PY 101 Exam 2
Juan is thirteen months old and is no longer surprised when his mother hides
his toy train, only to reveal it again in a different position in front of him. What
cognitive milestone is Juan displaying? - correct answer ✔Object
permanence
We can study how infants differ in their attachment styles by using an
experimental procedure called the - correct answer ✔strange situation task.
Preoperational children are often called "egocentric" because they - correct
answer ✔do not understand what others know and do not know.
Which of the following shows Piaget's stages of development in the correct
order? - correct answer ✔Sensorimotor → preoperational → concrete
operational → formal operational
Which option shows four motor milestones in the order in which they normally
occur? - correct answer ✔Lifting the head → rolling over → sitting upright →
standing without support ✰✰✰
Which scenario describes a child who has mastered the concept of
conservation of mass? - correct answer ✔Jane knows that she has the same
amount of clay in her round ball as Rico has in his flat disk.
A friend asks you to help him steal a car so he can drive his roommate to a
doctor's appointment. You refuse, reasoning that laws and rules are a part of
society for a reason and you do not want to disrupt the status quo. According
to Kohlberg's theory, you are using _______ reasoning. - correct answer
✔conventional
, Ashley's mother, Janice, has noticed that her child gets very upset when she
leaves her with her caregiver. When Janice returns home from work, Ashley
often resists her attempt to hold her. Ashley is displaying - correct answer
✔ambivalent attachment.
Gina is very attached to her father, who is her primary caregiver. She is
usually upset when he leaves her with her grandmother to go to work, but
Gina is always happy when he returns in the evening. Gina is displaying -
correct answer ✔secure attachment
When asked if she would steal food for a homeless person, Samantha balked,
stating that she did not want to go to jail. According to Kohlberg's theory,
Samantha's moral reasoning is consistent with the stage known as - correct
answer ✔preconventional.
An absolute threshold is the - correct answer ✔lowest intensity of a stimulus
that a person can detect half the time.
As you and a friend throw a softball back and forth, you depend on _______
to help you determine how close the ball is getting to you and when and
where to catch it. - correct answer ✔binocular cues
If you were an artist drawing a cityscape, you would apply the linear
perspective depth cue by - correct answer ✔drawing the streets converging
with the edges of buildings at the horizon.
Imagine your professor asks you to conduct an experiment in which you have
to increase the intensity of a light several times and determine the smallest
change in the intensity of light that your friend can detect. You are measuring
your friend's - correct answer ✔just noticeable difference (JND).
Juan is thirteen months old and is no longer surprised when his mother hides
his toy train, only to reveal it again in a different position in front of him. What
cognitive milestone is Juan displaying? - correct answer ✔Object
permanence
We can study how infants differ in their attachment styles by using an
experimental procedure called the - correct answer ✔strange situation task.
Preoperational children are often called "egocentric" because they - correct
answer ✔do not understand what others know and do not know.
Which of the following shows Piaget's stages of development in the correct
order? - correct answer ✔Sensorimotor → preoperational → concrete
operational → formal operational
Which option shows four motor milestones in the order in which they normally
occur? - correct answer ✔Lifting the head → rolling over → sitting upright →
standing without support ✰✰✰
Which scenario describes a child who has mastered the concept of
conservation of mass? - correct answer ✔Jane knows that she has the same
amount of clay in her round ball as Rico has in his flat disk.
A friend asks you to help him steal a car so he can drive his roommate to a
doctor's appointment. You refuse, reasoning that laws and rules are a part of
society for a reason and you do not want to disrupt the status quo. According
to Kohlberg's theory, you are using _______ reasoning. - correct answer
✔conventional
, Ashley's mother, Janice, has noticed that her child gets very upset when she
leaves her with her caregiver. When Janice returns home from work, Ashley
often resists her attempt to hold her. Ashley is displaying - correct answer
✔ambivalent attachment.
Gina is very attached to her father, who is her primary caregiver. She is
usually upset when he leaves her with her grandmother to go to work, but
Gina is always happy when he returns in the evening. Gina is displaying -
correct answer ✔secure attachment
When asked if she would steal food for a homeless person, Samantha balked,
stating that she did not want to go to jail. According to Kohlberg's theory,
Samantha's moral reasoning is consistent with the stage known as - correct
answer ✔preconventional.
An absolute threshold is the - correct answer ✔lowest intensity of a stimulus
that a person can detect half the time.
As you and a friend throw a softball back and forth, you depend on _______
to help you determine how close the ball is getting to you and when and
where to catch it. - correct answer ✔binocular cues
If you were an artist drawing a cityscape, you would apply the linear
perspective depth cue by - correct answer ✔drawing the streets converging
with the edges of buildings at the horizon.
Imagine your professor asks you to conduct an experiment in which you have
to increase the intensity of a light several times and determine the smallest
change in the intensity of light that your friend can detect. You are measuring
your friend's - correct answer ✔just noticeable difference (JND).
