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Lawrence Kohlberg is noted for his theories of __________ development.

In general, infants' __________ is much better developed at birth than their
__________.

An infant who has developed object permanence

Alberto believes that his function in life is to help younger generations by passing on his acquired business wisdom. Erik Erikson would say that Alberto is exhibiting

A __________ is an involuntary reaction or response.

Jake, a small baby, loves to play with his rattle. The first time his mother
gives him a lollipop, he shakes it as if it were a rattle. According to
Piaget, Jake is trying to __________ the lollipop into his __________ of
rattles.

Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development claims that if a young child is praised for her new abilities she will learn

Which of the following is the correct order for Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive
development?

Reynada spends a lot of time playing with her newborn. She notices that
whenever she touches his cheek with her finger, he turns his mouth towards it.
The newborn is displaying the __________ reflex.

Infants become attached to their primary caregivers through __________.

Most children enter the __________ stage at about age 7.

According to Jean Piaget, which term refers to a child's attempt to understand something new by fitting it into an existing schema?

Ronnie likes to play with his uncle Steve because his uncle always has new
magic tricks. However, Ronnie has difficulty understanding how Steve can be
his mother's brother as well as Uncle Steve. Ronnie's thinking is most
characteristic of the __________ stage of cognitive development.

Developmental psychology is the study of __________.

During pregnancy, Mandi took an antidepressant and her child was born with
severe birth defects. Mandi probably took the antidepressant during the
__________ stage of pregnancy, and the antidepressant acted as a(n)
__________.

Steve is a bully on the third-grade playground. After pushing little
Johnny around, Johnny says to Steve, "Something must have happened to you as a
baby that caused you to be such a jerk. Maybe you were dropped on your head."
Steve replies, "Shut up wimp! I was born to rule." Steve and Johnny are
engaged in a debate that reflects the issue of __________.

Unlike John Locke, French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that
children were able to discover how the world operates and how they should
behave __________ from adults.

An infant has developed object permanence. This means that he/she __________.

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of __________.

Which of the following helps an infant find the mother's breast?

The term tabula rasa refers to Locke's belief that

The desire ____ characterizes Stage 3 of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory.

Which of the following is NOT true for infants?

__________ development involves the ways in which infants and children learn
to relate to other people.

According to Erik Erikson, a successful midlife transition for men fosters a sense of

Research studies that use the visual cliff show that __________.

Erikson felt that each stage of development was distinguished by a __________.

The inability to see another person's point of view is __________.

Development of self-esteem in young children can be encouraged by __________.

Psychologists call the internally programmed growth of a child

Little Mary is four weeks old. Based on how well her sensory systems
function, with which of the following will she probably have the most
difficulty?

Harry Harlow's study with monkeys indicated clearly that the monkeys spent
time with the cloth monkey when they were motivated by the need for
__________.

Symbolic representation begin during the ___________ stage.

Lawrence Kohlberg identified six stages of moral development. In Stage 1 a child

According to Piaget, people reach cognitive maturity during the __________.

Piaget's concept that things continue to exist even when they're out of site
is called __________.

Conflicts over what is moral and what is legal are likely to occur during the
__________ level.

In Piaget's theory, the stage of development between birth and 2 years of age,
in which the individual develops the ability to form mental representations,
is the __________ stage.

Jean Piaget's research shows that

Sigmund Freud believed that children were born with ____ urges.

A newborn infant has certain automatic movement patterns called

Delroy thinks that all people are good. He watches TV and discovers that
there are people who hurt other people for fun. Delroy now thinks that there
are two types of people in the world: Some people are good and some people are
bad. According to Piaget, what process of development did Delroy use?

A characteristic that first shows up in the formal operations stage is
__________.

Imprinting is

In general, Harlow's studies of infant monkeys with surrogate mothers suggest
that __________.

Eleanor is struggling through the second stage of dying. This can best be described as a stage of

Joan uses the Golden Rule as her guide in making moral judgments. She is considered to be in ____ of Lawrence Kohlberg's framework.

__________ parents combine warmth with positive kinds of strictness.

According to Piaget, which term refers to a child's attempt to understand
something new by fitting it into an existing schema of understanding?

Piaget believed that __________ were the basic units of knowledge.