Q14
Samantha and Gebriel take their son to Sea World. When they asked him two years later if he remembered going he answered no. Their son was probably less than ____ years old at the time of the trip.
4
The importance of schemas was MOST clearly highlighted by _____ and his cognitive development theory.
Piaget
is the orderly sequence of biological growth.
Maturation
Kendra is a 20-month-old baby who is still crawling. She has not started to walk yet. What would her pediatrician likely say to her mother?
This is actually rare as most babies are walking by the time they are 15 months of age.
Angela is a 7-month-old baby who rolled over for the first time at 4 months of age and can now sit without support. These milestones reflect:
a maturing nervous system.
After Nadia learned that penguins cannot fly, she had to modify her existing concept of birds. This BEST illustrates the process of:
accommodation.
With respect to parenting style, coercive is to confrontative as _____ is to _____.
authoritarian; authoritative
Kelly is 11 months of age and just began crawling. This is likely a result of Kelly sleeping on her:
back.
The Swiss scholar Jean Piaget made groundbreaking contributions to the study of _____ development.
cognitive
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
Five-year-old Oliver complained to his mom that the pizza was not big enough. Oliver's mom cut the pizza into smaller slices, thus making him happy, as he believed the pizza had become larger. Oliver lacks the concept of _____.
conservation
The local hospital has publicized for years that new parents should have their babies sleep on their backs and not their stomachs in order to reduce incidences of crib death. How might following this good advice impact their baby's development?
crawling will be delayed
In one study described in the textbook, infants with difficult temperaments were randomly assigned to either a condition in which their mothers received sensitivity training or a condition in which their mothers received no training. In this study, infants whose mothers received sensitivity training were in the _____ group.
experimental
Five-year-old Lilah is beginning to show signs of being able to plan ahead in a somewhat rational manner. At her age, this development is likely due to neural networks sprouting in her _____ lobe.
frontal
Carolyn Rovee-Collier's research on infants revealed that: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
infants remember specific associations.
A researcher secretly puts a dab of rouge on a child's nose before placing him in front of a mirror. The child points to the rouge on the mirror's reflected image. From this example we can conclude that the child:
lacks self-recognition.
Which of these choices pairs a parenting style with the correct description?
negligent - uninvolved
Five-year-old Ling is beginning to show signs of being able to plan ahead in a somewhat rational manner. At her age, this development is likely due to:
neural networks sprouting in her frontal lobes.
Beginning at around 8 months of age, infants may become fearful around unfamiliar people. This is called _____ anxiety.
stranger
Based on Harlow's research with monkeys, what is the MOST helpful thing a person can do for a frightened infant or child?
touch or hold her
The Markowitz family has a son, Noah, who has exceptionally high intelligence and excels in math. However, he lacks social and communicative skills, which limit his ability to sustain normal peer relationships. With which of these is Noah MOST likely to be diagnosed?
autism spectrum disorder
Luca's parents set firm rules but are responsive to his needs. They give him a chance to explain himself and also explain their position on why they cannot allow him to stay out past midnight. Luca's parents have a(n) ______ parenting style.
authoritative
