Developmental Psychology Test

The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and development

• zygote

• embryo

• fetus

• rooting reflex

The natural response when an object is placed in a baby's hand is the

• Startle reflex
• Grasping reflex
• Rooting reflex
• Sucking reflex

The stage (from about 2 to 7 years of age) during which a child learns language but does not comprehend logic

• sensorimotor stage

• object permanence

• preoperational stage

• egocentrism

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering

• cognition

• stranger anxiety

• attachment

• imprinting

The awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot see or hear them

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• object permanence

• imprinting

The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life

• authoritarian parenting

• permissive parenting

• imprinting

• critical period

A style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive, setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind rules

• imprinting

• preoperational stage

• authoritative parenting

• stranger anxiety

The stage of development (beginning around age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• permissive parenting

• imprinting

A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple

• rooting reflex

• object permanence

• imprinting

• stranger anxiety

The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by 8 months of age

• sensorimotor stage

• stranger anxiety

• preoperational stage

• egocentrism