Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

With regard to Jean Piaget's stages of development,modern developmental researchers have determined that:

José has thought very little about questions regarding his personal identity,the kind of person he would like to be,and the kind of life that he would like to live.Instead,he has adapted the values of his peer group without any real critical evaluation of them.Researcher Marcia would most likely say that José is in a state of identity:

Dana's young child sees an older woman at the market and says,"Granny." This woman is not the child's grandmother,and Piaget would say this demonstrates the process of ____________.

Research studies examining the information-processing speeds of children have consistently found that processing speeds improve continuously with age,and that the most rapid rate of change occurs between the ages of _________.

The tendency for some species of birds and mammals to follow and attach to the first thing that moves after they are born is called:

A child who has great curiosity about the world and is either free to explore their environment or is restricted and held back from exploring,is most likely in Erik Erikson's ___________ stage of psychosocial development.

With regard to fetal and infant development,the cephalocaudal principle asserts that:

Austin wants to do his honour's thesis in psychology in the area of developmental psychology.He has eight months to decide on a specific topic,design the study,collect the data,analyze the results,and write the thesis.Assuming he is interested in comparing children's performance at different ages,what type of design would be the most practical for him to use?

During the germinal stage of development,the fertilized egg is called an embryo.

Remaining physically and intellectually active may help to slow down the decline of cognitive functions as we age.

Emotion regulation involves the processes by which we evaluate and modify our emotional reactions.

A researcher is interested in examining the development and effects of shyness.To do this,she identifies a group of 100 shy children at age 10,and then follows them for the next 10 years,checking in periodically to gather additional information.This design is best described as:

Which of the following would be most characteristic of a child in the concrete operational stage if you asked him/her to draw a map specifying the route to school?

Some developmental researchers argue for the existence of a "fifth stage" of cognitive development called _____________,which is thought to occur during adulthood.

In a sequential research design,there is repeated testing of _______________.

Sally is interested in comparing the effects of video game violence on aggression in several different age groups.Which of the following groups would a cross-sectional design be confounded by the age of the cohorts?

Studies indicate that newborn infants are not capable of through modelling until they are at least 4- to 5-months old.

Even though children in the concrete operational stage have a well-established concept of object permanence,they still tend to struggle a great deal with problems involving conservation of volume and number.

The most negative developmental outcomes are associated with which of the following parenting styles?

Ramon is celebrating his 75^th birthday next week.According to Erikson,the life crisis that is most relevant to Ramon would be: