Exam 4: Human Development

When one responds less and less to a stimulus that is being repeated, one is demonstrating which of the following?

Kohlberg's work focused primarily on which of the following?

One method used to study perceptual capabilities in infants is the preference method.Studies that have used this method have shown that young infants consistently prefer:

The term zygote refers to:

The myelination of neurons:

According to Mary Ainsworth, a child with an avoidant attachment will:

The sort of rationale that would make the most sense to a person at the preconventional level of moral reasoning would be: "Don't hit Justin, because:

The entire period of development prior to birth is called the:

Object permanence research suggests that:

Kay has been told she will die soon, from an inoperable brain tumor.She has three children under the age of seven, and she cannot stand the thought of leaving them behind.All day long she finds herself thinking, "This isn't fair! Why is this happening?" Kay is most likely in the stage of grieving identified by Kübler-Ross as:

In females, the first menstrual flow occurs at around the age of ____________________, and in males, the ability to ejaculate occurs around the ages of ____________________.

In the stage theory of the dying process proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, an individual who was in the denial stage would be most likely to say:

Cross-cultural research has shown that children raised in nomadic cultures, which move frequently from place to place:

The age-related physical, intellectual, social, and personal changes that occur throughout life are specifically called ____________________.

There are some cultures where morning sickness during pregnancy does not occur.

Once adults pass their physical peak in their twenties, most will experience:

Which of the following is NOT true regarding newborns' sensory abilities at birth?

According to Piaget, ____________________ is the process through which we fit new experiences into our existing models of the world.

Dee understands conservation, but she can't handle questions that deal with the abstract.She is in the:

Keith uses a specialized video camera to record the eye movements of infants aged 3 to 6 months old as they view pictures.After analyzing the videotapes and determining how long the infants looked at each stimulus, he reports that the infants like bright red circles better than other colors or shapes.Keith is using: