Exam 3: Human Development

In this culture, parenting tends to be lenient and permissive for the first few years.Then, after age five, these parents begin to expect respect, obedience, self-control, and self-discipline from their children.The parents also tend to act as teachers who encourage hard work, moral behavior, and achievement as well as setting aside one's own desires when the greater good of the family is at stake.This type of parenting is most often shown by the __________-American culture.

According to Erikson, a person will have a more difficult time dealing with later crises if the person

According to Ryff, autonomy (personal freedom), self-acceptance, and environmental mastery are three of the six elements of __________ during adulthood.

Learning to converse easily and accurately in a second language requires a great deal of __________ intelligence.

When nine-year-old Jenny was found by social workers in the attic of her family's home, she looked more like a five-year-old physically, was mute, intellectually disabled, and emotionally damaged.Jenny most likely experienced

Which of the following was NOT found to be a personality trait of the happiest people?

A lack of normal stimulation, nutrition, comfort, or love is referred to as

Parents around the world use low, smooth, drawn-out tones to

Which represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of intellectual development?

Regarding adult development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

If an unborn child is exposed to X-rays, PCBs, or drugs taken by the mother, the child could be born with a

Because Baby Eddie has a pet dog, he thinks all animals have four legs and a tail, bark, and are furry.The first time he sees a cat, this theory works until the cat meows.Baby Eddie must now change his original idea.This change in Baby Eddie's thinking so that he now knows that some animals called dogs bark and some animals called cats meow illustrates

Describe four adaptive reflexes, and explain how each is elicited and how each aids survival of the newborn.

Explain how parents and teachers can utilize Vygotsky's ideas to help children become more skillful learners.

Harlow's studies of surrogate monkey mothers showed that

Children begin to break away from concrete objects and specific examples as their thinking becomes more self-reflective and based more on abstract principles after the age of

Which of the following is considered a congenital problem or "birth defect"?

Assimilation and accommodation are central to whose theory of development?

Eleven-year-old Justin wants to go to the movies with his friends.His parents explain that they know he wants to go but that it is important that the whole family go to a supper honoring his grandfather tonight.This style of parenting in which parents give reasons for their decisions will most likely lead Justin to be a(n)

Hispanic families place a high value on the centrality of the family, or