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Six-month-old Emily is cuddled, comforted, talked to, and fed when hungry. She is likely to develop ________ according to Erikson. |
trust |
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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? |
Using recombinant DNA techniques researchers have identified a genetic marker on chromosome 4. |
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Piaget's theory has been criticized for: |
placing too much emphasis on the maturation of biologically based cognitive structures |
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Most children have developed a firm sense of maleness or femaleness by the time they are: |
eighteen months old |
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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? |
Concrete operational |
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Piaget's ________ stage is characterized by language, spotty logic, and egocentrism |
preoperationa |
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A child is able to apply the principle of conservation to mental operations during the ________ stage. |
concrete operational |
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Sam has low self-esteem and is impulsive, immature, and dependent on others. Most likely Sam's parents are: |
permissive. |
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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: |
has not developed object permanence |
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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: |
that all of the gender difference were very small differences |
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A classic study on toilet training using twin boys found that early training: |
did not result in early bladder control |
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The concrete operational stage of Piaget's theory lasts from approximately: |
age seven to twelve years |
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Genes that are inherited but may not be expressed through the phenotype are ________ genes. |
recessive |
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Fathers as compared to mothers tend to interact differently with their children by: |
boisterous play rather than nurturing |
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Ainsworth has identified differences in the attachment behaviors of infants. What factors does she attribute this to? |
Parenting practices and inborn differences |
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By their first birthday, most infants weigh ________ when they were born |
three times as much as |
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For Piaget the concept of egocentrism referred to the: |
inability of young children to perceive the world from any perspective other than their own. |
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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? |
She is less likely to be unsure of herself, likely to be cooperative and independent |
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A newborn's brain has: |
most, if not all, of the neurons it will ever have. |
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DNA stands for: |
deoxyribonucleic acid. |