Exam 14: Development

In full view of a child, an experimenter hides a toy repeatedly under a yellow cloth. Then he introduces a slight change in the procedure, now hiding the toy beneath an adjacent red cloth. The child in this scenario is 8 months old. How will she most likely react?

Your text describes a study in which pregnant mothers read aloud to their unborn infants from one of two Dr. Seuss books. Later, as newborns, the babies could hear the story they had been read by sucking on a pacifier in a particular manner. By sucking on the pacifier in a different way, they could hear an unfamiliar story. What is the dependent variable in this study? What did the researchers find?

Science fiction often depicts worlds that are quite different from our own. According to Piaget's theory, science fiction would most likely be appreciated by children in which stage?

Jeremy is 2 years old. He says he knows how to count, but whenever he does so, the first five items are 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, in that order. Shown four pennies on a table and asked to count them, he says, "1, 4, 6, 9." If he is now asked how many pennies are on the table, he will say __________.

A 4-year-old child is shown a row of seven red checkers. He is asked to place a black checker immediately adjacent to each red one. Upon doing so, the child agrees that there are as many red as black checkers. The experimenter then spreads out the black checkers so that they lie in a line longer than the red checkers. The experimenter asks whether there are more red checkers or more black checkers in order to determine whether the child understands __________.

The development of autobiographical memory __________.

With respect to moral reasoning, broad ideals are to social relationships as __________ is to __________.

In the case of ducklings, how long does following-type behavior need to occur before imprinting takes place?

A 6-month-old infant makes a move to grasp a toy that he wants. His action is __________.

Early maturation has __________ effects on girls and boys.

According to Piaget, when a child is able to understand that adding 1 to 6 makes an odd number, but cannot grasp that 1 added to any even number makes it odd, the child is in the __________ stage.

According to a study described in the text, youngsters who were rated as securely attached at 15 months are least likely to be described as __________.

Malcolm is 73 years old, and he has recently started thinking back over his life. He has come to the conclusion that his life had no real meaning. Based on Erikson's theory, it is likely that Malcolm will __________.

Which statement best expresses the potential association between a child's age and the impact of divorce?

The way parents treat their children __________.

Which of the following phrases BEST describes the pattern of prenatal cortical development?

Regarding the relationship between the quality of parenting and the quality of childcare, which of the following statements is MOST accurate?

A child perseverates in her response, searching for an item in the location from which it was last recovered rather than its new location. Piaget called this behavior __________.

Mrs. Allen is pregnant. Her baby's major organs have begun to form, as have its facial features. In addition, the neural tube is beginning to develop. The baby is in the __________ stage of prenatal development.

The long period of dependency in human development __________.