Exam 12: Lifespan Development

Babies are able to recognize patterns and perceive complete shapes by the time they are a month old.

The sensorimotor period is to __________ as the concrete operational period is to __________.

Although Piaget's theory has proven to be a useful one, it has been most criticized on the grounds that

Suppose that you are a young child and have just spilled some soda on the living room carpet. Only moments before, your dad had told you not to bring the soda into the living room because you might spill it and stain the carpet. Now your dad walks into the living room and sees the mess. He also sees that you are crying. He bends down and puts his arm around you. He tells you that he is upset about the spill, that you should have listened to him, and that you made a mistake. He then asks you to help clean up the mess. What kind of parent is your dad MOST likely to be?

Theory of mind in children develops some time after they have developed a naive psychology.

In the Strange Situation, an infant who shows both approach and avoidance when his mother returns is showing __________ attachment.

The __________ response is a reflex that is caused by lightly touching a baby's cheek.

At what age do babies show clear indications of being able to recognize patterns?

A child who is in the concrete operational stage of cognitive development can do all of the following EXCEPT

The preoperational child's self-centred focus is called

In terms of physical development, age has much less effect on strength than it does on endurance.

At about 4 years of age, children first begin to perceive themselves and others in terms of gender.

Stern and Karraker showed that young children (2-6 years) were __________ in their behaviour towards other children.

Research has shown that children who attend daycare __________ develop __________ attachments with their primary caregivers.

It is during the postconventional stage of moral development that people realize that moral rules have some underlying principles that apply across many situations.

A social and emotional bond between an infant and his or her caregiver, that spans both time and space is called

A 3-month-old baby shows preferences for viewing stimuli that resemble his or her

The gonads are stimulated to secrete sex hormones by the actions of the

One of the high points in marriage, at least in terms of happiness, is when the children have left home.

In __________ attachment, infants show a clear preference for their primary caregiver over strangers.