Exam 9: Human Development

If your mother was emotionally or behaviorally inconsistent with you,you are likely to have a(n)________ attachment style.

Danny's parents taught him that speeding is against the law,and now he complains whenever they drive even 1 mile per hour over the speed limit.Danny explains that there is a law against speeding and that people should always obey laws.According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development,what stage is Danny in?

A child who has a good fit between her temperament and her parents' parenting style is more likely to:

John sees his aunt coming out of the hairdresser's one day.He thinks his aunt looks really funny,because the hairdresser cut her hair much too short.When his aunt asks him,"What do you think of my hair?" what will he respond? A child who has NOT achieved theory of mind will answer:

Your uncle Denny has recently started putting on weight.Now that he's in his 50s he finds it harder to exercise and eat right.What would you recommend to him?

Janet is happily married and just gave birth to her son.She has always wanted children and cannot wait to see her son develop.Sandy has a long-time boyfriend,but they do not want to get married or have children.They are prioritizing their careers and travelling.Janet is likely to ________ Sandy.

In Piaget's view of cognitive development,assimilation has occurred when ________,and accommodation when ________.

Joey has a memory of receiving a light-up truck for his second birthday.He remembers eating cake,and seeing people singing happy birthday to him before he opened his cool toy.Though he believes this was his second birthday,it was probably his ________ birthday because ________.

Your nephew Khalil has recently started to reach for objects in the mobile above his crib.These objects entertain him now,but according to dynamic systems theory he is likely to lose interest in them if:

Imagine you are designing a research study that is examining developmental milestones in young children from a dynamic systems theory perspective.Which of the following sets of measures and variables would you want to collect?

Because theory of mind studies in ________ show brain activation in the frontal lobe,scientists have concluded that this skill is ________.

Christine is a 13-year-old girl who is looking for a boyfriend.If she wants to find someone who is likely to be at the same point in development,she would look for a ________ year-old boy.

Shari just got her first tattoo at 17 years of age.Her mother is furious with her and cannot understand why she got this tattoo.Dynamic systems theory would explain Shari's behavior as:

What is the name of the developmental stage that occurs from approximately 2 months of prenatal development to birth?

As described in the text,Harlow did an experiment with infant rhesus monkeys,requiring them to make a choice between an artificial mother that provided contact comfort or one that provided food.The results demonstrate that for this species:

Your grandparents are increasingly focused on things that have emotional meaning for them and have begun spending more time with a smaller circle of friends.These developments are most consistent with:

Recent research suggests that children are capable of learning the concepts of more than and less than even earlier than suggested by Piaget.At what age are children now believed to be capable of demonstrating these concepts?

The term embryo describes the stage of prenatal development from:

Recently,in Florida,a 7-year-old girl was found to have suffered much of the same types of neglect and abuse that Genie suffered,as described in your text.Given the Florida girl's age,you would expect that she:

You go to the zoo with your little brother,and he calls all animals with feathers woodpeckers because he ________ all birds into that category.When you pass a parrot and tell him it's not a woodpecker,but a parrot,he must ________ this new information.