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Aimee was late coming home from school. Even though she had a reasonable excuse, her parents didn't listen to it. They grounded her for a month and suspended her allowance. This punishment is most representative of which style of parenting?

Authoritarian

​Which of the following physical changes that occurs during puberty is described as a secondary sex characteristic?

Breast development

Kübler-Ross's model

Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance

All of the following people are using compensation to successfully respond to challenges of aging EXCEPT

Eduardo, who maintains an optimistic mindset and seeks out new challenges.

According to Piaget, full cognitive maturity occurs in which stage of cognitive development?

Formal operational

A medical doctor believes that terminally ill people have the right to control the time and circumstances of their death. Although assisting a suicide is illegal where he lives, the doctor provides the means for many terminally ill people to end their lives. The doctor's actions best fit which level of moral reasoning?

Postconventional

A child who explains that putting his toys away is good because he will get a treat is at what level of moral development?

Preconventional

Adolescence can best be defined as

a culturally defined phase in which a person transitions from a child to a young adult

Which of the following describes Piaget's sensorimotor stage of development?

birth to the age of 2

All of the following are stages in Kohlberg's theory EXCEPT

care and justice orientation

A child is shown two identical balls of clay. Then an adult squashes one ball into a pancake shape. She then asks the child if one of the shapes contains more clay and the child answers, "Yes, the pancake does." In Piagetian terms, the child is in the

concrete operational stage.

Piaget's theory

disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait, and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.

A major determining factor of psychological adjustment later in life is

physical health.

adolescent risks

smoking, using drugs, alcohol ingestion increases incidence of accidents such as drowning & MVA; risk of MVA is higher among 16-19 yo than any other age group; sex.

According to Vygotsky, children learn best when the relationship between adult and child is most similar to

tutor and student.

All of the following are characteristic of children in the preoperational stage of cognitive development EXCEPT

understanding of conservation.

According to Erikson, what is the typical sequence of psychosocial stages in childhood?

Trust, autonomy, initiative, industry

According to Erikson, psychosocial development in late adulthood centers on the crisis of

ego integrity versus despair.

All of the following are examples of teratogens EXCEPT

folic acid.

All of the following are associated with preserved intellectual ability in later life EXCEPT

gender.

generate hypotheses when solving a simple problem.

generate hypotheses when solving a simple problem.

According to Erikson, the psychosocial challenge in middle adulthood is

generativity versus stagnation.

According to Piaget, an organized system of mental representations used to understand the world is a(n)

schema

A pattern of infant-caregiver attachment in which children explore confidently and return to the parent or caregiver for reassurance is called

secure attachment.

A rigid, controlling parenting style is referred to as

authoritarian.

A fertilized egg cell is called a(n)

. zygote.

Ping has a birth defect affecting her right arm. During which weeks of prenatal development is it likely that she was exposed to a teratogen that caused this defect?

​Weeks 4 to 8

All cultures are similar in

the goal of making their children responsible for their behavior.

Adolescent egocentrism is revealed by

personal fable.