Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Carla, a sixteen-year-old girl, has begun spending more and more time with her friends. Her mother is quite happy that she seems to be forming some intimate, close friendships, but worries Carla's friends have too strong of an influence on her. It seems Carla now dresses according to what her friends think is acceptable, not what her mother does. According to research, Carla's mother should

The adaptive significance of this emotion may be that it prevents infants from straying too far from their caregivers when they start to crawl and eventually walk. This emotion is known as

The genetically programmed biological process that governs human growth is called ___________.

Most studies of newlywed couples find that over the first few years after getting married, marital satisfaction typically _________.

The parenting style that most likely produces the most negative developmental outcomes such as insecurely attached children with low achievement motivation, disturbed peer relationships, and the tendency to be impulsive and aggressive is called ___________.

In the year or two after the first baby is born, marital satisfaction tends to

Erik Erikson's psychosocial model implies that personality is not necessarily a stable construct across a life span.

Stuart's father is a military officer who expects Stuart and his siblings to respond to his commands as if they were in the army. They must always answer him "yes, sir" or "no, sir" and do whatever their mother asks without question. His father never gives Stuart hugs or tells him he loves him, and Stuart often feels that he must earn his father's love by obeying his commands. Stuart's father has a/an __________________ parenting style.

A young girl driving past a farm sees a cow and says, "doggie!" Her older brother, who used to do the same thing when he was her age, informs her that this isn't a dog but is actually a cow. In fitting the cow into a pre-existing schema, the sister shows that she is using the process of ___________.

Does retirement cause psychological problems for most retirees? Under what situations are such problems most likely to occur?

According to Piaget, the interesting part of testing children is in what kind of errors they make in their thinking. He believed that the errors made by children were the result of

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

Imagine that a young child fails to show object permanence when tested for cognitive development. According to Piaget, this child is in the

Results from studies conducted on children in orphanages suggest that infancy is a critical period for the development of healthy attachment.

Infants understand their world primarily through sensory experiences and physical interactions with objects in the _________ stage. During this stage, ________ is achieved.

According to developmental psychologist James Marcia, adolescents in the identity diffusion stage are currently dealing with an identity crisis but have not yet successfully resolved it.

A person's beliefs about the "mind" and their ability to understand other people's mental states is referred to by the theory of ______________.

Jean Piaget defined an organized pattern of thought and action that guide children's interactions with the world as a

Sixteen-year-old Yasmeen let a friend cut her hair, but she cut off more than Yasmeen wanted. Now she has an appointment to have her hair fixed, but it is after school and Yasmeen's mother won't let her stay home from school until her hair is fixed. Though Yasmeen's mother says that the uneven cut isn't noticeable when Yasmeen puts her hair in a ponytail, Yasmeen is convinced that everyone at school will know and talk about her behind her back. Yasmeen may be reacting to a/an

During this stage of cognitive development, children are able to easily solve the conservation problems that confused them earlier in life. This is the ________________ stage of development.