Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Ron, a toddler, takes a picture and puts it to the receiver of a phone in order to "show" it to his grandmother. This example illustrates _______.

In the _______ level of moral development, right and wrong are decided by the probability of subsequent punishment.

Psychologist Sandra Bem developed the concept of ________.

The description and explanation of behavior changes in the individual and the differences between individuals from conception to death is called __________.

Betty and Bob are 12-year-old twins. Which of the following is probably an accurate statement about their physical development?

The FIRST major event in the family cycle is:

What are gender roles? How are gender and sex different? Summarize two theoretical approaches to the development of gender roles in children.

A disorder common in late adulthood that is characterized by losses in memory and cognition, and changes in personality, and that is believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain's structure and function is __________.

Edmund is a Boy Scout. While on a camping trip, the scout leader tells the boys to stay away from the lake. Some of the scouts ignore the leader and go fishing by the lake anyway. Edmund wants to do what the leader tells him and believes that good behaviors are rewarded while bad behaviors are punished. Which level of moral reasoning is he in?

Which of the following is a main disadvantage of the cross-sectional design?

Greta's child has facial deformities, a smaller than normal head, heart defects, intellectual disability, learning difficulties, and delayed growth. If these defects can be traced to a teratogen used by Greta when she was pregnant, which was she most likely abusing?

Temperament is thought to be fairly well established since birth.

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

The most likely cause for miscarriage during the first three months of pregnancy is _______.

Based on today's science and medicine, when does the age of viability begin?

Explain the adolescent concepts of the personal fable and imaginary audience.

The period of life between roughly the ages of 10 and 20 when a person is transformed from a child to an adult is __________.

The development of secondary sexual characteristics:

Which of the following stages is the most critical, according to Erikson?

Which of the following is a false statement?