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Which is the correct order of the five stages of dealing with death or loss?
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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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Robert Havighurst believed adolescents must
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Build an identity and go through an identity crisis
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According to Lawrence Kohlberg, behavior directed by self-accepted moral principles is an example of what stage of moral development?
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Pre-Conventional Morality
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If a child believes stealing in order to save a life is ok because life is even more important than following the law, this child would be in what stage of moral development?
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Post-Conventional
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Which of the following defines maturation?
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An automatic biological development of the body and nervous system that naturally unfolds over time.
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According to Diana Baumrind, which of the following parental styles results in the most socially competent and responsible adults?
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Authoritative
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Harlow's experiment with rhesus monkeys and surrogate mothers emphasized the importance of
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Contact
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A critical period is a stage in development when
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The organism normally acquires a trait; acquiring outside this stage may be impossible
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Object permanence is
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The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed.
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Parenting Styles
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Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, Uninvolved
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The process of developing a sense of identity during adolescence was highlighted by
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Erikson's psychosocial development theory
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Kolberg's Stages (in correct order)
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Pre-conventional level, Conventional level, Post-conventional level
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Piaget's Stages (in correct order)
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Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational, Formal operational
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Among the most common teratogens are
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Tobacco, alcohol, medications, illegal drugs
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The correct order of the three stages of human prenatal development are
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Blastocyst, Embryo, Fetus
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Most psychologists believe that development is due to
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both nature and nurture
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Telegraphic speech refers to
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the two word utterances that many toddlers use
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Physical and mental damage in a child due to alcohol exposure in the womb
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When a gene is ___ , it must be paired with a second gene of the same type before its effect will be expressed.
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Recessive
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The study of changes in behavior from conception to death encompasses
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Developmental Psychology
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A child knows that when you take yellow paint and then mix in blue paint, you get green paint. When you ask her what color paint you might get if you take blue paint and then mix in yellow paint, she doesn't know. Her thinking lacks
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Reversibility
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Babies who don't hear normal speech during their fist year may have impaired language abilities because of
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The language sensitive period
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Which combination would produce a blue-eyed child?
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2 Recessive blue genes
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Substances capable of causing birth defects are known as
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Teratogens
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Physical growth and development is called
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Maturation
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If touched on the cheek, neonates will turn their head in that a direction. This is called the
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Rooting Reflex
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Harlow's studies of surrogate mothers show that
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When frightened, infants run to the cloth surrogates for security and contact.
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According to Chomsky, humans have a ___ to develop language.
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Biological Predisposition
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The grasping, rooting, and sucking reflexes of infants are best described as
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Adaptive Reflexes
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The first milk produced by a woman in the first few days after giving birth is called
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Colostrum
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Kinesthesis
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Being able to detect changes in body position and movement
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The ability to detect whether your body is in a horizontal or vertical position depends most directly on
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Vestibular Sense
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Experiencing a green after-image of a red object is most easily explained by
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The Opponent-Process theory
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Certain stroke victims report seeing nothing when shown a series of sticks, yet they are able to correctly report whether the sticks are horizontal or vertical. This best illustrates
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Blindsight
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Accommodation refers to
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The process by which the lens changes shape in order to focus images on the retina.
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A subliminal message is one that is presented
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Below the absolute threshold
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The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the
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Iris
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Sensation is to ___ as perception is to ___ .
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Detection; Interpretation
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Photographs of people were rated more positively if the photos immediately followed a briefly flashed image of kittens. This best illustrates the impact of
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Priming
