Pete participates in soccer and is beginning to master fundamental reading and math skills. Pete is probably in which period of human development?
A) adolescence
B) middle childhood
C) early childhood
D) infancy and toddlerhood
B
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Research indicates that self-regulation
a. can be restored when people are in a good mood and eat non-sugar foods. b. can be strengthened so people become less vulnerable to ego depletion. c. is a character flaw. d. is a fixed personality characteristic.
Freud emphasized that the problems of many patients could be traced to:
A) effects of painful childhood experiences that could not be remembered. B) "mind bugs," or curious failures of otherwise adaptive cognitive processes. C) feelings of shame and inadequacy acquired during adolescent sexual development. D) maladaptive patterns of behaviour that could be observed during infancy.
A strength of the longitudinal design is its ability to identify
a. cohort effects. b. gender differences between girls and boys. c. long-term individual differences among children. d. ethnographic differences in multicultural populations.
The differences between the prelinguistic, holophrase, and telegraphic speech stages of language development illustrate which theme in the text?
a. Active child b. Nature/nurture c. Quantitative/qualitative d. Holistic