Development part 1 - Review

________ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.

• cognitive

• learning

• physical

• psychosocial

What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

• cognitive capacity

• genes and biology

• environment and culture

• language acquisition

What does nurture refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

• environment and culture

• biology

• genetics

• sexual preference

When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring, we’d say that development happening __________.

• continuously

• unidirectionally

• discontinuously

• bidirectionally

Which theorist is credited with proposing the psychosexual stages of development?

• Erikson

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

• Freud

Between birth and one year, infants are dependent on their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant’s needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as a safe, predictable place. In Erikson’s developmental theory, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

• autonomy vs. shame/doubt

• trust vs. mistrust

• industry vs. inferiority

• identity vs. confusion

During Piaget’s proposed ________ stage of development, children understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations. At the same time they lack the ability to think abstractly.

• concrete operational

• formal operational

• preoperational

• sensorimotor

Adolescents (ages 12–18) experiment with and develop a sense of who they are and what roles they want to play. Erik Erikson would argue that during this period adolescents face the________ task of development.

• generativity vs. stagnation

• identity vs. confusion

• isolation vs. intimacy

• trust vs. mistrust

Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?

• egocentrism

• reversibility

• object permanence

• stranger anxiety

Elroy decided not to cheat on the exam because he would fail the class if he was caught and he’d get punished by his parents. What stage of moral development does this exemplify?

• conventional

• formal operational

• post-conventional

• pre-conventional