Exam 10: Life Span Development

The first time Greta showed a toy panda to her infant son, he appeared very interested and stared at it for a long time. Over time however, Greta has noticed that her son has become less interested in the toy and only looks at it briefly. This is an example of ___________.

Ursula loves her children and spends a lot of time with them. However, she is not good at setting or enforcing rules, so her children frequently do whatever they want. Ursla's parenting style would be described as ______________.

Some children who were observed in the strange situation scenario did not demonstrate one consistent attachment style, but instead seemed unable to decide how they should react to their mother and to new circumstances. Researchers have labeled this the insecure-__________ attachment style.

Recent research has confirmed Piaget's belief that children are egocentric through the entire preoperational stage.

A healthy older adult is unlikely to forget how to ride a bike. This is because ______________ memories do not decline with age the way some other types of memories do.

In Piaget's theory, the process of absorbing new information into existing cognitive structures is called __________.

One important advantage of the kangaroo care intervention for preterm infants is that it:

The zone of __________ development refers to the difference between what a child can do alone and what a child can do together with a more competent person.

When her older brother hides behind the sofa, Carmella looks behind the sofa to find him. Carmella has developed ______________.

According to Piaget, ________________ occurs when children add new information, but interpret it based on what they already know.

Piaget's stage theory assumes that:

Which of the following is true of dementia?

Piaget attributed cognitive development to the interaction of what two processes?

What event marks the end of the Piagetian stage of sensorimotor development?

Times when certain internal and external influences have a major impact on development are called _______________.

Tameeka is at a point in her pregnancy during which the major organs and structures of her baby are first developing. Which period of prenatal development is Tameeka currently experiencing?

Which of the following describes the embryonic period?

Two-year-old Irina talks to her brother, who is wearing headphones and looking away, and becomes frustrated that he is (or seems to be) ignoring her. Irina's misunderstanding is likely to do the fact that she is in a(n) _______ stage of development.

The study of psychological and physical changes from conception to death is _______ psychology.

Kohlberg characterized the development of moral reasoning into three different stages: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality. Briefly describe moral reasoning in each stage, and then provide an example of how individuals with each type of moral orientation might respond to the following scenario: Tanya is homeless and has no money. After not eating for several days and trying every legal way she could think of to get food, Tanya finally steals a loaf of bread from a store.