Chapter 1 Test Review

Child Psychology Psychology Chapter 1 Test Review: Defining Development and Understanding Child

1.)Why is learning about child psychology important ? List several reasons.

2.) Explain the difference between multidirectional principle of development and multicontexual.

3.) How is the multidisciplinary principal important to development?

4.) National trends and events really do effect individual lives and cohorts. Give an example or evidence of this.

5.) What is S.E.S.? Why is it important in terms of child development?

6.) Why is biosocial development an important domain of human development?

7.) List several examples of Cognitive Development. 8.) Why is proper psychosocial development essential in child and human development?

9.) What does is mean to display resilience? Give examples

10.) Are psychopathologies a result of genetic inheritance or faulty upbringing? What are some examples of psychopathologies?

11.) Give an example of a situation where naturalistic observation is important and essential in child psychology?

12.) Why is a control group necessary?

13.) What are some problems with surveys?

14.) Case studies are benefitial because…….?

15.) The only way to determine cause and effect relationships in terms of research is by______. If we want to be sure that a new drug treatment is effective, we must use this research method.

16.) Give an example of a positive correlation.

17.) Why is a code of ethics necessary in psychology?

18.) How doe the Canadian Psychological Association maintain ethical research? 19.) Ethics means more than taking care of participants and reporting research honestly. It also means…….?

20.) Why was the little Albert experiments unethical?

21.) Briefly explain Milgrim’s experiment. Explain what they were testing and why it was unethical to the participants involved?

22.) What did the Stanford Prison experiment teach us about power?