Exam 11: Human Development

According to the biocultural systems theory, which system has less direct influence but creates expectations about behaviours and belief systems, as well as regulates the time spent with parents?

Recent studies have shown that infant brains:

What is considered the "work of a child"?

Which is likely to be the most critical period of fetal development and why?

Comparisons across cultures regarding when children develop particular skills indicates that:

Your father notices that you are taking Russian in university and decides that he too would like to learn a second language. On the basis of the concept of "sensitive periods" in learning, you would predict:

Crystallized intelligence is to fluid intelligence as:

Gender roles are ______________ while gender schemas are _______________.

According to your textbook, one of the limitations of Piaget's analysis of child development is that it:

The relative contributions of nature and nurture continue to be an issue in most areas of psychological inquiry. In regard to language acquisition we can say that:

Longitudinal studies have demonstrated that children living in a high-conflict family and whose parents divorce:

Recent research has shown that infants have a primitive understanding of the laws of motion. Which of the following is NOT evidence that shows infants understand the laws of motion?

In the case of crystallized and fluid intelligence:

The drug thalidomide, when administered to pregnant women:

You present an infant with two stimuli and time how long she looks at each of them. Over a 5-minute period the infant looks at each of them for the same amount of time. You can probably conclude that the:

What is the name of the stage of development which occurs from approximately 2 months to birth?

Object permanence refers to a child's awareness that:

Most of the recent evidence regarding the effects of parental divorce on children:

A couple who are friends of your family have a highly conflicted marriage and are thinking of getting a divorce. Your parents argue that they should stay together for the "sake of their children." Is this good advice from a psychological point of view?

In attempting to teach sign language to nonhuman primates, researchers have confirmed: