Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

One technique for examining infant learning is where the same stimulus is presented repeatedly until infant looking time declines.

Yan and Christie are having a discussion about politics. Both are able to reason abstractly, buy Christie is able to accept contradictions and acknowledge Yan's opposing viewpoint. Most likely we would say that Christie has reached the stage of

Regardless of the research methodology being used, researchers studying changes in intelligence over the lifespan usually find that:

Shaie's longitudinal research found that cognitively stimulating jobs and personal activities was associated with with age.

Which of the following would be most characteristic of a child in the concrete operational stage if you asked him/her to draw a map specifying the route to school?

Harlow found that when "isolate" monkeys were returned to the colony, they were likely to show any of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

Which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development is thought to be attained during adolescence?

In response to the moral dilemma in which a man must decide whether he should steal a medication to save his dying wife, a child says that he should steal the drug because if he lets his wife die he'll get into trouble. This child would be classified as being in Lawrence Kohlberg's level of moral reasoning.

With regard to fetal and infant development, the cephalocaudal principle asserts that:

A child who makes moral decisions based on the desire to gain people's approval is most likely in Lawrence Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral reasoning.

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

When placed in the strange situation, Eric shows no distress at all when his mother leaves the room, and by the same token, he isn't very excited when she returns. Overall, he doesn't appear to be very attached to his mother, but he doesn't resist when she picks him up to give him a kiss. Eric would most likely be classified as:

Marini, of Brock University, and Case, of the University of Toronto, tested adolescents on two types of abstract reasoning problems. They found that two-thirds of the adolescents performed at the same reasoning level on the two tasks, while the other one-third performed at a more advanced level on one task compared to the other. This finding:

The zone of proximal development is a concept reflecting the difference between what a child can do independently with what she can do with assistance.

The concept theory of mind is most closely related to which of the following constructs?

Ramon is celebrating his 75th birthday next week. According to Erikson, the life crisis that is most relevant to Ramon would be:

Lynne and her mother are fighting yet again. Lynne is fourteen years-old and does not want to wear the new hat and mittens her mother bought her. Lynne's mother says it is winter and is insisting Lynne wear the hat and mittens to school. Lynne screams, "Everyone will notice and make fun of me!" This thinking on Lynne's part reflects:

Which of the following would be most representative of a child in Jean Piaget's preoperational stage of development?

Even police and custom officers can have difficulty detecting simple lies told by children.

Suzy primarily attempts to understand things in terms of the physical interaction she has with objects. Almost anything that she can put into her mouth she calls a "pacifier." Just recently, she realized that objects don't "disappear" when they are hidden and so she now continues to look for them when they are under blankets and behind barriers. It is most likely that Suzy is in Jean Piaget's: