Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether

Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether
 
  a. Piaget identified too few distinct stages.
  b. there are individual differences among children.
  c. cognition develops continuously instead of in stages.
  d. Piaget thought children are generally smarter than they are.

Question 2

In teenage years, adopted children tend to display _____ than their nonadopted peers.
 
  a. more learning difficulties
  b. fewer emotional problems
  c. lower rates of delinquency
  d. more difficult with peers

Question 3

If horizontal decalage were shown to apply across Piaget's developmental stages, this result would
 
  a. strengthen the validity of the hypothesized stages.
  b. have little or no impact on the stage theory.
  c. weaken the validity of the hypothesized stages.
  d. be trivial because Piaget already recognized individual differences.

Question 4

Many adoptive children who were abused or neglected prior to their adoption in a loving home carry attachment difficulties into that new home. Negative relational effects from early attachment difficulties are _____ the duration of the mistreatment.
 
  a. positively correlated with
  b. negatively correlated with
  c. uncorrelated with
  d. curvilinearly related to

Question 5

Piaget's research has been criticized in all these aspects EXCEPT for
 
  a. overreliance on cross-sectional comparisons of data from large-sample cohort groups.
  b. giving too little attention to sociocultural influences.
  c. underestimating competence levels from performance tests.
  d. being vague about the transition across stages.

Question 6

The fact that the sensitivity of care parents provide for adoptive children predicts that child's attachment classification pattern in the same way that it does for biologically related children implies that
 
  a. an adult's desire to be a parent is more important to a child's development than genetic ties to the child.
  b. an adult's genetic ties to a child are more important to a child's development than the adult's desire to be a parent.
  c. adoptive children have a harder developmental task than biologically related children.
  d. adoptive children have an easier developmental task than biologically related chidlren.