Exam 3: Human Development

The average American infant first walks alone at age

Which style of parenting is most likely to produce spoiled, self-indulgent children who have little self-control?

In talking to an infant, an adult may use exaggerated or musical voice inflections during a type of speech known as

Which of the following is a correct match between the psychosocial stage and its age range?

Sarah is seven months old. Her parents spend three hours a day for five weeks straight holding Sarah up next to furniture in hopes that she will grab onto the furniture and stand by herself. Sarah hates this treatment and screams and cries, but her parents are unyielding. Finally, at the end of the fifth week, Sarah stands up by herself while holding onto the furniture. Her parents smile triumphantly. What have they accomplished here?

Learning to dance or to use a computer is primarily a matter of

Object permanence is to the sensorimotor stage as conservation and reversibility are to the ___________ stage.

The repetition by infants of meaningless language sounds (including both vowel and consonant sounds)is called

Regarding early language development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Abby's mother leaves the room. When her mother returns, Abby runs to greet her mother. However, when her mother reaches to pick her up, Abby pulls away and screams out "no." According to Mary Ainsworth's research, Abby is exhibiting a(n)

A specialist in the psychology of language is called a(n)__________.

A child has to be self-aware in order to experience the complex emotion of

After one reaches his or her late 50s, personal development is usually complicated by

Tony has resolved his struggle with dying and is neither happy nor sad, but at peace. At this point, all he desires is the companionship of his family and friends. Tony is exhibiting which emotional reaction to impeding death?

Deliberately making an environment more stimulating, nutritional, comforting, and loving is referred to as

To investigate mother-infant relationships, Harry Harlow

A child who thinks that the sun and moon are following him is exhibiting __________ thought.

Skills that must be mastered or personal changes that must be made for optimal development, such as learning to read, adjusting to sexual maturity, or establishing a vocation, are best described as

You leave your child with a babysitter. When you return, your child ignores you. Your child's behavior indicates which type of attachment?

Gerald is 75 years old and finds that he has some difficulty with speedy decision-making, but he often surprises his grandchildren by relating a storehouse of facts from long-term memory. This ability to retrieve stored facts illustrates