Exam 4: Human Development

Nature has:

Any environmental agent that can do damage to the developing baby is known as a(n): ____________________.

Brianne is 3 months old and her parents are very inconsistent in attending to Brianne's needs.Sometimes they are very attentive, feeding her promptly when she cries and comforting her when she appears upset.Other times they are less attentive, and Brianne can cry for quite some time before they take care of her.Based on Erikson's theory, it is likely that Brianne will develop:

When Ed's mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists, and he makes no attempt to look for it.Ed would clearly be in the period of development that Piaget referred to as the:

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of generativity versus stagnation occurs:

During infancy neurons that are not used:

According to Piaget, during the formal operational period:

According to Piaget, children in the preoperational period of development demonstrate ____________________, which is the tendency to view the world only from your own unique perspective.

Describe how Harlow performed his research on the development of attachment, as well as the results of his research.

Identify two techniques that have been used to study memory in infants.Describe how the techniques are used by researchers to make inferences about what infants know.

In newborn infants, the brain typically weighs:

An organized set of beliefs and perceptions about men and women is a(n) ____________________ and is thought to be acquired through learning.

Typically, by the time they are 8 months old, 90% of infants can:

According to Piaget, the process of fitting new experiences into a mental model of the world is called:

According to Piaget, ____________________ is the process through which we change or modify existing models of the world to take into account new experiences.

According to Piaget, from the age of 7 through to age 11 a child is in the stage of cognitive development known as the:

Based on Harlow's artificial mother research, hospitals might best promote parent-child attachment if parents are encouraged to:

According to Piaget, between birth and the age of two, an infant is in the:

When does puberty typically occur in girls? What are the physical changes that take place?

Children begin to be able to think abstractly during the concrete operational period.