Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

All of the following were mentioned as characteristics of children with secure attachment EXCEPT:

Robert and Chris have recently married,and Robert brings with him two children from a previous marriage.Studies suggest that Robert's kids will show the highest levels of adjustment if:

Which of the following is associated with Jean Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development?

In the year or two after the first baby is born,marital satisfaction tends to:

Which of the following statements regarding conflicts between teenagers and their parents is true?

According to Piaget,the interesting part of testing children is in what kind of errors they make in their thinking.He believed that the errors made by children were the result of:

Juan is a middle-aged man who is very concerned about giving something back to his community.He has joined the Big Brother program and spends a couple of hours each week volunteering at a local shelter for homeless teens.According to Erik Erikson,Juan would most likely be classified as being in the _____________ stage of psychosocial development.

One of the primary principles of biological development is the ____________ principle,which describes the tendency for development to progress in a head-to-foot direction.

Upon enrolling their children in a developmental preschool,parents are asked to participate in a study where they will be contacted every two years for the next ten years and asked to complete a quality of education survey.If they agree,parents will be participating in a _______________ research study.

Children who are classified as anxious-avoidant exhibit little separation anxiety,whereas children classified as _______________ show a great deal of distress when separated from primary caregiver.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg's model of moral development,all of the following should be true EXCEPT:

At daycare,Nicole and Christine are both fighting over a broken cookie.They both had cookies of the same size,but Nicole's broke in half and now Christine thinks that Nicole has more than she does.When the daycare provider shows the girls that they both have equal amounts of cookie,Christine calms down as she now understands.Nicole continues to feel superior,having more cookie than Christine.According to Piaget:

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)has conducted the most comprehensive research project to date on the effects of out-of-home care on development.They have found that children attending high quality out-of-home care:

The phenomenon of imprinting best demonstrates the concept of:

Reghan is a smiley,easygoing baby.She has a regular routine and bedtime.According to the research of Thomas and Chess,which of the following temperaments would most likely be reported for Reghan?

Research by Pea et al.contrasting the association of face to face interactions with online communication,and social well-being concluded that:

When does the active visual field,that is so important to peripheral vision,start to shrink?

One technique for examining infant is ____________ where the same stimulus is presented repeatedly until infant looking time declines.

Shaie's longitudinal research found that cognitively stimulating jobs and personal acitivites was associated with __________________ with age.

What do studies indicate about the risks associated with retirement?