Exam 3: Human Development

Fathers tend to engage their children in unusual play, while mothers tend to engage their children in more conventional play.

A failure to develop a consistent identity results in

Eric's father is in the military and has been away from home for over nine months without leave and has not seen his son since Eric was two months old. Eric's father comes home and is anxious to spend time with his wife and son. However, during the first few hours of his return, Eric cries and screams when he is alone with his father (without his mother being present). Eric is exhibiting

Thinking that makes little or no use of reasoning or logic is called

Which reflex helps a baby find a bottle nipple or breast?

When the mother is standing over the crib where the infant is, Jerome Bruner observed that the three to eight-week-old baby will become agitated and begin to cry if the infant hears the mothers' voice coming from a loudspeaker rather than from the mother's mouth. This illustrates that babies

Impoverished children tend to be sick more often and show poorer school performance.

With aging comes a gradual decline of

To categorize people's level of moral development using Kohlberg's approach, a psychologist would

We face a specific psychosocial dilemma at each stage of life, according to

Which of the following is NOT one of the attachment styles described by Mary Ainsworth?

Talia is 17 years old and is dealing with her conflicting experiences as a student, friend, athlete, worker, daughter, and girlfriend. In the next few years, Talia must integrate these experiences into a unified sense of self. According to Erikson, Talia is experiencing which psychosocial dilemma?

According to Piaget's theory, true intellectual enrichment

According to Piaget, the concepts of reversibility and conservation develop during the __________ stage.

When the infant monkeys in the attachment study were frightened by rubber snakes, they

Growing infants influence their parents' behavior at the same time they are changed by it. This illustrates

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 postconventional level of moral development?

Regarding adolescence and puberty, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Four-year-old Luis watches his mother open two equal containers of milk and pour each container of milk into a glass. She pours one container of milk into a glass that is short and wide, while the other glass is tall and thin. Although both glasses contain the same amount of milk, Luis wants the tall, thin glass because he says it has "more milk." Luis is

Regarding ageism, which of the following statements is FALSE?