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1

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
2

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
3

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
4

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
5

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
6

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
7

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
8

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
9

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
10

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
11

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
12

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
13

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
14

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
15

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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