Exam 11: Section 4: Development

Once the principle of conservation is understood, children enter the formal operational stage of cognitive development.

The development of abstract reasoning skills appears to be the most important factor in the formation of a theory of mind.

Well over 50 percent of American infants display a secure attachment style.

Infant temperament is largely the result of biology.

The ability to reason about abstract concepts is a defining feature of the concrete operational stage of development.

The embryonic stage is the shortest stage of prenatal development.

Children with autism typically are normal on most intellectual dimensions.

Teenagers tend to argue more with their mothers than their fathers.

Infants learn to control their hands and feet before they learn to control their elbows and knees.

The ability to focus on what another person is focused on is termed social referencing.

The most common teratogen is alcohol.

Newborns can mimic the facial expressions of adults.

Aging produces more deficits in long-term memory relative to working memory.

The overwhelming majority of American mothers report that their children are a source of happiness all or most of the time.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that biology plays a key role in determining sexual orientation.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, a first grader in the preconventional stage will not disobey his teacher because he will not want to be punished.

Young children more accurately recognize that others differ from than in emotions than desires.

Developmental psychology is the study of continuity and change during the prenatal stage of development.

Infants will habituate faster to a physically possible event than to a physically impossible event.

According to a moral intuitionist perspective, incest is considered wrong because it disgusts us.