Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Piaget believed that children are born with a sense of object permanence and person permanence.

Discuss the importance of physical appearance to adolescents. Finally, describe the changes associated with sexual maturation in adolescence.

Which of the following statements is true?

In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development begins at about 11 years of age and is marked by the individual becoming capable of abstract reasoning, is the ________ stage.

The drug most abused by pregnant women is ________.

Describe the various landmarks in the development of language in children.

Conflicts over what is moral and what is legal are likely to first occur during the ________ level of moral thinking.

A developmental psychologist believes that increased TV watching by young children is responsible for a decline in reading stories when these children enter school. To explore her hypothesis, she records the TV viewing habits of toddlers in a suburban community. She examines these habits again when the children enter kindergarten and again every year until the kids enter the sixth grade. This is the ________ method.

Children have developed a capacity for self-recognition by the end of the ________ stage.

According to Kohlberg, children interpret behavior in terms of concrete consequences at the ________ level of moral development.

Greta is a heavy drinker. While her newborn baby could be quite healthy, it could also have several health problems related to her drinking. If her baby has health problems, it is most likely to ________.

According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age, in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe, remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion, is the ________ stage.

Children typically are able to think about objects being simultaneously members of two classes, one being more inclusive than the other, beginning at about ages ________.

Research on moral development in boys and girls has found that girls tend to base their moral judgments on ________.

Each of the following increases the risk of a youth engaging in violent behavior except ________.

Summarize research findings on the causes and warning signs of youth violence.

Newborns can sleep up to ________ hours per day.

Piaget saw cognitive development as an ongoing process, rather than one of distinct stages.

Harmon is 40 years old. He is in a period of his life in which he is reflecting on his accomplishments, determining whether his life has been satisfying, and trying to decide his future behavior. According to Levinson, Harmon is going through ________.

Compare and contrast the major theories of language development in children. Which theory is supported by most psychologists today? Why?