Exam 10: Life Span Development

Charmaine is interested in going to graduate school to gain expertise into the ways in which people experience physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes over the course of their lives. The type of program that Charmaine should be applying to is __________ psychology.

Adolescents begin to think _____ about things that are not present or events that are impossible or even _____.

A teacher plans to assign her students the task of imagining and describing what the world would be like if all water disappeared completely for 24 hours. Piaget would probably predict that only children in the _______ stage of development would be capable of even entertaining this scenario.

Miss Johnson gave Mark and Tia equal sized lumps of clay. Tia immediately rolled hers into a long shape. Mark cried and complained that Tia had received more clay. Mark's behavior represents:

The social intuitionist model of morality indicates that ______ also play a role in our reactions to a moral dilemma.

The ____________ is involved in impulse control, regulates mood, and facilitates planning, organizing, and reasoning.

Janis sees a bat flying over the lake and says, "Birdie"! Her mother says, "That flies like a bird, Janis, but that is a bat." Janis begins pointing saying, "Bat! Bat! Bat!" Piaget would say that this is an example of ____________.

Which of the following may help explain why adolescent decision making is sometimes problematic?

Emotional well-being tends to ___________ as adults age.

Sonya and her 12 month old child are recruited to participate in a research study. During the first part of the study, Sonya is instructed to sit in a room while her child plays. During the second part of the study, Sonya is asked to leave her child in the room for several minutes and then return. The researchers in this study appear to be using the ___________________ protocol.

Changes that occur at the individual cell level include are best described as:

An enduring emotional bond characterized by a strong motivation for physical and psychological comfort is referred to as _______.

Martial satisfaction in couples with children tends to increase

Which of the following theories of attachment was effectively discredited by the work of Harry Harlow?

Psychologists refer or abrupt developmental changes as occurring ______________. In contrast, they refer to slower, more gradual changes as being _________________.

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people as they get older. This psychologist is most likely a(n) __________ psychologist.

Lawrence Kohlberg is noted for his theories of __________ development.

Which of the following states has as a main theme the ability to consider many possible solutions to a problem and the ability to systematically test those possibilities?

The __________ roughly resembles a human being.

According to Piaget, egocentrism involves: