Exam 8: Human Development

Infant attachment style may influence relationships in adulthood.

Cross-sequential designs combine the advantages of both cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs.

Adolescents are in Piaget's formal operational stage of cognitive development.

How are critical and sensitive periods related?

The text reports the case of a girl named Genie,who was exposed to virtually no language from the age of 20 months until the age of 13.In what way does Genie's case offer support for the notion of a critical period in language acquisition?

In Rosenzweig's studies,brain weight was an independent variable.

Research has proven that development is primarily a product of nurture.

Julie is 3 years old,which means that she probably understands gender roles.

The preoperational period is marked by the failure to conserve.

At times,Ezra is fiercely assertive; at other times,he can be extremely nurturing.Ezra exhibits:

Early-maturing boys tend to experience anxiety and emotional problems.

Chromosomes are segments of DNA.

A child demonstrates object permanence,egocentrism,and a failure to conserve.She is MOST likely in which Piagetian stage?

Harry Harlow and his colleagues completed a number of studies in which baby macaque monkeys were raised with two artificial surrogate mothers.One of the mothers was made of wire,and the other was made of soft cloth.Either mother could provide food.Harlow found that when the infant monkeys were startled or frightened,they:

Charles has been told that he has lung cancer that is too invasive for treatment.His doctor tells him that he will probably die within a year.Charles suddenly starts to laugh,and he tells the doctor that the lab must have mixed up the test results.Charles is most likely in Kübler-Ross's _____ stage of dying.

Casey has always believed that he is a woman trapped in a man's body.He is undergoing hormone treatment and is considering sex reassignment surgery.Casey is BEST described as:

Which fraction represents the proportion of infants who are securely attached?

From the late teens into the mid-20s,individuals are in a transitional phase that developmental psychologists call _____ adulthood.

During adulthood,the frequency of positive emotions is _____ correlated with age.

Whereas the study of attachment style is associated with _____,the study of parenting style is associated with _____.