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According to Piaget, there are two stages of development in children's moral reasoning, with a transitional period between them. During which ages does this transitional period occur?
Which stage does not belong to Kohlberg's theory of moral judgement?
Kohlberg based his stages of morality on ...
What is the difference between a 2-year-old child and a child attending primary school in terms of aggression?
Katie accidentally breaks four cups as she helps ahar father set the table. Laura accidentally breaks a cup while secretly picking up a cookie from the cookie jar. Rose breaks two cups while fighting with her brother.
Which child deserves the highest punishment according to a child in Piaget's pre-operational stage of development?
Which of the following sentences is an example of instrumental aggression?
According to Piaget, which of the following factors is most influential in the development of children's moral reasoning?
Sarah is angry and wants to break her mother's favorite vase. However, she doesn't want to get in trouble for her actions, so she decides to punch a pillow instead. According to Kohlberg's hierarchy, Sarah's behavior is typical of which level of moral development?
According to social domain theory, at approximately what age do children begin to believe that it is more important to follow moral rules than societal conventions?
Prosocial behavior is best defined as ...
Children develop conscience ...
Jaden is playing with a toy car. Sam comes over and takes it from her, which makes Jaden sad. Omar watches this happen and feels sad as well. Omar is displaying what kind of emotional response?
Which of the following has been shown to influence the development of prosocial tendencies?
Severe antisocial and aggressive behaviors, such as cruelty to animals and patterns of bullying, are examples of ...
The youth mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters for at-risk youth is an example of ...
C. According to Piaget, the transitional period takes place from 7-10 years old.
D. Kohlberg did not distinguish the stage of complete moral reasoning in his theory.
A. Reasons for moral decisions.
C. Physical aggression decreases and verbal aggression increases.
A. Katie.
A. Tony pushes Joyce away so that he can get to the swing first.
B. Interactions with peers.
A. Preconventional level of moral development.
D. 3 years.
B. Prosocial behavior is best defined as voluntary behavior intended to benefit another.
B. Children develop a conscience slowly over time, and this development is affected by parental disciplinary practices.
D. Empathy.
D. Parental discipline style as well as genetic factors and temperament influence the development of prosocial tendencies.
A. Severe antisocial and aggressive behaviors, such as cruelty to animals and patterns of bullying, are examples of conduct disorder.
D. The youth mentoring progrma Big Brothers Big Sisters for at-risk youth is an example of a secondary prevention program as well as a positive youth development program.
Which statement is true?
Which statement is true? Children can experience negative effects when they...
Which general conclusion can be drawn about continuous/discontinuous development, despite some disagreement over the topic?
Which research design has the advantage of being able to observe the change of individuals over time and the disadvantage that repeated testing reduces external validity?
The "turtle shell" technique is an example of a successful intervention that helps preschoolers cope with ...
What is meta-analysis?
Studies have shown that children's testimony is usually accurate when which of the following conditions are met?
According to developmentalists, which of the following statements is true?
The concept of the "active child" refers to ...
When does a fertilized egg be called 'fetus'?
What is cell differentiation?
Which of the following is no consequence of being small for gestational age?
In what phase of development do teratogens cause the most severe damage?
Which of the following statements about sensitive periods in prenatal development is correct?
The single cell that forms when two gametes merge during conception is called a ...
Which process of prenatal development is critical to the specialization of cells?
Harry and Ron are genetically identical twins and are referred to as ... . Althea (a genetic female) and Stephen (a genetic male) are also twins but are clearly ... twins.
Which of the following systems protects the developing embryo from dangerous toxins?
The disproportionaly large head of a 5-month-old fetus is a typical result of the normal process of ...
Which of the following sense is the least active while the fetus is in the womb?
Logan's dad is thrilled as Logan laughs each time he shows him a new toy: a monkey that squeaks when he pushes on its belly. After repeated exposure to the squeaking monkey, Logan becomes bored and no longer laughs. This process is known as ...
