Exam 8: Human Development

A(n)_____ individual has ambiguous or inconsistent indicators of male or female in the sexual structures or organs.

Approximately _____ of older Americans live in a nursing home.

During the Vietnam War,Michael moved from the United States to Canada to avoid the draft.He didn't want to go to war because he was afraid he might be killed or seriously injured.Michael's reasons for not going to war reflect Kohlberg's _____ moral reasoning.

When an infant recognizes that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer in sight,the infant has attained what Piaget termed:

Belinda is 9 weeks pregnant; her developing baby is called an embryo.

Samantha is creating a language development timeline for a class presentation.Along the top of a display board,she writes the following ages in sequence: 2 months> 4 months> 12 months> 18 months How should she label these ages,from youngest to oldest?

Two weeks after conception,the developing fertilized egg is called a(n):

Androgen is to estrogen as _____ is to ______.

Recall Erikson's stages of socioemotional development that occur during childhood.Which stage is correctly matched with its age range?

"Mommy home" is an example of a holophrase.

Tina is 2 months old,Vincenzo is 5 months old,and Wayne is 20 months old.Which choice pairs each child with the appropriate language acquisition stage?

Observational learning contributes to children's acquisition of gender roles.

In psychology,the MOST influential theory of moral development in psychology is that of:

Slightly more than 1 in _____ infants has a temperament that is considered hard to classify because they share characteristics of more than one temperament.

According to the text,physical exercise in late adulthood encourages the birth of new neurons in areas responsible for learning and memory.In other words,exercise facilitates _____ in the _____.

The brain is fully mature by early adolescence.

According to the textbook,"gender roles can be acquired through observational learning." This means that gender roles may be acquired through:

Between the ages of 3 and 6 years,the number of neural connections increases most dramatically in the ______ lobe.

The frequency of exercise is _____ correlated with good bone density in middle age and late life.

Approximately _____ of babies have an easy temperament.