chapter 9 quiz

What is an advanced directive

A legal document that provides specific interventions that a person wants

Jory, a six year old is picking out a card for his mother's birthday He picks the card with a picture of Lightning McQueen, reasoning the that since he loves Cars his mother does too. What does this exemplify?

egocentrism

______ development involves learning attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity

Psychosocial

Early maturing girls are_____

at a higher risk of depression, substance abuse, and eating disorder

What does nurture refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

biology

Which of the following is not a development issue children face during the preoperational stage?

object permanence

During Jean Piaget's ______ stage, the world is experienced through what we can take in through our perceptual systems and how we can move our bodies

sensorimotor

which of the following is not one of the reasons for the new lifespan development category called emerging adulthood?

younger average age for marriage

A(n) ______ begins as a one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge

zygote

18 month-old Gordon learned the schema for apples. When Gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, "Look mommy, apples!" His mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. He now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. This exemplifies ______

accommodation