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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 __________ processes.
A)physical
B)cognitive
C)socioemotional
D)genetic
2

A genetic counselor who has told a man that he is a carrier of an inherited disease has described an aspect of the man's _______________.
A)genotype
B)phenotype
C)karyotype
D)blood type
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 identical 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 ____________________ stage.
A)sensorimotor
B)preoperational
C)concrete operational
D)formal operational
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 it sees or hears is ___________________.
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 _______________ stage.
A)constraint
B)conventional
C)postconventional
D)cooperative
12

A college junior who still has not decided on a major would be described as in a stage of idenity ____________________.
A)diffusion
B)foreclosure
C)moratorium
D)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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