Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Marianne's baby is sitting up, crawling around, and beginning to stand with a little help. Her baby is most likely to be about ________ months of age.

The period of intense self-examination and decision making that is part of the process of identity formation is called ________.

Most women report ________ when they are employed.

Fear of death is the central concern for people in later adulthood.

It takes about ________ for a baby's visual system to fully develop.

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

Egbert is an inactive, withdrawn child who reacts very cautiously and deliberately to the world around him. Thomas and Chess would say his temperament is ________.

Menopause signals to men that their active reproductive years are ended.

Describe the effects of divorce on adults and children. What factors help children of divorcing parents better adapt to the divorce?

The process by which young animals in nature develop a strong bond with the first moving object they see is called attachment.

School concerns are the primary reason for drops in self-esteem among American teenagers.

Discuss the adolescent search for identity. List and explain James Marcia's four possible outcomes of this search. Finally, discuss the importance of parents, friends, and peers in the search for identity.

If a 2-year-old doesn't know the name of an object, he or she might simply make one up.

Most older people ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

Good nutrition is as important to fetuses as it is to children and adults.

Research on moral development in boys and girls has found that boys tend to base their moral judgments on ________.

An infant looks at her bottle and utters a sound with a rising pitch, or inflection. Her mother realizes she is asking if she can have the bottle because of the ________ in the infant's voice.

Lawrence Kohlberg is noted for his theories of ________ development.

George was born in 1925 and grew up in the years of the Great Depression. His values and ideas were largely shaped by the poverty of the depression and its effects on him and his family. Martha was born in 1953 and grew up in the relative affluence of 1950s "baby boom" America. To the extent that their ideas about life are tied to their time and culture of birth, the differences that exist between George's and Martha's attitudes and values can be largely attributed to ________ differences.