| The view that development is a cumulative process, gradually adding to the same type of skills is known as ________. | continuous development nature nurture discontinuous development |
| Developmental psychologists study human growth and development across three domains. Which of the following is not one of these domains? | psychological cognitive physical psychosocial |
| How is lifespan development defined? | The study of how we grow and change from conception to death. The study of how we grow and change in infancy and childhood. The study of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth in children. The study of emotions, personality, and social relationships. |
| The idea that even if something is out of sight, it still exists is called ________. | object permanence egocentrism conservation reversibility |
| Which theorist proposed that moral thinking proceeds through a series of stages? | Lawrence Kohlberg Sigmund Freud Erik Erikson John Watson |
| According to Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, what is the main task of the adolescent? | forming an identity developing autonomy feeling competent forming intimate relationships |
| Which of the following is the correct order of prenatal development? | zygote, embryo, fetus zygote, fetus, embryo fetus, embryo zygote fetus, zygote, embryo |
| The time during fetal growth when specific parts or organs develop is known as ________. | critical period mitosis conception pregnancy |
| What begins as a single-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge at conception? | zygote embryo fetus infant |
| Using scissors to cut out paper shapes is an example of ________. | fine motor skills gross motor skills large motor skills small motor skills |
| The child uses the parent as a base from which to explore her world in which attachment style? | secure insecure avoidant insecure ambivalent-resistant disorganized |
| The frontal lobes become fully developed ________. | by 25 years old at birth at the beginning of adolescence at the end of adolescence |
| Who created the very first modern hospice? | Cicely Saunders Elizabeth Kübler-Ross Florence Wald Florence Nightingale |
| Which of the following is the order of stages in Kübler-Ross’s five-stage model of grief? | denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance denial, bargaining, anger, depression, acceptance anger, depression, bargaining, acceptance, denial anger, acceptance, denial, depression, bargaining |
