Exam 4: Culture and Developmental Processes

Which of the following statements is true of the psychological autonomy cultural model developed by Keller (2013)?

In Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development,_____ refers to the awareness that physical quantities remain the same even when they change shape or appearance.

In the context of differences in infant temperaments across cultures,parents in Western cultures value the harmony that is maintained through emotional restraint and emphasize and reinforce quiet behaviors.

According to Keller (2013),in the _____ cultural model,infants have a sense of security not based on a specific caregiver or relationship,but security within a network of community members.

Which of the following is a concern raised by cross-cultural research on Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

According to a study by Miller and Bersoff (1992),the American participants,both children and adults,considered not helping someone a moral transgression more than the Indian participants,regardless of the life-threatening nature of the situation or whether the person in need was related.

Which of the following is a criticism of the Strange Situation method developed by Ainsworth to measure attachment?

According to Turiel and his colleagues,which of the following is true of moral rules?

Culture provides the meaning and consequences related to particular temperamental traits of children.

The findings from a number of cross-cultural studies have suggested that the _____ and _____ stages of Kohlberg's theory of morality may be universal.

During Piaget's concrete operations stage of cognitive development,children acquire new thinking skills to work with actual objects and events.

According to Jensen,the concepts related to religion,spirituality,and divinity are least important to the moral belief systems in the majority of cultures around the world.

In the context of human development,developmental contextualism counters traditional views of development where either nature or nurture was emphasized to a greater degree than the other.

Which of the following statements is true of Bowlby's (1969)evolutionary theory of attachment?

Identify a universal developmental pathway for children across cultures.

Identify an accurate statement about the hierarchical relatedness cultural model developed by Keller (2013).

Identify the four stages of cognitive development proposed by Piaget (1952).

The zone of proximal development refers to the gap between the actual developmental level of a child versus the potential developmental level that the child is capable of with some assistance by more knowledgeable others.

_____ is a biologically based style of interacting with the world that exists from birth.

A child who regards a book lying on its side as "tired" or "needing a rest," or thinks that the moon is following him or her is most likely to be in the _____ stage of Piaget's cognitive development.