Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Tommy acts rough and noisy because he has learned to believe that as a male he is supposed to act that way. His behavior is an example of ________.

How many of the 6- to 14-month-old infants tested by Walk and Gibson refused to crawl over the deep side of the visual cliff to their mothers?

A baby's language that consists of repetition of consonant-vowel combinations is called ________.

Each of the following has been suggested by psychologists as a method of constructive conflict resolution except ________.

Jeff's parents are thrilled because he has just said his first word -- "Dada." He is most likely about ________ months of age.

A little girl's knowledge that she is a girl, and a little boy's knowledge that he is a boy is called ________.

A method of studying developmental changes by evaluating the same people at different points in their lives is a ________ study.

Mental images or symbols (such as words) used to think about or remember an object, a person, or an event, are called ________.

Morality based on abstract moral principles such as justice, liberty, and equality, without regard for existing social rules, is characteristic of the ________ level of moral thinking.

Describe Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Discuss each of the four stages described in his theory in terms of the thinking characteristic of children at each stage. What are the current criticisms of Piaget's theory?

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people as they get older. This psychologist is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.

When children think only in terms of what they can physically handle or can imagine handling, they are in the ________ stage.

Young infants cannot appreciate the carnival game in which a pea seems to disappear from under a walnut, because they have not yet developed a sense of ________.

Children can grow by as much as an inch in a single night.

Nearly one-________ of all marriages end in divorce.

Both boys and girls usually develop a sense of gender identity by around age ________.

The emergence of fantasy play and the use of symbolic gestures are hallmarks of the ________ stage of cognitive development.

More ________ attempt suicide. More ________ die as a result of a suicide attempt.

Greta's child, as it has grown, has developed facial deformities, heart defects, cognitive impairments, and stunted growth. If these defects can be traced to drug use by Greta when she was pregnant, which drug was she most likely abusing?

Which of the following people will be most eager to retire?