Unit 9 Developmental Psych Test Review

A baby looks under the sofa for a ball that has just rolled underneath it. According to Jean Piaget, the baby's action shows development of

• conservation of mass
• reversibility
• object permanence
• logical thinking

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

• ego strength
• intelligence
• attachment
• reaction time

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

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

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

Seven year old Maria helps her mother wash the dishes, while her nine year old brother helps their father with the yard work. This involvement of the children in helping activities directly illustrates the process of

• identity diffusion

• gender role development

• preconventional morality development

• classical conditioning of sex roles

• evolutionary determinism

The most well-adjusted and socially competent children tend to come from homes where parents employ which of the following parental styles

• minimal supervision

• authoritarian

• authoritative

• indulgent

• permissive

A fifteen year old individual is predicted to experience which psychosocial crisis?

• industry vs inferiority

• identity vs confusion

• intimacy vs isolation

• initiative vs guilt

• integrity vs despair

In research with baby monkeys, what did Harlow demonstrate was a strong determinant of attachment?

• comfort contact

• a secure base

• food

• quality of care

• temperament of caretaker