Lesson 7.4.1

7.4.1 Key question: day care and international adoption Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Psychology, Unit 7

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The 20 questions

  1. In the key question on day care and international adoption, which concept describes the total absence of an early attachment, as studied in Romanian orphans?

    • Monotropy
    • Privation
    • Deprivation
    • Separation anxiety

  2. What term describes the total failure to form an attachment bond during infancy?

    • Separation
    • Deprivation
    • Privation
    • Insecure attachment

  3. According to Bowlby, prolonged separation from a primary caregiver during early childhood risks what?

    • Accelerated speech
    • Developmental harm
    • Enhanced independence
    • Improved resilience

  4. Which primary behaviour is observed to assess attachment security in the Strange Situation?

    • Motor skills
    • Peer interaction
    • Language acquisition
    • Separation and reunion

  5. In Rutter's ERA study, children adopted before six months showed what developmental pattern?

    • Permanent developmental delay
    • Disinhibited attachment only
    • Normal cognitive catch-up
    • Severe cognitive impairment

  6. What type of relationship exists between duration of institutional privation and cognitive outcome?

    • Direct cause
    • Positive correlation
    • Negative correlation
    • No relationship

  7. Which aspect of day care is most crucial for preventing negative developmental outcomes?

    • Group size only
    • High care quality
    • Staff average age
    • Total hours spent

  8. According to developmental research, which factor of day care most strongly predicts positive cognitive outcomes?

    • Early start age
    • High quality care
    • Long daily hours
    • Large group size

  9. According to attachment research, what opportunity is most vital for an internationally adopted child?

    • Rapid academic instruction
    • Forming secure attachment
    • Retaining original nationality
    • Learning new languages

  10. International adoption can reverse early developmental deficits if placement occurs before what age?

    • Five years
    • Six months
    • Eight years
    • Twelve years

  11. What confounding factor makes generalising results from international adoption studies difficult?

    • Pre-adoption adversity
    • Small vocabulary size
    • Short testing time
    • Single-blind design

  12. Which ethical guideline is essential when conducting research on vulnerable adopted children?

    • Deception
    • Financial compensation
    • Right to withdraw
    • Confidentiality

  13. Why can psychologists not give a simple answer regarding day care impacts?

    • Multiple interacting variables
    • Flawed statistical methods
    • Lack of data
    • Ethically forbidden research

  14. What term describes Bowlby's concept of a single primary attachment figure?

    • Critical period
    • Social releaser
    • Monotropy
    • Internal working model

  15. Which research design tracks the same children over time to study development?

    • Longitudinal design
    • Experimental design
    • Correlational design
    • Cross-sectional design

  16. What term describes the ability of adopted children to recover from early emotional deprivation?

    • Imprinting
    • Epigenetics
    • Resilience
    • Monotropy

  17. What limitation applies when drawing conclusions from a correlation between day care and attachment?

    • Demand characteristics
    • Cannot prove causation
    • Low ecological validity
    • High observer bias

  18. Which research design is best suited to evaluate the impact of a specific day-care intervention on children?

    • Controlled observation
    • Content analysis
    • Case study
    • Natural experiment

  19. Which concept suggests that early attachment formation is easiest during a specific timeframe?

    • Internal working model
    • Critical period
    • Sensitive period
    • Maternal deprivation

  20. What factor regarding adoption placement strongly influences a child's long-term cognitive and emotional recovery?

    • Gender of child
    • Adoptive parents' income
    • Geographical location
    • Age at adoption

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