The DeCasper and Spence study, in which pregnant
.....read moreWhich of the following is true?
Which statement about heritability is true?
Which statement(s) is / are correct?
What is the genotype?
Father has a dominant brown gene and a recessive green gene. Mother has a dominant green gene and a recessive green gene. What are the chances of their child having green eyes?
What do we mean by passive gene-environment interactions?
Marcus has red hair, green eyes, and freckles. He is very active but shy. These characteristics are a reflecten of Marcus's ...
An individual's genetic sex is determined by ...
The continual switching on or off of specific genes at specific times throughout development is hte result of a chain of genetic events primarily controlled by ...
Traits such as
.....read moreWhich concept of Piaget is defined by the following: The process by which people process incoming information according to concepts they already understand.
Which of the following is the right order of Piaget's stages?
Which of the following is true?
What are the three hallmarks of Piaget's Constructivism?
Which theory focuses most on the innate learning skills of a child?
According to Piaget, development is both continuous and discontinuous. Which of the following aspects of Piagetian theory would be considered a source of discontinuity?
A noted accomplishment during Piaget's sensorimotor stage is ...
According to information-processing theories, the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information is referred to as ...
Information-processing theories note several limits on children's thinking. Which of the following is not one of these limits?
Overlapping waves theory explains children's ability to ...
According to core-knowledge theorists, children possess naïve theories in what three major domains?
Which concept is defined in the following? The processing of basic information from the external world by the sensory receptors in the sense organs and brain.
Fill in: Infants have high/poor contrast sensitivity, because the cones/rods in their retinas are immature.
Which of the following is no reflex of a newborn?
Mutual understanding is also called ...
A baby touches a block in a dark room. Then he enters a lit room where he sees a ball and a block. He chooses the square block. The familiarity that is shown in this example is due to ...
A teddy bear makes a sound when you press it. A child realizes this and starts to press on the bear more often. How do we call this effect?
How do babies learn about gravity?
A young baby does not reach for an object that has just seen hidden. Piaget's interpretation of this is:
A researcher presents an infant with two objects. To determine whether the infant is able to discriminate between the objects and favors one over the other, the researcher measures the amount of time the infant spends looking at each object. Which experimental technique is this researcher using?
One-month-old Bella is hown a small cube that is close to her. Next she is shown a larger cube that is farther away from her. Because the two cubes are at different distances from Bella, they appear to be the same size. Bella's actions indicate that she recongizes that the second cube is larger, signifying that she has ...
.....read moreWhich concept is defined by the following? The smallest units of meaning in a language, composed of one or more units.
What is the second step in learning language?
A child says: "I getted that from my grandmother". 'Getted' consists of three ...
What's the Importance of Infant Directed Talk?
What does someone specialized in the interactionist perspective on language development find interesting?
Language ... refers to the understanding of what others say; language ... refers to the process of speaking.
Between 6 and 12 months of age, infants typiclaly experience a linguistic perceptual naarowing. What effect does this change have on their language development?
Emily is given two pictures: one shows a flower, a word she already knows, and the other shows a unicorn, which is new to her. When asked to point to the "unicorn", Emily points to the unknown image, which is of unicorn. Which assumption is Emily making in order to learn this new word?
Which of the following statements is not true of infant-directed speech (IDS)?
The tendency of specific sounds to frequently recur in a language is known as ...
Which of the following does not belong to the three categories that children use to distinguish by categoral hierarchy?
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following concepts is not developed by children to understand the world?
Which concepts are in the order 'subordinate', 'basic', and 'superordinate'?
What does essentialism mean?
Ormrod believed that in misconceptions conceptual change is prevented by ...
Steve Jobs holds a meeting where everyone has to contribute as many ideas as possible without looking at whether those ideas are feasible. This is an example of ...
The belief that infants are born with some sense of fundamental concepts, such as time, space, and number, is a basic component of ... .
In Krascum and Andrew's experiments, young children were better able to classify wugs and gillies after being told sotries explaining each creature's unique appearance. Their findings support the imnportance of ... .
