Psych Chap. 9 Quiz

Identity vs. Confusion

Adolescents (ages 12-18) experiment with and develop a sense of who they are and what roles they want to play. What is the primary developmental task of this stage?

integrity vs. despair

After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. What is the primary developmental task of this stage?

Which parenting style is most encouraged in modern America?

Authoritative

concrete operational

During the ________ stage, children understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations.

Postformal

In ________ thinking, decisions are made based on situations and circumstances, and logic is integrated with emotion as adults develop principles that depend on contexts.

Which of the following statements about parenting styles is true?

In some ethnic groups, authoritarian parenting is as beneficial as authoritative parenting.

resistant

It is hard to tell how Guy's father will respond to Guy. Sometimes he is responsive to Guy's needs, but he is just as likely to ignore Guy. At 18 months old, Guy clings to his father, but he is just as likely to reject his father if his father tries to play with him. Guy becomes angry when his father leaves, and Guy is difficult to comfort even after his father returns. What kind of attachment is this?

Assimilation

One-year-old Ainsley learned the schema for trucks because his family has a truck. When Ainsley sees trucks on television, she says, "Look mommy, truck!" This exemplifies ________.

Which of the following is a developmental issue children face during the formal operational stage?

moral reasoning

Teratogen

A ________ is any environmental agent—biological, chemical, or physical—that causes damage

Scott knows that one piece of pizza cut into two slices is the same amount as cutting the same piece of pizza into three slices.

Which of the following illustrates conservation?

Sigmund Freud

Who called the stages of development psychosexual stages?.

Psychosocial

________ development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships.

Children who are developing disorganized attachment to their caregivers most likely have been ________.

abused