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**141. Which of the following is an incorrect stage theory pairing?**
A. Piaget – cognitive
B. Kohlberg – physiological
C. Freud – psychosexual
**D. Erikson – psychosocial**
**142. Which of the following is commonly referred to as the father of developmental psychology?**
**A. G. Stanley Hall**
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Erik Erikson
D. William James
**143. The method of study compares children at various ages simultaneously. It is the ____________ method?**
A. longitudinal
B. clinical
C. naturalistic
**D. cross-sectional**
**144. Experiments with children have suggested that the point at which a child begins to walk is primarily a function of ______________?**
A. learning
**B. environment**
C. modeling
D. maturation
**145. If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?**
A. a preadolescent
**B. an adolescent**
C. a young adult
D. a middle-aged adult
**146. The first two years after birth are critical _________________?**
**A. to self-concept formation**
B. to sensory formation
C. to aptitude formation
D. to formation of secondary sexual characteristics
**147. In gamete development, the fact that each mature egg or sperm contains only one chromosome from each pair is attributable to a process known as ______________?**
A. fertilization
B. immunization
**C. reduction division**
D. zygotic division
**148. DNA refers to the ___________________?**
**A. molecular configuration making up chromosomes**
B. germ-cell configurations in genes
C. atom structure in genes
D. neural structure in cell bodies
**149. Severe anoxia at birth will result in damage to the ______________?**
**A. brain**
B. lungs
C. heart
D. liver
**150. Socially the young child can only attend to one dimension at a time. In cognitive terms, this is called ______________?**
A. accommodation
**B. egocentrism**
C. assimilation
D. reversibility