Exam 9: Life-Span Development

The theory that children learn language because their verbalizations are reinforced by their parents and others was first proposed by ________.

Jack is 24 years old. His major task, according to Erikson, is to develop a sense of ________.

Kagan and his associates recently identified a type of temperament characterized by being timid, inhibited, fearful of anything new or strange, and a hypersensitive nervous system. Kagan called this type of child a(n) ________ child.

Which of the following statements is true?

A method of studying developmental changes by reconstructing subjects' pasts, through interviews and investigating the effects of events that occurred in the past on current behaviors is called a ________ study.

Marital satisfaction tends to ________ with the arrival of the first child and ________ when the last child leaves home.

Babies are able to recognize their own reflection in a mirror as themselves, as opposed to some other child, between the ages of ________ months.

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of ________ development.

The average American male achieves his first ejaculation at age ________.

Melissa's passion is naming. She will name virtually everything she sees in her world, with little or no prompting. If her language development is typical, she is about ________.

Each of the following is true of single, teenage mothers except they are ________.

Adolescents who are the ________ satisfied with their physical appearance have ________ self-esteem.

Mature adults tend to see complex problems ________.

According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age, in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe, remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion, is the ________ stage.

A problem with longitudinal studies is that they ________.

Today, the average American woman can expect to live about ________ the average American male.

The major problem with biographical studies is that they ________.

A characteristic that first shows up in the concrete operational stage is ________.

At about 12 months of age, infants ________.

Piaget saw all behavior in terms of ________.