Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Piaget attributed cognitive development to the interaction of what two processes?

Centration is Piaget's concept, which is the inability to see the world through another person's eyes.

The placenta is _______.

The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called ________.

Which of the following stages of psychosocial development appears in adulthood rather than in childhood?

The cellular clock theory of aging suggests that cells have an unlimited number of times they can reproduce and repair damage.

Erik Erikson found that each stage in personality development has a particular _______.

Most people's vision and hearing remain at peak functioning until around age 50.

An audience of 20-year-olds finds a series of off-color jokes highly amusing. A group of 50-year-olds finds the same jokes highly offensive. It is concluded that, as people age, their senses of humor become more rigid and narrow. The major difficulty in drawing conclusions of this sort is that _______.

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people throughout their lives. This psychologist is most likely working in the field of _______.

At birth, newborns seem most responsive to _______.

Before puberty, males do not produce sperm, even though their genitals are physically equivalent to a man's. This illustrates which of the following?

Which of the following statements about marital satisfaction appears to be true?

Erikson's theory of social development viewed the period from ages 3 to 5, his third stage, as characterized by the major challenge of _______.

Which of the following is a limitation on the cognitive life of children in Piaget's preoperational stage?

According to Gilligan, Kohlberg's theory of moral development:

The most common time for a spontaneous abortion, or miscarriage, is during the third trimester.

Mothers who were unresponsive, insensitive, and coldly rejecting were associated with _______ infants.

According to Erikson, the last stage of development involves the crisis of:

Mr. Beluga has just been told that he has a rare form of cancer. He insists that there has been a mistake and asks his physician to retake his medical tests. According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Mr. Beluga is most likely in the _______ stage of dying.