PSY 101- Chapter 9 Quiz

A two-year-old has a pet dog named Sophie. The child visit her neighbor and sees the neighbors pet dog. Even though the neighbors dog is larger end of a different color, the child pointed to it and called it a dog. Which of Piaget's Cognitive processes is the child demonstrating?

Assimilation

According to Piaget, the _________ is the second stage of cognitive development in children

Preoperational stage

Harry Harlow discovered that monkeys and possibly humans have a need for_________.

Contact comfort

Which of the following is the correct order of prenatal development?

Germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage

A mother is playing with her eight month old son. She places a toy in front of her son and then takes it away. She notices that her son start searching for the toy. Which aspect of Piaget's sensorimotor stage of development is depicted in this scenario?

Object permanence

____________are simple inborn responses elicited by specific stimuli

Reflexes

Which of the following is the correct order of Piagets stage of cognitive development

Sensorimotor , preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

In the context of prenatal development, the fetal stage last from;

The beginning of the third month of pregnancy until birth

Which of the following is a feature of the germinal stage of prenatal development?

The zygote divide repeatedly while moving to the uterus

In the context of perceptual development which of the following is true of newborns?

They are near sighted when they're born

Which of the following statements is true of the hearing capability of newborns?

They can hear well when they are born

T OR F- newborn children do not know that it is necessary to eat to survive. They turn their head towards stimuli that prod or stroke the cheek, chin or corner of the mouth. This is termed rooting

True

The embryo is connected to the placenta by the_________

Umbilical cord

T OR F- According to the Piaget's stages Of development, when children are in the concrete operational stage, they are more egocentric then when they are in the pre-operational stage

False

T OR F- Prior to six months of age, infants realize that objects removed from site still exist and try to find them. They show object permanence, which makes it possible to play peekaboo

False

T OR F- Research shows that children of authoritarian parents have greater self reliance, self-esteem, social competence, and achievement motivation than other children

False

According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage Of child development is dominated by_______________.

Learning to coordinate perception of the self and of the environment with motor activity

Which of the following is a characteristic of the fetal stage of prenatal development?

The fetus alternates between wakefulness and sleep

According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which of the following is true of children in the concrete operational stage?

They center on the motives of wrongdoers as well as on the amount of damage done when assigning blame

During the Embryonic stage of prenatal development the _________

sex organs start to differentiate.