Which theorist placed the strongest emphasis on maturation in development?
Correct answer C. Arnold Gesell
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Which behaviours are characteristic of infantile autism?
Correct answer D. Both A and C
When the same subjects are studied over a long period of time, what is the study called?
Correct answer C. longitudinal study
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Which of these figures most strongly supports a stage theory of development?
Correct answer B. Piaget
A child in Piaget’s preoperational stage is handed a toy and tries to eat it. What is the child demonstrating?
Correct answer D. Assimilation
Which of the following is a normal result of ageing?
Correct answer A. loss of speed of information processing
By what other name is Chomsky’s rationalist approach to language development known?
Correct answer B. Nativist
Whose theory of social attraction seems most applicable in most social settings?
Correct answer D. Newcomb
Who would be most concerned with how imagery and verbal systems develop in infants and how they interconnect?
Correct answer C. Bruner
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Which of these psychologists described the identity crisis as a key problem of adolescence?
Correct answer C. Erikson
Noam Chomsky proposed that humans have an innate ability to grasp the structure of language and use it in learning language. What did he call this?
Correct answer A. Language acquisition device
In Piaget’s theory, what is the stage from 2 to 7 years of age, when language develops gradually, called?
Correct answer B. Preoperational stage
A young child seeing a cow for the first time calls it a ‘doggie’. Which process does this show?
Correct answer A. assimilation
Which process produces an exact copy of genetic material?
Correct answer A. Mitosis
A child whose father has a beard calls every bearded man ‘daddy’. What is the child doing?
Correct answer D. Overextending the word
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Who stressed that social development continues across the whole lifespan rather than only in the first five or six years?
Correct answer B. Erik Erikson
What is the powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents called?
Correct answer D. Attachment
Which parenting style usually produces children with the highest confidence and self-esteem?
Correct answer A. Authoritative
According to Erik Erikson, children with a very secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to develop what?
Correct answer B. basic trust
Which theory of gender-typing proposes that people interpret and classify their own behaviour and traits as masculine or feminine?
Correct answer D. Gender schema theory