Multiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. The influence of culture:

  1. leads to differences in children’s psychological development
  2. is essential to children’s psychological development
  3. has a constitutive role in children’s psychological development
  4. all of the above

Answer:

d. all of the above

2. Cultural psychology is:

  1. a specialized area of study within the discipline of psychology
  2. cross-cultural research
  3. a fresh approach to all areas of psychology
  4. an approach that insists that biology is not important

Answer:

c. a fresh approach to all areas of psychology

3. The development of the individual organism from birth to maturity and death is known as:

  1. ontogenesis
  2. evolution
  3. phylogenesis
  4. devlopmental science 

Answer:

a. ontogenesis

4. In the word ‘ontogenesis,’ what does the component ‘-genesis’ refer to?

  1. genes
  2. origins
  3. the bible
  4. generalities

Answer:

b. origins

5. A central proposal of this book is that alongside ‘theory of mind,’ in which they understand people’s actions in terms of beliefs and desires, children also develop what is called:

  1. a normative stance
  2. an intentional stance
  3. institutional facts
  4. an institutional stance

Answer:

a. a normative stance