Exam 8: Human Development

Which statement expresses the relationship with age of scores on measures of fluid intelligence and scores on measures of crystallized intelligence?

Imagine a graph showing fluid and crystallized intelligence scores as a function of age.Age appears on the x-axis,with increasing age toward the right.One curve portrays fluid intelligence scores; the other,crystallized intelligence scores.Which statement BEST describes the relationship between the two curves as age increases?

Emerging adulthood is a newly identified life stage.

Which answer choice is a correct match?

The field of _____ explores how the environment affects the expression of genetic attributes.

Which of the following ages is correctly matched to the corresponding Piagetian stage?

Whether Baumrind's parenting styles apply to nonAmerican cultures is an open question.

Imagine a scale of 1 to 10,where 1 is "entirely nature" and 10 is "entirely nurture." Based on the textbook's discussion,where would one place the trait of impulsivity on this scale?

Baby Hannah automatically turns her head in the direction of a touch on the cheek.This is the _____ reflex; it helps an infant to _____.

Which of these is an operational definition of crystallized intelligence?

According to Kohlberg,decisions at the postconventional level of moral reasoning are based on:

One's chromosomes make up one's phenotype.

Which sequence represents the units of genetics,from the smallest and most specific to the largest and most inclusive?

Dizygotic twins share _____ of their genetic material.

Brooke is a female.Her genetic sex is:

Which statement about cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs is TRUE?

Which of Baumrind's parenting styles tends to produce the most independent,competent,and socially responsible children?

In their late 30s,women experience an approximately _____ reduction in fertility.

The outdated term "hermaphrodite" has been replaced by the term:

A 4-year-old child is shown a row of seven red checkers.He is asked to place a black checker immediately above each red one.By doing so,the child agrees that there are as many red as black checkers.The experimenter then spreads out the black checkers so that the line they form is longer than the one formed by the red checkers.The experimenter asks whether there are more red checkers or more black checkers in order to determine whether the child understands: