Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Rob is a fifteen-year-old boy who is planning an overnight camping trip with both male and female friends. The last step in the planning is for Rob to ask his parents' permission to go camping. If Rob's parents have an authoritarian style of parenting, Rob can expect their response to be

Which of the following presents the correct assumed order of Kübler-Ross' stages of coping with impending death?

When researchers use a ____________ design, they typically find that both fluid and crystallized intelligence decline relatively early in life, but when they use a(n) ___________ design, they often find that both of these abilities remain stable until much later in life.

Cross-sectional research designs involve comparing children from different age groups to one another.

Which of the following statements about attachment is true?

A wide variety of environmental agents that cause abnormalities in prenatal development are called

You are interested in studying newborn attention. You wonder whether the kinds of things newborns pay attention to in their environment are similar to what captures the attention of adults. What method would be appropriate to measure what they attend to?

According to Diana Baumrind, what are the two primary dimensions of parenting and what are the four possible types of parenting styles? Briefly describe each of the styles and some of the characteristics of children raised with each of these styles.

You suspect that a young child is in Piaget's formal operational stage. Which of the following would you look for to confirm your suspicion?

Seth's mother pours two glasses of juice for breakfast. One of the glasses is taller and narrower than the other. The level of juice is higher in the tall glass compare to the shorter, wider glass. Seth complains that his sister, Aleesha, has more juice than him. Aleesha says, "We both have the same silly!" According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, explain why Seth thinks that his sister has more, even though his mother poured the same amount in each glass. Which of Piaget's stages is Aleesha most likely in and explain why?

Which of the following would you expect to see in an adult, progressing from middle to late adulthood?

Jean Piaget proposed that children's thinking changes in a ________ manner with age, and it differs from the way that adults think.

How does socialization shape children's beliefs about gender?

Professor Lee is interested in the cognitive development of children. So she looks at the problem solving strategies in a group of six-year olds and a group of ten-year olds. Then tests some of the children in each group over the two years. Professor Lee's research uses a

Discuss the important cognitive and intellectual changes that are associated with progressing from middle to late adulthood? What are some of the factors associated with retaining cognitive functioning or at least slowing down these changes?

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

At the mall, you notice a mother with her one-year-old child. A man sits down beside her and mom has to leave to make a phone call. The child is distressed when she leaves, calmed when she returns. According to Ainsworth, this child is

What are Kübler-Ross's five stages of coping with impending death?

Cross-cultural research on the social habits of adolescents has revealed that teens in _____________ appear to place more emphasis on peer relationships than teens in _____________ do.

Experiments assessing the causal relationship between brain maturation and social-emotional behaviour