Chapter 5 Final

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encounter some difficulty in overcoming the limitation of egocentrism
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Marlys is a sensitive, responsive parent who consistently satisfies the needs of Sara, her infant daughter. According to Erikson, Sara is likely to
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social mentoring.
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Piaget emphasized how the child's mind grows through interaction with the physical environment. Vygotsky emphasized how the child's mind grows through
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Alzheimer's disease.
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During the last few years, 75-year-old Mrs. Yamaguchi has gradually become so mentally disoriented that she can't find her way around her own house and often fails to recognize her husband. It is most likely that Mrs. Yamaguchi is suffering the effects of
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stability and change.
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The fact that many happy and well-adjusted adults were once rebellious and unhappy as adolescents is most relevant to the issue of
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ratio of their positive to negative interactions with each other.
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The best predictor of a couple's marital satisfaction is the
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human infants do not have well-defined critical periods for the formation of a mother-infant attachment.
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Carol is distressed because post-childbirth complications prevented her from being in close physical contact with her child during its first few hours of life. Carol should be told that
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peer relationships
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In teen calls to hotline counseling services, the most discussed topic is
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10 and 30
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When asked to recall the one or two most important events over the last half century, older adults tend to name events that occurred when they were between ________ years of age.
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they become increasingly prone to car accidents.
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Research on older people has shown that
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adolescent.
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According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the
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menarche
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Puberty is most closely related to the onset of
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both men and women go through predictable stages of denial followed by anger.
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During the time following the death of a loved one
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a death-deferral phenomenon.
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In one 15-year period, more Americans died on the two days after Christmas than on the two days before Christmas. It has been suggested that this illustrates
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the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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Cognition refers to
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mental operation.
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According to Piaget, imagining an action and mentally reversing it would be an example of a
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underestimated the cognitive capacities of infants.
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Infants accustomed to a puppet jumping three times on stage show surprise if the puppet jumps only twice. This suggests that Piaget
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secure attachment.
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Providing children with a safe haven in times of stress contributes most directly to
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none of these feelings or events.
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Researchers have discovered that the midlife transition between early and middle adulthood is characterized by unusually high levels of
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adolescence.
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According to Erikson, trust is to infancy as identity is to
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have the most intimate relationships with girlfriends.
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Research indicates that the high school girls who have the most affectionate relationships with their mothers also tend to
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the difficulty perceiving things from another person's point of view.
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According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to
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a decline in recall but not in recognition
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When adults of varying ages were tested for their memory of a recently learned list of 24 words, the older adults demonstrated