The proposed existence of a theory of mind model, which is the brain mechanism devoted to understanding other human beings, is most closely associated with advocates of which position?
What is the significance of the false-belief problem?
Which of the following statements is true?
Which intelligence test is used for children of 6 years and older?
Which of the following is true about IQ?
At the age of three, children learn to count. What is NOT a principle of counting?
The correlation between the IQ of an adopted child and its biological parent ...
What is the Flynn Effect?
Early reading skills help for the development of ...
What do mnemonic strategies result?
The memory of last summer's vacation is an example of ...
What is the right order of Freud's developmental stages?
During which developmental stage does the Oedipus complex occur?
Who is the founder of behaviorism?
John takes a biscuit from the biscuit tin before eating, while his parents told him he wasn't allowed to. John feels guilty after eating the cookie. According to Freud ... is responsible for this.
A 23 month old toddler is sleeping badly. His mother takes him to a therapist. Which theory is best for the therapist to apply?
What are the similarities of the different learning theories?
China's one-child policy exemplified the link between which two systems of Bronfenbrenner's ecological model?
Which of the following best descirbes a parenting style influenced by Watson's theories?
According to Skinner, everything we do in life is an operant response influenced by ... .
Social learning theory emphasizes ... as the primary mechanism(s) of development.
Bandura's Bobo doll experiment demonstrated ... .
Though younger children realize that someone else can have a perspective different from theirs, it is not until adolescence that we are able to compare our perspective to a gerenalized other. This ability represents the fourth stage is Roger Selman's ... theory.
Media use and exposure can impact an individual on every level of the bioecological model. Which
.....read moreWhich theory is based on the idea of Darwin that emotions are innate?
Which of the following statements is true?
What are two examples of self-aware emotions?
What is the first form of emotional regulation that children develop?
The first negative emotion you see in young babies is ...
From what age can you see a social smile in babies?
Which of the following statements best summarizes the findings by Mischel and his colleagues from their famous marshmallow test?
Tom is walking down the street and suddenly encounters a dog that is crouched and growling. Tom begins to perspire, his breathing quickens, and his heart rate increases. This reaction is an example of which component of emotions?
The notion that humans have evolvd to experience a basic set of emotions through adaptation to their surroundings is central to which theory?
How do self-conscious emotions differ from the set of basic emotions discussed in this chapter?
What is the third step in the attachment process according to Bowlby?
Which attachment pattern does not originally belong to the three attachment patterns of Ainsworth?
What is NOT characteristic of an insecure ambivalent child?
The attachment relationship of a child s is often related to the attachment relationship that his / her mother had with her mother. The mother used to have an autonomous attachment style. What will the child get?
What is NOT an indication that a child has developed a self-image?
Read the following case carefully: "Rebecca reacts more positively to her mother than to other people. She smiles more often in the presence of her mother than in the presence of other people. She shows no fear of separation and is not actively looking for her mother when her mother is away for a while ".
What stage of the development of an attachment relationship is Rebecca at according to Bowlby?
Children raised in a parenting style are characterized by increased impulsivity, poor self-control, lower school performance and increased antisocial behavior.
Harlow's work with infant rhesus monkeys found that the monkeys spent more time with the cloth mothers that did not actually feed them than the wire mothers, that did feed them. What is the main implication of this finding?
Three attachment types were initially identified in research by Mary Ainsworth. Which attachment type was later added to categorize those that did not fit well into Ainsworth's initial three categories?
Which parenting style is described by the following? Parents are cold, nonresponsive and high in demandingness. They are oriented toward control and expect their children to comply without question or explanation.
The process through which children acquire the values, knowledge, and behaviors that are regarded as appropriate in their culture is known as ...
A recent trend in famiy structure in the United states is the increasing ages of first-time parents. Which of the following is not true of these older parents compared with younger parents?
Recent research has shown which of the following to be true of children of same-sex parents, compared with children of heterosexual parents?
Which of the following statements is not true of divorce?
