Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Adolescent boys and girls view their early sexual activity in very similar ways.

Anna is timid and inhibited. She is fearful of anything new or strange. Her nervous system tends to react to any stimulus in a hypersensitive manner. Kagan would say that this is a(n) ________ child.

Toxic agents that can cross through the placenta and compromise an unborn child's development are known as ________.

Jeremy is 18 years old. According to Erikson, his chief task will be acquiring a sense of ________.

A research study finds that 40-year-olds are better able to solve math problems than 80-year-olds. It is suspected that the differences in problem-solving ability result from the fact that 80-year-olds had fewer opportunities to study math and did not have access to calculators or computers. If true, the study has revealed ________.

A method for studying developmental studies by reconstructing people's pasts through interviews and inferring the effects of past events on current behaviors is a ________ study.

Menopause signals to men that their active reproductive years are ended.

Infants begin to babble at about 2 months of age.

The majority of older adults are orgasmic and enjoy sex.

The process by which children learn the behaviors and attitudes appropriate to their family, friends, and culture is called ________.

Hundreds of case histories collected by researchers indicate that the first stirrings of sexual interest begin in the ________.

Menarche is the ________.

Briefly discuss the various problems associated with adolescence, in terms of their causes, prevalence, and effects, such as self-esteem problems, depression, and suicide.

Most children acquire a sense of gender constancy by around the age of ________.

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

Children have developed a capacity for self-recognition by the end of the ________ stage.

Erik Erikson called the process in which infants learn that mother and other primary caregivers can be counted on to be there when needed ________.

Describe the physical changes accompanying aging and discuss the factors that affect those changes. Why are people's reactions to aging important and what can people do to slow down the deterioration of bodily functions?

According to Baumrind's research, permissive-indifferent parents are likely to have children who are ________.

Friendship groups in early adolescence tend to be small unisex groups of three to nine members called ________.