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Which is the correct order of the psychosexual stages of development?

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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While I am the fastest to conduct research design, one big disadvantage I have is that I do not generate information about the development of individuals. Which research method am I?

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Cross-sectional

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A cross-cultural study on aggression in children from Belize, Kenya, Nepal, and American Somoa by Munro and colleagues (2000) indicated that

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boys were more aggressive an all four countries.

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Which of the following is a key criticism of Erikson's theory of personality development?

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His theory is rather vague and difficult to test.

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Which statement concerning the pre-seventeenth century conception of childhood is most accurate?

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Pre-seventeenth century adults held views toward childhood that are different from most modern parents.

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A sex-linked characteristic most likely involves a problem with the _____ chromosome

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X

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When a dominant gene is paired with a recessive gene, the characteristic associated with the dominant gene will be

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Expressed

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What in the past was often called school phobia is now referred to as

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school refusal behavior.

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Which statement best exemplifies the process of extinction?

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Just ignore it.

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Most dogs bark but don't speak, and most humans speak but don't bark. This is best explained by

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species heredity.

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As the genetic material in two cells pair up just prior to meiosis, parts of the chromosome are exchanged with a second chromosome. This is called

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crossing over.

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____ is NOT a hallmark of a true experiment?

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Control over responses on the dependent measure

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Following mitosis, each daughter cell has _____ number of chromosomes as the mother cell had.

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the same

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If blonde hair is dominant and designated as "B" and brunette hair is recessive and designated as "b," probability would predict that if a couple each with a "Bb" hair color genotype had four children, _____ would have blonde hair.

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3

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A psychologist measures the IQs of 20 students who ingested a "smart pill" and 20 students who ingested a "sugar pill" in order to determine if the pill had an effect on intelligence. To ensure peak performance, she tests all of the students on Wednesdays. In this experiment, the dependent variable is the

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IQ score.

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The fact that many adult males who lived through the Great Depression later had erratic careers and unstable marriages exemplifies

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the impact of historical context on development.

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In public, Mr. Mistoffelees is a strong advocate of animal rights. In reality, he has an unconscious desire to gratify himself by being cruel to cats. Freud would argue that Mr. Mistoffelees' is exhibiting

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a reaction formation.

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Socioeconomic status affects the development of

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both lower- and higher-SES individuals.

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Who has the set of chromosomes found in a typical female?

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(XX) Rose

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Jerome believes that development proceeds through a series of developmental stages, each of which represents distinct changes. He might best be called a(n) _____ theorist.

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discontinuity

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According to Freud, I am the component of personality that is impulsive, irrational, and driven to satisfy instincts. I am the

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ID

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Research by Lomin and colleagues indicated that the highest heritability correlation concerning the emotion of anger was found between

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identical twins raised together.

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Emeril has never tasted spicy shrimp. When he eats his first spicy shrimp, he smiles and decides that he really likes spicy shrimp. A few weeks after tasting the spicy shrimp for the first time, he is in a different restaurant, sees a bowl of spicy shrimp on a table next to him, and smiles. He then tells the waiter that he is going to try a new dish called spicy chicken. In this situation, _____ is best characterized as a conditioned response.

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Emeril's smile

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Paris is a 16-year-old who is having difficulty accepting her newfound sexuality. Given this description, Freud would argue that Paris is in the _____ stage of development.

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genital

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Dr. Vandepolder is conducting a study on American Midwest college students' radio-listening habits. He doesn't have the resources to survey all college students in the Midwest, so he uses census data to randomly select a group of several thousand students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota to participate in the study. In this study, the group of all American Midwest college students is called the _____, while the group randomly selected from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota is called the _____.

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population; sample

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Mara finds that the correlation between variables A and B is +.43, while the correlation between variables A and C is -.78. These results indicate that

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the correlation between A and C is stronger than the correlation between A and B.

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According to data generated by the Human Genome Project, all humans share about _____ out of 1,000 DNA bases.

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999

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Measuring different age groups of subjects repeatedly at different periods in time is called a ______ design.

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sequential

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Identical twins occur when a(n) _____ divides to form two separate, individual cells.

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fertilized ovum

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Who is most often cited as the founder of developmental psychology?

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G. Stanley Hall

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Erikson used the phrase "_____" to characterize the key element of adolescence.

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identity crisis

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The three broad domains explored by developmental psychologists are

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physical, cognitive, psychosocial.

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Concerning depression,

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some genes protect a person from depression and others predispose a person to depression.

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When making a decision on whether or not to follow the latest diet trend, Jillian focuses on what the best scientific research has to say about the topic of nutrition. This indicates that Jillian believes in engaging in _____ practice.

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evidence-based

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A theory is best defined as a

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set of concepts and propositions intended to describe and explain some aspect of experience.

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Watson believed that

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how a person turns out depends entirely on the environment in which he or she grows up

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A company requires employees to retire at the age of 65. This policy is an example of

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age norms.

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Most complex human characteristics, such as personality and intelligence, are inherited via

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polygenic inheritance.

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Diversity can be based on

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race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

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Molecular genetics is best described as the study of the

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impact of particular genes on particular traits.

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The majority of the human genome consists of "_____" DNA.

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junk

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Scientists estimate that the average human cell contains about _____ genes.

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20,000-25,000

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Baby Gerber smiles and coos so often and is so delightful that his parents feel compelled to smile and chatter right back at him. Which sort of genetic environmental does this best illustrate?

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Evocative genotype-environment

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Polly is attending her first birthday party, where she sees her first balloon. While playing with the balloon, she accidentally pops it with a pin. When the balloon pops, she screams, drops her drink, and starts to cry when she sees it stain the carpet. In this situation, the noise produced by the popping balloon would represent a(n)

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unconditioned stimulus.

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In a(n) ______ research design, the performance of one group of individuals is assessed repeatedly across a portion of the lifespan.

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longitudinal

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Which statement concerning cystic fibrosis is true?

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The mutated gene causing cystic fibrosis may have protected individuals from deadly diarrhea.

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Maturation is to learning as

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genes are to social experience.

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Joy comes home from work exhausted and is surprised to find that her daughter, Michelle, has set the table and started dinner. Joy is thrilled. She praises Michelle and spends an extra half-hour reading with her before bed (something that Michelle likes). The same thing happens the next day, and soon this has become a daily event. This is an example of

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operant conditioning.

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In operant conditioning terms, a negative consequence

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occurs when something is removed.

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Professor Plumb is interested in the impact of fruit consumption on memory. He identifies a group of college students to serve as research participants. Then he randomly assigns them to one of three conditions. In condition 1, the students eat no fruit for a week. In condition 2, students eat one pound of fruit each day for one week. Those students assigned to condition 5 eat five pounds of fruit each day for one week. At the end of the week, Professor Plumb measures the students' memory recall for a list of 20 words. Given this description, Professor Plumb appears to be using a(n) _____ research technique.

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experimental

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