Exam 9: Lifespan Development

Ross has learned that he has Parkinson's disease, and that in time he will lose some of his cognitive faculties. He and his wife have a lawyer draw up a document that names her a health care ________ who will be able to make medical decisions for Ross when he is unable to do so for himself.

List, in order, the three stages of prenatal development.

Why did Jean Piaget call his second stage of cognitive development the preoperational stage?

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for the new lifespan development category called emerging adulthood?

Between birth and one year, infants are dependent on their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant's needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as a safe, predictable place. In Erikson's developmental theory, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

Which of the following illustrates conservation?

How are primary sexual characteristics different from secondary sexual characteristics?

Describe the Strange Situation experiment.

Adolescents (ages 12-18) experiment with and develop a sense of who they are and what roles they want to play. Erik Erikson would argue that during this period adolescents face the________ task of development.

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.

________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.

Which theorist promoted the idea that development is fundamentally affected by one's culture as well as their interactions with their own environment?

________ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information.

One-year-old Ainsley learned the schema for trucks because his family has a truck. When Ainsley sees cars driving on television, she says, "Look mommy, truck!" This exemplifies ________.

Jules is participating in the Strange Situation experiment. When his mother returns, he freezes, and then behaves erratically. In fact, he runs away from his mother. What kind of attachment is this?

Early maturing girls are ________.

After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. Within the psychosocial model of development, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

During Jean Piaget's ________ stage, the world is experienced through what we can take in through our perceptual systems and how we can move our bodies.

When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring, we'd say that development is taking a(n) ________ trajectory.

Umberto is a one year old, and his mother is sensitive and responsive to his needs. He is distressed when his mother leaves him, and he is happy to see her when she returns. What kind of attachment is this?