Psychology Final Test 11

Front 1

Six-month-old Emily is cuddled, comforted, talked to, and fed when hungry. She is likely to develop ________ according to Erikson.

Back 1

trust

Front 2

Recently researchers have developed a way to identify individuals destined to develop Huntington's chorea prior to the development of symptoms. What is this promising technique?

Back 2

Using recombinant DNA techniques researchers have identified a genetic marker on chromosome 4.

Front 3

Piaget's theory has been criticized for:

Back 3

placing too much emphasis on the maturation of biologically based cognitive structures

Front 4

Most children have developed a firm sense of maleness or femaleness by the time they are:

Back 4

eighteen months old

Front 5

At which Piagetian stage of development can a child recognize that when a ball of clay is rolled out into a hot dog shape that it still contains the same amount of clay?

Back 5

Concrete operational

Front 6

Piaget's ________ stage is characterized by language, spotty logic, and egocentrism

Back 6

preoperationa

Front 7

A child is able to apply the principle of conservation to mental operations during the ________ stage.

Back 7

concrete operational

Front 8

Sam has low self-esteem and is impulsive, immature, and dependent on others. Most likely Sam's parents are:

Back 8

permissive.

Front 9

If a ball that a child is playing with rolls under a chair (out of sight), the five-month-old child probably will not look for it. Piaget believed that this is because the child:

Back 9

has not developed object permanence

Front 10

In comparison to Maccoby and Jacklin, Janet Hyde in 1981 & 1997 found in her meta analysis of numerous studies examining gender differences in cognitive abilities:

Back 10

that all of the gender difference were very small differences

Front 11

A classic study on toilet training using twin boys found that early training:

Back 11

did not result in early bladder control

Front 12

The concrete operational stage of Piaget's theory lasts from approximately:

Back 12

age seven to twelve years

Front 13

Genes that are inherited but may not be expressed through the phenotype are ________ genes.

Back 13

recessive

Front 14

Fathers as compared to mothers tend to interact differently with their children by:

Back 14

boisterous play rather than nurturing

Front 15

Ainsworth has identified differences in the attachment behaviors of infants. What factors does she attribute this to?

Back 15

Parenting practices and inborn differences

Front 16

By their first birthday, most infants weigh ________ when they were born

Back 16

three times as much as

Front 17

For Piaget the concept of egocentrism referred to the:

Back 17

inability of young children to perceive the world from any perspective other than their own.

Front 18

Jill is an insecurely attached eighteen-month-old. What kind of prediction would you be inclined not to make about her social competence at five?

Back 18

She is less likely to be unsure of herself, likely to be cooperative and independent

Front 19

A newborn's brain has:

Back 19

most, if not all, of the neurons it will ever have.

Front 20

DNA stands for:

Back 20

deoxyribonucleic acid.