Developmental Psychology

The type of development that development psychologists focus on is

• physical
• social
• cognitive
• all of the above

Children of authoritative parents often grow up to be

• achievement-oriented
• resistant to other people
• dictatorial
• dependent on other people

Based on children's answers on intelligence tests, Jean Piaget theorized that

• boys are mentally superior to girls
• girls are mentally superior to boys
• children's thinking develops in sequential stages
• children's thinking develops continuously

Psychology field that studies how people grow and change throughout life

• developmental psychology
• abnormal psychology
• child psychology
• personality psychology

A basic instinctual need to touch and be touched by something soft

• regression
• assimilation
• contact comfort
• rooting reflex

According to Kohlberg what do children at the preconventional level base their moral decisions

• maintaining social order
• winning approval of others
• learned experience 
• proper nutrition

Who is the psychologist that experimented with imprinting animals

• Konrad Lorenz
• Sigmund Freud
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Harry Harolow

Who is the psychologist that concluded contact comfort was even stronger than the need to eat?

• Konrad Lorenz
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Jean Piaget
• Harry Harlow

Erik Erikson concluded that a key task of young adulthood is

• starting a career
• assuming responsibility in one's community
• becoming independent from parents
• all of the above

Betty is statistically at her physical peak. She is most likely ____ years old

• 35-45
• 25-35
• 18-25
• 15-18