Exam 9: Life-Span Development

________ of adolescents do not describe their lives as filled with turmoil and chaos.

Which of the following is not true of older people?

Discuss the role played by the fear of death in older people. What fears associated with dying do older people have?

Discuss the effects of parenting style, peers, and school on a child's development. What factors contribute to healthy adjustment?

Kagan and his colleagues found that temperament is ________.

Discuss the adolescent search for identity. List and explain James Marcia's four possible outcomes of this search. Finally, discuss the importance of parents, friends, and peers in the search for identity.

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

The study of the changes from birth through old age is called ________ psychology.

Once children leave home, most parents feel abandoned, depressed, and have lowered satisfaction.

The emotional bond formed during the first year of life that makes human babies cling to their caretakers is called ________.

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

The average ages at which voluntary skills develop are known as ________.

According to Baumrind's research, authoritative parents are likely to have children who are ________.

Not all adolescents reach the stage of formal operations.

The brain reaches ________ of its adult size by the age of two.

Explain Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Also, present some of the criticisms of Kohlberg's theory and summarize research findings in support of or refuting the theory.

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.

Studies of children's growth have found that some children can grow by as much as one inch ________.

Newborns are capable of only limited reflexive behavior.

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.