Developmental Psychology

Jean Piaget’s developmental theory focused on how humans grow

• Socially

• Morally

• cognitively

• physically

• egocentrically

The loss of brain cells, the deterioration of neurons that produce acetylcholine, and the formation of plaques at the ends of neuron branches is indicative of

• The death-deferral phenomenon

• Alzheimer's disease

• Crystallised intelligence

• Multiple Sclerosis

A time when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development is called the ____ period.

• Conservation

• Preoperational

• Attachment

• Critical

• Assimilation

Which of the following is true?

• During old age, many of the brains neurons die.

• If we live to be 90 most of us will eventually become senile.

• Old people become less susceptible to short-term illness.

• Recognition memory- the ability to identify things previously experienced declines with age.

• Life satisfaction peaked in the 50's and then declines after age 65

According to Kohlberg, what kind of morality is exhibited when actions are judged ‘right’ because they flow from basic ethical principles?

• Postconventional

• Preconventional

• Conventional

• Preoperational

• Formal operational

According to Mary Ainsworth’s research on attachment, what would a child need most to become “securely attached”?

• Sensitive, responsive caregivers

• the right inborn temperament

• a surrogate mother

• the right diet

• an importing experience shortly after birth

Temperament refers to an infant’s

• Susceptibility to infection and disease

• emotional reactivity

• general inteligence

• level of anger

• ability to learn from situations

Fluid intelligence-our ability to reason speedily and abstractly-

• decreases slowly with age

• hasn't been measured over time

• increases slowly with age

• doesn't change until about age 75

• remains unchanged if we exercise

Researchers suggest that infancy’s major social achievement is attachment. Childhood’s major social achievement is developing

• a basic trust

• into a sexually mature person

• intimacy

• a positive sense of self

• object permanence

Most adolescents can ponder and debate human nature, good and evil, truth and justice. According to Piaget, this is due to the emergence of which stage?

• Concrete operational

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• formal operational

• accommodation