Exam 6: Growing and Developing

Rebecca takes her 1-year-old son, Adam, to visit an infant-toddler program in which she hopes to enroll him. Adam appears very anxious and is unwilling to explore and play with the toys even though Rebecca is close by. When Rebecca leaves the room to fill out some forms, Adam becomes extremely upset and remains inconsolable. When Rebecca returns, Adam stays close to her, holding onto her pant leg. However, Adam makes it very clear he does not want her to touch him or pick him up. Which term best describes Adam's attachment style

Fifteen-year-old Mel thinks that she might be a lesbian, but she isn't really sure yet. She is exploring gay and lesbian literature and has read some of the scientific literature on homosexuality. By contrast, 16-year-old Nancy self-identifies as a lesbian and sometimes participates in social events for gay and lesbian youth at a local community center. In Marcia's terms, Mel is in the _______ stage of identity development, while Nancy reflects the _______ stage.

The field of cognitive development is greatly indebted to the seminal work of the Swiss scholar ____________.

Four-year-old Hope thought her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit was a kitty-cat until she realized that it hopped instead of walked and it didn't purr. The change in Hope's understanding of her neighbor's new pet illustrates the process that Piaget called:

Which of the following sequences accurately reflects the order of development from conception to birth

Among boys, a hormones called testosterone leads to the appearance of facial hair and a lower voice during puberty.

You hear a television talk-show host remark that, "A baby's mother provides it with food and that's the basis for attachment." You immediately realize that this statement is UNTRUE, because you are familiar with:

Older adults generally outperform younger adults on tests of crystallized intelligence.

Harriet is pregnant. Her developing baby is moving and sleeping. It is developing the ability to breathe and swallow. Harriet's baby is in the _________ period of prenatal development.

Which of the following phrases best approximates the proportion of fertilized eggs that fail to progress to the embryonic period of prenatal development

Which of the following sequences accurately reflects the order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development from birth through adolescence

According to Piaget, children become capable of abstract thinking during the formal operational period.

Rhonda is currently 9 years old. Rhonda is most likely in the _______ stage of cognitive development.

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

The time at which a woman's menstrual cycle slows down and stops is called:

On Monday, Jacques announces to his parents that he wants to be called "Jack." On Wednesday, he says he wants to drop out of school. On Friday, he says he wants to get a tattoo and become an architect. Erikson would say that Jacques is experiencing

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

Postconventional moral reasoning is based on abstract reasoning. It therefore depends on attaining Piaget's _______ stage of cognitive development.

Yolanda is 24; Zachary is 44; Andrew is 74. Assume that each successfully completes the identity crisis associated with his or her current Eriksonian stage. Which of the following alternatives matches each individual with the correct developmental outcome

Which of the following is the correlation coefficient one would most likely find between life expectancy and scores on a measure of positive self-perceptions of aging