Developmental Psychology Questions

Gross motor skills are to __________ as fine motor skills are to __________.

With regard to television, in 2001 the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that children under 18 months old ____.

A consistent pattern in early intervention programs such as Head Start is that the early gains in IQ and achievement __________.

Lewis and Brooks-Gunn (1979) put a red spot on the noses of children who were 9, 12, and 18 months old. The children then viewed themselves in mirrors. At what age did the children rub their noses, recognizing the image was their own?

Although their pronunciation of words is not as precise as it will become later, most toddlers can speak clearly enough to make themselves understood about nearly anything they wish at about age ___________.

Five-Year-old sandi has spent the last two hours watching cartoons on her mother's laptop rather than playing outside with the neighbor friends. Sandi's behavior illustrates _________, a term describing the choice to engage with media rather than in other activities.

__________ parents are low in both demandingness and responsiveness.

The typical 6-year-old is __________ tall and weighs an average of __________.

In traditional cultures, sleeping alone is ____________.

Which of the following is a part of the brain that is involved in attention and is responsible for an increased attention span during early childhood?

__________ is the inability to distinguish between your own perspective and another person's perspective.

Tantrums during toddlerhood, also known as the "terrible twos," are ____.

Yvette was diagnosed with Lyme disease and is having difficulty with balance, walking a straight line, and simple motor movements. Which of the following areas of her brain would you suspect is being affected by the disease and causing her symptoms?

You notice that your daughter, who is 22 months old, often uses the word "no!" and says it fairly emphatically. You were first concerned that your daughter might have oppositional-defiant disorder until you remembered that in your developmental psychology class you learned that toddlers this age_____________.

The limited memory for personal events and experiences prior to age 5 is probably due to incomplete myelination of the __________.

How many different languages are there in the world?

In nearly all cultures, mothers play a central role in the care of infants and toddlers. How does the role of the father factor into traditional cultures?

___________ is the process in which toddlers learn and remember a word for an object after being told what the object is called just one time.

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was interested in determining what language babies would learn to speak spontaneously if no one influenced them. He instructed caregivers not to speak to neonates in orphanages so that it could be determined which language was the "natural" language. What was the result of his expirament?

At what point during the experimental situations did Ainsworth believe the best indicator of the quality of attachment occurred?