Obj. 11 - 16 Developmental Psychology

The acquisition of a sense of object permanence is most closely associated with the development of:

• conservation

• concrete operational intelligence

• stranger anxiety

• self-awareness

• egocentrism

Mr. Johnson spends time each day caressing and rocking his infant daughter. This time together should serve most directly to promote:

• habituation

• secure attachment

• stranger anxiety

• egocentrism

• conservation

Lambs raised in the barn where the cattle are kept tend to stay near the cattle when subsequently placed in open pasture. This best illustrates a process known as:

• assimilation

• imprinting

• conservation

• accommodation

• the rooting reflex

Instead of happily exploring the attractive toys located in the pediatrician's waiting room, little Sandra tenaciously clings to her mother's skirt. Sandra most clearly shows signs of:

• habituation

• egocentrism

• insecure attachment

• the rooting reflex

• object permanence

Questions about the extent to which secure attachments are influenced by infant temperament or by responsive parenting are most directly relevant to the issue of:

• continuity or stages

• stability or change

• nature or nurture

• egocentrism

• assimilation or theory of mind

Erik Erikson suggested that children with a secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to experience

• stranger anxiety

• egocentrism

• basic trust

• object permanence

• habituation

When golden hamsters were repeatedly threatened and attacked while young, they suffered long-term changes in:

• object permanence

• brain chemistry

• the rooting reflex

• maturation

• habituation

Parents who are demanding and yet sensitively responsive to their children are said to be:

• authoritarian

• conservative

• egocentric

• permissive

• authoritative

in formulating his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson would have suggested that authoritarian parents are likely to inhibit young children's

• theory of mind

• autonomy and initiative

• assimilation and accommodation

• conventional morality

• habituation

Researchers have sneakily dabbed rouge on young children's noses in order to study the developmental beginnings of:

• egocentrism

• object permanence

• habituation

• conservation

• self-awareness