COUN 6215 Week 2 Quiz (100% Correct)
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1. Question: One important lesson that people in helping professions can take from Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s work is that
2. Question: Mrs. Washington is conducting her weekly group counseling session for single young adults. Karen, a lonely young professional woman, talks about feeling abandoned by her boyfriend. The other group members listen patiently and respond empathically.
Mrs. Washington reflects Karen’s feeling with concern and sensitivity. What would operant learning theory predict about Karen’s behavior in the next group session?
3. Question: A counselor works with Mrs. Jacobs, who has a 1-month-old daughter. Mrs. Jacobs finds her daughter intense, demanding and hard to soothe. Most likely, this is because
4. Question: Reflective clinicians often absorb the tenets and techniques associated with major theoretical approaches to counseling and then interpret and organize them in ways that are useful for their own work. This aspect of reflective practice is an example of
5. Question: Which of the following statements is most accurate with regard to Piaget’s theory?
6. Question: Complete the following analogy: geneotype is to phenotype as
7. Question: Contemporary developmentalists focus on which question concerning nature and nurture?
8. Question: Based on what you have learned about language development, what advice would you give to new parents who are concerned about their child’s literacy and later success in school?
9. Question: Gisela is a 6-year-old Peruvian girl who lives with her family on a farm in a rural village. She often helps her father take produce to a market to sell. She does not know how to read, but she understands the cost of items and can make change without errors. Sophie is a 6-year-old who lives in the US. She is in the 1st grade, is making great progress in learning to read and write, and is gaining skill in computer use. What is the best way to explain the development of these two children?
10. Question: One epigenetic change that can affect the expression of a gene is methylation, which is
11. Question: Which of the following is an accurate description of the long-term effects of chronic stress on the body?
12. Question: Ms. Hernandez is working with 4-year-old Peter, who is afraid of the dark. He believes monsters come out at night like he has seen on TV. Ms. Hernandez patiently explains that there are no real monsters, but to no avail. Peter still refuses to go to sleep. What might Piaget propose as the reason for this treatment failure?
13. Question: Which cognitive achievement underlies a baby’s ability to form an attachment to a specific adult, like a parent or other caregiver?
14. Question: Using Erikson’s developmental theory as a framework, which of the following statements is an accurate representation of his ideas?
15. Question: For most mental illnesses and behavioral disorders, like alcoholism and clinical depression, the genetic contribution can best be described as
16. Question: In Bowlby’s attachment theory, which of the following represents a primary outcome of the formation of attachments in infancy?
17. Question: Sam is at home with his two children, 3-year-old Daria and 6-week-old Keith. Sam is reading a story to Daria when baby Keith wakes up and screams for his bottle. Daria gets very upset when Sam leaves her to tend to the baby. Sam tries to explain to his daughter that her baby brother can’t wait, but Daria continues to insist. Sam is concerned that Daria is not accepting her new baby brother. Based on your understanding of preschoolers cognitive development, what would you tell Sam?
18. Question: When Tamara responds to the crying of her 4-month-old baby, Jessie, she tries to figure out what has caused the baby’s distress (hunger, wet diaper, etc.) while making soothing sounds and holding the baby. Tamara’s actions are Jessie’s developing emotion regulation abilities.
19. Question: The epigenome is the full set of factors, from the cell to the outside world, that controls the expression of
20. Question: Mrs. Harmon, the mother of 18-month-old Bryce, is concerned that Bryce has not learned to speak very well. He has a limited vocabulary and seems content to point to the things he wants. Mrs. Harmon has read several child development books which indicate that Bryce should be in the stage of language learning. Mrs. Harmon fears that Bryce is not keeping up developmentally. Based on your understanding of the timing of developmental stages, what would be your best advice?
21.Question: The idea that children’s development is affected by biological factors, and that biological factors are also affected by the environment and experience, is part of
22. Question: The available data indicate that chronic maternal stress during pregnancy has which of the following effects on the fetus?
23. Question: Models of development which hold that change typically occurs in shifts between periods of relative stability and periods of disequilibrium are called
24. Question: Which of the following is the best example of neuroplasticity?
25. Question: When clinicians assess a client’s presenting problem(s) in order to plan for treatment, which of the following approaches to diagnosis reflects a developmental viewpoint?