning 41. In the Looney Toons cartoon, when the little
c. behavior conditioning Chick follows Fog Horn Leg Horn around, believing that he is
[Link] conditioning the chicks mother, __________ could be said to have taken
place.
34. Punishment __________ a behavior by bringing on 1/1
a(n)__________event.
1/1 a. imprinting
b. assimilation
a. increases; aversive or unpleasant c. animism
d. artificialism 49. Fertilization of an ovum by a sperm is least likely
to occur if intercourse takes place____.
42. After Maria learned that penguins can't fly, she had 0/1
to modify her existing concept of birds. This best illustrates
the process of: a. during ovulation.
1/1 b. three days before ovulation
c. one day before ovulation.
a. assimilation d. during menstruation
b. accommodation
c. conservation 50. Anita's parents told her she could only take one doll
d. object permanence with her to the restaurant. It took her a long time to decide
because she didn't want to hurt any of her dolls' feelings by
43. Eva is playing in her crib when her teddy bear Mr. Peeps picking one and leaving the others at home. This
falls under the crib. Eva cries knowing that Mr. Peeps exists demonstrates which Piagetian concept?
somewhere. Eva is demonstrating: 0/1
0/1
a. Artificialism
a. animism b. Animism
b. artificialism c. Egocentrism
c. conservation d. Object permanence
d. object permanence
51. 4-year-old Potpot was surprised at his parents'
44. Perlita got pregnant at the age of 15, this event had concern when they could not find him for an hour because
a major impact on her life. This influence is: he took a walk by himself. "I knew where I was, and I knew I
1/1 was okay," he replied, demonstrating what Piaget would term
1/1
a. normative-history graded
b. normative-age graded a. Artificialism
c. normative b. Animism
d. nonnormative c. Egocentrism
d. Object permanence
45. When one language (such as English) is acquired
early in development, the capacity for acquiring second and 52. Researchers have found that the cognitive skills of
third languages (such as Spanish and Chinese) decreases older adults can be improved through training and acquisition
later in development. This illustrates what principle of of effective strategies. This research finding illustrates what
lifespan development approach? principle of lifespan development?
1/1 1/1
a. Development is lifelong a. Development is plastic
b. Development is multidimensional b. Development is multidirectional
c. Development is multidirectional c. Development is contextual
d. Development is contextual d. Development is multidimensional
46. Dr. Guntang, who employs the ecological approach 53. According to Paul Baltes, resources such as
to human development, is studying the relationship between time, energy, money, and so on may be used for the
the quality of parent-child interactions in the home and the following except:
success of children in school. Dr. Guntang is studying 1/1
development at the __________ level of environmental
influence. a. growth
1/1 b. maintenance
c. regulations of loss
a. microsystem d. behavior
b. mesosystem
c. exosystem 54. In developmental research the term confidentiality refers
d. macrosystem to which of the following options:
1/1
47. Two closed, pyramid-shaped beakers containing
clearly identical amounts of a liquid are suddenly judged by a a. The experimenter appears confident during the
child to hold different amounts after one of the beakers is experimental situation.
inverted. The child apparently lacks a: b. Participants have a right to expect that information
1/1 they provide will be treated confidentially.
c. The experiment will involve the participant
a. conservation confiding in the experimenter.
b. object permanence d. The experimenter is confident that the hypothesis
c. schema will be proved.
d. adaptation
55. Pedro is interested to examine the relationship
48. Jarred thinks he should obey his teachers only if they are between Substance use and psychological distressed
carefully watching him. Kohlberg would suggest that Jarred among Filipino college students. Which of the following
demonstrates a(n) ________ morality. research design is the most appropriate?
0/1 1/1
a. conventional a. Experiment
b. preconventional b. Descriptive survey
c. post conventional c. Correlation
d. unconventional d. Case study
56. For individuals who are legally incapable of c. separation from caregivers
providing consent in research, we must____ d. the desire to be a mother
1/1
63. What does the phenomenon of observational
a. Nevertheless explain appropriately to the client. learning show?
b. Obtain informed assent from them 0/1
c. Obtain appropriate permission from their legally
authorized person a. children learn even when they are not receiving
d. All of the above reinforcement from the environment
b. observing a model is a form of reinforcement
57. What research method is appropriate if you want c. a model can condition children’s behavior
to determine the effect of cognitive behavior therapy d. Televised violence is bad for children
in reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
among children who are victims of domestic violence? 64. The girl is reprimanded by the teacher for
0/1 wearing miniskirt which is a violation to the school’s dress
code. What is the procedure of operant conditioning used in
a. Experiment the situation?
b. Descriptive survey 0/1
c. Correlation
d. Case study a. Positive reinforcement
b. Positive punishment
58. Professor Castaned studies violence and designs c. Negative reinforcement
a study of the effects of video game violence on children d. Negative punishment
from schools near his university, two groups of low-income
Hispanic children are assigned to play either violent or non- 65. In preconventional morality, the person:
violent video game two hours each evening for a month. The 0/1
children's teachers are asked to assess changes in behavior.
Data analysis shows no effect of game type, but Professor a. obeys out of a sense of social duty
Castaned shows that several children didn't follow the b. conforms to gain social approval
procedure so he makes up data for them and then shows a c. obeys to avoid punishment and gain rewards
significant effect. Which part of the APA's Ethical Standard is d. follows the dictates of his/ her conscience
violated? 66. After a series of unfulfilling relationships, 32-year-
0/1 old Noel tells a friend that he doesn’t want to marry because
a. Reporting of research results he is afraid of losing his freedom and independence. Erikson
b. Plagiarism would say that Noel is having difficulty with the psychosocial
c. Sharing research data for verification task of:
d. Deception in research 1/1

