Exam 9: Life-Span Development

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

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

Knowledge of what behavior is appropriate for each gender is called ________.

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

An internal mechanism for processing speech that is wired into all humans is a ________.

Parents can accelerate the acquisition of motor skills in children by providing them with training, encouragement, and practice.

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?

In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development between 7 and 11 years of age, in which an individual can attend to more than one thing at a time and can understand someone else's viewpoint, though the individual is still not capable of fully abstract reasoning, is the ________ stage.

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

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

In women, the amount of estrogen produced by the ovaries drops sharply around age ________.

During the first years of life, the average baby grows about ________ inches in height and ________ pounds in weight.

Identify at least two behaviors in which males and females differ. What factors appear to affect sex-typing and sex-role differentiation? What role does parental behavior have on sex-role differentiation?

A survey of teenagers in high school found that ________ percent of girls felt good about their sexual experiences.

Television is not a significant influence on children's development.

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 begin to speak words at about 12 months of age.

A problem with cross-sectional studies is that they ________.

By the ages of 5 or 6, most children have a vocabulary of ________ words.

Research suggests that adolescence is ________.