exam 1 pt 1

Darryl thinks his mom does not exist when they are playing hide and seek. He is in Piaget's __ stage of development

Sensorimotor

During the Strange sitation test, Grady begins crying when his mom leaves the room. When his mom retuens, grady holds up his arms, asking to be picked up. However, when his mom picks him up, he pushes her away angrily. Grady behavior is consistent with an ____ attachment style.

Ambivalent

Which of the following is NOT a psychoactive drug that alters consciousness?

An antibiotic

When his sister becomes pregnate, tyrone learns the effect of teratogens, which included all of the following EXCEPT

Asprin

Zandra's mother brings her 2-year-old daughter to a new dentist. Sandra's mother leaves the room and Zandra is momentarily alone with the dental hygienist, whom Zandra smiles at and plays with. When Zandra's mother returns, Zandra barely glances up and continues to play patty-cake with the dental hygienist. Zandra would most likely be classified as having a(n) ___ attachment.

Avoidant

Robby is 11 months old and has begun making speech sounds like bubu and memem. On the other hand, 16 months old Rebecca can produce two word sentences like daddy each and mama give. Robby's speech is ____ whereas Rebecca's speech is___

Babbling, telegraphic

The spinal cord is part of the ____ nervous system.

Central

If Ansel believes in a dynamic systems perspective, he most likely believes that development occurs through a series of interactions between the child's biology, his or her ___, and his or her ___.

Culture; environment

Phil has been having trouble remembering where he left his keys, glasses and favorite book. Now he also forgets to brush his teeth, comb his hair and put clothes on in the morning. Phil is most likely to experience...

Dementia

Dr. Woolston is interested in studying teenagers' social lives and the challenges they face. Dr. Woolston should consult with his colleague ___, who would argue that the main difficulty teenagers face is

Erikson; identity

Taylor was in a car accident when she was six months pregnant. Her doctors are worried that the accident may have caused problem with prenatal development because she is in the ___ period

Fetal

Peggy's parents are amazed at how much their daughter has changed. Over the past year, she became interested in doing chemistry experiments. Peggy predicts what will happen when someone combines two chemicals together and then observes the result to see whether her hypothesis was correct. That means Peggy is doing abstract and problem solving thinking. Peggy is most likely on the _____ stage of cognitive development.

Formal operational

Nicholas is an infant researcher and wants to use the Strange Situation test in is work. Nicholas is most likely interested in seeing:

How infants respond to separation and reunion with their caregivers.

Shayne works as a researcher conducting studies in developmental psychology. Which of the research questions is Shayne least likely to address in his work?

How is auditory information processed in the brain?

When a person experinces changes in memory, perception or voluntary action as a result of suggestions made by another person, he or she is most likely experiencing

Hypnosis

The part of the brain that is known as the interpreter is the____ hemisphere because it___.

Left, tries to construct a world that makes sense.

Occasionally, Jessie will fall asleep at inappropriate times, for example, in the middle of talking to a customer at work. Based on this information, Jessie might be experiecing

Narcolepsy

The basic building blocks of the nervous system are the

Neurons

Janice is learning about the alphabet and how to read, but she is struggling to make the S and Z sounds. Janice is having difficulty with

Phonemes

Camden is explaining all the different stages of development he has learned in his intro psych class. Which of the following is the correct order for all the periods of human development?

Prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood.

Research shows that marriage has psychoscial benefits for the couple. Research has found support for all of the following findings EXCEPT that

Same- sex married couples show fewer of the benifts of marriage

A Split brain client is shown a frog in her right visual field. This information is processed by

The left side of her occipital lobe

Brooke is a developmental psychologist. Which of the following is Brooke most likely to study?

The ways in which children differ from adults in their thought processes.

Kara explains to her roommate why Harry Harlow's monkey experiments were so important to explain an infant socio emotional development. Kara correctly says that his results demonstrate that

comforting touch is more important that food, particularly when an infant is stressed