59. Groups of 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year-olds were tested a. Identity vs. identity confusion
in 2012 to obtain data about age-related differences. This is b. Intimacy v. isolation
an example of____. c. Generativity vs. Stagnation
0/1 d. Integrity vs. Despair

a. longitudinal study 67. Motor development in babies develops in a proximodistal

b. cross-sectional fashion. This is described as:
c. sequential study 1/1
d. experiment a. From nearest to the center of the body to the
60. In developing his psychoanalytic theory, Freud farthest from the center.
studied several individuals in great detail for an extended b. From the top of the head to the bottom of the feet.
period of time. This technique is referred to as the c. From the farthest from the center to the nearest to
__________ approach. the center.
0/1 d. From the bottom of the body to the top of the
body.
a. laboratory observation
b. interview 68. The food had been paired with the sound of spoon and
c. experimental fork; it would eventually come to evoke the conditioned
d. case study response of hunger. However, if the unconditioned stimulus
was no longer paired with the conditioned stimulus,
61. What does a longitudinal design involve? eventually the conditioned response would disappear. This is
1/1 an example of______?
1/1
a. repeated measures of the same participants
during a period of time a. extinction
b. measures comparing participants of different ages b. discrimination
c. repeated measures of participants of different c. generalization
genders d. spontaneous recovery
d. measures comparing participants of the same age
69. In the nature versus nurture controversy, "nature" refers
62. What aspect of child development has evolved according to_____.
to John Bowlby? 1/1
1/1
a. heredity
a. the emotional bond between infant and caregiver b. plants and animals
b. the ability to move independently c. all living things we interact with
d. environment 1/1

70. Researchers were interested in studying the effects a. Germinal

of divorce on children. Their study included 250 4-year-olds. b. Embryonic
Interviews and family observations were conducted 6 c. Fetal
months, 2 years, 5 years, and 10 years after the initial d. Blastocyst
interviews and observations. Which method did the
researcher use? 78. The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
0/1 (NBAS) measures the following, except:
1/1
a. Cohort Sequential
b. Cross Sectional a. Motor organization
c. Longitudinal b. Attention and interactive capacities
d. Experimental c. Language development
d. Central nervous system instability
71. Which of the following refers to specific time
frames during which the presence or absence of certain 79. Preschool and kindergarten experience is common
experiences has a long-lasting influence on individuals. in what period of development?
1/1 1/1

a. Prenatal period a. Infancy

b. Critical period b. Toddlerhood
c. Gestation period c. Early childhood
d. Embryonic period d. Middle childhood

72. In this stage of separation anxiety, as 80. This period is characterized by settling-down with
separation continues infants become quiet, sad, passive, a marriage partner and a line of work.
listless, and apathetic. 1/1
1/1
a. Young adulthood
a. Protest b. Middle adulthood
b. Despair c. Late adulthood
c. Detachment d. Late adolescence
d. Dysfunction
81. Ester’s egocentrism diminishes. She begins to
73. The following statements are true about dizygotic think logically. As a normal child, Ester would be in which
twins, except: period of development?
1/1 0/1

