Category 1
In what stage do infants learn about the world by looking, touching, and moving.
Sensorimotor
A four-year-old uses a banana as a pretend telephone. What is the Piaget stage she is demonstrating and the concept ?
Preoperational/Pretend play
What stage of prenatal development lasts 2 weeks to 8 weeks ?
Embryonic stage
A nurse places a finger next to the babies mouth to see if the baby will follow the location of the finger. What reflex is this?
Rooting reflex
Sperm fertilizes an egg in the process of _____
Conception
What is the sequence of stages of moral development as identified by Lawrence Kohlberg?
preconventional, conventional, postconventional
The period of life from about age 13 to 20 years, during which a young person is no longer physically a child but is not yet an independent, self-supporting adult, is called ________.
Adolescence
The emotional bond that forms between an infant and a primary caregiver is called ________.
Attachment
A parent sets a bedtime, explains why sleep matters, and listens to the child’s concerns while maintaining the rule. What is the parenting style shown?
Authoritative
Two babies develop after one fertilized egg splits into two embryos. What is the scientific term for these twins.
Monozygotic twins
Infant reflexes are ________.
innate involuntary behavior patterns
Jermaine tends to rule his home with an iron fist. His children know the rules and they are expected to obey them without question, or there will be harsh consequences. Diana Baumrind would describe Jermaine's parenting style as ________.
Authoritarian
A child from which of the following parenting types would be most likely to lack social skills later in life?
permissive
What term is used to describe a child's inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes except his or her own?
According to Piaget, ________ represents the beginning of the child's language development and symbolic thought.
Object permanence
A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people throughout their lives. This psychologist is most likely working in the field of ________.
Human Development
A gene that actively controls the expression of a trait is called a ________ gene.
Dominant
According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age, in which the child learns to use language as a means of exploring the world, is the ________ stage.
Preoperational
Which of the following describes the way in which monozygotic twins occur?
The egg is fertilized by a single sperm and then splits completely into two separate zygotes.
Your little sister picks up objects, feels every part of them, and then puts them in her mouth. What stage of Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development does this behavior suggest she is in?
Sensorimotor
Edmund is a Boy Scout. While on a camping trip, the scout leader tells the boys to stay away from the lake. Some of the scouts ignore the leader and go fishing by the lake anyway. Edmund wants to do what the leader tells him and believes that good behaviors are rewarded while bad behaviors are punished. Which level of moral reasoning is he in?
Preconventional
Brad is 18 and is looking into career options. He is currently deciding whether he wants to become a gourmet chef or a race car driver. Brad is at what stage of Erik Erikson's psychosocial development?
Identity v. Role Confusion
A researcher who selects a sample of people of varying ages and studies them at one point in time is, by definition, using the ________ method.
cross-sectional design
The correct sequence of the five stages of death and dying postulated by Kübler-Ross is ________.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
A student argues that an unfair law should be challenged because protecting human rights matters more than obeying every law. What stage of moral development is this?
Postconventional