Human Growth & Devel 2

Question 1

Stage theorist assume

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qualitative changes between stages occur.

Question 2

Development

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is a continuous process which begins at conception

Question 3

Development is cephalocaudal, which means

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head to food

Question 4

Heredity

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• assumes the normal person has 23 pairs of chromosomes.
• assumes that heredity characteristics are transmitted by chromosomes
• assumes genes composed of DNA hold a genetic code.

Question 5

Piaget’s final stage is known as the formal operational stage. In this stage

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• abstract thinking emerges.

- problems can be solved using deduction.

Question 6

Kohlberg lists____ stages of moral development which fall into ___ levels

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6, 3

Question 7

A person who lives by his or her individual conscience and universal ethical principles

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• has, according to Kohlberg, reached the highest stage of moral development.
• is in the postconventional level of self-accepted moral principles.

Question 8

Freud’s Oedipus complex

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• is the stage in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite-sex parent occurs.
• occurs during the phallic stage

Question 9

In girls the Oedipus complex may be referred to as

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the Electra complex

Question 10

the correct order of the Freudian psychosexual stages is:

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

Question 11

Gibson researched the matter of depth perception in children by utilizing

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a visual cliff

Question 12

Theorists who believe that development merely consists of quantitative changes are referred to as

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empiricists

Question 13

An empiricist view of development would be

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behavioristic

Question 14

In the famous experiment by Harlow, frightened monkeys raised via cloth and wire mothers

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ran over and clung to the cloth and wire surrogate mothers.