Unit Test — Unit test Answers

A caregiver who makes few demands of one’s children and is not responsive or nurturing is displaying __________ parenting.

All of the following are environmental factors that affect human development except __________.

The goodness of fit is when caregivers recognize their child’s temperament and work with it in order to raise a well-adjusted child.

Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development best represents a stage theory of development.

Vygotsky believed that learning primarily occurred through __________.

Piaget believed that language helped foster cognitive development.

__________ is an important factor in the process of maturation because it provides a biological framework of how much one is capable of accomplishing.

Which of the following statements does not represent assumptions that stage theories share?

The average ages at which an individual displays certain abilities are known as __________.

Although heredity lays down the __________ of who we are, environment helps build who we will become.

Kohlberg believed that human moral development is strongly based on the fact that we all have a desire for justice and a(n) __________.

Which of the following is a method of scaffolding?

Which of the following is an assumption of stage theories of development?

Analyze the table below and answer the question that follows. If having dimples is dominant (D) and not having dimples is recessive (d), which of the following correctly describes the phenotypes in the table?

Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows.Brooke, who believes in continuous human development, is reading a paper on famous psychologist Erik Erikson. In Erikson’s psychosocial development theory, children aged 3 to 5 years old struggle with becoming responsible for beginning tasks. Since Brooke believes in continuous human development, which of the following statements would she agree with?

__________ who have been raised apart are typically more similar in intelligence level than biological siblings raised together because they have been born with the same genetic code.

__________ is when one relates similar objects to schemas one is already familiar with.

Which of the following is not an example of scaffolding?

Infants will often reach for things by __________ before they learn to reach with their arms.

Vygotsky believed that scaffolding limited communication between the teacher and the learner.