Developmental Psych example #83607

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Industry vs. Inferiority
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A nine-year-old girl first learning about her capabilities on the playground and in the classroom would be in which of Erikson's stage of development?
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He is going through the process of exploring his identity that many adolescents experience.
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Rik, who is an adolescent, was always studious and quiet throughout childhood. His parents are concerned because he suddenly dyed his hair, pierced his tongue, and started hanging out with a different crowd. A few months later, he tried out for the football team and became so active in sports that he neglected his schoolwork. According to psychologists, which of the following would best explain Rik's changes in behavior?
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attachment
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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's
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object permanence
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A baby looks under the sofa for a ball that has just rolled underneath it. According to Jean Piaget, the baby's action shows development of
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Erik Erikson
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Shaquille is 25 years old and is actively dating in order to find someone to settle down with. Which of the following theorists would best be able to explain Shaquille's behavior?
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societal norms and other environmental factors
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Gender stereotypes are developed as a result of
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Bobby is still developing new neural connections in his brain.
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Bobby is seventeen and has been engaging in risky behaviors, such as reckless driving, skipping class, and breaking curfew. Which of the following is an explanation for Bobby's actions that most psychologists support?
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He is idenity foreclosed
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Shamir wants to be a doctor like both of his parents when he gets older. He never thought of doing anything else. Which of the following best explains Shamir's decision?
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she is less likely to die immediately before her birthday
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Marion is about to turn 102. The death-deferral theory would predict that
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the combination of genetics, prenatal horomones, and social influences
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Sexual orientation is most likely developed as a result of
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is based on empirically unverifiable constructs
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One criticism of Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory of development is that it
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Preoperational
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Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
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A case study, because both heredity and environment are important in determining length and height.
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Trinna and Suzanne are identical twins who were the same length at birth. They were adopted by different families at birth and then reconnected in their early thirties. Trinna is two inches shorter and was a severely selective eater as a child. A researcher was conducting an investigation about twins separated at birth. What research method and explanation best fit this scenario?
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Mohammed has dated a few people but has not been very successful, so he has decided to give up on dating.
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Which of the following scenarios best describes what Erik Erikson thought someone might experience in early adulthood?
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differences between males and females in the course of moral development
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Carol Gilligan's critique of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development focuses primarily on
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agression
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Gender differences have most often been found in which of the following?
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Children often develop traditional gender roles despite parents discrouagement of such roles
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Which of the following is true about gender roles in children?
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theory fails to account sufficiently for differences between males and females
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Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's development theory is based on the argument that Kohlberg's
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A researcher cannot generalize across populations findings from one group of people.
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Carol Gilligan was critical of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development. What is the basis of her critique?
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The tactile characteristics of the mother
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Harry Harlow's experiments with rhesus monkeys suggest which of the following as most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers?
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contact comfort was more important to them than food
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Harry Harlow found that when infant monkeys were startled or frightened, they preferred a cloth surrogate mother over a wire mother who had food. The baby monkeys' response indicated that
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preferred the terry-cloth mother, even when the wire mother had the nursing bottle
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In a famous series of experiments conducted by Harry Harlow, infant monkeys were separated from their mothers at birth. The infants were then given two surrogate mothers (a terry-cloth "mother" and a wire "mother"), each of which alternately had a nursing bottle that provided food to the infants. The experimental results showed that in frightening situations the infant monkeys
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Konrad Lorenz
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Which of the following researchers found that ducklings will follow the first figure they see within their first day of hatching?
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Their knowledge that rocking behavior develops before crawling behavior and that rocking behavior eventually goes away once crawling behavior begins
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Researchers hypothesize that the older a baby is when it begins to crawl, the longer it will take the baby to stop exhibiting earlier rocking behaviors. The researchers go into the infant room of a day care center every day for six weeks. Every time a baby rocks, the researchers record it. They document which babies are already crawlers and at what age each started crawling. What will help the researchers with their investigation?
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rooting
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When a newborn infant is touched on the cheek, the infant will turn its head toward the source of stimulation. This behavior is known as
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Children progress from a morality based on punishment and reward to one defined by convention, and ultimately to one defined by abstract ethical principles.
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Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning is best described by which of the following?
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preconventional
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In trying to replicate Lawrence Kohlberg's research, several college psychology students observed four-year-olds in five prekindergarten classes. Their observations most likely indicated that these children were
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Having people solve moral dilemmas
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Lawrence Kohlberg used which of the following techniques to illustrate the stages of his theory?
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The information processing approach, because it focuses on encoding and retrieving information
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Amehd, a fifth grader, is passing a note to his friend in class while his teacher is teaching a new type of math problem. When he is later tested on the material, he is unable to recall how to solve a similar problem. Which of the following theories best explains Amehd's difficulty in recalling how to do this type of problem?
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Authoritative
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The most well-adjusted and socially competent children tend to come from homes where parents employ which of the following parental styles?
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Jean Piaget's theory of conservation
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Fekru knows that when his teacher pours water from a small, wide glass into a tall, thin glass, the amount of water remains the same even though the tall, thin glass looks like it has more water. Which of the following theories best explains Fekru's ability?
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Concrete operational
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According to Jean Piaget, what is the earliest stage at which a child is capable of using simple logic to think about objects and events?
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androgyny
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Sabrina plays on a rugby team and collects antique dolls. Peter is on a football team and loves to cook. Both Sabrina and Peter demonstrate a high degree of
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A college student is no longer kept awake by her roommate's late-night typing.
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The concept of habituation is best exemplified by which of the following situations?
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Social competence
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Developmental research on the formation of attachment indicates that a child's secure attachment to its mother during infancy is predictive of which of the following during its toddler years?
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an experiment using pregnant rats
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Researchers want to study the effects of teratogens. They should conduct
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Lev Vygotsky's social learning theory, because it includes the concept of zone of proximal development
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Jerry is not able to tie his shoes on his own, but he is able to tie his shoes with the help of his father. Which of the following theories best explains the interaction between Jerry and his father?
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Diana Baumrind
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Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are very strict with their children. They do not spend a lot of time talking with them, except to tell them what to do. Which of the following theorists would be most likely to study this type of parenting behavior?
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temperament
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Jaime, a six month old, is fussy and does not transition well between situations. According to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, this behavior is part of Jaime's
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object permanence
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Understanding that things continue to exist even when they are not within view is called
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Nikos can consider both the height and width of a container.
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Which of the following behaviors is most clearly associated with Jean Piaget's concrete operational stage?
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conservation
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A young child shown a nine-inch round bowl and a six-inch round bowl containing equal amounts of popcorn says he is certain the smaller bowl has more popcorn than the larger bowl. This child has yet to acquire what Jean Piaget called