Development Part 1

Developmental psychologists tend to focus on three major issues. Which of the following is NOT one of those issues?

• Nature/Nurture

• Reflexes/Unlearned Behaviors

• Stability/Change

• Continuity/Stages

Put Piaget's Cognitive Development stages in the correct order.

• Formal Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operational

The principle of conservation explains why a pint of milk remains a pint, whether poured into a tall thin pitcher or a round one. Children acquire the mental operations necessary to understand conservation during the

• sensorimotor stage

• preoperational stage

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about abstractions indicates

• concrete operational thought

• egocentrism

• formal operational thought

• conservation

In which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development does object permanence take place?

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

In which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development does object permanence take place?

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

Any non genetic agent that produces birth defects when exposed to the baby is a

• SIDS

• teratogen

• mutation

• placental

Match the definition to the correct parenting style

• Few rules and relaxed attitude

• Authoritarian

• Parents uninvolved in their child's life

• Authoritative

• Child-centered parenting style

• Permissive Indulgent

• Restrictive parenting style

• Permissive Neglectful

_______________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.

Jory, a six year old, is picking out a card for his mother's birthday. He picks the card with a picture of Lightning McQueen, reasoning that since he loves Cars his mother does to. What does this exemplify?

• conservation

• egocentrism

• abstract thought

• reversibility