Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Harlow was interested in exploring why infants develop attachments by separating infant rhesus monkeys from their mothers shortly after birth. He then tested them to see what type of artificial surrogate mother they would prefer to spend their time. He found that the infant monkeys spent time with:

Which of the following examples best demonstrates the process of accommodation?

According to Piaget, the interesting part of testing children is in what kind of errors they make in their thinking. He believed that the errors made by children were the result of:

Sally is interested in comparing the effects of video game violence on aggression in several different age groups. Which of the following groups would a cross-sectional design be confounded by the age of the cohorts?

As was discussed in the textbook, the type of parenting that is associated with high control and high warmth, and the best outcomes for children is the:

Cross-cultural research on the social habits of adolescents has revealed that when teens are compared, teens in Europe appear to place less emphasis on peer relationships than teens in do.

According to Jean Piaget, involves the process by which new experiences cause existing schemas to change.

A teenager who says to herself that nobody else could possibly comprehend the struggles and difficulties she has been through is best demonstrating one of the two presumed parts of adolescent egocentrism called

During the germinal stage of development, the fertilized egg is called an embryo.

Andy and Jeff compare the physical development of their sons. The baby boys are the same age. Andy brags that his infant son seems to be maturing at an advanced rate compared to what Jeff is observing in his son. Jeff worries that maybe there is something physically wrong with his son. Jeff consults a developmental book and finds that:

One of the limitations of Jean Piaget's theory is that recent evidence indicates that children develop several key cognitive abilities later than Piaget originally thought.

The phenomenon of imprinting best demonstrates the concept of:

The most negative developmental outcomes are associated with which of the following parenting styles?

Even though children in the concrete operational stage have a well-established concept of object permanence, they still tend to struggle a great deal with problems involving conservation of volume and number.

A biologically based predisposition to react to the environment in specific behavioural and emotional ways is defined as _.

A 5-year-old boy tells his mother that it is fine for boys to play baseball, but not to wear a dress or play with dolls. These beliefs are best classified as examples of:

Research results suggest that healthy older adults would be most likely to outperform younger adults on tests that involve:

Boys who reach puberty early tend to experience more positive outcomes than early-maturing girls do.

An infant who smiles at and vocalizes to almost any adult that she encounters is most likely in Bowlby's attachment behaviour phase.

All of the following were mentioned as limitations or criticisms of Kübler-Ross's stages of coping with impending death EXCEPT: