Exam 6: Psychological Science

Ed is no longer angry that he is dying of lung cancer.If Kübler-Ross is correct,Ed will now experience:

Which of the following is NOT a primary sexual characteristic

How might adolescents' tendency to engage in such risky behaviors as unsafe sex and experimental drug use reflect brain development during childhood and adolescence

Which of the following is a description of Piaget's concrete operational stage

At twelve months of age,James is classified as securely attached.Which of the following behaviors in the strange situation would be most consistent with this classification

Dawn is a graduate student investigating the development of fine motor skills.She selects one group of children and assesses their fine motor skills every six months over a two-year period.In this example,Dawn is using a __________ research design

From the late teens into the mid-20s,individuals are in a transitional phase that developmental psychologists call _________ adulthood.

Which of the following does NOT accurately reflect a contribution of Piaget's theory of cognitive development

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

Overall,the authoritarian style seems to be the most effective of the parenting styles outlined in your text.

Over the years,the proportion of people who eventually marry has:

In the 1960s,even though all her friends had tried various drugs,Monica refused to experiment with drugs because it was against the law.Based on Kohlberg's theory,Monica's reasons for not experimenting with drugs reflect ________ moral reasoning.

The realization that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight is termed _______ in Piaget's theory.

Which of the following phrases best approximates the proportion of fertilized eggs that fail to progress to the embryonic period of prenatal development

Mary Ainsworth found that approximately 60-70% of the children she studied showed evidence of ___________ attachment.

Concerning the development of the brain during childhood and adolescence,which of the following statements is true

When an object touches baby Geraldine's palm,she closes her fist tightly around it if the object is lifted up,Geraldine hangs on and is lifted up with it.Geraldine is demonstrating:

With respect to age-related changes in cognition,which of the following statements is FALSE

According to Erikson,the major goal of adolescent development is:

In the United States,approximately 1 in _______ babies is born with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).