ABSC 160 Chapter 2 Review Questions and Correct Answers
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ABSC 160
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ABSC 160
To punish we either administer something negative or ______. a. add something negative b. remove something negative c. add something desirable d. remove something desirable d
Which is the best way to deal with undesirable behavior in children? a. reinforcement b. self-efficacy c. scaffolding d. pu...
ABSC 160 Chapter 2 Review Questions
and Correct Answers
To punish we either administer something negative or ______.
a. add something negative
b. remove something negative
c. add something desirable
d. remove something desirable ✅d
Which is the best way to deal with undesirable behavior in children?
a. reinforcement
b. self-efficacy
c. scaffolding
d. punishment ✅a
An adult's statement "you are playing very nicely with your sister" is an example of
which concept?
a. punishment
b. reinforcement
c. assimilation
d. schema ✅b
The bulk of your personality is fixed and established by the time you enter adolescence.
a. true
b. false ✅b
Freud's psychoanalytic theory is based on outdated ideas, so it is not relevant to the
field of child development today.
a. true
b. false ✅b
The best way to establish and maintain a behavior is to reward people every time they
exhibit that behavior.
a. true
b. false ✅b
The best way to get rid of an undesirable behavior in a child is to punish the child for
doing it.
a. true
b. false ✅b
, Young children can learn math more effectively from games such as pick-up sticks than
from working out written arithmetic problems.
a. true
b. false ✅a
Darwin's concept of the "survival of the fittest" means that the strongest animal is most
likely to survive.
a. true
b. false ✅b
Infants must have skin-to-skin contact with their mother within the first few hours after
birth in order for the infant to bond with the mother.
a. true
b. false ✅b
What change came about as a result of two pediatricians theorizing the necessity of
skin-to-skin?
a. the baby is given a checkup in the nursery
b. the baby is placed on the mother immediately after birth
c. the baby is placed in an incubator immediately after birth
d. the baby is taken away for medical tests ✅b
Which individual is following the two pediatricians' logic about bonding and attachment?
a. Yanni knows that children are like geese and imprinting at birth
b. Kayla says you can become attached anytime to a child
c. Cassie feels that medical tests should be done immediately after birth
d. Joshua understands animals and humans are not always alike ✅a
Keisha has just given birth to her first child. Her child is placed on her chest before they
perform any procedures. This was once thought to be the only way to achieve which
concept?
a. assimilation
b. self-efficacy
c. reinforcement
d. attachment ✅d
Most theories can be proven to be true or false in developmental psychology.
a. true
b. falze ✅b
Theories that describe changes due to genetic and/or cognitive changes use _____.
a. a chronosystem
b. equilibrium
c. an external process
d. an internal process ✅d
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