Exam 10: Life Span Development

The major turning point in most adults' lives is __________.

Which statement best summarizes emotion and life satisfaction at old age?

Which of the following marks the biological beginning of adulthood according to psychologists?

Which of the following increases the ability of an infant's brain to function?

Parents who attend to their children's psychological abilities and guide them through the learning process are using _______.

In a __________design, one group of participants is followed and assessed as the group ages.

There is no scientific evidence that vaccines can cause autism.

At about ___ months of age, children demonstrate that their attachment to their primary caregiver(s) has peaked.

Which of the following is not a symptom of Alzheimer's disease?

The involuntary muscular reactions to specific types of stimulation seen in newborns are referred to as ___________.

Developmental changes during childhood tend to occur:

The rooting reflex refers to a newborn's tendency to:

A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a long period of time is, by definition, using the __________.

A researcher performs a cross-sectional study comparing the video game playing ability of 20-year-olds to 60-year-olds. The results indicate that the 20-year-olds learned to play a new game much faster than the 60-year-olds, however the researchers are uncertain whether this indicates that the 20-year-olds' ability will decrease over time, or whether the 60-year-olds had more difficulty because they grew up before there were video games. What issue is this an example of?

Which of the following developmental sequences is in correct order?

Kisha understands her world by grasping, sucking, and physically handling objects in her path. Kisha is in Piaget's ________ stage of development.

According to Piaget, children learn to retrace their thoughts, correct themselves, see more than one dimension to a problem, but cannot yet handle abstract concepts during the __________ stage.

In Harlow's studies with young monkeys, the monkeys were exposed to a wire mother with a bottle and a cloth mother without a bottle. The young monkeys spent their non-feeding time:

Detecting "environmental stimulation" is one way to define ______.

Adolescents who are categorized as having __________________ may be viewed as popular by other adolescents, but are not necessarily well liked.