psychology final quiz 2

A two-year-old child's family has a pet rabbit. When the family visits the zoo, the child sees a hamster for the first time and calls it a rabbit because of the physical features that are common to a rabbit and a hamster. According to Piaget, which cognitive process will most likely modify the child's understanding?

Accommodation

Phoebe recently suffered a major fall in which she sustained brain injuries. Since then, she has had immense difficulty in communicating with others. She appears to understand what others tell her, but her responses are slow and laborious. Her sentences are always incomplete, with important grammatical words missing. Which of the following conditions best reflects Phoebe's case?

Broca's aphasia

Which of the following is true of estrogen production in females?

It stimulates the growth of tissue in the hips.

At the postconventional level of adolescence

Moral judgments are derived from personal values, not from conventional standards or authority figures

Which of the following statements is true of a neural impulse?

The process by which a neural impulse travels is electrochemical.

Monozygotic twins

are important in the study of the relative influences of nature and nurture because differences between monozygotic twins are the result of nurture.

People are at the height of their cognitive powers during

early adulthood

In male adolescents, ejaculatory ability is the

evidence of reproductive capacity.

Acetylcholine

excitatory at the heart but inhibitory at synapses between nerves and muscles that involve voluntary movement.

According to Jeffrey Arnett, The age of identity exploration is characterized by

experimenting with careers and romantic possibilities.

The somatic nervous system controls activities such as

heartbeat, respiration, digestion, and dilation of the pupils.

Epinephrine

intensifies most emotions and is central to the experience of fear and anxiety.

A feature of crystallized intelligence is that

it does not increase throughout the life span.

Shawna is in her mid-fifties. Her college-going son lives in a separate apartment in the same city while her parents live with her. She cooks meals for her son regularly and does his laundry. At the same time, she looks after her parents, who are dependent on her. Shawna is facing the difficulties _____.

of the sandwich generation

Alia was just about to fall asleep when she heard something crash in the kitchen. The noise jolted her awake. This was due to the secretion of

oxytocin

early adulthood

people are at their height of sensory sharpness, strength, reaction time, and cardiovascular fitness.

Some researchers consider the__________to be the "executive center" of the brain, where decisions are made to keep information in working memory and to solve problems.

prefrontal cortex

According to Piaget, the__________is the second stage of cognitive development in children.

preoperational stage

Selective optimization with compensation is the

reshaping of a person's life to concentrate on what he or she finds to be important and meaningful in the face of physical decline and possible cognitive impairment.

What happens When children reared by adoptive parents are more similar to their natural parents in a particular trait

strong evidence exists for a genetic role in the development of that trait.

According to Piaget, objective responsibility is the assignment of blame according to

the amount of damage done rather than the motives of the actor

The embryonic stage of pregnancy lasts from

the beginning of the third month until the birth of the baby.