Development 40 Studies

According to Harlow's research, a lack of the _ mother was psychologically stressful to the infant monkeys.

• soft

• wire

According to Harlow's research what was more significant in producing an attachment between infant and its mother?

• biolgical needs such as hunger and thirst

• contact comfort

What approach to psychology explains that the reinforcement qualities of feeding is the driving force behind the infant-mother bond.

• behaviorists

• developmental psychologist

• psychoanalyists

• cognitive

What type of method did Piaget use to establish his stages of cognitive development?

• unstructured evaluation

• experimental

• case study

• correlational

According to Piaget, this stage is concerned with reflexes related to feeding and touching. Object permanence develops.

• sensori-motor

• preoperational

• concrete operations

• formal operations

According to Piaget, thinking separates from movement, "magical thinking" occurs, all objects have thoughts and feeling (animalism), and egocentric thinking develops.

• sensori-motor

• preoperational

• concerete operations

• formal operations

What cognitive skill does Piaget feel to be the beginning of true thought?

• object permanence

• secondary circular reations

• formal operations

• passive expectation

Hypothetical and deductive thinking are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

• Preoperational

• Operational

• Conservation

• Concrete operations

• Formal operations

Previously, when Ezekiel’s puppy would go into the other room, Ezekiel would forget that the puppy was ever there. Now, he tries to see where the puppy went. According to Jean Piaget, Ezekiel seems to have achieved

• animism

• egocentrism

• conservation

• object permanence

Recent research on Jean Piaget’s cognitive stage theory of development indicates that

• the ages of onset for the sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development are essentially the same

• the ages of onset for the preoperational and formal operational stages of cognitive development are essentially the same

• the age of onset for the sensorimotor stage occurs much later than originally established

• the ages of onset for many cognitive milestones occur earlier than originally established