Question 1

A teenager,who is easily embarrassed because he is always assuming that everyone is watching him,is demonstrating the concept of ____________,which is a part of the larger construct of adolescent egocentrism.

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Question 2

Studies indicate that children adjust better to remarriage when the ________ parent has the primary responsibility for discipline.

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Question 3

Children's reasoning abilities are the most flexible and creative during Jean Piaget's ______________ stage of cognitive development.

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Question 4

A child who has great curiosity about the world and is either free to explore their environment or is restricted and held back from exploring,is most likely in Erik Erikson's ___________ stage of psychosocial development.

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Question 5

Mary Ainsworth used the ______________ test to classify infant attachment as either securely or insecurely attached.

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Question 6

The concept known as the ________________ is most relevant to distinguishing between the cognitive tasks that a child can do on her own and what she can do with assistance from others.

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Question 7

Having an above average education and having a cognitively stimulating job are two of the factors thought to contribute to the ___________ of cognitive abilities in old age.

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Question 8

___________ refers to modifying or changing schema to understand new experiences.

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Question 9

Children's beliefs about the behaviours that are and are not appropriate for boys and girls are specifically called _________________.

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Question 10

One of the cognitive abilities that decreases with age is ___________,which most likely accounts for why it usually takes older adults longer to visually identify and evaluate stimuli.

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Question 11

One of the primary principles of biological development is the ____________ principle,which describes the tendency for development to progress in a head-to-foot direction.

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Question 12

In his research with wire cylinder surrogate mothers,Harry Harlow demonstrated the importance of _____________ in the establishment of animal attachment.

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Question 13

An infant with ____________ attachment will explore the environment and show some distress when separated from a primary caregiver.

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Question 14

Individuals who have not yet experienced an identity crisis would be classified as having the identity status of __________.

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Question 15

One of the criticisms of Lawrence Kohlberg's model of moral development is that few people appear to reach the _____________ level of moral reasoning.

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Question 16

In their research on temperament,Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess (1977)found that infants identified as ______________ were more likely to develop emotional and behavioural problems over a 10-year period.

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Question 17

Though both have been shown to display similar patterns cross-culturally,____________ anxiety typically occurs several months before ___________ anxiety.

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Question 18

_____________ intelligence refers specifically to the ability to perform mental operations such as abstract reasoning and logically solving problems.

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Question 19

The major developmental milestone of _____________ is achieved during Jean Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.

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Question 20

Some developmental researchers argue for the existence of a "fifth stage" of cognitive development called _____________,which is thought to occur during adulthood.

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Quiz 12: Development Over the Lifespan