On Dora’s first birthday, one her aunts brought a set of Lego basic bricks that she absolutely loves. Dora spends hours building, breaking, and rebuilding towers from the blocks and smiles widely whenever she discovers something new she can do with them. Dora’s preoccupation with manipulating the building blocks in different ways reflects a function of the sensorimotor substage of        

________ is the term used to describe “reading” emotional cues in others to help determine how to act in a specific situation.        

Jared and his little sister Kaitlyn are each given one large cookie. Their mother breaks Kaitlyn’s cookie into four pieces to help her eat it more easily. Jared immediately begins to cry, saying that it isn’t fair for Kaitlyn to get so many cookies when he has only one. Jared is showing        

According to Erik Erikson, the first year of life is characterized by the ________ stage of development.        

Lauren is a fifth-grader. She was the most popular girl in her class until last month when Nicole joined their class as a new student and quickly replaced Lauren as the most popular girl. Lauren is trying to regain her popularity by spreading malicious rumors about Nicole so that others will start disliking Jennifer. Lauren is engaging in ________.      

According to Piaget’s stages of development, the ability to classify or divide things into different sets and subsets and to consider their interrelationships develops during the ________ stage.        

Social and psychological consequences of being overweight in childhood includes .      

Which of the following is TRUE with regard to sleep patterns and problems in early childhood?        

Improvements in a child’s understanding of the theory mind        

Which of the following actions is desirable when attempting to raise children’s self-esteem?