Exam 9: Lifespan Development

Children with _____ parents are more likely to rebel, while children with _____ parents are more likely to lack self-control.

According to Erik Erikson, the key psychosocial tasks facing people during early and middle adulthood are intimacy versusisolation and generativity versus stagnation.

Describe the nature of physical development in late adulthood and discuss the accuracy of U.S. stereotypes about old age.

In Erik Erikson's theory, the older adult who feels that his orher life has been meaningful has achieved a sense of what Erikson calls ego integrity.

For some women, andr opause involves hot flashes,disturbances in sex drive and sleep, and emotional instability.

Primary sex characteristics refer to the sex organs that are directly involved in reproduction.

The term phenotype refers to:

On the average, the human brain doesn't reach full maturity until age 25.

The best known, although not the most common, pattern of allele variation is the simple dominant-recessive gene pair.

According to Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, adolescents can achieve an integrated, stable,and relatively permanent sense of personal identity during a stage called the identity versus role confusion stage.

Which of the following statements are true about a permissive parenting style?

How is language development encouraged by caregivers?

You have 23 chromosomes in each of your body's cells.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which best characterizes the typical course of human development?

Geri's son wants to go to a football game on a school night.Without asking her son how he will get to the football game or when he will be home, Geri tells him that she doesn't care if hegoes or not. Geri is demonstrating which parenting style?

Dr. Professor's research examines cognitive changes that occuras people progress from young adulthood to late adulthood. Dr.Professor is a _____ psychologist.

Humans carry all of the genes necessary to develop a tail but we typically don't develop tails because those genes are never activated.

Describe the major milestones in physical and social development during adulthood.

Which of the following statements BEST describes deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?