​A nursing one-month-old infant may grasp crudely at his mother’s breast while feeding. That same child at the age of one year will probably easily hold a bottle or cup, placing it to his lips, and then putting it down when he is done. This change in ability to use the hands and fingers demonstrates advances in

​Primarily based on the early work of Sigmund Freud, _______________ theories hold that development is largely determined by how well people resolve conflicts they encounter at different ages.

​A ____ is a set of cultural guidelines that dictate how a person should behave, particularly with other people.

​In what way are newborns more linguistically sophisticated than the average adult?

​Describe four key features of the life-span perspective. How do these features speak to the three recurring issues in developmental psychology?

​If you wanted to do research that specifically sought to uncover the reasons for various aspects of behavior and you wanted to study a small number of individuals very intensively over a prolonged period of time, you would most likely conduct _______________ studies.

​Why might you consider the appearance of overregularization a good thing in the process of a child’s language development?

​According to the theory of Mary Rothbart, a child’s temperament includes three different contributing dimensions. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

​In a visual cliff apparatus, what appears under the glass to provide visual information about depth to a child?

​Of the three types of prenatal screenings discussed in the textbook, ________ requires the longest wait for results because the genetic material cannot be evaluated until enough cells have reproduced for analysis.