AP Psych B - Unit 6 - Developmental Psychology

What aspect of development did Jean Piaget’s development theory focus on?

• Social

• Moral

• Cognitive

• Physical

• Ego

According to Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development, the crisis that needs resolution for adolescents involves the search for what?

• Trust

• Identity

• Autonomy

• Initiative

• Worth

What is the correct term for a period of time when certain events must take place in order to facilitate proper development?

• Conservation stage

• Preoperational stage

• Attachment period

• Critical period

• Assimilation step

Which of the following statements about the impact of aging is true?

• During old age, many of the brain’s neurons die.

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

• Older people become less susceptible to short-term illnesses.

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

• Life satisfaction peaks in the 50s and then gradually declines after age 65.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what stage of moral development 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”?

• Consistent, responsive caregivers

• The right temperament

• A terry cloth-wrapped “surrogate” mother

• An imprinting experience shortly after birth

• Enriched motor development experiences

Temperament refers to what aspect of an infant’s development?

• Susceptibility to infection and disease

• Emotional reactivity

• General intelligence

• Level of optimism

• Ability to learn from situations

How does fluid intelligence change as we age?

• Decreases slowly with age

• Has not been measured over time

• Increases slowly with age

• Does not change until about age 75

• Remains unchanged if we exercise

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

• An embryo

• A fetus

• Placenta

• A teratogen

• A zygote

Social development researchers suggest that infancy’s major social achievement is attachment. Childhood’s major social achievement is developing which of the following?

• Basic trust

• Into a sexually mature person

• Intimacy

• A positive sense of self

• Object permanence