Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of _______________.

Which statement is NOT true about vision at birth?

A(n) ______________________ is a section of DNA containing a sequence of amines.

Which of the following is an example of telegraphic speech?

Most young adolescents, especially those who receive a formal high school education, are at the level of thinking that Piaget described as _______.

Erikson's theory of social development viewed the ages of two to three, his second stage, as being characterized by the major challenge of __________.

The growth spurt for girls typically begins at what age?

A person's sense of being a boy or girl, or man or woman, is their gender ________.

Countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and England are more likely to have ________.

Human and animal neonates come into the world equipped with a number of built-in responses called _______.

Generativity or stagnation are two feelings that may dominate a person's life during:

John, a 43-year-old father dying of cancer, makes frequent nasty remarks to his wife such as, "You can't wait until I die so you can get the insurance money and live it up, can you." This illustrates which of Kubler-Ross' stages?

________refers to heredity and __________ refers to environmental influences.

Parents often feel that, as their child gets older, the child shares less intimacy with them. Which statement about the intimacy between parents and adolescents is true?

The __________ roughly resembles a human being.

The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink milk was trying to coax him to drink some. Taking the glass of milk, she poured it all into a small cup and said, "There! Now you won't have to drink so much." She would never have fooled the child if he had not been in the ________________ stage.

According to Erikson, a conflict of identity vs. role confusion occurs during:

According to Thomas and Chess, a child that is very irregular in their schedules, resists change, and tends to be loud is labeled a(n) _______ child.

A newborn baby is called a __________.

Around age 40, adults _______.