Exam 9: Lifespan Development

Helga is in her fifth month of a healthy pregnancy and sometimes she can feel the fetus moving, a common experience called quickening.

According to research by Renée Baillargeon, infants displayan understanding of object permanence almost six months earlier than the age at which Piaget believed infants first show evidence of object permanence.

Males are more likely than females to display various geneticdis orders, such as hemophilia and red-green color blindness.

List and describe factors that can affect the timing of puberty.

By the fifth month of prenatal development the fetus has about fifty percent of the brain cells it will have at birth.

Describe the typical progression of language development.

The three distinct levels of moral reasoning that Kohlberg proposed are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.

By the end of the two-week germinal period, the single-celled zygote has developed into a cluster of cells called an embryo.

According to the Critical Thinking box, "The Effects of Child Care on Attachment and Development," the majority of children under the age of 5 in the United States are in some type of child care. On average, how much time per week do they spend in child care?

Explain the four different parenting styles described by Diana Baumrind and other psychologists, and provide an example of each.

Infants all over the world use the same sounds when they first begin babbling, including sounds that do not occur in the language of their parents.

A meta-analysis of studies on gender differences in moralreasoning found that men and women have entirely different approaches to moral reasoning.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed that people who are dyinginvariably progress through the stages of (1) denial, (2) anger,(3) bargaining, (4) depression, and finally, (5) acceptance.

In comparison to the age at which young adults got married in1960, the median age for first marriage in the year 2009 was:

The _____ pair of chromosomes, called the sex chromosomes,determines a person's biological sex.

Marcia has a successful but demanding career that she enjoys.She has two children who receive consistent and high-quality care, and a close, mutually supportive relationship with herhusband. According to the psychological research, Marcia is likely to:

For the first few months after birth, an infant can distinguish among the speech sounds of all the world's languages.

During the sensorimotor stage, the infant acquires a basic understanding of what Piaget called conservation.

Researchers Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess:

Define the terms zygote, chromosomes, genes, and DNA, andexplain how they are related.