Exam 9: Life-Span Development

The cessation of menstruation is called ________.

The theory that children are born with an internal language acquisition device was first proposed by ________.

The median age of an American man marrying for the first time was ________ years in 2005.

A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a period of time is using the longitudinal method.

George was born in 1925 and grew up in the years of the Great Depression. His values and ideas were largely shaped by the poverty of the Depression and its effects on him and his family. Martha was born in 1953 and grew up in the relative affluence of 1950s "baby boom" America. To the extent that their ideas about life are tied to their time and culture of birth, the differences that exist between George's and Martha's attitudes and values can be largely attributed to ________ differences.

For girls, the first visible evidence of puberty is ________.

Biographical data are ________ trustworthy than longitudinal data and ________ trustworthy than cross-sectional data.

During the third year of life there is a(n) ________ of synaptic connections in the brain.

Children who watch 2 hours of television per day will see about ________ murders by the time they leave elementary school.

Infants are particularly adept at differentiating ________ sounds.

A problem with longitudinal studies is that they ________.

According to Piaget, children begin to develop concepts and the ability to think in terms of abstractions in the ________ stage.

General beliefs about characteristics that men and women are presumed to have are called ________.

Which of the following is not one of the three research methods identified in your text as being utilized by developmental psychologists?

In infants, signs of attachment generally become obvious and intensify between ________ months of age.

If a 2-year-old doesn't know the name of an object, he or she might simply make one up.

Human infants are born with approximately ________ billion neurons.

The visual cliff is used to measure visual acuity.

The majority of older adults are orgasmic and enjoy sex.

During the third year of life, children begin to ________.