Exam 5: A: Development

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Many of the apparent differences between firstborn and later-born children are really due to differences between small and large families.​

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A group of people born at a particular time,or a group of people who enter an organization at a particular time,is known as a ______​

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An investigator who follows a single group of individuals year after year is using a ___________________ design.​

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Most racially mixed people feel rejected by both groups.​

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Cohort effects influence longitudinal studies more than they do cross-sectional studies.​

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Piaget emphasized that children move gradually from one stage to another,and frequently fluctuate among stages.​

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The main reason for adolescent risk-taking behaviors is that the adolescents are not aware of the dangers.​

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A child sees someone hide a small toy in a tiny room.Now the task is to find the larger toy in the full-sized room.Young children might or might not find it,depending on how someone words the instructions.​

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An apparent "anxious attachment" in the Strange Situation means the same thing for Japanese infants as it does for American infants.​

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The idea that some people know something that other people do not is called "theory of ______."​

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When newborns hear a sound,they increase their sucking.After some repetitions of the sound,their sucking decreases.If a change in the sound increases their sucking,we say that it produced _________________.​

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Can infants within the first days after birth recognize their own mother's voice? What evidence supports this conclusion?​

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Expressions of anger tend to be more effective in the United States than in Asia.​

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Most children reared by a single parent or by gay or lesbian couples develop about normally.​

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People often react to reminders of death by reaffirming their religious and political beliefs.​

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Jean Piaget argued that children's thinking is just like that of adults,except that children's thinking is slower and less well informed.​

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Suppose we put a colored dot on a child's face.Now the child looks in a mirror.A child who has a "sense of self" will react by pointing to the dot in the mirror.​

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Infants a few months old either do or do not appear to understand object permanence,depending on how we test them.Describe the two tests leading to different conclusions.​

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To measure an infant's attachment to the mother,psychologists observe the infant's reactions as the mother and a stranger enter or depart from the room.This procedure is called the ___________ Situation.​

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One problem in a longitudinal study is that certain types of people may be more likely than others to drop out.This tendency is known as _____________ attrition.​

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