Exam 3: Human Development

Since elementary school, Tom has always shown a sense of entitlement, arguing with students and teachers to get his way. In high school, he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and got into criminal behavior that his parents were able to erase from his record. Which type of parenting would most likely have resulted in Tom's behavior?

Sam is a young adult, who is good at "bouncing back" after bad experiences and has the strength, self-control, and positive coping skills to thrive even in difficult circumstances. Sam's parents were most likely ___________ parents.

Research has shown that many adults can think formally about some topics but display concrete thinking when the topic is unfamiliar. This illustrates that formal operational thought

Vygotsky realized that some tasks are just beyond a child's reach. However, children receiving sensitive guidance from skilled partners could make rapid progress. Interactions like this are most helpful when they take place within a child's

Simone was a moderately shy infant whose very extroverted parents rarely gave her time to adapt to a new social situation before thrusting her into another one. This style of parenting led Simone to become an extremely shy child as she entered school. This illustrates that

Which combination could produce a blue-eyed child?

When interacting with their children, mothers tend to do which of the following more than fathers?

The use of inductive and deductive reasoning and being able to test hypotheses in a scientific manner are characteristic of __________ thinking.

Rats that were raised in the enriched cage environments

You are over at a friend's house in the backyard and his son, Sam is taking a stick and waving it through the air, making airplane noises. You then take the stick and push it along the ground, making car noises. Sam angrily takes back the stick and says, "No, it's a plane!" Sam appears to be in Piaget's __________ stage.

Six-year-old Gerean is taking music, dance, gymnastic, and art lessons each week as well as watching educational videos and going through stacks of math flashcards each night. Gerean's schedule likely illustrates

According to research by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, children in high-quality day care were found to exhibit all of the following EXCEPT

The long, ladder-like chains of chemical molecules that act as a code for genetic information are known as

The average American infant is first able to sit alone, without support, around age

Little Benjamin goes to the zoo with his mother, where he sees his first zebra. Proudly, he exclaims, "Horse!" His mother replies, "No dear, that's a zebra." Benjamin will have to modify his concept of horse to "horses don't have black and white stripes." By learning that a zebra is different from a horse, Benjamin is exhibiting which of the following processes, according to Piaget?

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

When children understand that rolling a ball of clay into a "snake" does not increase the amount of clay or that pouring liquid from a tall, narrow glass into a shallow dish does not reduce the amount of liquid, the children have developed

A pattern of speech used when talking to infants that is marked by a higher-pitched voice; short, simple sentences; repetition; slower speech; and exaggerated voice inflections is known as __________.

Children continually gain specific knowledge and do NOT undergo stage-like leaps in general mental ability, according to

Erikson felt that each stage of development was distinguished by a(n)