Multiple choice

1. One way to test for the validity of research methods is to 

A. compare children’s answers to different halves of the same test. 

B. test for inter-rater reliability. 

C. compare children’s answers on different forms of the same measure. 

D. see how effective the measure is in predicting behavior it would reasonably expect to predict. 

2. Which of the following statements about the field of child development is correct? 

A. It’s devoted to understanding human constancy and change over the lifespan. 

B. It’s part of a larger, interdisciplinary field known as developmental science. 

C. It focuses primarily on children’s cognitive and social development. 

D. It studies infants’ perceptions of the world. 

3. During the middle of the twentieth century, North American psychology was dominated by 

A. evolutionary theory. 

B. neuroscience. 

C. cognitive development. 

D. behaviorism. 

4. What is a major limitation of the psycho physiological method? 

A. Investigators can’t be sure that an infant or child has processed a stimulus in a certain way. 

B. Most physiological procedures can’t be used on infants and children.

C. Most physiological procedures require injection of a radioactive substance. 

D. The nervous system isn’t sensitive to changes in psychological states.