Psychology 101 Chapter 9 Quiz 2

Which of the following best defines teratogen?

It is any agent that causes a birth defect.

_____ is the specialization of function in one hemisphere of the brain or the other.

Lateralization

Which of the following is a difference between older and younger adults?

Older adults tend to not do as well as younger adults in most aspects of memory.

Which psychologist articulated the steps of cognitive development from infancy to adulthood?

Piaget

The main class of male sex hormones is:

androgens.

The ability to multiply two numbers together falls under _____ development.

cognitive

Assimilation allows the person to enjoy a feeling of meaning, because:

experiences fit into his or her preexisting schemas.

Jason is working on a problem for his science class and is systematically going over every possible outcome. Jason is in the _____ stage of cognitive development.

formal operational

The _____ technique in studying infant perception involves searching for a reliable preference for one stimulus over another.

preferential looking

Which of the following terms means that even in the face of adversity, a person shows signs of positive functioning?

Resilience

Puberty marks the onset of:

adolescence.

According to developmental psychologists, nature refers to:

an individual's biological inheritance.

If 20-year-old Peter is unsure of what he should do with his life and where he fits in, Erikson would most likely agree that Peter did not successfully complete the stage of:

identity versus identity confusion.

Infant attachment is defined as the close emotional bond between an infant and:

its caregivers.

The documentary titled "56 Up" is a great example of a _____________ study in development.

longitudinal

A(n) _____ assesses the same participants multiple times over a lengthy period.

longitudinal study

"Out of sight, out of mind" can describe the behavior of a child who has not mastered the concept of:

object permanence

At the preconventional level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development, individuals decide right and wrong based on:

punishments or rewards.

If children cannot grasp the concept of conservation, they are unable to:

recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape.

According to Piaget, accommodation refers to:

the adjustment of current schemas in order to make sense of new experiences.

In Harry Harlow's classic attachment study, they found that monkeys:

were more attached to artificial mothers who were warm and soft.