Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Tizard studied children who were adopted between the ages of 2 and 8 from high-quality orphanages. She observed that these children usually develop normal attachments with their caregivers but many had difficulty forming peer relationships because they were perceived as being:

Which of the following statements regarding the sex of a child is true?

The research on Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning would suggest all of the following EXCEPT

Research on newborns' visual acuity indicates that they:

Erik Erikson is best known for his work with:

When studying intelligence in adults and how it relates to the aging process, longitudinal studies show:

Which of the following is most characteristic of a child born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?

The adaptive significance of this emotion may be that it prevents infants from straying too far from their caregivers when they start to crawl and eventually walk. This emotion is known as:

Imagine that a young child is able to show object permanence, but fails at a conservation task. According to Piaget, this child is in the

According to Lawrence Kohlberg's model of moral development, all of the following should be true EXCEPT:

Dana's young child sees an older woman at the market and says, "Granny." This woman is not the child's grandmother, and Piaget would say this demonstrates the process of ________.

Jean Piaget observed that infants typically develop the concept of object permanence during the stage of cognitive development.

The study by Ames and colleagues at Simon Fraser University and Chisholm of St. Francis Xavier University on Romanian orphans adopted into Canadian homes found that two years after adoption:

Puberty marks the beginning of adolescence and is characterized by the fact that the person is now capable of _.

Several theorists argue for a fifth stage of cognitive development called post-formal thought, which is characterized by:

According to Kubler-Ross and her work on the stages involved in dying, the first stage one encounters is

According to Baumrind's research conducted on parenting styles, the one that is associated with the most positive childhood outcomes is the style.

Rob is a fifteen year-old boy who is planning an overnight camping trip with both male and female friends. The last step in the planning is for Rob to ask his parents' permission to go camping. If Rob's parents have an authoritarian style of parenting, Rob can expect their response to be:

To examine different types of infant attachment styles, psychologist Mary Ainsworth used _ _.

A cross-sectional design is to a longitudinal design as a(n):