Exam 11: Development-Part C

Children with autism typically are normal on most intellectual dimensions.

Psychologists speculate that the avoidant style of emotional attachment is characteristic of infants who are abused.

Aging produces more deficits in long-term memory relative to working memory.

The heart first begins to beat in the embryonic stage of prenatal development.

Harry Harlow found that rhesus monkeys raised in isolation suffered emotional,but not cognitive,deficits as adults.

Harry Harlow found that rhesus monkeys raised in isolation spent more time clinging to an artificial mother made of wire that provided nourishment relative to an artificial mother made of soft cloth that did not provide nourishment.

Piaget emphasized the role of cultural factors in his theory of cognitive development.

German infants exhibit more ambivalent attachment styles than they do avoidant attachment styles.

If a zygote has at least one X chromosome,then it will develop into a female.

It is common for temperament to change considerably over the first few years of life.

Infants who formed secure attachments with their primary caregivers act as though they are certain their primary caregiver will respond when they feel insecure.

It is more common for American teenagers to use condoms during sex than not.

Couples with children tend to be happier in their marriage than are couples without children.

There is little evidence to suggest that abstinence-only education is effective at reducing teenage sexual activity.

The ability to reason about abstract concepts is a defining feature of the concrete operational stage of development.

In Lawrence Kohlberg's preconventional stage of moral development,children tend to focus on how actions conform to social norms.

Erik Erikson suggested that the major task of adolescence is the development of the ability to give and receive love.

In the United States,teenage mothers score lower on measures of academic and economic achievement,but the children of teenage mothers do not.

The secure attachment style is the most common attachment style across all cultures.

Vygotsky considered language and numerical systems as cultural tools that influenced cognitive development.