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Psychology Chapter 11
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/17/2011

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The Stage of prenatal development during which the developing organism is most vunerable to injury is the:
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embryonic stage
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The cephalocaudal trend in the motor development of children can be described simply as a:
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Head-to-foot direction
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Developmental norms:
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indicated the average age at which inividuals reach various developmental milestones
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When the development of the same subjects is studied over a period of tim, the study is called
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longitudinal study
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The quality of infant-caregiver attachemnet depends:
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on the interaction between the infant's tempermant and the care-givers responsiveness.
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During the second year of life, toddlers begin to take some personal responsibilty for feeding, dressing, and bathing themeselves in an attempt to establish what Erickson calls a sense of:
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automony
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Five-year-old Dvadi watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:
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David does not understand the concept of conservation.
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Which of the following is not one of the criticisms of Piaget's theory of the cognitive development?
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Evidence for the theory is based on children's answers to questions.
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If a child's primary reason for not drawing pictures on the living room wall with crayons is to avoid the punishemnt that would inevitably follow this behavior, she would be said to be at which level of moral development?
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preconventional
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The portion of th ebrain that appears to be the last area to mature fully is the:
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prefrontal cortex
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Girls who mature ____________ and boys who mature ____________ seem to experience more subjective distress and emotional difficulties with the transition to adolescence.
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Early; Late
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Sixteen-year0old Foster wants to spend a few years experimenting with different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who an dwhat he wants to be. Foster's behavior illustrates the identity status of:
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Identity Moratorium
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Although womena perform about ________ of all housework, about __________ of wives characterize their household division of labor as unfair.
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two-thirds; one-third
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males have been found to differ slightly from females in three well-documented areas of mental ablilities. Which of the following is not one of these?
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Intelligence
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Research suggests that males exhibit __________ than femailes and that feamale have a ____________than males
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More cerabral specialization; larger corpus callosum
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