Developmental Psych

Developmental Psych

Multiple Choice

Harlow’s experiment with rhesus monkeys and surrogate mothers emphasized the importance of

• Contact comfort

• Feeding

• Aesthetic needs

• Incentive theory

Multiple Choice

Critical period is a phase during which:

• children frequently disobey their parents.

• children become able to think hypothetically and reason abstractly

• parents frequently show impatience with a child's slowness in becoming toilet-trained.

• certain events have a particularly strong impact on development.

Multiple Choice

Compared to environmentally impoverished rats, rats raised in an enriched environment show a greater development of:

• preoperational intelligence.

• brain cortex

• nurturing behavior

• the number of neurons in brains

Multiple Choice

Mary Ainsworth's strange situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's

• ego strength

• intelligence

• reaction time

• attachment

• incidental learning

Multiple Choice

Which parenting style is characterized by high demands for obedience and low warmth?

• Permissive

• Authoritarian

• Authoritative

• Neglectful

• Indulgent

Multiple Choice

The most well-adjusted and socially competent children tend to come from homes where parents employ which of the following parental styles?

• Minimal supervision

• authoritarian

• authoritative

• Indulgent

• permissive