Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

A teenager who says to herself that nobody else could possibly comprehend the struggles and difficulties she has been through is best demonstrating one of the two presumed parts of adolescent egocentrism called

How do infants develop cognitively during the sensorimotor stage?

The benefit of using a cross-sectional research design is __________ and the limitation is that __________.

Four-year-old Alonzo's older sister Kaylen is in a high school play. Her character pretends to be a boy, so at one point she goes backstage and changes out of her elaborate dress into a peasant boy's clothes. After she does this, Alonzo asks his mother when Kaylen will come back on the stage. When mother points to Kaylen, Alonzo says, "He's a boy now!" Mother tries to explain that Kaylen's clothes have changed but she is still a girl, but Alonzo doesn't understand because he hasn't yet developed

What parenting styles are associated with the most and least positive child outcomes?

A couple with three kids is considering divorce, but is wondering if they should remain together for the sake of their children. Research suggests that the most important factor that they should take into consideration is

Even though children in the concrete operational stage have a well-established concept of object permanence, they still tend to struggle a great deal with problems involving conservation of volume and number.

A biologically based predisposition to react to the environment in specific behavioural and emotional ways is the way the text defines _________________.

In his work examining the stability of shyness in early childhood, Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have found that the behavioural inhibition temperament variable is ___________.

The most negative developmental outcomes are associated with which of the following parenting styles?

Piaget's theory of cognitive development has been criticized on the basis of

Trang is participating in an attachment experiment involving the strange situation. When his mother is present with the stranger, Trang explores the room and is friendly with the stranger. However, when the mother leaves, he becomes upset and starts to cry. When she returns, Trang happily greets her and then returns to his previous explorations. Trang would most likely be classified as a(n) _______________ child.

List and describe Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development that have relevance to the personality and social development of young children.

Jean Piaget observed that infants typically develop the concept of object permanence during the ____________ stage of cognitive development.

Kohlberg called the type of moral reasoning that is based on well thought out, general moral principles _________ moral reasoning.

Harlow presented infant monkeys with two "surrogate mothers." One was a bare wire cylinder with a feeding bottle while the other was a wire cylinder covered with a soft terry cloth with no feeding bottle. The results of his experiments revealed that

Research has determined that children in various cultures progress through Jean Piaget's stages in ___________ and that children learn many cognitive skills at a(n) ___________ age than Piaget originally assumed.

At birth, the newborn's brain is far from mature and has reached only about 25 percent of its eventual adult weight. By six months of age, however, the brain reaches __________ of its adult weight.

Describe some major differences between women's and men's typical career paths.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg's model of moral development, all of the following should be true, EXCEPT