Psychology Chapter 9 Quiz

________ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.

Physical

One-year-old Ainsley learned the schema for trucks because his family has a truck. When Ainsley sees cars driving on television, she says, "Look mommy, truck!" This exemplifies ________.

Assimilation

Which parenting style is most encouraged in modern America?

Authoritative

According to ________, lifespan development encompasses eight stages and at each stage we encounter a psychosocial crisis that must be resolved.

Erik Erikson

Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?

Object Permanence

Which theorist promoted the idea that development is fundamentally affected by one's culture as well as their interactions with their own environment?

Vygotsky

After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. Within the psychosocial model of development, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

Integrity vs Despair

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.

Milestones

________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.

Cognitive

During Piaget's proposed ________ stage of development, children understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations. At the same time they lack the ability to think abstractly.

Concrete Operational