Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

A study found that children over age 3 who grew up with older brothers or sisters performed better on a cognitive task than did children with no siblings or younger siblings.This is consistent with the concept of ____________________.

According to the text,maximum muscle strength in the various parts of the body appears to be achieved between the ages of:

The phenomenon of imprinting is an excellent example of a set of behaviours that is governed by a sensitive period.

In response to the moral dilemma in which a man must decide whether he should steal a medication to save his dying wife,a child says that he should steal the drug because if he lets his wife die he'll get into trouble.This child would be classified as being in Lawrence Kohlberg's __________ level of moral reasoning.

Bowlby's discriminate phase typically begins around 3 months of age and during it,the infant tends to direct his/her attachment behaviour towards ____________.

The basal metabolic rate of the body slows after approximately the age of 40,resulting in a tendency to:

The primary difference between Lawrence Kohlberg's stage 3 and stage 4 moral reasoning is that in stage 3,children base their decisions on social expectations,while in stage 4 they base them on ____________.

One of the limitations of Jean Piaget's theory is that recent evidence indicates that children develop several key cognitive abilities later than Piaget originally thought.

An infant who smiles at and vocalizes to almost any adult that she encounters is most likely in Bowlby's _______________ attachment behaviour phase.

In his model of psychosocial development,Erik Erikson proposed that personality:

Cindy's grandfather just had his ninetieth birthday.He remains physically active and cognitively alert.Which of the following is likely NOT to be true of Cindy's grandfather?

During this stage of cognitive development,children are able to easily solve the conservation problems that confused them earlier in life.This is the ________________ stage of development.

Jean Piaget observed that infants typically develop the concept of object permanence during the ____________ stage of cognitive development.

According to an example in the text,the Czech twins may have recovered better from their isolation than Victor because:

Most studies of newlywed couples find that over the first few years after getting married,marital satisfaction typically _________.

Though Jean Piaget assumed that children under the age of 6 to 7 years old have great difficulty understanding other people's mental states,recent studies have suggested that children have some understanding that other people's perspectives can differ from their own by the age of ____________.

Jean Piaget's concept of assimilation specifically refers to the ways in which new experiences are incorporated with pre-existing schemas.

One of the things that differentiates the formal and concrete operational stages is that during the formal stage:

Studies examining a child's ability to lie and use deception would most likely be used by developmental researchers to make inferences regarding:

The "Strange Situation Test" developed by Mary Ainsworth is used specifically to assess: