Erik Erikson maintained that the two basic aspects of life that dominate adulthood are ________________?

A. Identity and independence
B. Intimacy and identity
C. Intimacy and generativity
D. Independence and generativity

Down’s syndrome is caused by ______________________?

A. A recessive gene
B. A missing sex chromosome
C. An extra autosome or part of one
D. An extra sex chromosome or part of one

Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of _________________ development?

A. Motor
B. Social
C. Emotional
D. Cognitive

A young child who sees a cow for the first time calls it a ‘doggie’. This illustrates the process of ________________?

A. Accommodation
B. Object prominence
C. Conservation
D. Assimilation

In psychology the nature-nurture debate refers to the relative influences of __________________?

A. Paternal genes and maternal care
B. Genes and environment
C. Genotype and phenotype
D. Genotype and karyotype

Which process results in the faithful duplication of genetic material?

A. Genotyping
B. Crossing over
C. Mitosis
D. Meiosis

A child whose father has a beard and who uses the word daddy to refer to all men with beards is __________________?

A. Overextending the word
B. Babbling
C. Exhibiting developmental dysphasia
D. Exhibiting weak attachment to the father

The union of an egg and a sperm produces ________________?

A. A phenotype
B. A zygote
C. An allele
D. A clone

A child is creating new schemata to account for new information, Piaget calls this process _________________?

A. Accommodation
B. Assimilation
C. Operations
D. Function autonomy

Who emphasized that social development continues throughout life, not just for the first 5 or 6 years?

A. Sigmund freud
B. Anna freud
C. Erik erikson
D. Jean piaget