ALT Child and Adolescent Development 2

Question 1

According to Bronfenbrenner's ecological model, which system directly involves the child's immediate environment such as family and school?

Accepted Answer

Microsystem

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Macrosystem

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Exosystem

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Mesosystem

Question 2

A 14-year-old begins questioning parental values and experimenting with different social roles. According to Erikson, this reflects which developmental stage?

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Identity vs. Role Confusion

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Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Industry vs. Inferiority

Question 3

Which theorist introduced the concept of the 'zone of proximal development' to describe what a child can achieve with guidance?

Accepted Answer

Lev Vygotsky

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Jean Piaget

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Albert Bandura

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B.F. Skinner

Question 4

A child between ages 7–11 can classify objects into hierarchies and understand reversibility. This corresponds to which Piagetian stage?

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Concrete Operational

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Preoperational

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Sensorimotor

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Formal Operational

Question 5

Which attachment style, identified by Ainsworth, is characterized by a child who is distressed when a caregiver leaves but is not comforted upon return?

Accepted Answer

Anxious-ambivalent attachment

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Secure attachment

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Avoidant attachment

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Disorganized attachment

Question 6

The process by which children observe and imitate the behavior of others, especially peers and adults, is best described by:

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Social learning theory

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Classical conditioning

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Operant conditioning

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Maturation theory

Question 7

A teacher notices a student struggles to take another person's perspective and insists the sun follows them home. This is consistent with which Piagetian concept?

Accepted Answer

Egocentrism

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Conservation

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Object permanence

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Assimilation