Exam 9: Life-Span Development

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

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

A child's slashing the air with an imaginary sword to slay an imaginary dragon is an example of ________.

The country with the highest teen birth rate in the industrialized world is ________.

Psychological health ________ in adulthood compared with adolescence.

Children's behavior is marked by egocentrism during the preoperational period.

When a child begins to leave his mother voluntarily, he is expressing a desire for ________.

On average, infants can walk unaided by about ________ months of age.

Of the following, ________ shows the largest decrease with age.

A researcher who selects a sample of people of varying ages and studies them at one point in time is, by definition, using the ________ method.

Nearly one-________ of all marriages end in divorce.

The first stage of Erikson's theory of social development is characterized by the challenge of ________.

A time when adults discover they no longer feel fulfilled in their jobs or personal lives and attempt to make a decisive shift in career or lifestyle is called ________.

Most women report ________ when they are employed.

Marianne's baby is sitting up, crawling around, and beginning to stand with a little help. Her baby is most likely to be about ________ months of age.

Melissa's passion is naming. She will name virtually everything she sees in her world, with little or no prompting. If her language development is typical, she is about ________.

Which of the following is not a major criticism of Kohlberg's theory?

Erik Erikson saw the major challenge of middle adulthood as that of ________.

Early maturing girls tend to ________.

Briefly summarize the research on the effects of television viewing on children. What does the evidence say about how television viewing affects their levels of violence and their IQs?