Exam 11: Development-Part C

The language spoken by children's families impacts their ability to count beyond the number 10.

It is not unusual for a child's attachment style to change over time.

During the sensorimotor stage of development,infants explore their environments with their eyes,hands,and mouths.

The embryonic stage is the first stage of prenatal development.

Modern psychologists see development more as a continuous process than as a movement through discrete stages.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development,a first grader in the preconventional stage will not disobey his teacher because he will not want to be punished.

Young children more accurately recognize that others differ from themselves in emotions than desires.

Young adults experience fewer negative emotions than do older adults.

Children all over the world pass and fail the false-belief task at about the same age.

Developmental psychology is the study of continuity and change during the prenatal stage of development.

Older adults are less sensitive to pain than younger adults.

The brains of older adults show more bilateral asymmetry than do the brains of younger adults.

Male zygotes are less likely to survive than are female zygotes.

Infants who formed secure as opposed to insecure attachments with their primary caregivers tend to experience greater academic success later in life.

The ability to focus on what another person is focused on is termed social referencing.

Girls who reach puberty earlier are more likely to experience negative consequences such as delinquency.

Young children who were securely attached infants tend to recall positive and negative events equally during memory tests.

The development of abstract reasoning skills appears to be the most important factor in the formation of a theory of mind.

The peak of our physical prowess occurs in the early 20s,whereas the peak of our mental prowess occurs around the age of 50.

The concept of object permanence is grasped during the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.