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Awesome StudentQuestion • Developmental Psychology

The link between the child's home and their school is an example of the _______ in Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory

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mesosystem

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Attachment in children is usually manifested by seeking proximity with the attachment figure when upset or threatened.

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True

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During Piaget's Sensorimotor stage, what is the ability to flexibly altering existing schemas into new schemas called?

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Accommodation

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The _____ is a setting that affects an individual despite the fact that the person is not being an active participant.

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Exosystem

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Attachment Theory states that infants seek close proximity with their caregivers because they seek security and comfort

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True

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Developmental Psychology focuses on biological, socio-emotional and cognitive processes which affect human development.

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Which of the following provides the best example of the macrosystem as described in Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory?

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According to the ecological systems theory, a child's development is best understood by examining which of the following?

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What level of Kohlberg's moral reasoning have adolescents reached when they set their own internal standards for behavior?

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During the asocial attachment stage, infants enjoy human company and most babies respond equally to any person giving care.

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Equilibration is when an existing schema does not work and thus needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.

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Piaget believed that the thinking of children in the concrete operational stage are characterized by the following, except:

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This characteristic of development explains that development consists of biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional aspects

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According to Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development, during which stage do children develop the capacity for conservation?

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Family, friends, classmates, teachers, neighbors and other people in your community are under which of the following system?

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Harlow and Zimmerman's famous experiment showed that infants developing a close bond depending on their hunger satisfaction.

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Older adults who have already stopped learning are more flexible and are more capable of engaging in more adaptive behaviors.

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Cognitions are the basic building blocks of such cognitive models, and enable us to form a mental representation of the world.

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(0 to 6 weeks) Many kinds of stimuli, both social and non-social, produce a favorable reaction from the child, such as a smile.

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