FINAL Flashcards
Grouping all related items together is known as _______.
organization
Piaget’s stage that involves spatial reasoning and seriation is known as the ______ stage.
concrete operational
Children pass Piaget’s class inclusion problem between the ages of 10 and 12. This means that they can focus on relations between a general category and three specific categories at a time.
false
During the _______ stage, it is believed that the combination of adult expectations and children’s drive toward mastery sets the stage for the psychological conflict of middle childhood and it is resolved when children develop a sense of competence at useful skills and tasks.
industry vs. inferiority
Another name for an unmanageable fear is called a ______.
phobia
When children feel severe apprehension about attending school, this would be called ______.
school phobia
In order for child abusers to make a child comply to what they want them to do, they use a variety of distasteful ways. Which of the following is not one of those ways?
asking nicely
When two people share a sexual relationship and a residence without being married is called ______
cohabit
Many single-parent families depend on child support from the noncustodial parent to relieve financial strain.
true
By the early school years, children associate power and privilege with white people and poverty and inferior status with people of color.
true
Young school-age children often blame themselves for a marital breakup and fear the both parents may abandon them.
true
When children may adopt teachers’ positive or negative views and start living up to them, this is known as ______.
educational self-fulfilling prophecies
When students with learning difficulties are placed in special education classrooms, for all or part of the day, and this practice is designed to prepare them for participation in society, this is known as inclusive classrooms.
false
Students will an IQ that fall between 55 and 70 would be considered severely retarded.
false
Children who are gifted display exceptional intellectual strengths.
true
According to Gardner, there are at least ______ independent intelligences; whereas Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence identifies ____ interacting intelligences.
eight; three
A person who displays an interpersonal intelligence may become a ______.
salesperson
_____ released from the adrenal glands on top of each kidney, influence girls’ height spurt and stimulate growth of underarm and pubic hair.
adrenal androgens
Primary sex characteristics involve the reproductive organs.
true
Androgens contribute to the regulation of the menstrual cycle.
false
During which adolescent period is pubertal changes nearly complete?
14-16
According to your text, at what age is early adolescence defined as?
11-14
In girls, what causes the breasts, uterus, and vagina to mature?
estrogen released by the girls’ ovaries
_____ described adolescence as a period so turbulent that it resembled the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings.
hall
The sense of oneself as a separate, self-governing individual is called ____.
autonomy
Increased gender stereotyping of attitudes and behavior and movement toward a more traditional gender identity is known as _____.
gender intensification
____ was the first to recognize identity as the major personality achievement of adolescence and as a crucial step toward becoming a productive, content adult.
Erikson
Read carefully: How many stages and levels did Kohlberg organize moral development into?
2; 3 which means 6 in all
The transition between childhood and adulthood is ______.
adolescence
Parental divorce, single-parent families, early pubertal timing, peer pressure, and low educational aspirations are some of the reasons why adolescents become sexually active.
true
