• 01

    Developmental psychologists tend to frame their questions around all but which of the following major issues?

  • 02

    Daniel is interested in studying how children’s behavior changes when they grow up in high-risk environments. He enlists 500 children and their parents to take part in his research, and observes these children once a year for 20 years. Despite the fact that this research is very time consuming and expensive, it gives very good information about how the children age over time. This type of research is an example of a __________ study.

  • 03

    Which of the following is not one of the stages of prenatal development?

  • 04

    Any agent that can cause a birth defect is known as a __________.

  • 05

    Stroking the sole of a baby’s foot will cause his big toe to extend up while the other toes stretch down and fan out. This is known as the __________ reflex.

  • 06

    While the sequence in which motor skills develops is generally universal, the _________ of the development of those skills tends to be different from child to child.

  • 07

    Which of the following is an example of a primary sex characteristic?

  • 08

    Which of the following statements is true regarding the relationship between culture and aging?

  • 09

    Young Raina is just a few months old, and her parents delight in seeing her reaction to new sights and sounds. Her mother, Lianna, bought her a new toy that hangs from the handle of her car seat and sparkles brightly. When Raina first sees this new toy, she smiles, coos, and stares at it intently. After just a few minutes, however, Lianna is surprised to see that Raina is looking away, and appears almost bored with this new toy. Developmental psychologists refer reduced responding to a familiar stimulus as __________.

  • 10

    In Piaget’s theory, the term __________ refers to concepts or frameworks around which people organize and interpret information.

  • 11

    When a parent wants a young child to look at something on the floor, the phenomenon called joint visual attention says that the parent should __________.

  • 12

    Teenagers in the formal operational stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development may get involved in __________ thinking, which refers to imagining possibilities or impossibilities.

  • 13

    As Emily, a 68-year old widow, went about her day, she was certain that there was something that she’d forgotten to do. Somewhere around 8:30 at night, she realized that she’d forgotten to go to the bank to buy travelers checks for her upcoming trip to Hawaii. This memory failure, which in this case was related to her __________ memory, is something that often declines in the later years.

  • 14

    Though the research has its problems, recent research has suggested which of the following trends about intelligence changes as we age?

  • 15

    The smallest unit of meaning in a language is called a __________. It represents objects, events, ideas, characteristics, and relationships in that language’s vocabulary.

  • 16

    While watching television, perhaps you’ve seen a commercial advertising a program that helps kids with their reading skills. This program, called “Hooked on Phonics,” works by teaching children the relationship between the letters and letter combinations that they see, and the basic sounds that they should make. In truth, the most accurate name for this program would have been “Hooked on __________.”

  • 17

    By the time a child reaches about two months of age, (s)he is capable of producing pleasant sounds that are called __________.

  • 18

    Very young children will start verbalizing repetitive sounds (for example “da da da da”) at about six months of age. This communication pattern is called __________.

  • 19

    According to theory, which is supported by research, if children are deprived of the opportunity to learn language in the years before __________, it will be very difficult if not impossible for them to ever master the rules of grammar.

  • 20

    If there were no diseases or other ailments that commonly affect people in old age, experts believe that life expectancy would:

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