AP Psych, Development

Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's

• ego strength
• intelligence
• attachment
• reaction time

According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, one of five stages frequently experienced by people facing death is 

• mistrust
• bargaining
• regression
• generativity

A nine-year-old girl first learning about her capabilities on the playground and in the classroom would be in which of Erikson's stages of development?

• competence v. inferiority
• identity v. confusion
• autonomy v. shame
• integrity v. despair

A normally functioning 65-year-old who cannot solve abstract logic puzzles as quickly as he did when he was younger is experiencing a

• phenomenon that is uncommon for people of his age
• phenomenon predicted by Erik Erikson as part of the eight stages of psycho-social development
• decrease in his crystallized intelligence
• decrease in his fluid intelligence

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, children at the first level of moral reasoning make judgments about right and wrong on the basis of

• cultural norms
• social conventions
• religious beliefs
• likelihood of punishment

Gender typing is best described as

• the realization that gender is stable, regardless of superficial behaviors such as dress
• a preferential interest of a female child in the attention of the mother
• the acquisition of the roles associated with distinctions between male and female
• adolescents integrating social, sexual, intellectual, and ethical aspects into a self-identity

A child believes that all birds can fly, but learns that a penguin is a bird. Which term was used by Piaget to refer to this developmental process of changing one’s ways of thinking in order to incorporate new information?

• accommodation
• egocentrism
• assimilation
• conservation

Maturation differs from learning in that developmental changes due to maturation

• are relatively independent of environmental factors
• follow no predictable pattern
• can take place only in an enriched environment
• require practice

Harry Harlow’s experiments with monkeys suggest which of the following as most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers? 

• The amount of time spent with the mother
• The mother’s ability to protect the infant from physical harm
• The mother’s ability to provide nourishment
• The tactile characteristics of the mother

A mother gives her child an orange for the first time.  The child rolls it across the table and says, “ball.”  Which Piagetian process would account for this behavior?

• seriation
• accommodation
• conservation
• assimilation