Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

Mothers who are sensitive and responsive to their babies' needs create securely attached infants.

Erikson showed that development is an ongoing process.

Which of the following is an example of telegraphic speech?

When a mother contracts rubella early in the pregnancy, the most common consequence to the embryo is deafness.

Babies will ________ after about one month of age.

A child is able to pretend that a large box is a school bus. Later that day, she has difficulty reversing her actions and completing a puzzle after she has taken it apart. Piaget would suggest that she is in the:

The newborn infant has a number of ________, such as sucking, grasping, and rooting, that aid in his or her survival.

Differences in normal child-rearing practices do not affect a child's attachment style.

What differences did Piaget observe in children's thinking between the preoperational stage and the stage of concrete operations?

Maturation is the process by which children learn the behaviours, attitudes, and expectations required of them by their society or culture.

Socialization is defined as the unfolding of genetically influenced behaviours and physical characteristics.

During the germinal stage, the fertilized egg is called a:

Why has there been public concern about the exposure of pregnant women to lead?

Hillary is the first girl in her class to become sexually mature. She would be more likely than later-maturing girls to:

The authors point out that Jean Piaget was to child development what B. F. Skinner was to behaviourism. Explain the ways in which Piaget became a "towering figure" in psychology through his keen observations of children and his brilliant ideas.

Match each name with the appropriate concept or theory. -Jean Piaget

Newborn babies have many perceptual and motor abilities. Describe the motor reflexes of the newborn as well as the inborn perceptual abilities. Why is the newborn's visual focus especially adaptive in facilitating parent-child attachment?

Piaget underestimated the cognitive skills of young children and overestimated the cognitive skills of adults.

Psychologists use the terms sex and gender interchangeably.

As the mother of a late-maturing boy, Betty is concerned that, compared to early-maturing boys, late maturers are more likely to: