Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Menopause occurs most commonly around age ________.

Which of the following is a false statement?

From the second week until the third month after conception, the developing organism is called a(n) ________.

A mother's level of psychological stress is ________ to the health of the newborn, and the way she copes with stress is ________ to the health of the newborn.

Games like "Peek-a-Boo" and "Hide and Seek" are especially worthwhile activities for babies because they help them develop a sense of ________.

Morality based on abstract moral principles such as justice, liberty, and equality, without regard for existing social rules, is characteristic of the ________ level of moral thinking.

A nervous high school student is tempted to cheat on an important examination. At the crucial moment, he decides against it, and doesn't pull out the notes he had hidden in his trousers. Assuming he's operating at Kohlberg's conventional level of morality, which of the following reasons is he most likely to give for deciding not to cheat?

The shift to formal operational thought sets the stage for moral reasoning at the ________ level.

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of ________ development.

Men experience ________ in testosterone levels between the ages of 48 and 70.

Once children leave home, many parents find ________.

According to Piaget, which of the following is crucial to cognitive development at the sensory-motor stage?

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.

As a baby's attachment to its mother grows, ________.

The low point of parent-child relationships usually occurs in ________.

Infants begin babbling at about ________ month(s) of age.

The vast majority of older adults are ________.

Each of the following is a warning sign of potential violence in a teenager except ________.

A student has just made a pendulum with a small stone and a string. She is trying to figure out whether it is the length of string, the weight of the stone at the end of it, or both that determine how far the pendulum will swing. In order to be able to solve this problem, the student would have to have reached the ________ stage of cognitive development in Piaget's theory.

Placing a baby in full-time day care ________.