A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a long period of time is using the __________ method.

A method of studying developmental changes by restructuring subjects’ past through interviews and investigating the effects of events that occurred in the past on current behavior is called a __________ study.

An advantage of the cross-sectional method of research is it takes relatively little time to complete.

A weakness of longitudinal studies is that they:

A disadvantage of the biographical (retrospective) approach is that it fails to generate rich enough detail about an individual’s life.

A reflex crucial to an infant’s survival is:

The term used by psychologists to describe the characteristic patterns of emotional reactions and emotional self-regulation in infants and children is __________.

The visual cliff was developed to measure:

Motor development refers to the acquisition of skills involving movement such as grasping, crawling, and walking.

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

Games like "peek-a-boo" and "hide-and-seek" are especially worthwhile activities for babies because they help them develop a sense of:

Being unable to see things from another’s point of view or put yourself in someone else’s place is known as:

A characteristic that first shows up in the concrete operational stage (between 7 and 11 years of age) is:

Baumrind’s research on parenting styles found that the authoritative style of parenting was the most effective parenting style.

The first form of play in which children engage is __________ play.

Children between the ages of 3 and 3 1/2 years of age begin playing in ways that require interaction, such as “playing house”. This type of play is known as__________ play.

Psychologist who designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and its primary caregiver

Psychologist who did a number of studies on attachment in rhesus monkeys during the 1950's and 1960's

Person who investigated the mechanisms of imprinting, where some species of animals form an attachment to the first large moving object that they meet