Exam 3: Human Development

Sarah is seven months old.Her parents spend three hours a day for five weeks straight holding Sarah up next to furniture in hopes that she will grab onto the furniture and stand by herself.Sarah hates this treatment and screams and cries, but her parents are unyielding.Finally, at the end of the fifth week, Sarah stands up by herself while holding onto the furniture.Her parents smile triumphantly.What have they accomplished here?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of fetal alcohol syndrome?

According to psychologist Diener and his associates, subjective well-being occurs when people are generally satisfied with their lives and

According to research, what percent of men and women believe they have experienced a midlife crisis?

At what age do children actually have more brain synapses than adults do​?

The growth in connections between brain cells that occurs in waves supports which theory of cognitive development?

Psychologist Gloriayn Rovee-Collier placed babies on their backs under a colorful crib mobile and tied a ribbon around the baby's ankle, connecting it to the mobile.Whenever the babies spontaneously kicked their legs, the mobile jingled and rattled.Within minutes, infants as young as what age learned to control their movements and kick faster to move the mobile more?

Which of the following may explain why Piaget underestimated the abilities of infants?

The pleasant, reassuring feeling infants get from touching something soft and warm, especially their mother, is referred to as

Because she does not want to "spoil" her new baby, Theresa feeds and takes care of her baby's physical needs when she thinks the baby needs the care, not when the baby cries to indicate his needs.If Theresa continues caring for the baby in this way, the baby is likely to develop

A child who does not form a loving bond early in life tends to suffer impairment in their social development.This statement emphasizes the importance of the

A specialist in the psychology of language is called a(n)__________.

According to Kübler-Ross, the typical order of the emotional reactions to impending death is anger, depression, bargaining, denial and isolation, and acceptance.

After being adopted, the children who were raised in severely overcrowded orphanages where they got little attention, showed all of the following characteristics EXCEPT for

Samantha went from sitting to standing to walking and never crawled.Her motor development would be

The processes within cells that translate the "genetic blueprint" encoded in the genome, step by step, into an actual organism are called __________ processes.

James has one brown-eye gene and one blue-eye gene.His wife Carolyn also has one brown-eye gene and one blue-eye gene.What is the chance that their child could have blue eyes?

A thanatologist studies

According to Vygotsky, children's thinking develops through

In the moral dilemma in your textbook that involved the druggist and the man who could not afford the medicine for his sick wife, which of the following responses would demonstrate the conventional level?