Psychology Chapter 9 Quiz

intimacy versus isolation

A 30-year-old who makes an emotional commitment to a partner by confidently sharing her identity with her partner is experiencing Erikson's stage of ____.

Ego integrity versus Despair

A 75-year-old who desires to feel that her life has been complete and without significant regrets is most likely in Erikson's ____ stage.

zygote

A fertilized egg is called a(n) ____.

initiative versus guilt

A four-year-old child who ambitiously seeks to discover his environment and its expectations of him, would be in Erikson's stage of ____.

stable

According to Erik Erikson, an adolescent who does not successfully handle the tasks of the identity versus role confusion stage may fail to form a ____ identity.

zone of proximal development

According to Lev Vygotsky, instruction from a parent can aid a child's cognitive development, particularly if the instruction is within the child's ____.

Interpreting a Shakespearean sonnet

According to Piaget, which lesson plan would be inappropriate for children in the concrete operations stage of cognitive development?

preconventional

An automobile driver who justifies speeding by saying that it is okay as long you do not have to pay a fine is most likely reasoning at the ____ level of moral development.

21

At the end of the first year of life, an average infant will weigh about ____ pounds.

authoritarian

Bill believes that children need physical punishment and are usually not competent enough to make their own decisions or be involved in family decisions. Diana Baumrind would characterize his parenting style as ____.

everyone else sees the world as the child does

By egocentrism, Piaget meant that the child believes that ___

Kohlberg's model is biased against the way that females think about moral issues

Carol Gilligan believes that ____.

rules; principles

Conventional moral reasoning is to ____ as postconventional moral reasoning is to ____.

Despair

In Erikson's stages of adult development, if one does not achieve ego integrity in old age, the result is likely to be _____

cannot think about something unless it is being sensed or acted upon in some way

In the sensorimotor stage, Piaget believed that the child ____.

Accommodation

Jackie has now accepted the death of her brother and has refocused her energy on her children and husband. It is most likely that Jackie is in which phase of grief?

abstract principles of morality

Postconventional moral reasoning is based on ____.

provide initial guidance and then withdraw as children are able to complete the task on their own

Scaffolding occurs when parents ____

have depth perception

The "visual cliff" studies show that infants at six months ____.

culturally defined and vary from society to society

The schemas for gender-role behavior are

attachment style

The strange situation procedure is used to measure ____.

Brain abnormalities

What is a typical characteristic of fetal alcohol syndrome?

fluid intelligence

When playing the game show Jeopardy, contestants must be able to quickly hit their buzzers to give a response. Quickly hitting the buzzer is an example of ____.

Fetal, embryonic, germinal

Which sequence represents the stages of prenatal development from longest to shortest?

Abstract

Your 14-year-old niece would be expected to differ from your nine-year-old nephew in the ability to engage in ______ Thinking