Exam 11: Development-Part A

John Bowlby claimed that,by about 6 months of age,a baby begins to direct attachment signals toward:

A psychology professor conducts a study in which she shows children a carton of milk and then pours it to reveal orange juice instead of milk.Then she asks the children what they originally had thought was in it.Most 3-year-olds probably will say _____,and most 5-year-olds will say _____.

The bodily structures that are directly involved in reproduction are known as _____ sex characteristics.

During an interaction with a 9-month-old infant,an adult closes her eyes and turns her head to the left,facing a novel object.The infant will:

The _____ impact of children on marital satisfaction is GREATER for _____.

According to Kohlberg,MOST adolescents are in the _____ stage of moral development.

In one study,researchers showed infants moving circles,moving circles with scrambled facial features,and moving circles with regular facial features.The researchers measured eye gazes at the objects and found that infants tracked the:

The word teratogen refers to the:

The _____ is the single fertilized cell that contains chromosomes from both the sperm and the egg.

A male zygote results from a(n):

Older adults show a much more pronounced decline in _____ memory than in _____ memory.

At about what age do children begin passing the false-belief test?

_____ is one of the primary sex characteristics.

The identical twin of a gay man has about a _____% chance of being gay.

Laura gazes out the window and her 6-month-old son stops mouthing his toy and also looks out the window,demonstrating the ability known as:

Yasmin is able to sit without support.She is probably at least _____ month(s)old.

Who is MOST known for describing the stages of psychosocial development?

Piaget believed that children acquire the understanding that different people have different beliefs:

A psychologist tells children a story in which a puppet named Maxi puts a ball in one cupboard and then leaves the room.While she is gone,another puppet moves the ball to another cupboard.Then Maxi comes back.At this point,the psychologist asks the children in which cupboard will Maxi look for the ball? Most 6-year-olds probably will say the _____ cupboard,and most 8-year-olds will say the _____ cupboard.

The ability to use another person's reactions as useful inFormation about the world is known as: