Exam 8: Child Development

During the __________ stage of development children begin to be able to attend to two or more dimensions of a stimulus at the same time.

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

The scientific study of changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called gerontology.

Which of the following is a main disadvantage of the cross-sectional design?

Egbert is a quiet child who is very slow to adapt to change. However, if he is introduced gradually to new people or situations, then eventually he will accept them without too much distress. Thomas and Chess would say his temperament is __________

Temperament is thought to be fairly well established since birth.

Children seem to learn phonological awareness skills through __________

Whereas Piaget saw cognitive development as a result of individual discovery and a child's interaction with objects, Vygotsky attributed cognitive development to __________

Emily and her husband are thrilled as they peer into Emily's uterus by means of an ultrasound. The physician reports that the pregnancy appears normal, and that their baby's fingers, toes, heart, and circulatory system are developing as expected. The couple learns that the baby is only ¾ of an inch long. Given this information, the current stage of prenatal development is the __________

__________ refers to heredity and __________ refers to environmental influences.

__________ attachment is the most common pattern across cultures.

What is the difference between a longitudinal and a cross-sectional research study?

In the visual cliff experiment conducted by Campos, the infant's ability to perceive depth was measured by __________

Isabelle's baby was born blind, deaf, and with heart defects. Most likely Isabelle was exposed to __________ during her pregnancy.

At times, for unknown reasons, a zygote divides into two cells. The result of this is __________

A characteristic that first shows up in the formal operations stage is __________

Normal cells in the body have __________

A researcher who studies different age groups, or cohorts, at one time is using the cross-sectional design.

Experiments conducted by __________, in which pregnant women read The Cat in the Hat to their developing fetuses during the last 6 1/2 weeks of pregnancy, revealed that learning begins in the womb.

Dizygotic twins develop when a fertilized egg divides into two parts that develop into separate embryos.