Exam 9: Human Development

Research by this psychologist showed that infant monkeys preferred a surrogate mother made of soft cloth that could not give milk to a surrogate mother made of barbed wire that could give milk.Who was this psychologist?

Sexual reassignment surgery can lead to a mismatch between:

Alzheimer's disease is associated with:

Erikson argues that most adults are motivated by what he calls generativity.By this he means that people:

One sign that a child is securely attached to his or her caregivers is that:

Confabulation means:

When a psychologist says you have become habituated to a stimulus,she means that:

Some psychologists use the term gender to refer to:

Christie is unhappily married.She is likely to have:

From Erikson's point of view,what is the major goal of development during the adolescent period?

Research on parental influence and peer influence:

Until about 6 months of age,a baby:

In attempting to teach sign language to nonhuman primates,researchers have confirmed:

If you observed babies in many different cultures just as they were beginning to use language,you would find that:

The strange-situation test was designed to allow psychologists to assess:

Imagine you are paying for something at a store and the clerk gives you too much change.If you were operating at the preconventional level of moral development,you would be likely to:

At what age will a baby have a nearly adult level of auditory perception?

Which of the following statements is NOT an example of how Piaget and other psychologists have underestimated the speed of cognitive development?

If a child is using telegraphic speech,he or she will:

As described in the text,Harlow did an experiment with infant rhesus monkeys,requiring them to make a choice between an imitation mother that provided contact comfort or one that provided food.The results demonstrate that for this species: