Childhood development questions

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Understanding that things continue to exist even when they are not within view is called?

Object performance

Which developmental milestones must be raised before an infant experiences separation anxiety

Object performance

The concept of habituation is best exemplified by which of the following situations?

A college student is no longer kept awake by her roommates late night typing

The fact that I am printing is most certainly took her if the opportunity for imprinting is presented to the organism out a very specific age indicates the existence of?

A critical period

Indian piagets is theory of cognitive development which of the following best exemplifies the concept of accommodation?

An infant trying unsuccessfully to suck her fist opens her mouth wider and is successful

Mary Ainsworth's strange situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's...?

Attachment

Darian's father dictated who Darian's friends should be and what classes he should take, and he set an extremely early curfew. If Darien went against his father's wishes, the repercussions were harsh in swift. What type of parenting did Darien experience?

Authoritarian

Psychologists characterize parents who consistently demand children's compliance without discussion as?

Authoritarian

Which parenting style is characterized by high demands for a Beadiant's in low warmth?

Authoritarian

The most well-adjusted and socially competent children tend to come from homes were parents employee which of the following parental styles?

Authoritative

According to Jean Piaget, what is the early stage out which a child is capable of using simple logic to think about objects and events?

Concrete operational

Young young child shown a 9 inch round bowl and a 6 inch round bowl containing equal amounts of popcorn says he is certain the smallest bowl has more popcorn than the larger bowl this child has yet to acquire what Jean Piaget called?

Conservation

Harry Harlow found that when infant monkeys were startled or frightened, they preferred a cloth Surrogate mother over a wire mother who had food. The baby monkeys responses indicated that?

Contact comfort was more important to them than food

Eleanor Gibson and Richard walk used a visual cliff with a glass covered drop off to examine behavior in crawling infants. Even when coaxed by their mothers to crawl out onto the glass covering, most infants refuse to do so, indicating that they had a valve which of the following?

Depth perception

In Mary Ensworth strange situation experiment, infants who were classified as securely attached or more likely to?

Expressed happiness when the mother returned to the room

Which of the following is more associated with environmental effects then with genetic influence?

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Preschoolers often have trouble burning shirts due to less developed?

Fine motor skills

Hypothetical and deductive thinking or characteristics of which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

Formal operation

To study differences in the cognitive processing of younger and older adults, Genevieve assessed a group of 30-year-olds and a group of 60-year-olds using the same cognitive task. She found no significant difference in cognitive processing between the two groups. Which of the following is a true statement the best explains her findings?

Genevieve's task involved semantic memory, which does not typically show decline among people of the ages she tested

Tina's mother often entertains Tina by bouncing a bunny puppet back-and-forth along the side of Tina's crib. Initially, Tina pays close attention to the puppet but after a while, she begins ignore and continues doing what she was doing before the puppet appeared. Which of the following psychological concepts best explains Tinas exchange in behavior?

Habituation

Which psychologist reported that infant attachment to another goes beyond the satisfaction of the need for nourishment?

Harry Harlow

Which of the following research findings supports A strong biological basis for behavior?

Identical twins who are reared apart have similar levels of intelligence

One criticism of Sigmund Freud psychosexual theory of development is that it?

Is based on empirically unverifiable constructs

Research it Renee Baillargeon found that four month old infants will look longer at a ball if it appears to roll through a solid barrier, demonstrating that babies seem to grasp basic physical laws intuitively. Which of the following theories that this finding challenge?

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development

Which of the following behaviors is most clearly associated with Jean Piaget's concrete operational stage?

Nikos can consider both the height and width of a container

10-month-old Frances throws her Toy out of sight, she looks to see where it falls. Developmental psychologist would say that Frances's behavior indicates that she has developed?

Object performance

The baby looks under the sofa for a ball that had just rolled underneath it. According to Jean Piaget, the babies action shows development of?

Object performance

thea is in a clothing store with her mother. a man walks by and passes behind a clothing rack. thea looks for him on the other side of the rack. her behavior shows she has developed

Object performance

When parents set few controls on their children's television viewing, allowing the children feed them to set individual limits, makes you demands, and do not punish for improper television viewing, the parents exemplify paired to style referred to as?

Permissive

Modern research on Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development indicates that?

Piaget underestimated children's abilities

In a famous series of experiments conducted by Harry Harlow, infant monkeys were separated from their mothers of birth. The infants were then given to surrogate mothers (a terrycloth mother and a wire mother), each of which alternatively had a nursing bottle that provided food to the infants. The experimental results showed that in the frightening situations the infant monkeys?

Preferred the terry cloth mother, even when the wire mother had the nursing bottle

According to Jean Piaget, children cease to exhibit egocentrism during which of the following stages?

Preoperational

Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are characteristics of which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

Preoperational

Primary sex characteristics include which of the following?

Presence of ovaries

When a newborn infant is touched on the cheek the infant will turn his head toward the source of stimulation. The behavior is known as?

Rooting

Jeremy happily played with his colorful blocks while his mother was nearby. When his mother left the room, he became upset, but he quickly stopped crying and began to play with the blocks again. When his mother returned, he greeted her happily. Which of the following patterns of attachment reflects Jeremy's actions?

Secure

Mary Ainsworth's research indicates that a toddler with a secure attachment style is most likely to do which of the following when left left with a caregiver, such as a babysitter, for the first time?

Show distress one left, calm down and play, and run to the mother when she returns

Developmental research on the formation of attachment indicates that a child's secure attachment to his mother during infancy is predictive of which of the following during it's toddler years?

Social competence

Alexandra wants to test her new babies Babinski reflex. To elect the appropriate response, Alexandra will have to?

Stroke the soul of her babies foot

Harry Harlow's experiments with rhésus monkeys suggest which of the following is most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers?

The tactile characteristics of the mother

The result of Harry Harlows experiments with infant monkeys and surrogate mothers show that?

contact comfort was the primary basis of attachment for the infant monkeys

Of the following cognitive milestones which ability tends to be acquired last?

hypothetical thinking

Which of the following describes the different emotional dispositions of infants?

temperament


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