Development Review

When you go over to visit your friend's new baby, your friend exclaims, ÒWatch this!Ê Every time I touch his cheek, he turns his mouth towards my finger!ÓÊ Because you've taken psychology, you know that this phenomenon is called the ______ reflex.

• sucking
• complementary
• startle
• rooting

Menopause refers to:

• the cessation of menstruation.
• the loss of male sexual potency.
• the end of the formal operations stage.
• the loss of sexual interest in late adulthood.

Dr. Jones wants to see if a person's IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group I is made up of 10 year olds, Group II of 15 year olds, and Group III of 25 year olds. Dr. Jones tests all three groups for their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called

• correlational study
• more information is needed to determine the design of the experiment
• longitudinal study
• cross sectional study

Dr. Janczak wants to study the effects of poverty on one's self concept To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type of study?

• cross sectional study
• longitudinal study
• more information is needed to determine the design of the study
• correlational study

The child is very egocentric during which of Piaget's stages?

• formal
• concrete
• sensorimotor
• preoperational

Erikson suggested that the adolescent search for identity is followed by a developing capacity for:

• trust
• autonomy
• competence
• intimacy

Adolescence extends from:

• the beginning of concrete operations to the end of formal operations.
• 12 to 15 years of age
• the beginnings of sexual maturity to independent adulthood
• the beginning to the end of the growth spurt

A child who knows how to tie shoelaces would probably find it relatively easy to learn how to tie a bow. Piaget would call this thinking process

• object permanence
• accommodation
• operationalization
• assimilation

Patricia is upset because she is convinced that her brother has a bigger piece of cake than she does. Her dad quickly slices Patricia's piece of cake in two and tells her that she now has "more" cake. If Patricia calms down and is convinced that she does have more cake than her brother, it would suggest that she

• does not understand the process of acquisition
• has not yet mastered object permanence
• does not yet understand conservation
• is displaying egocentric reasoning

The onset of puberty

• begins approximately two years earlier on the average in girls than in boys
• begins approximately eight years earlier on the average in girls than in boys
• begins approximately two years earlier on the average in boys than in girls
• is about the same time for boys and girls