Exam 3: Human Development

Psychologist Carolyn Rovee-Collier placed babies on their backs under a colorful crib mobile and tied a ribbon around the baby's ankle, connecting it to the mobile. Whenever the babies spontaneously kicked their legs, the mobile jingled and rattled. Within minutes, infants as young as what age learned to control their movements and kick faster to move the mobile more?

According to recent research using "impossible events" demonstrations, babies can remember where objects are or should be for at least one minute by the time that they are __________ months old.

Regarding research on moral development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

The time in a person's life known as puberty is

In development, deliberately making an environment more stimulating, nutritional, comforting, and loving is referred to as __________.

Describe a young child's language development from his or her use of crying to gain attention at one month to his or her use of telegraphic speech.

The normal order of language development in infancy is

Identical twins are less alike as adults than they were as children, which demonstrates the influence of

According to Thomas and Chess, about 15 percent of children, who are restrained, unexpressive, and shy, make up the __________ temperament category.

Just because two-year-old Eric knows that he is "a me" does not mean he knows that you are "a you." At age 3, Eric once put his hands over his eyes and exclaimed to his friend, Laurence, "You can't see me now!" He knew that he had a point of view, but he did not know that his friend's point of view could be different from his own. Piaget used what term to refer to this endearing feature of young children and proposed that young children exhibit this feature until they enter the concrete operational stage?

Teens who take pride in their ethnic heritage

Teens who take pride in their ethnic heritage are more likely to

Zach likes to "lay down the law" and takes no arguments from his children. According to the research on parenting styles by Diana Baumrind, Zach is exhibiting the pattern of parenting known as __________ parenting.

If touched on the cheek, neonates will turn their head in that direction. This is called the

In this culture, the father is a strong authority figure who demands obedience from the children at an early age so the family will not be shamed by the children's misbehavior. Although punishment may consist of spankings and teasing, the traditional authoritarian style in this culture is increasing being tempered with more authoritative elements. Children are encouraged to strive for success and educational achievement and to show conservatism, generosity, hospitality, and thrift. The ethnic community being described is most likely

Piaget thought that children remain egocentric during the preoperational stage, becoming aware of perspectives other than their own only at age

Which of the following methods was used by Baillargeon to test for the mental capacities of infants?

Adolescence is the same as the developmental period known as puberty.

According to Carol Gilligan, a woman's concern with what pleases or helps others would be placed at which level in Kohlberg's system of moral development?

Most older children and most adults exhibit moral reasoning at which level of moral development?