Exam 10: Life Span Development

Preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations are all stages devised by _______.

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

Which of the following is the correct order for Piaget's four stages of cognitive development?

Psychologist Mary Ainsworth developed the __________ test in order to assess the different types of attachment that might exist between a child and his or her primary caregiver.

Compared to younger people, healthy older adults in America are more likely to:

During which of Piaget's stages does a child demonstrate the ability to reason about abstract ideas?

Frederique's 5-year-old son believes that people shouldn't steal because, "They might get in trouble!" This is consistent with the _______________ stage of moral reasoning.

In which stage of cognitive development does the conservation concept first appear?

In a cross-sectional study, subjects from the same generation are referred to as:

Which of the following children is most likely to be upset when her father leaves the room?

According to Piaget, which of the following is crucial to cognitive development at the sensorimotor stage?

The proper sequence of the intellectual stages of development are:

At birth, the newborn has an estimated 100 billion neurons.

Having children tends to __________ marital satisfaction, and ___________ marital stability.

Recognizing that the quantity of an object does not change despite changes in physical arrangement or appearance is referred to as: _____. a. object permanence b. scale comprehension c. conservation d. number sense

The tendency for young children to seek closeness to certain people is called ________.

Adolescents who are well-known and respected, but do not engage in aggression against low-status others are likely experiencing ___________.

The period of life between roughly the ages of 10 and 20 when a person is transformed from a child to an adult is __________.

Sapna is a 25 year old. She frequently worries that she doesn't know who she really is and has been experimenting with different identities since she was in middle school. Sapna's inability to commit to a particular identity is an example of which identity status?

_______ is most famous for his theory that all children go through a series of sequential intellectual stages.