a. Result of two separate eggs being fertilized by two a. Early childhood

different sperm b. Middle childhood
b. It run in families and are the result of multiple c. Adolescence
eggs being released at one time. d. Toddlerhood
c. Generally, they are identical twins.
d. Dizygotic twins are fraternal twins. 82. If the child inherits______, it will lead permanent
intellectual disability unless they are fed a special diet
74. What does a 5-minute score of 7 to 10 indicates in beginning in the first 3 to 6 weeks of life.
Apgar Scale? 1/1
1/1
a. phenylketonuria
a. The baby needs help to establish breathing. b. dominant genes
b. The baby is in good to excellent condition. c. recessive genes
c. The baby needs immediate lifesaving treatment. d. neonatal jaundice
d. The baby is happy and glad.
83. Which of the following newborn assessment is
75. In this stage of prenatal development, zygote administered one minute after delivery, and then again 5
divides, becomes more complex, and is implanted in the wall minutes after birth?
of the uterus. 1/1
0/1
a. The Apgar Scale
a. Germinal b. The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
b. Embryonic c. Neonatal Screening for Medical conditions
c. Fetal d. Screening for all purposes
d. Blastocyst
84. Which of the following is administered to detect/ discover
76. A miscarriage that occurs after 20 weeks of gestation is specific disease of a newborn?
generally characterized as a____. 1/1
1/1
a. Neonatal screening for medical conditions
a. spontaneous abortion b. The Apgar Scale
b. therapeutic abortion c. The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
c. stillbirth d. The Bender-Gestalt
d. misfortune
85. A woman may have felt false contractions known as
77. Finishing touches such as fingernails, toenails, ________contractions at times during the final months of
and eyelids continue to develop in what stage of prenatal pregnancy, or even as early as the second trimester, when
development? the muscles of the uterus tighten for up to 2 minutes.
1/1 93. Which is the correct order of the stages of childbirth?
0/1
a. Braxton-Hicks
b. Muscle kicks a. expulsion of the placenta, dilation of the cervix,
c. Briggs-Myer and descent and emergence of the baby.
d. Brixter-Geese b. dilation of the cervix, expulsion of the placenta,
and descent and emergence of the baby.
86. Which of the following stages of childbirth is the longest? c. dilation of the cervix, descent and emergence of
0/1 the baby, and expulsion of the placenta.
d. descent and emergence of the baby, dilation of the
a. Fetal
cervix, and expulsion of the placenta.
b. Expulsion of the placenta
c. Dilation of the cervix 94. In an experiment, one group of children is given a drink
d. Germinal each day with a special vitamin supplement. A second group
of children is given the same drink but without the vitamin.
87. Dr. Asuncion has studied the relationship between the
Later, all children are given an IQ test to see if the vitamin
amount of time children spend playing video games and their
had an effect on intelligence. In this experiment, the
academic performance in school. She finds that as time
children’s scores on the IQ test would be the
spent playing video games increases, grades in school 1/1
decrease. This finding represents a
0/1 a. independent variable.
b. cross-sequential variable.
a. a positive correlation.
c. dependent variable.
b. a negative correlation.
d. control variable.
c. a variable interaction.
d. a case study approach. 95. Which of the following is not true about the size and
appearance of neonate?
88. In an experiment, Professor Dela Cruz manipulates the 1/1
__________ variable and then looks for an effect of that
manipulation by measuring the ___________variable. a. Boys tend to be slightly longer and heavier than
1/1 girls.
b. Girls tend to be slightly longer and heavier than
a. dependent; independent
boys.
b. control; experimental
c. In their first few days, neonates lose as much as 10
c. experimental; control
percent of their body weight.
d. independent; dependent
d. A firstborn child is likely to weigh less at birth than
89. It is characterized by yellowish skin and eyeballs due to later borns.
immaturity of liver which is common to babies born
96. Dr. Villaruel is currently experiencing career success and
prematurely.
her earning powers peak. However, she is struggling with
1/1
menopausal symptoms. Dr. Villaruel would be in which
a. Klinefelter’s syndrome period of development?
b. Braxton-Hicks 1/1
c. Turner’s syndrome
a. Young adulthood
d. Neonatal jaundice
b. Middle childhood
90. In Apgar Scale, scores of 0 to 3 at 10, 15, and 20 c. Middle adulthood
minutes after birth are increasingly associated with what d. Late adulthood
condition?
97. Dr. Bragasin follows the same group of children over a
1/1
10-year period, measuring their performance twice a year.
a. pneumonia This is which method of developmental research?
b. neonatal jaundice 0/1
c. cerebral palsy
a. Cross-sectional
d. autism spectrum
b. Longitudinal
91. Ahryn is currently facing issues on searching for identity, c. Sequential
including sexual identity. At the same time, she is confuse in d. Clinical
selecting his peers. Ahryn would be in which period of
98. Professor Lorenzo studies the behavior of children
development?
whose parents divorced six months before the children
1/1
started school and children whose parents divorced two
a. Middle childhood years before the children started school. Both groups of
b. Adolescence children are then followed and measured over the course of
c. Young adulthood several years. This is which kind of design?
d. Middle adulthood 1/1

92. If a neonate does not begin breathing within about 5 a. Cross-sectional

minutes, the baby may suffer permanent brain injury caused b. Sequential
by ______ or lack of oxygen. c. Longitudinal
1/1 d. Life-span sampling

a. anoxia 99. When the caregiver is first out of sight, infants will cry,
b. hypoxia resist soothing by other people, and search for their
c. hyperxia caregiver. This illustrates which stage of Bowlby’s separation
d. alogia anxiety?
1/1

a. Protest
b. Despair
c. Detachment
d. Attachment

100. It refers to the act or process of giving birth which

typically begins about 2 weeks before delivery.
1/1

a. Labor
b. Parturition
c. Gestation
d. Neonation