Peer group, peer acceptance and friendships are important social concepts for children in middle childhood and can have either a positive or negative influence on development.

Judgement of one’s own appearance, abilities, and behavior in relation to those of others is known as ____________.

Children who become fluid in two languages develop denser synaptic connections in areas of the left hemisphere devoted to language.

The psychoanalytic theory emphasizes that how parents manage their child’s sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development.

Ethnicity, culture, and general environmental influences have nothing to do with development.

Piaget’s sensorimotor stage spans the first ________ years of life.

Gross-motor development has to do with smaller movements, such as reaching and grasping.

The germinal period lasts about ____________.

Of all the motor skills, reaching may play the greatest role in infant cognitive development.

Proactive and reactive aggression comes in three forms: