Development Psychology Exam 2 Flashcards
(40 cards)
The remarkable ability that children demonstrate in their ability to understand and use language is due primarily to:
both biological factors and social interactions.
Gender schema theory is an explanation of how children’s sexual identity develops that includes elements of:
social-learning theory and cognitive-developmental theory.
Damage to Broca’s area results in:
an absence or disruption of normal speech
grammatical morphemes
create meaning by showing the relations between words
according to chomsky, a language acquisition device
is like a specialized organ for language learning
which of the following best describes the relationship between brain development and cultrually organized activities in early childhood?
cultural emphasis on activities such as language and spatial skills can promote brain growth in teh associated cortical areas
in Piaget and Inhelder’s classic “three-mountain problems”, when preoperational children are asked to identify the doll’s perspective, they almost always choose the picture that corresponds to
their own point of view
According to Piaget, a child who reaons that it cant be afternoon yet becuase she has not had her nap is engaged in
precausal thinking
caregivers who relate children’s experiences to their prior knowledge and discuss aspects of events that children find interesting are using a(n) _____ style of interaction
elaborative
which of the following is NOT considered a privileged domain by CHen & Siegler
Chemistry
The ability to think about other people’s mental states that develops in a child’s fourth or fifth year of life is referred to as
theory of mind
according to erikson, which of the following is the major challenge for children between the ages of approximately 3-5 years?
Initiative vs. guilt
____is a psychological process in which children try to look, act, feel, and be like significant people in their social environment
identification
they two key processes in the social-learning view of sex-role development are
modeling and differential reinforcement
Kohlberg’s cognitive developmental stages of sex-role development include
labeling oneself as a boy or girl, and then understanding that one’s sex role is stable and constant over time
the sense of belonging to an ethnic group is known as
ethnic identity
in a study of Margaret Caughy and her colleagures, the most common ethnicity-related messages
messages that emphasized cultural heritage and pride
in freudian terms, the mental structure that develops as the infant is forced to cope with the social world is called the
ego
the inhibition of an action that is already underway is called
effortful control
when a child is able to regulate her emotions, discern other people’s emotions, use elf regulatory strategies, and understand the role that emotions play in social relationships, she is demonstrating
socioemotional competence
researchers who investigate the contexts children experience directly in their daily lives are focusing on the _____ of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model
microsystem
child care and protection that is provided by relatives other than the parents is referred to as
allocaregiving
women in some villages in micronesia, the Carribean, and gambia have been found to have more surviving children when which of the following conditions is met?
when their firstborn child is a daughter
on the basis of his study of child-rearing practices in diverse cultures, Robert Levine has proposed that the most urgent goal of parenting is the
survival goal
