Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

Some children from troubled homes suffer lasting emotional damage,but other children,from equally troubled homes become well-adjusted adults with no emotional disorders.Incorporate research on temperament and reactive/nonreactive children into an explanation of this finding.

Piaget mistakenly believed that:

The newborn infant has a number of ________,such as sucking,grasping,and rooting,that aid in his or her survival.

Most children become wary or fearful of strangers between the ages of:

The child's temperament has no effect on the security of a child's attachment.

Before children can recognize that there are two sexes,they must develop a gender schema.

Comparisons of hormone production in boys and girls show that:

Which of the following is NOT one of the three kinds of problems that are more common during adolescence than during childhood or adulthood?

In Piaget's theory,the process of absorbing new information into existing cognitive structures is called:

The Strange Situation is an experimental method devised in order to test an infant's depth perception.

Which method of disciplining an aggressive child is most likely to teach empathy?

Researchers have located the most beneficial parenting style at the intersection of the two dimensions of:

In Canada,a baby is expected to sleep for ________ uninterrupted hours by the age of 4 or 5 months,a milestone considered to be a sign of ________ maturity.

Parentese is defined as the parental use of symbolic gestures as a tool of communication with an infant.

The germinal stage of conception begins with the:

The process by which children learn the abilities,interests,and behaviours associated with being masculine or feminine in their culture is called gender:

Starting in ________,boys and girls congregate primarily with other children of the same sex.

A major accomplishment during the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development is grasping the concept of conservation.

Cultural practices can influence the timing of developmental milestones.Sometimes,such practices may eliminate a milestone altogether,as seen in:

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?