Exam 3: Developing Through the Life Span

Maturation is to education as ________ is to ________.

A student who does not cheat on tests because he doesn't want to violate classroom rules is in Kohlberg's ________ stage.

Infants with an anxious and inhibited temperament have heart rates that tend to be relatively

A cross-sectional study is one in which

The genome refers to an organism's complete set of

Little Emma's belief that food pushed over the edge of a table will fall to the floor below best illustrates

Incorrectly assuming that something that is clearly understood by us will also be clearly understood by others illustrates

Deficient social interaction and an impaired understanding of others' emotional states is most characteristic of

A stage theory of development was advanced by

Killing one person to save five by throwing a switch that diverts a runaway trolley is judged as more morally acceptable than killing one person to save five by pushing a stranger directly into the path of the oncoming trolley.This best illustrates that moral judgments may reflect

In personality traits such as outgoingness,people who have been adopted are

One of the three major concerns of developmental psychology involves a focus on

Age-linked stage theories of adult development are most likely to be criticized for exaggerating the

According to Vygotsky,parents who say "No,no,Bevy!" when pulling her hand away from a cake are giving their child a tool for

Incorporating new information into existing theories is to ________ as modifying existing theories in light of new information is to ________.

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described our moral intuitions as

Remembering things one can no longer perceive is most clearly an indication of

Giving up immediate rewards to achieve longer-term goals is called

In a series of experiments,researchers observed that rats in an enriched environment developed ________ than did rats in an impoverished environment.

The preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view is called