Exam 7: Lifespan Development

Explain how the motherhood mandate influences women's decisions to become mothers. Specifically, how are child-free women typically treated in U.S. society and does this have an impact on women? How might this impact women who experience infertility?

Older women are more likely than older men to ______.

Name three of the four ways parents influence their children's gender development and provide one example for each.

Research indicates that adolescent girls' identity development focuses primarily on nurturing, whereas boys' identity development focuses mainly on autonomous identity.

A man reaches middle age and beyond and appears more distinguished and handsome. A women of the same age is considered less beautiful or even invisible. This is referred to as ______.

When children play alone, gender differences in behavior are minimal. When in their same-gender group, gender differences are large and striking. From this finding, we can infer that ______.

By 3 years of age, children have a tendency to seek out and play with other children of their own gender, and the all-male groups and all-female groups have different play styles. This is referred to as ______.

Research shows a spike in depression and loneliness in women after the postparental period of life.

Children can recognize gender discrimination as early as 6 or 7 years old.

Between birth and 3 months of age, infants ______.

Olson et al. (2015) conducted a study with transgender children and cisgender children on implicit and explicit gender identity preferences. The results from this study indicated that ______.

Define gender constancy. Differentiate between each of the three stages in which it develops and describe what age range each stage typically occurs in.

The longer life expectancy of women and the tendency of women to marry men older than themselves leads to ______.

Mina, a 4-year-old girl, recently decided that she will only wear pink and purple dresses and refuses to wear pants. This is an example of ______.

Research shows that 84% of American women have at least one child by age 50. This is likely influenced by ______.

Products for girls, like the Bratz dolls and Barbie, are examples of products that ______.

Rita's last child is leaving for college out of state and her older children have their own homes and families now. Rita is entering the phase of family life cycle known as the ______.

Sky is 7 years old and was raised as a male and has been dressed and treated as a male his entire life. However, Sky is starting to realize that he does not really feel like he is a boy and has been asking his parents to buy him "girl clothes" and let him grow his hair out. His parents are confused and Sky begins to feel distressed about his gender label. Sky is likely experiencing ______.

Ellen, a young adult, believes that older adults are generally forgetful, incompetent, and depressed. This is an example of ______.

The 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges leads to ______.