Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Describe the factors affecting prenatal development and discuss the effects of those factors.

If a 2-year-old doesn't know the name of an object, he or she might simply make one up.

Jamarcus is an inactive, withdrawn child who reacts very cautiously and deliberately to the world around him. Thomas and Chess would say his temperament is ________.

The typical American family still consists of a husband who works outside the home and a wife who stays home to care for their children.

Robin cleans her room every week on Friday. She does this because if she keeps a clean room, her father gives her $5 for her allowance. Robin is likely at which stage of moral development, according to Kohlberg?

The reflex that causes a newborn to turn its head toward something touching its cheek and grope around with its mouth is the ________ reflex.

Morality based on concepts such as duty and social order, as well as putting oneself in the other person's shoes, develops at the ________ level of moral thinking.

Mature adults tend to see complex problems ________.

Marital satisfaction increases after the arrival of the first child.

A hypothetical internal mechanism for processing speech that is wired into all humans is referred to as a ________.

Research shows that children who are placed in quality day care are ________.

A developing child is most likely to be severely affected if the mother contracts rubella ________.

A newborn baby is called a ________.

Newborn babies show some aptitude for imitation.

The concept that the quantity of a substance is not altered by reversible changes in its appearance is known as ________.

Children can grow by as much as an inch in a single night.

The term used by psychologists to describe the characteristic patterns of emotional reactions and emotional self-regulation in the newborn child and young infant is ________.

Morgan is 18 years old. She has set aside the problem of developing an identity while she continues to explore various alternatives and choices. She best fits the description of ________.

Human babies are born with their eyes ________.

A method of studying developmental changes by reconstructing subjects' pasts, through interviews and investigating the effects of events that occurred in the past on current behaviors is called a ________ study.