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As healthy, older adults age, what generally happens to their intelligence?
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Fluid intelligence declines but crystallized intelligence does not
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In Piaget's theory, the process of absorbing new information into existing cognitive structures is called:
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Assimilation
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___________ refers to a child's first word combinations, which omit unnecessary words.
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Telegraphic speech
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Adolescent boys who are lonely, depressed, worried, or angry are more likely than girls to:
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externalize their emotional problems in acts of aggression and other antisocial behavior
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Intersexuality is:
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A condition in which chromosomal or hormonal anomalies cause a child to be born with ambiguous genitals or genitals that conflict with the infant's chromosomes
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According to Erik Erickson, when does the challenge of generativity versus stagnation occur?
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Middle adulthood
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Psychologists who study physiological and cognitive changes across the life span and how these are affected by a person's genetic predispositions, culture, circumstances, and experiences are called:
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Developmental Psychologists
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Behavioral and social-cognitive learning theorists generally believe that gender socialization begins:
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at the child's birth or soon after
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How did infant rhesus monkeys that were raised with both an artificial "wire mother" and an artificial "cloth mother" response to these objects?
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They would cling to the "cloth mother," especially when they were frightened or startled.
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After the implantation of the zygote in the uterine wall is complete, the _____ stage of prenatal development begins.
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Embryonic
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Rakeish was kept locked in a basement for most of his childhood. During this period, he almost never heard a human voice. Finally, he was rescued from this abusive situation. It is likely that Rakeish will:
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Never learn to speak normally
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Hillary has a history of behavior problems and conflicts with her parents. Now she is in sixth grade and is the first girl in her class to attain sexual maturity. When compared to later-maturing girls, Hillary is more likely to:
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Drop out of school and have emotional problems
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Emerging adulthood, the years between the ages of 18 to 25, is considered to be a new phase of life in which:
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People feel that they are no longer adolescents but are not yet fully adult.
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The most common consequence of _______ during pregnancy is deafness
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German Measles
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Which of the following outcomes may occur when the mother has German measles (rubella) early in pregnancy?
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Defects in the eye, ear, and heart
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Today,a developmental psychologist studying moral development is likely to emphasize:
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How children learn t regulate their own emotions and behavior.
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Which of the following is a valid challenge to Piaget's theory?
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preschoolers are not as egocentric as Piaget thought
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Mary Ainsworth observed that securely attached infants:
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Cry or protest if the mother leaves the room and welcome her back when she returns.
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Anatolie was raised in a substandard orphange where he was given little attention. He wasn't adopted until he was 6 years old. Anatolie is _____ to become insecurely attached to his adoptive parents as compared to a child that did not experience the same level of abandonment and deprivation.
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More likely
