Exam 2

At which point do the environmental factors begin to influence a baby's development?

Conception

Which of the following is not classified as a stage of death?

Crying

Which is the best name for the molecular structure that contains coded genetic information?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Which of the following areas of psychology is specifically interested in the changes in behavior from conception to death?

Developmental Psychology

A common form of prosocial behavior is:

Empathy

Which of the following is in the prenatal period

Germinal Period Embryonic Period Fetal Period

What is the main point of the textbook discussion of Milgram's obedience study?

Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.

Which is the most harmful form of prejudice?

Racism

What is an example of a teratogen?

Radiation Lead Pesticides

Which of the following contains the ideas of the development of self-awareness, attachment to parents or caregivers, and relationships with other children and adults?

Social Development

Which of the following is not a social influence?

Time

Heredity is to _____ and environment it to ______.

Both Nature and Nurture

Which type of parenting enforces rigid rules and demands strict obedience to authority?

Authoritarian Parents

Why are girls more likely than boys to be victims of cyberbullying?

because it is a less direct and nonphysical form of bullying

Learned helplessness is emphasized by ________ theories of depression.

behaviorist

When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring, we'd say that development is taking a(n) ________ trajectory.

discontinuous

Which of the following is a hypothesis with the belief that people get what they deserve?

just-world

A negative attitude and feeling toward an individual that is based solely on that person's membership in a specific group is called ________.

prejudice

During the international coronavirus pandemic, many people began acting aggressively toward individuals of Chinese descent, blaming them for the virus even though most of those people had lived in the United States for their entire lives. Those Chinese-Americans were the victim of a process called ________.

scapegoating

Which of the following is the single most important factor that will predict the person that you become friends with or engage in a romantic relationship with?

the amount of contact you have with people