Exam 5: Nature, Nurture, and Human Development

The major benefit to a sequential design is that

Adolescents who have explored their future but have not made any decisions are said to have

One of the problems of selective attrition refers to the fact that certain kinds of people may be more likely than others to

An investigator covers a toy and watches whether a child removes the cover to retrieve the toy. The investigator is probably testing whether the child has the concept of

According to Piaget's concept of accommodation,

An investigator repeatedly plays a recording of the sound "ba" while checking the rate that an infant sucks on a nipple. After the infant's rate of sucking decreases, the investigator switches to the sound "pa." What is the investigator probably trying to determine?

The problem of selective attrition is most likely to arise during

Monozygotic twins

Adolescents who have not given serious thoughts to their future but have already made a decision about their future are said to have

An estimate of the variance within a population that is due to heredity is known as

An X-linked recessive gene is more likely to exert its effects on __________ than on __________.

Adolescents are likely to overestimate their successes and underestimate their risks in what is termed the __________. Middle-aged adults show __________.

A researcher wants to conduct a study that combines the advantages of cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. The best choice for this researcher would be to use the

Parents who set firm rules for their children, without explaining why those rules are good, and who tend to be cold and distant to their children, are known as __________ parents.

A genetic difference is largely responsible for the fact that people in some parts of the world consume more dairy products than do people in other parts of the world. How does that gene affect behavior?

A 2 1/2-year old child watches an experimenter hide a toy in a large room, and later tries to find a smaller version of the toy in a small, scale-model version of the room. Under what circumstances, if any, is the child likely to find the toy quickly?

According to Piaget, applying an old schema to a new object or problem is called

A child in the formal operations stage can do which of the following that cannot be done by a child in the concrete operations stage?

Parents who are demanding and impose firm controls, yet are also warm and responsive to their children, are known as __________ parents.

What should a psychologist test to determine whether a given child is in the concrete-operations stage or the formal-operations stage?