Exam 8: Development

Marda, a nine-year-old girl, has moved and changed schools due to her parents' recent divorce. Should ________ occur for Marda, recent research would suggest that it might be related to the increased stress she had experienced.

Infants with an avoidant attachment to their mothers, are responding to a mother who has too much involvement in their lives.

Which of the following is not true about fraternal twins?

Beth's parents are warm and responsive, set high but reasonable standards, and provide a rationale for the rules they make. What parenting style do they use?

According to Ainsworth, the majority of infants are classified as

Kohlberg's theory focuses on

Serge watches as two lines of pennies (with eight pennies in each line) laid out so that both lines are the same length. When asked, Serge says both are equal. Then the researcher takes the pennies in one line and places them farther apart, making that line longer than the other. Now serge says that line has more than the shorter line. What cognitive skill has Serge not yet developed, according the Piaget?

What cognitive limitations characterize a child's thinking during the preoperational stage?

According to Kübler-Ross, what stages are experienced by terminally ill patients as they come to terms with death? Describe each stage.

For the first two weeks after conception, the human organism is called the

Which of the following is a correct statement?

The neonate's built-in responses like sucking, blinking and grasping are called

Newborns are not able to

Which of the following is not true of physical and motor development in infancy?

According to Piaget, children live in the world of here and now during what stage of development?

The major landmark for females at the onset of puberty is known as

In the final days before death, Susan stopped fighting and accepted the inevitable. But, as Kübler-Ross's theory predicts, her acceptance was preceded by several months of

You and three of your friends are considering designing and running a day care centre for children aged two to six, and you want to incorporate some of Piaget's ideas. Explain the cognitive abilities and limitations of this age group and offer some appropriate educational play activities.

Sixteen-year-old Brent takes steroids to build up his muscles. Knowing that steroids pose a serious health threat but somehow thinking that no harm will come to him is an example of

If a person inherits a gene for blonde hair and a gene for brown hair, the person will have brown hair. Therefore, the gene for brown hair is