Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Which of the following is a true statement?

Research on the stability of temperament indicates that it is ________.

Children who grow up in the same home with the same parents still have very different day-to-day human relationships in different school and after-school settings. These broader situational factors are called the ________.

Kohlberg theorized that morality develops in stages.

Judy is 9 years old and is in the fourth grade. Erikson believes her main task is to develop a sense of ________.

Television is not a significant influence on children's development.

The concept that the quantity of a substance is not altered by reversible changes in its appearance is known as ________.

A method of studying developmental changes by reconstructing subjects' pasts, through interviews and investigating the effects of events that occurred in the past on current behaviors is called a ________ study.

The most severe challenge to be faced during adulthood is probably ________.

A network of same-aged friends and acquaintances who give one another emotional and social support to each other is known as a ________.

The majority of elderly people now suffer from some form of Alzheimer's disease.

The development of language follows a predictable pattern.

From the third month after conception until birth, the developing organism is known as a(n) ________.

The study of how people change from birth through old age is called gerontology.

A research study finds that 40-year-olds are better able to solve math problems than 80-year-olds. It is suspected that the differences in problem-solving ability result from the fact that 80-year-olds had fewer opportunities to study math and did not have access to calculators or computers. If true, the study has revealed ________.

The typical sequence of the five stages of dying postulated by Kübler-Ross is ________.

Harmon is 40 years old. He is in a period of his life in which he is reflecting on his accomplishments, determining whether his life has been satisfying, and trying to decide his future behavior. According to Levinson, Harmon is going through ________.

A baby's language that consists of repetition of consonant-vowel combinations is called ________.

Knowledge of what behavior is appropriate for each gender is called ________.

Research evidence currently supports the notion that infants begin to develop depth perception at about ________ months of age.