Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

In what age group does the challenge of generativity vs.stagnation occur?

Babies recognize key vowel and consonant sounds of their native language at:

Telling a child why a parent has applied a rule teaches a child to be responsible.

How is the brain influenced by physical exercise and mental stimulation during old age?

A learning theorist notices that a three-year-old boy is building roads for his car in the sandbox while saying,"Vroom.Vroom.Vrooooooom!" What explanation would the theorist give for this behaviour?

As the mother of a late-maturing boy,Betty is concerned that,compared to early-maturing boys,late maturers are more likely to:

Which of the following outcomes occurs when the mother has German measles early in pregnancy?

During ________,moral reasoning is based on conformity and a "law-and-order" orientation.

The most common result of ________ during pregnancy is deafness.

Parents who use induction:

The authors point out that Jean Piaget was to child development what B.F.Skinner was to behaviourism.Explain the ways in which Piaget became a "towering figure" in psychology through his keen observations of children and his brilliant ideas.

Your nephew knows he is a boy and thinks it is better to be a boy than a girl.This view best describes your nephew's:

A child is able to pretend that a large box is a school bus.Later that day,she has difficulty reversing her actions and completing a puzzle after she has taken it apart.Piaget would suggest that she is in the:

Infants use their perceptual abilities in a random manner until they reach about six weeks of age.

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -The innate pleasure derived from close physical contact.

What differences did Piaget observe in children's thinking between the preoperational stage and the stage of concrete operations?

One of your friends claims that traumatic childhood experiences affect a person forever.What evidence can you produce to dispute this claim?

Pam and her husband were elated as they peer into Pam's uterus by means of ultrasound.The physician reports that the pregnancy appears normal,and that their baby's fingers,toes,heart and brain are developing as expected.At this stage the baby is over 4 cm in length and the sex can be determined.Given this information,the current stage of prenatal development is the:

Describe the ways in which gerontologists have made great strides in separating conditions once thought to be an inevitable part of old age from those that are preventable or treatable.

The term gender is used to refer to the cultural and psychological attributes that children learn are appropriate for the sexes.