Exam 3: Human Development

____ causes lower birth weight and less motor control in fetuses.

Most experts recommend that expectant mothers drink ____ during pregnancy.

In preindustrialized societies,such as the Sambia of Papua New Guinea or many African hunter-gatherer tribes,there is little need for ____.

The brain generally grows ____.

One of the findings of Kohlberg's theory was that women tend to be classified at a lower level of moral reasoning than men.Carol Gilligan argued that this gender difference was because ____.

After the age of 50,we begin losing our neurons at an accelerated rate.However,to make up for this,our brain grows longer and bushier dendrites take over the functions of the dying neurons.This is an example of the ____ of the brain.

The five stages of dying,as proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,are ____.

Children in Piaget's preoperational stage have difficulty with ____.

According to Kohlberg,there comes a stage when people begin to define what is right and wrong in terms of societal norms and laws,and they are motivated to conform to these rules in order to gain the approval or avoid the disapproval of others.He says that people generally tend to stay at this level of moral reasoning for the rest of their lives.What does he call this level?

What happens after the prefrontal cortex undergoes a phase of brain cell elimination and rewiring based on the use-it-or-lose-it principle?

Self-esteem is defined as ____.

Explain the stage in psychosocial development that young adults experience,according to Erik Erikson.

Early maturing girls often receive greater unwanted attention,causing them to ____.

Erikson believed that the crisis of trust versus mistrust occurs during ____.

Due to bone compression in the spinal column and changes in posture,by the age of 70,people have shrunk ____.

Explain in brief the stages of Piaget's Theory of Cognitive development.

The ____ is responsible for language acquisition in infants between 6 and 8 months of age.

Social scientists ask a large sample of people from a collectivist culture to complete the "Who Am I?" test.Based on previous research,the type of responses the scientists should find on their response sheets should be ____.

Children develop an understanding of the principle of conservation during the ____.

If a fertilized egg successfully embeds itself in the uterine wall,it is now considered a(n)____.