Exam 9: Life-Span Development

In America, ________ of children between birth and third grade spend some time being regularly cared for by persons other than their parents.

Boys tend to be ________ active and play in ________ groups than girls.

At about age ________ children begin to realize that friends "do things" for us.

Baumrind's research found that ________.

During the first two years of life, the number of interconnections between neurons ________.

Human babies are born with their eyes ________.

School concerns are the primary reason for drops in self-esteem among American teenagers.

Toxic agents that can cross through the placenta and compromise an unborn child's development are known as ________.

Children begin to think in abstract terms in the stage of concrete operations.

The head completes virtually all of its growth by age ________.

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

According to Piaget, children learn to see things from someone else's point of view during the ________ stage.

A duckling hatches next to a small puppy. Since the puppy is the first thing seen by the duckling, it follows the puppy everywhere and seems to assume that the puppy is its mother. This is an example of ________.

Most older people ________.

Which of the following people will be least eager to retire?

Which of the following statements regarding people whose spouses have died is true?

More ________ attempt suicide. More ________ die as a result of a suicide attempt.

The process by which young animals in nature develop a strong bond with the first moving object they see is called attachment.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says that children under the age of two should ________.

Piaget believed that children experience ________ basic stages of cognitive development.