The process through which children acquire the values, knowledge, and behaviors that are regarded as appropriate in their culture is known as ... .
Which of the following factors has not been shown to influence children's adjustment in stepfamilies?
Which of the following descriptions best fits the definition of "other-oriented induction"?
From which of the following we cannot notice that two young children are friends?
Which term is described by the following? Peer groups that children voluntarily form or join themselves, usually of the same sex and race.
Which of the following is not a sociometric status?
What's true about bullied children?
What is NOT a bidirectional relationship?
If you have always rejected in your childhood, you are more likely to develop ...
Compared to adolescents, young primary school children view friendships more in terms of:
The ten-year-old Thomas is social, good at sports, and has a great sense of humor, but he is also aggressive and sometimes disruptive. His classmates see him as conceited. When sociometric status is mapped, Thomas would likely be categorized as:
Friendships emerge in early childhood as children become more capable of cooperation and coordinated interactions, and as they learn to trust those individuals whom they consider to be friends. Which of the following statements is not true of these early childhood friendships?
Tyler thinks of himself as socially awkward. He has a few close firends, but tends
.....read moreAccording to Piaget, there are two stages of development in children's moral reasoning, with a transitional period between them. During which ages does this transitional period occur?
Which stage does not belong to Kohlberg's theory of moral judgement?
Kohlberg based his stages of morality on ...
What is the difference between a 2-year-old child and a child attending primary school in terms of aggression?
Katie accidentally breaks four cups as she helps ahar father set the table. Laura accidentally breaks a cup while secretly picking up a cookie from the cookie jar. Rose breaks two cups while fighting with her brother.
Which child deserves the highest punishment according to a child in Piaget's pre-operational stage of development?
Which of the following sentences is an example of instrumental aggression?
According to Piaget, which of the following factors is most influential in the development of children's moral reasoning?
Sarah is angry and wants to break her mother's favorite vase. However, she doesn't want to get in trouble for her actions, so she decides to punch a pillow instead. According to Kohlberg's hierarchy, Sarah's behavior is typical of which level of moral development?
According to social domain theory, at approximately what age do children begin to believe that it is more important to follow moral rules than societal conventions?
Prosocial behavior is best defined as ...
Which term is described? The tendency to affirm connection with others through being emotionally open, empathetic, or supportive.
Which theory that focuses on biological differences regarding gender emphasizes the physical differences between men and women that can have both behavioral and social consequences?
Which theory on gender development proposes that children enact gender-typed behaviors as soon as they can label other people's and their own gender?
The gender similarities hypothesis emphasizes that in areas of cognitive behaviors and social abilities ...
Rose is a 9-year-old girl. She strongly prefers wearing t-shirts and jeans to dresses and other "girly" clothes. She loves sports and hates playing with dolls. Rose's preferences are an example of ... .
Gender typing refers to ...
The use of gendered nouns and pronouns, the association of certain hair styles with specific genders, and the gender differentiation of specific colors are all examples of which of the following?
Finnegan, a 5-year-old boy, is given a choice between playing with a toy truck or a ballerina doll. He chooses the truck, because he has learned that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls. This episode illustrates the child's ... .
Exposure to high levels of prenatal androgens in genetic females may influence the development of their nervous system in such a way that result in certain cross-gender-typed behaviors. This example demonstrates the effect of ... .
Which of the following statements is most representative of Kohlberg's conception of the gender constancy stage?
When do genetically influenced characteristics become evident?
Fill in:
When children encounter an unfamiliar stimulus, they accommodate / assimilate it to more familiar stimuli. At the same time, their understanding accommodates / assimilates to the experience, so that when they next encounter the unfamiliar stimulus will feel less strange.
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following statement accurately descirbes the interaction of nature and nurture?
Which of the following is an example of the crucial role that timing plays in the potential impact of a teratogen?
The emerging fiel of epigenetics has helped to explain the ways in which a child's environment can influence gene expression. Which of the following is an example of this interaction?
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