Psychology 465 / Educational Psychology 405 Personality and Social Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fall 2011
Sample Examination #1
I. The most striking aspect of Gottlieb’s (1987) three-stage model of evolutionary change is that:
a) new evolutionary forms emerge as a response to new behaviors, not just genetic mutation
b) ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
c) complex organisms (e.g., gorrilas) sometimes have fewer genes than less complex organisms (e.g., snails)
d) reproductive fitness drives successful evolutionary change
II. Cairns & Johnson (1965), in their study of baby lambs, found all of the following, except:
a) lambs’ drive for hunger had a substantial innate component
b) lambs could form an attachment relationship to dogs
c) lambs could form an attachment relationship to a television set
d) proximity-related behavior was shown towards abusive attachment figures
III. Dollard & Miller (1950), as learning theorists, thought that the key to infant attachment behavior was:
a) consistency
b) love and affection
c) security
d) the feeding experience
IV. Reductionist approaches emphasize:
a) the developmental epigenesis of complex social behaviors
b) genetic explanations of complex social behaviors
c) bidirectional interactions between genes, and between genes and their cellular environments
d) changes in morphology that preceed changes in genetic structure
V. Thomas & Chess (1977) give parents which of the following pieces of advice?
a) ignore the suggestions of psychoanalytic and behaviorist psychologists alike
b) do not worry about raising your child according to one “best” child-care regime
c) realize that there is only so much you can do with infants of a certain temperament
d) be careful about adopting infants whose temperament does not match your personality
