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When surrounded by men, a woman may become mindful of her gender because ________ often forms around one's distinctiveness.


A) social identity
B) a secure attachment
C) egocentrism
D) object permanence

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According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about abstract propositions is indicative of the stage of


A) preoperational thought.
B) concrete operations.
C) formal operations.
D) postconventional thought.

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Less than normal activity in brain areas involved in mirroring others' actions has been found to be associated with


A) autism.
B) stranger anxiety.
C) role confusion.
D) infantile amnesia.

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Piaget claimed that children understand the world primarily by observing the effects of their own actions on other people, objects, and events during the ________ stage.


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

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When asked to recall the one or two most important events over the last half century, older adults tend to name events that occurred when they were between ________ years of age.


A) 2 and 5
B) 5 and 10
C) 10 and 30
D) 30 and 50

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According to Piaget, children acquire the mental operations needed to comprehend such things as mathematical transformations and conservation during the ________ stage.


A) Preoperational
B) Sensorimotor
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational

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The ability of preschool children to empathize with classmates who are feeling sad illustrates that preoperational children have developed


A) a sense of integrity.
B) conventional morality.
C) a theory of mind.
D) a concept of conservation.

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The corrupt behavior of many ordinary people who served as Nazi concentration camp guards best illustrates that immorality often results from


A) social influence.
B) the curse of knowledge.
C) abnormal cognitive development.
D) postconventional moral thinking.

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From ages 3 to 6, the brain's neural networks are sprouting most rapidly in the


A) frontal lobes.
B) hypothalamus.
C) cerebellum.
D) brainstem.

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The preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view is called


A) stranger anxiety.
B) egocentrism.
C) role confusion.
D) habituation.

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Physical exercise in later life promotes ________ in the hippocampus.


A) a reduction of myelin
B) the shortening of telomeres
C) the process of neurogenesis
D) reduced mirror neuron activity

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Many researchers believe that adult styles of romantic love correspond with childhood patterns of


A) habituation.
B) attachment.
C) conservation.
D) object permanence.

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Lambs raised in the barn where the cattle are kept tend to stay near the cattle when subsequently placed in open pasture. This best illustrates a process known as


A) imprinting.
B) conservation.
C) accommodation.
D) egocentrism.

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When Joan touched her infant's cheek, he turned his head toward the side that was touched and opened his mouth. Joan was eliciting the reflex to ________ a nipple.


A) root for
B) imprint on
C) habituate to
D) accommodate to

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Olivia understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Olivia is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage.


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

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Rising divorce rates over the past 40 years are partly a consequence of


A) increasing marital expectations and the increasing economic independence of
Women.
B) decreasing marital expectations and the decreasing economic independence of women.
C) increasing marital expectations and the decreasing economic independence of women.
D) decreasing marital expectations and the increasing economic independence of

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Fred has no meaningful occupational goals and has switched college majors several times. Erikson would have suggested that Fred lacks


A) identity.
B) initiative.
C) autonomy.
D) industry.

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Children's sense that their parents are trustworthy and dependable is most indicative of


A) maturation.
B) accommodation.
C) secure attachment.
D) object permanence.

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Which of the following factors contributes most positively to the development of secure attachment between human infants and their mothers?


A) conventional morality
B) responsive parenting
C) stranger anxiety
D) authoritarian discipline

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When people recognize the inaccuracy of ethnic stereotypes and revise their beliefs, they are demonstrating the process of


A) maturation.
B) assimilation.
C) imprinting.
D) accommodation.

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