Exam 8: Human Development

Jade is a well-educated and successful professional in her field. She has many close family members and friends and owns her own home. At age 34, she is comfortably single but admits that she wouldn't mind meeting that special someone. According to Erikson, Jade falls on the _____ side of _____, the psychosocial stage appropriate for her age and situation.

Which of the following parenting styles, according to Baumrind's research, would fit the phrase "My way or the highway"?

The period of the zygote begins with _____ and ends with _____, which takes about _____.

Would the topic of temperament be significant to a daycare provider? Why or why not?

Lev Vygotsky believed that a child's cognitive development through social interactions was afforded primarily through the medium of _____.

Which of the following is FALSE regarding the formal operations stage of cognitive development?

_____ is one of the main objectives in the _____ stage of psychosocial development.

According to Piaget, _____ is the realization that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be perceived.

When considering the effects of early or late puberty on adolescents, which of the following is FALSE?

Which of the following is true regarding research by Gibson and Walk (1960)using the visual cliff?

Audrey has just learned that she has cancer of the pancreas. Because she is a nurse, she knows that pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer and usually takes someone's life about a year after the diagnosis. However, she is convinced that the doctors have mixed up her chart with someone else's chart. Once she is shown that it is indeed her chart, she tells the doctor that the results are clearly erroneous. Audrey is experiencing _____ according to research by Kübler-Ross.

In which stage do infants learn that the world is a safe place and people can be trusted?

Why is the difficult temperament labeled as such?

When a child understands that objects are still there even if he/she can no longer see them, he/she has attained _____

Which of the following developmental psychology research questions would address the cognitive domain?

When studying developmental psychology, _____ exemplifies the psychosocial domain.

Describe Kohlberg's study and view of moral development and explain its connection to Piaget's view of cognitive development.

Classic studies on attachment have been performed by _____ and _____.

According to Erikson, searching for one's identity begins in _____ with the _____ stage.

Dagan believes that laws are there for a reason and that they must be followed under all circumstances. In which stage of moral development is Dagan?