Lifespan Development Exam

Infants enjoy playing Peek-A-Boo because they lack ________________: knowing that something exists if you can't see it. 

• Object Permanence 
• Animism
• Centrism
• Conservation 

If Max is upset because he thinks his sister got 2 cheeseburgers for lunch because her cheeseburger is cut in half, then Max hasn't mastered: 

• Object Permanence 
• Animism
• Centrism
• Conservation 

This is when young children use an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation

• cognition container
• conservation
• assimilation
• accomodation

This is what happens when an existing schema (knowledge) that a young child has does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.

• cognition container
• conservation
• assimilation
• accomodation

Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is described as thinking logically about concrete events.

• sensorimotor
• properational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is described as abstract reasoning.

• sensorimotor
• properational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Which of the developmental phenomena is being described below:
when a child feels the world revolves around them - I am the world

• object permanence
• theory of mind
• egocentrism
• conservation

Attachment refers to an emotional tie to another person based on the food they provide.

• true
• false

Experiments with monkeys suggest that attachment is based on physical affection and comfortable body contact, and not based on being rewarded with food.

• true
• false

Which parenting style is being described below:
parent imposes rules "because I said so"

• authoritarian
• permissive
• authoritative
• none of the above