Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

Denise is in her mid-40s; she has never married and is childless. Her job is routine and she feels as if she hasn't really done much to contribute to society's future. In Erikson's terms, Denise is experiencing:

People tend to shrink as they get older. One longitudinal study found that adults lost an average of about _____ inches over a 30-year period.

Which age range is NOT correctly labeled with the corresponding Piagetian stage?

Which language acquisition stage is matched with its example?

Mrs. Allen is pregnant. Her baby's legs and arms have started to grow, and its intestinal system is beginning to develop. The baby is in the _____ stage of prenatal development.

Samantha is creating a language development timeline for a class presentation. Along the top of a display board, she writes the following ages in sequence:?2 months > 4 months > 12 months > 18 months How should she label these ages, from youngest to oldest?

Parenting style is especially influential for infants with difficult temperaments.

Babies around the world begin crawling at about 6 months of age because it is part of a universal, biological progression that reflects maturation.

The number of words young children hear at home is unrelated to family income.

The nucleus of a human cell contains _____ chromosomes.

A vocabulary explosion occurs when children are _____ of age.

Mischa is 8 months old; he can probably sit without support.

Which of these is an operational definition of crystallized intelligence?

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of intimacy versus isolation occurs:

Even though all her friends tried marijuana and cocaine in the 1980s, Monica refused to experiment with drugs because it is against the law. Based on Kohlberg's theory, Monica's reasons for refusing drugs reflect _____ moral reasoning.

Some Western legal systems denote either 7 or 8 as the age at which a child attains reason. Is such a designation defensible from a Piagetian standpoint?

Ambivalent attachment is more common than avoidant attachment.

In part, the trademark impulsivity of adolescence reflects that brain development proceeds more slowly in the brain's _____ than in its _____.

During adolescence, brain development proceeds relatively slowly in the _____ lobe, a region implicated in self-regulation.

Between the ages of 3 and 6, the number of neural connections increases most dramatically in the ______ lobe.