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A group of three year old children who are pretending that they are characters in a popular cartoon are demonstrating |
| | A) | physical processes |
| | B) | cognitive processes |
| | C) | socioemotional processes |
| | D) | genetic processes |
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Biological changes throughout life in the brain, height and weight, motor skills, and hormonal changes of puberty and menopause reflect__________________. |
| | A) | development |
| | B) | maturation |
| | C) | nature |
| | D) | nurture |
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An infant who tries to reach for a toy that has been placed behind her mother's back has developed the concept of |
| | A) | assimilation |
| | B) | egocentrism |
| | C) | object permanence |
| | D) | conservation |
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A child's inability to distinguish his own perspective from the perspective of another person is |
| | A) | egocentrism |
| | B) | accommodation |
| | C) | intuition |
| | D) | hypothetical thinking |
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An adult rolls one of two balls of clay into a long, thin rod and then asks a child which shape contains more clay. If the child states that the amounts are equal, the child has entered the |
| | A) | sensorimotor stage |
| | B) | preoperational stage |
| | C) | concrete operational stage |
| | D) | formal operational stage |
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Erikson's stage of development that is characteristic of children from the time they enter school through puberty is |
| | A) | trust vs. mistrust |
| | B) | autonomy vs. shame and doubt |
| | C) | initiative vs. guilt |
| | D) | industry vs. inferiority |
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The tendency of a newborn animal to form an attachment to the first moving object is sees or hears |
| | A) | temperament |
| | B) | imprinting |
| | C) | attachment |
| | D) | autonomy |
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An infant who is comfortable crawling or toddling away from her mother to look more closely at an object on the other side of a room is |
| | A) | imprinted |
| | B) | securely attached |
| | C) | temperamental |
| | D) | preoperational |
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A developmental psychologist who describes a child as "difficult" because the child cries frequently, has irregular daily routines, and is slow to accept new experiences is describing the child's |
| | A) | attachment |
| | B) | accommodation |
| | C) | temperament |
| | D) | nurture |
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A child has just been involved in a fight. If the child's parents clearly indicate that they disapprove of fighting and discuss alternatives to fighting with the child, the parents are |
| | A) | authoritarian |
| | B) | authoritative |
| | C) | neglectful |
| | D) | indulgent |
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A child who believes that a person should not steal because the law says it is wrong to steal, regardless of the circumstances, is at Kohlberg's |
| | A) | constraint stage |
| | B) | conventional stage |
| | C) | postconventional stage |
| | D) | cooperative stage |
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A college junior who still has not decided on a major would be described as in a stage of |
| | A) | identity diffusion |
| | B) | identity foreclosure |
| | C) | identity moratorium |
| | D) | identity achievement |
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A young man who wants to establish a business talks to an elderly man who has been in a similar business for many years. The younger man wants to benefit from the older man's |
| | A) | fluid intelligence |
| | B) | generativity |
| | C) | wisdom |
| | D) | identity |
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An elderly man who is having difficulty finding his way around the retirement center where he has just moved is demonstrating a decline in |
| | A) | fluid intelligence |
| | B) | crystallized intelligence |
| | C) | wisdom |
| | D) | measured intelligence |
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According to Erikson, the crisis confronting people as they enter middle adulthood is establishing |
| | A) | identity vs. identity confusion |
| | B) | intimacy vs. isolation |
| | C) | generativity vs. stagnation |
| | D) | integrity vs. despair |
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