Prenatal and Childhood Development Psychology Quiz

What is a zygote?

• A fertilized egg

• A developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

• The biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes

• A developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization until the end of the 8th week

What is the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period early in life?

• Object permanence

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Imprinting

What is the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning around 8 months of age?

• Stranger anxiety

• Object permanence

• Imprinting

• Egocentrism

Which parenting style is marked by imposing rules and expecting obedience?

• Authoritarian parenting

• Permissive parenting

• Authoritative parenting

• Responsive parenting

What is the stage of cognitive development from about age 6 to 11 years of age, during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events?

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

What is the awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot see or hear them?

• Conservation

• Object permanence

• Imprinting

• Egocentrism

What is the stage of cognitive development beginning at about age 12, during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies about things they may not have experienced?

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Preoperational stage

• Sensorimotor stage

Which parenting style is marked by submitting to children's desires, making few demands, and using little punishment?

• Authoritarian parenting

• Permissive parenting

• Authoritative parenting

• Responsive parenting

What is the stage of cognitive development from birth to nearly 2 years of age, during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities?

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

What is the term for the inability to see things from another person's point of view, which Piaget claimed is a part of preoperational stage?

• Egocentrism

• Conservation

• Object permanence

• Imprinting