Question: Freud’s stage that takes place in the second year is called _____.

Answer Choices:

the phallic stage
the anal stage
trust versus mistrust
the oral stage

Answer: the anal stage 68.

 

Question: How do people become “fixated” in a Freudian stage?

Answer Choices:

They experience excessive emotions.
Their normal developmental urges are frustrated.
Their mother is not their primary caregiver.
They fail to undergo a normal cognitive metamorphosis.

Answer: Their normal developmental urges are frustrated. 69.

 

Question: Margarita and Roberto are warm, nurturing parents who hold their baby often. They are exhibiting _____.

Answer Choices:

proximal parenting
distal parenting
authoritarian parenting
autonomous parenting

Answer: proximal parenting 70.

 

Question: A child fixated in the oral stage may become an adult who _____.

Answer Choices:

talks excessively
is excessively neat
is a homosexual
has intense fears

Answer: talks excessively 71.

 

Question: A child’s typical activity during the oral stage is _____.

Answer Choices:

sucking on a pacifier
toilet training
feeling a blanket using the fingers
playing peek-a-boo

Answer: sucking on a pacifier 72.

 

Question: A hypothesis is a(n) _____.

Answer Choices:

experiment
prediction that can be tested
conclusion drawn from research
replication of a scientific study

Answer: prediction that can be tested 73.

 

Question: Parents who believe in the importance of _____ as it relates to development are likely to spend a great deal of time and money trying to find the best school for their children.

Answer Choices:

nurture
replication
nature
classical conditioning

Answer: nurture 74.

 

Question: Which of these is the sequential order of Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development?

Answer Choices:

formal operational, concrete operational, preoperational, sensorimotor
preoperational, sensorimotor, formal operational, concrete operational
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational

Answer: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational 75.

 

Question: With respect to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, the more difficult cognitive adaptation is _____.

Answer Choices:

assimilation
accommodation
assimilation during childhood and accommodation during adulthood
accommodation during childhood and assimilation during adulthood

Answer: accommodation 1.