Mock Exam 3

One of the three major concerns of developmental psychology centers around the issue of:

A teratogen is a(n):

The symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome are most likely to include

Newborns have been observed to show the greatest visual interest in a:

Maturation is to education as ________ is to ________.

According to Piaget, schemas are:

Incorporating new information into existing theories is to ________ as modifying existing theories in light of new information is to ________.

During which of Piaget's stages does a person develop an awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived?

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

The powerful survival impulse that leads infants to seek closeness to their caregivers is called:

Harlow observed that most monkeys raised in total isolation:

Compared to 40 years ago, American men today are marrying:

The ability to learn a new computer software program is to ________ as knowledge of state capitals is to ________.

Today's earlier female sexual maturation is especially likely among:

Piaget is to cognitive development as Kohlberg is to ________ development.

Parents who are demanding and yet sensitively responsive to their children are said to be:

The impact of our cultural backgrounds on the development of our personal values best illustrates the influence of:

Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing:

The personalities of adopted children:

Evolutionary psychology studies the evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of:

According to evolutionary psychologists, our predisposition to overconsume fatty junk foods illustrates that we are biologically prepared to behave in ways that promoted the ________ of our ancestors.

Children raised in the same family are not especially likely to have similar personalities. This most clearly implies that we should be cautious about attributing personality to:

Lacking any exposure to language before adolescence, a person will never master any language due to the ________ of unemployed neural connections:

Since 1960, Americans have experienced a(n):

Men and women are most likely to differ in their:

Gender differences in verbal fluency are consistent with evidence that part of the:

Social learning theorists emphasize that:

Behaviors expected of those who occupy a particular social position define a:

Freud believed that certain troubling symptoms could be traced to painful unconscious memories. This led him to suspect that these symptoms resulted from:

Which of the following techniques did Freud use to discover the latent content of his patients' dreams?

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the:

Freud suggested that slips of the tongue illustrate an incomplete:

Contemporary psychodynamic theorists are most likely to disagree with Freud's assumption that: