Exam 5: Nature, Nurture, and Human Development

Which of the following would count as evidence in favor of a genetic influence on a behavior?

The negative effects of a divorce on the children tend to be milder if

Below are descriptions of four children. Which one is in Piaget's stage of formal operations?

Suppose someone conducts a cross-sectional study of music preferences and finds that most 50-year-olds prefer music that the 20-year-olds consider "old-fashioned." One interpretation is that people's taste in music changes as they grow older. Another interpretation is that the difference is caused by a difference in

An investigator measures how much various 4-month-old children cry and kick, and later determines how shy or outgoing those children are when they reach age 7 years. The investigator is probably studying

You are in the same cohort as other people who

A psychologist studies 21 children on their first day of school, and examines the same children again on the last day. This is a __________ research design.

Which of the following observations may be most easily explained as being due to a difference in cohorts?

Studies of phenylketonuria (PKU) provide particularly strong evidence for the conclusion that

When comparing African-Americans and European-Americans with respect to divorce, it is generally true that African-Americans experience less

According to Terror Management Theory, even a casual reference to death tends to

Adolescence is sometimes characterized as a period of "storm and stress." Which of the following is most true about the "storm and stress" of this period?

Compared to other high school girls, high school girls who are having unprotected sex give lower estimates of the chances of becoming pregnant through unprotected sex. This "it can't happen to me" attitude is a clear example of

Which of the following studies would be impossible to answer by means of a cross-sectional study?

When Lev Vygotsky spoke of a child's zone of proximal development, he referred to the difference between

Researchers have studied pairs of twins who were reared in separate homes as children and then reunited as adults. Researchers examined their hobbies, habits, and preferences and found that

Research that has explored the personality of adopted children and their parents has shown

Which of the following is generally considered to be evidence in favor of a genetic influence on behavior?

An investigator shows a child two balls of clay of equal size and then squashes one of them and asks the child whether the squashed ball has more clay than the round ball. The experimenter is testing whether the child has the concept of

Which of the following is NOT an attachment style as measured by the Strange Situation?