Having a close friend can make up for being rejected by classmates * A) True B) False 83. Aggressive behavior in an 8-year-old can predict criminal behavior at age 30 * A) True B) False 84. The views of John Watson were more biologically oriented than those of his contemporary, Sigmund Freud A) True * B) False 85. The case of "Genie," the 13-year-old kept in isolation for most of her life, illustrates the importance of critical periods * A) True B) False 86. One characteristic shared by both Freud's psychosexual stages and Erikson's psychosocial stages is that development continues into late adulthood A) True * B) False 87. A limitation of sociocultural theory is that it is insufficiently developmental * A) True B) False 88. age cohorts are people who were born in the same time

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period and share historical experiences * A) True B) False 89. Accommodation is applying an existing schema to a new experience A) True * B) False 90. Assimilation is applying an existing schema to a new experience * A) True B) False 91. Bronfenbrenner's chronosystem dictates that time can affect only some, but not all, other systems in his ecological model A) True * B) False 92. One limitation of cognitive social learning theory is its overemphasis on development A) True * B) False 93. The concept of a narrowly defined critical period has been replaced with the notion of a sensitive period that has more porous boundaries * A) True B) False 94. A disadvantage of Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory is that the processes by which each system affects development are largely drawn from other theoretical perspectives * A) True B) False 95. Considerable empirical support exists for the Electra complex A) True * B) False 96. Considerable empirical support exists for the Oedipus complex A) True * B) False 97. The value of the social information-processing approach is perhaps most evident in explaining social behavior that is novel or social situations that are unfamiliar * A) True B) False 98. Object permanence has informed the study of child-to-caregiver attachment * A) True B) False 99. One strength of Piaget's theory of cognitive development is the explicit recognition that the stages are not universal, invariant, or irreversible A) True * B) False 100. One limitation of the concept of the zone of proximal development is that we have no simple metric with which to measure it * A) True B) False 101. One advantage of systems theory is that it incorporates knowledge and ideas from many other disciplines beyond developmental psychology * A) True B) False 21 Maximizing the transmission of one's genes to the next generation is a central aim of life history theory *a. True b. False

a. true
b. false

Answer 1

a. true