Developmental Psychology

The four stages of Piaget's cognitive development (in order) are:

• Sensory-motor, pre-operational, formal operational, concrete operational.

• Sensory-motor, formal operational, concrete operational, optional.

• Sensory-motor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational.

• Sensory-motor, abstract operational, logical operational, formal operational.

Object permanence can be defined as:

• Pieces of information continuing to be remembered.

• Events and ideas being permanently engrained in the mind.

• Objects continuing to exist even after they have left our perception.

• Believing you can see things that are not there.

The key feature of the 'pre-operational stage' is:

• Thinking logically

• Thinking in operational format

• Being egocentric

• Seeing things from others points of view

The concrete operational stage occurs in what age bracket?

• Birth - 2

• 7 - 11 years

• 11+ years

• 2 - 7 years

Which of these are findings of Kohlberg's theory of moral development?

• Reasons tended to change as the children got older.

• Participants identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning each with two sub stages.

• Not everyone can achieve all 6 stages.

• Many will never reach the top pinnacle of the hierarchy.

Three stages of Kohlberg's moral development include (in order):

• Pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional.

• Conventional, pre-conventional, post-conventional.

• Post-conventional, conventional, sub-conventional.

• Pre-conventional, post-conventional, conventional.

What type of development do developmental psychologist study?

• physical

• social

• cognitive

• all of the above

The concepts of stranger and separation anxiety were pioneered by which of the following theorists?

• Jean Piaget

• Carol Gilligan

• Harry Harlow

• Mary Ainsworth

What is the process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period?

• assimilation

• contact comfort

• imprinting

• separation anxiety

What term is used to describe a child’s inability to see the world through anyone else’s eyes except his or her own?

• egocentrism

• narcissism

• disparity

• assimilation