Development

What is the first stage of Piaget's cognitive development?

• Preoperational
• Sensorimotor 
• Formal operational
• Concrete operational

The sensorimotor stage focuses primarily on..

• motor skills
• language development
• understanding of others perspective
• understanding complex mathematics

Children who in infancy formed secure attachments to their parents are more likely than other children to:

• Prefer the company of adults to that of other children
• Become permissive parents
• Show a great deal of social competence
• Be less achievement oriented

If Jeremy begs for a new electronic gadget, his parents nearly always buy it for him. What type of family is this?

• Permissive

• Authoritative

• Authoritarian

• Submissive

This style of parenting calls for imposing rules and demanding obedience without debate or discussion between parent and child.

• Permissive
• Neglectful
• Authoritative
• Authoritarian

Which is the correct order?

• embryo, fetus, zygote
• fetus, zygote, embryo
• embryo, zygote, fetus
• zygote, embryo, fetus

Maria resents the burdens and constraints  of caring for her infant daughter and ignores her cries for attention.  Her daughter will likely show signs of

• egocentricism
• insecure attachment
• habituation
• gender typing

Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• accommodation
• attachment
• object permanence
• egocentricism

According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:

• reason abstractly
• adhere to social norms
• distinguish between good and bad behaviors
• become aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas is called:

• learning
• assimilation
• accomodation