infancy and childhood

Imagine that 10-year-old children were shown photographs of 3-year-old preschoolers and asked to spot former classmates. What were the probable results?

They forgot all of their classmates.

piaget used the term______to denote the ability to change one's mental frameworks on the basis of new information and experiences.

accommodation

______developed the strange situation to investigate______

ainsworth; attachment

in piaget's theory, the process of fitting new experiences into existing schemas is called . The process of adjusting ideas to make room for new information is called .

assimilation; accommodation

Joan's mom and dad believe that parents know best. They expect Joan to obey all parental rules without uttering a word, and they are quick to impose stern punishments if she does not comply. In Baumrind's terms, Joan's parents are:

authoritarian

asperger syndrome is now called_____disorder.

autism spectrum

Sam is a 12-month-old infant who just began crawling. This may be a result of Sam sleeping on his:

back

humans have the most brain cells they will ever have at

birth

Because of cataracts, a neighbor was deprived of visual experiences during early childhood. Last year, her vision was restored by surgery but she is having difficulty in dealing with the visual world. This is probably because:

brain cells normally devoted to vision died or were diverted to other uses.

Western legal systems that suggest that children who are 7 or 8 years old have attained the ability to reason are consistent with Piaget's theory because basic reasoning skills appear during the _____ period.

concrete operational

a(n) period is an optimal time early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli must take place to facilitate proper development

critcal

the developmental psychologist proposed that children develop basic trust, the sense that the world is fundamentally predictable and reliable.

erik erickson

christina is in the eighth grade and is take pre-algebra. she is doing very well and will be studying algebra next year. christina is most likely in which of piaget's stages of cognitive development ?

formal operational

Lanae is 3 years old and her favorite book is Are You My Mother?, a children's book about a baby bird that hatches while its mother is away. The baby bird then leaves the nest in search of its mother. The baby bird approaches the first animal it sees. When it is told that the animal is not its mother, it then approaches the second animal it sees, and so on. _____ is an attachment concept that is an aspect of this story.

imprinting

which statement best reflects a conclusion of the carolyn rovee-collier infant research discussed in the textbook?

infants retained specific motor learning, but not generalized motor learning

Like infants all over the world, Jonah could sit before he could stand, and stand before he could walk. This orderly sequence of motor milestones reflects:

maturation

a game of peekaboo with his dad excites william during the first six months of his life because william actually thinks his dad has disappeared. this is because william lacks

object permanence

scientists are exploring whether treatment with the hormone might improve social understanding in those with autism spectrum disorder.

oxytocin

during the stage of jeans piaget's theory of cognitive development, children are able to represent things with words and images and use intuitive rather than logical reasoning

preoperational

preoperational children know that objects exist even when they are not visible. they can also:

pretend that one object is another

neurochemically, a slow response has been found in abused children who became aggressive teens and adults.

serotonin