Exam 3: Human Development

Parents who view their children as having few rights but adult-like responsibilities are referred to as __________ parents.

Which of the following theorists developed many of his ideas regarding cognitive development from observing his own children as they solved various thought problems?

Regarding early language development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

General life satisfaction combined with frequent positive emotions and relatively few negative emotions is called __________.

Emily is a late maturing girl. Compared to the early maturing girls, we can expect Emily to

To investigate mother-infant relationships, which of the following researchers separated baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers at birth and replaced them with wire and terry cloth surrogate (substitute)mothers?

Piaget's first stage of development is the __________ stage.

In which level of moral development is moral reasoning directed by self-chosen ethical principles that tend to be general, comprehensive, or universal?

Specific areas on a strand of DNA that carry hereditary information are called

Which of the following concepts explains why preoperational children can seem exasperatingly selfish or uncooperative at times?

Which of the following would NOT be good advice for parents of young children?

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 Vygotsky, the range of tasks a child cannot yet master alone but that she or he can accomplish with the guidance of a more capable partner is known as the zone of

Regarding cognitive development, Russian scholar Lev Vygotsky focused on the impact of sociocultural factors, while Piaget focused on

The first emotional reaction to impending death is usually

Traditionally, in which ethnic community do families tend to be fairly strict with all aged children and tend to emphasize loyalty and interdependence among family members; respect for elders; and the development of a positive identity, self-reliance, resourcefulness, and the ability to take care of oneself in difficult situations?

A pattern of conversational interaction between parent and infant that involves alternate sending and receiving of messages is referred to as

As predicted by Vygotsky's theory, the reading skills of eight- to 10-year-old children are closely related to

Psychologists generally resolve the nature-nurture debate by agreeing that

Which of the following observations provides support for an innate explanation for language?