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Abner, a 70-year-old retired teacher, feels that his life has not been of any real value or significance. According to Erikson, Abner has failed to achieve a sense of


A) basic trust.
B) intimacy.
C) autonomy.
D) integrity.

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Erik Erikson suggested that children with a secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to experience


A) stranger anxiety.
B) egocentrism.
C) basic trust.
D) object permanence.

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One of the three major issues in developmental psychology involves a focus on


A) primary and secondary sex characteristics.
B) menarche and menopause.
C) identity and role confusion.
D) stability and change.

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The association between authoritative parenting and the social competence of children might result from an underlying third factor such as shared genes. This best reminds us that


A) socially mature children evoke parental trust.
B) imprinting occurs during a restricted critical period.
C) we overestimate that value of our moral intuitions.
D) correlation is not causation.

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Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?


A) preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor
B) sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
C) sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
D) preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational

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In terms of incidence, susceptibility to short-term illnesses ________ with age and susceptibility to long-term ailments ________ with age.


A) decreases; increases
B) increases; decreases
C) increases; increases
D) decreases; decreases

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An older person who can look back on life with satisfaction and reminisce with a sense of completion has attained Erikson's stage of


A) generativity.
B) intimacy.
C) isolation.
D) integrity.

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We refer to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating as


A) cognition.
B) maturation.
C) accommodation.
D) habituation.

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Which is the correct sequence of stages in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?


A) sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
B) sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational
C) preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational
D) preoperational, sensorimotor, formal operational, concrete operational

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Researchers who emphasize learning and experience tend to view development as


A) a continuous process, while those who emphasize maturation often view
Development as a sequence of stages.
B) a sequence of stages, while those who emphasize maturation often view development as a continuous process.
C) a cognitive process, while those who emphasize maturation often view development as a social process.
D) a social process, while those who emphasize maturation often view

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Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child


A) is like a blank slate at birth.
B) is not heavily influenced by maturation.
C) develops through a series of stages.
D) is heavily dependent on the child's personality.

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Aerobic exercise programs during late adulthood stimulate improvement in


A) object permanence.
B) basic trust.
C) menarche.
D) memory.

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Newborn infants typically prefer their mother's voice over their father's voice because


A) their reflexes are naturally triggered by higher-pitched sounds.
B) they rapidly habituate to lower-pitched male voices.
C) they become familiar with their mother's voice before they are born.
D) they form an emotional attachment to their mother during breast feeding.

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A child's realization that others may have beliefs that the child knows to be false best illustrates the development of


A) object permanence.
B) egocentrism.
C) a theory of mind.
D) stranger anxiety.

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The sexual abuse of a very young child is so emotionally repulsive to most people that they immediately recognize it as shamefully immoral. This best illustrates that moral judgments may reflect


A) habituation.
B) insecure attachments.
C) affectively laden intuitions.
D) formal operations.

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Harmful chemicals or viruses that can be transferred from a mother to her developing fetus are called


A) schemas.
B) telomeres.
C) teratogens.
D) zygotes.

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Which is the correct order of stages of prenatal development?


A) zygote, fetus, embryo
B) zygote, embryo, fetus
C) embryo, zygote, fetus
D) embryo, fetus, zygote

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According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to


A) reason abstractly.
B) adhere to social norms.
C) distinguish between helpful and harmful behaviors.
D) experience object permanence.

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Compared with those who lived shorter lives, 33 seemingly protective ________ were observed to be more common in centenarians.


A) genes
B) schemas
C) teratogens
D) critical periods

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Emotional instability has been found to be


A) highest among 30-year-olds.
B) highest among 40-year-olds.
C) highest among 50-year-olds.
D) similar among adults at all of these ages.

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