Exam 4: Human Development

A longitudinal design:

Describe how individuals come to establish a gender identity.What role does social learning play?

Imagine that an infant is shown a blue-colored card repeatedly, until the infant stops watching.If the color of the card is now changed to green, and the infant starts watching again, researchers can infer that the infant:

Which of the following is NOT one of Kohlberg's stages of moral development?

It is not until the 24ᵗʰ week of pregnancy that the unborn child is considered a fetus, rather than an embryo.

Follow-up research designed to evaluate specific components of Piaget's theory of cognitive development has shown that object permanence emerges earlier than Piaget had suggested.

From early childhood through puberty, the average child gains how much weight annually?

The embryonic period in a pregnancy is:

Research has shown that children who experience high quality day care:

Typically, by the time they are 5 months old, 90% of infants can:

Piaget's term for mental models of the world used to guide and interpret behavior is:

In males, the adolescent growth spurt is triggered by:

Brain imaging studies using fMRI have shown that immediately before and after puberty, there are significant changes in which of the following:

Vivian seems to be a baby who easily becomes upset.She doesn't adjust well to new situations or to changes in her daily routine.Using the temperament categories outlined by Thomas and Chess, Vivian would most likely be considered to have:

Attachments refer to:

According to Piaget, the concrete operational period of development lasts from:

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of identity versus role confusion occurs:

Which of the following types of attachment proposed by Mary Ainsworth is the most common?

Most of the cells that make-up the cerebral cortex:

The level of moral reasoning where the individual focuses on abstract principles in making a moral decision is: