2019 - 2020 Unit 7: Developmental Psychology Quiz

Jean Piget's development 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.

• crystallized intelligence.

• multiple sclerosis.

• normal aging.

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

• Conservation

• Preoperational

• Attachment

• Critical

• Assimilation

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

• Postconventional

• Preconventional

• Conventional

• Preoperatonal

• 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 temperament

• A terry-cloth wrapped "surrogate" mother

• An imprinting experience shortly after birth

• The right diet

Temperament refers to an infant's:

• susceptibility to infection and disease.

• emotional reactivity.

• general intelligence.

• level of anger.

• ability to learn from situations.

Fluid intelligence, our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, -

• decreases slowly with age.

• has not been measured over time.

• increases slowly with age.

• does not change until about the age of 75.

• remains unchanged if we exercise.

Once a sperm penetrates the cell wall of an egg and fertilizes it, this structure is known as:

• an embryo.

• A fetus.

• placenta.

• a teratogen.

• A zygote.

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

• 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.