Developmental and Social Flashcards
Studies of monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that mother-infant emotional bonds result primarily from mothers providing infants with:
body contact
During a group conversation, men are more likely than women to
interrupt other speakers
Newborns have been observed to show the greatest visual interest in a
facelike image
According to Piaget, a person first comprehends that division is the reverse of multiplication during the ________ stage.
concrete operational
Marissa resents the burden and constraints of caring for her infant daughter and frequently ignores her cries for attention. As a consequence, her daughter is most likely to display signs of:
insecure attachment
Infants develop a fear of strangers at about 8 months of age because they can’t assimilate unfamiliar faces into their
schemas
Cell division and differentiation begin when the prenatal organism is a(n):
zygote
Vincent’s ability to reason hypothetically in his geometry class indicates that he is in the ________ stage of development.
formal operational
John’s two-year-old twins are constantly fighting over toys. This behavior is driving John crazy because the twins are hitting each other and pulling toys from each other. He decides to have a talk with them to explain that their behavior has to change. He tells each of them that the other one feels bad when being hit and that they should learn to share. To his dismay, the behavior continued as if he hadn’t done anything. According to Jean Piaget, why might this be happening?
Two-year-olds are egocentric and cannot understand things from another’s point of view
According to Piaget, schemas are
people’s conceptual frameworks for understanding their experiences
Nonreproductive sexual characteristics such as the deepened male voice and male facial hair are called
secondary sex characteristics
As compared with the production of egg cells, sperm cell production
begins later in life
When Tommy’s mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it. Tommy is clearly near the beginning of Piaget’s ________ stage.
sensorimotor
Genetically identical twins first begin their separate paths of prenatal development during ________ development.
zygotic
Harlow’s studies of infant monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that mother-infant emotional bonds result primarily from mothers providing infants with
adequate nourishment
Evidence that easy, relaxed infants develop secure attachments more readily than difficult, emotionally intense babies would illustrate the importance of
temperament: Temperament is the way children respond to the world. Differences in temperament influence the way children handle emotions, regulate behaviour and feel around new people.
The term puberty refers to the period of
rapid physical and sexual development and the onset of pituitary gland activation
Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child
develops through a series of stages
During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as a(n)
zygote and finally develops into an embryo
Incorporating new information into existing theories is to ________ as modifying existing theories in light of new information is to ________.
assimilation; accommodation
One of the most consistently damaging teratogens is
alcohol
According to Piaget, accommodation refers to
adjusting current schemas in order to make sense of new experiences
Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget’s concept of
egocentrism
Mrs. Pearson cut Judy’s hot dog into eight pieces and Sylvia’s into six pieces. Sylvia cried because she felt she wasn’s getting as much hot dog as Judy. Piaget would say Sylvia doesn’t understand the principle of
Conservation, in child development, is a logical thinking ability first studied by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. In short, being able to conserve means knowing that a quantity doesn’t change if it’s been altered (by being stretched, cut, elongated, spread out, shrunk, poured, etc).
