Exam 14: Development

Sterling's 3-year-old daughter, Donna, has just started preschool, and Sterling wants to hear what she is doing all day in his absence. To Sterling's frustration, when he asks his daughter to tell him about her day, she just says, "I don't know." Research suggests that Sterling should __________.

Based on your text's discussion, which of the following characteristics is LEAST likely to be associated with popularity?

Compared to insecurely attached infants, securely attached infants are __________.

Imagine an infant surrounded by objects. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

In Ainsworth's Strange Situation, we are primarily interested in measuring or assessing __________.

In the language of temperament dimensions, babies who exhibit a low activity level and who seem to be relatively moderate in most of their responses would be classified as __________.

Six-month-old infants are habituated to repeated showings of an experimenter reaching for a ripe banana, which is to the right of a yellow block. After the habituation, the positions of the block and the banana are switched. Most likely, the infants will now expect the experimenter to __________.

From birth, infants like looking at faces. By 2 to 3 months of age, they especially prefer faces that are __________.

According to Piaget, a child who moves from the observation that 4 + 1 and 6 + 1 both produce odd numbers to the principle that adding 1 to any even number makes an odd number is in which stage?

Girls typically experience the adolescent growth spurt __________ than do boys.

Why do preschool children fail to conserve, according to Piaget?

Which adjective BEST describes adolescent development?

In one trick, a magician shows the audience a single apple on a table. She then puts a screen in front of the apple, picks up another apple, and apparently places it next to the first one, pulling her now-empty hand from behind the screen. She then removes the screen to reveal only a single apple. Research suggests that __________.

In a recent study, 18-month-olds watched an experimenter show pleasure after eating broccoli and distaste after eating crackers. When the experimenter then asked the children for more food, the children typically offered __________.

Most modern researchers suggest that-contrary to Piaget's claims-infants do actually believe that objects continue to exist even when hidden in a new location. Why, then, don't they reach for such objects and retrieve them?

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, moral reasoning at the highest level relies on __________.

With respect to nationality, pioneering cognitive psychologist Jean Piaget was __________.

What effect does spanking have on the moral development of the child?

In one elementary school curriculum, mathematical variables first appear in the sixth grade. Why are they not introduced in the fourth or fifth grade?

Cross-cultural studies of moral reasoning indicate that __________.