Exam 3: B: Human Development

In the late teens,the brain actively destroys unneeded connections,especially in the frontal lobes,with this pruning of synapses sharpening the brain's capacity for

Eleven-year-old Justin wants to go to the movies with his friends.His parents explain that they know he wants to go but that it is important that the whole family go to a supper honoring his grandfather tonight.This style of parenting in which parents give reasons for their decisions will most likely lead Justin to be a(n)

A child and her father are walking.The child knows there are such things as birds but has never seen a bluebird before.Upon seeing one,she says,"See the birdie," and her father replies,"Yes,that's a bluebird." This example demonstrates

Because Rachel is too young to make transformations,she is unable to

Gabe is a late-maturing boy.Compared to boys who mature earlier,we can expect Gabe to

Sara is angry at her older brother and calls him "a panty-girdle." At other times when she was angry,she called him "a toilet" and "a rat." Like other children her age,Sara sees the name of an object an being as much a part of the object as its size,shape,and color.Thus,this preoccupation with name calling is very common during which cognitive stage of development?

Three-year-old Terri and her four-year-old friend Keisha are told a story using two dolls,Sally and Anne.Sally has a basket,while the Anne has a box.The experimenter than explains that Sally puts a coin in her basket and goes out to play.In the meantime,Anne takes the coin from Sally's basket and puts it into her box.Sally comes back inside and looks for the coin.The experimenter then asks each child "Where will Sally look for her coin?" Terri says "in Anne's box," while Keisha says "in the basket." Which conclusion is correct?

Between the ages of three and six,children make rapid progress in their ability to think symbolically,which corresponds to a tremendous wave of growth occurring among the neurons in which areas of the brain?

By videotaping a young child and then letting the child see the video on television,you would be testing for

Early maturation in boys

Which activity would be appropriate to stimulate a concrete operational child?

You offer to trade your nickel for a dime held by a child.The child accepts the trade because the nickel is bigger.The child is

Five-year-old Steven climbs up the small tree in his parents' backyard.When he's ready to come down,he begins to cry for his mother to help.Steven's inability to retrace his steps to go back down the tree illustrates that Steven's thinking lacks

Both minority and majority adolescents could benefit from all of the following EXCEPT

Regarding recent findings on cognitive development,which of the following statements is FALSE?

The use of inductive and deductive reasoning and being able to test hypotheses in a scientific manner are characteristic of __________ thinking.

According to Piaget,newborn babies cannot create internal representations such as mental images; and as a result,they lack

Objects cease to appear and disappear magically with the child's conceptions becoming more orderly,stable,and predictable by the end of the __________ stage.

Your baby is about two months old and is repeating vowel sounds,such as saying "oo" over and over while you are holding her.She is

Parents should explain things verbally or symbolically and should encourage their children to create hypotheses and to imagine how things could be during which stage of cognitive development?