Lesson 7.6.1
7.6.1 Issues and debates in child psychology Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Psychology, Unit 7
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What ethical requirement must researchers obtain from parents before conducting psychological research on young children?
- Deception
- Right to withdraw
- Parental consent
- Debriefing
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What practical issue commonly arises when combining disparate studies in a meta-analysis?
- Standardised procedures
- Inconsistent methodologies
- Participant attrition
- Informed consent
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Which term describes an observer subconsciously interpreting a child's behaviour to match their research expectations?
- Observer bias
- Social desirability
- Demand characteristics
- Evaluation apprehension
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Reducing complex attachment relationships to a single score in the Strange Situation is an example of what?
- Methodological reductionism
- Biological determinism
- Cultural relativism
- Environmental determinism
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What observational procedure did Ainsworth develop to assess and classify individual differences in infant attachment?
- Strange Situation
- Maternal deprivation
- Monotropic theory
- Internal working model
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According to evolutionary theory, what is the primary adaptive purpose of infant attachment behaviour?
- Promoting independence
- Accelerating cognition
- Developing language
- Enhancing survival
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In cross-cultural attachment research, what do universal similarities across different cultures suggest about attachment?
- Pure environmental influence
- Socialisation outcome
- Innate biological basis
- Cultural learning effect
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Why is child psychology research in natural settings sometimes criticised for lacking scientific rigor?
- Small population size
- Ethical guidelines
- Qualitative data reliance
- Uncontrolled extraneous variables
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What term describes judging child attachment behaviours in other cultures using Western norms and measures?
- Ethnocentric bias
- Gender bias
- Temporal validity
- Observer bias
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Using only female participants in child psychology research is an example of which issue?
- Social sensitivity
- Culture bias
- Ethnocentrism
- Gender bias
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What ethical requirement is met when a parent agrees to their young child taking part in research?
- Informed consent
- Anonymity
- Deception
- Debriefing
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Which observational method records every instance of a specific child behaviour during a study?
- Random sampling
- Opportunity sampling
- Time sampling
- Event sampling
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What type of research helps establish whether child development theories apply globally across cultures?
- Naturalistic research
- Longitudinal research
- Cross-cultural research
- Correlational research
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Evaluating how learning theory and Bowlby's theory account for attachment represents which issue?
- Ethnocentrism
- Social sensitivity
- Comparing explanations
- Reductionism
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Which ethical guideline ensures child participants do not experience physical or emotional distress during research?
- Protection from harm
- Right to withdraw
- Confidentiality
- Informed consent
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What type of validity is criticised when a child psychology lab setting is called artificial?
- Ecological validity
- Internal validity
- Population validity
- Temporal validity
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Whether attachment behaviour is genetically inherited or learned through experience relates to which debate?
- Idiographic approach
- Nature versus nurture
- Determinism
- Reductionism
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What type of bias occurs when academic journals only publish research with statistically significant results?
- Social desirability bias
- Publication bias
- Sampling bias
- Researcher bias
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Breaking complex child development down into basic biological or environmental units illustrates which concept?
- Holism
- Reductionism
- Ethnocentrism
- Determinism
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What term describes the view that biological predispositions and environment continually influence each other?
- Reductionism
- Nativism
- Empiricism
- Interactionism
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