Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Though he previously showed no problems with strangers, little Joey has become more apprehensive around them when he's upset, and he frequently is inconsolable until his mother or father picks him up. Bowlby would most likely classify Joey as being in the __________ attachment behaviour phase.

Which of the following statements concerning gender constancy and gender identity is true?

Research studies examining the information-processing speeds of children have consistently found that processing speeds improve ______________ with age, and that the most rapid rate of change occurs between the ages of __________.

Within weeks, newborns display the capability to _________.

Which of the following would be most characteristic of a child in the concrete operational stage if you asked him/her to draw a map specifying the route to school?

Your partner is feeling incredibly stressed out after a bad day at work. You suggest they go out jogging to try to improve their mental state. Your suggestion involves the concept of:

Laurel Trainor and colleagues at McMaster University studied music preferences in infants and found that at 2 months of age ___________.

If a zygote has received a Y chromosome from its father, this means it will develop to ___________.

How do preconventional, conventional, and postconventional moral reasoning differ?

Does daycare impair infants' attachment? Does it seem to have any long-term effects on children?

Research studies examining the information-processing variables involved in the memories of young children have found that

Which of following statements about the attachment process is TRUE?

Niko is a teenager with a very strained relationship with his parents. They constantly fight and he is always either threatening to move out or being asked by his parents to leave. Although this stresses him out, Niko believes the kind of relationship they have is very typical for teenagers and parents. Would the research on teen-parent relationships agree with his assessment?

A young infant is forming attachment bonds. If the attachment is directed toward familiar everyone, Bowlby's theory of attachment would consider this

What are the characteristics of successful marriages? How has the phenomenon of cohabitation changed in the last 40 years and how is this factor related to marital outcomes? Describe how marital satisfaction typically changes from the time a couple gets married to the years after their children have left home.

Infants often show distress at being separated from their primary caregiver

How can scientists measure newborns' sensory capabilities and perceptual preferences? What are some of those preferences?

The concept theory of mind is most closely related to which of the following constructs?

In mammals, the __________, present on the Y chromosome, induces the undifferentiated gonads to form _________.

A teenager is currently experiencing an identity crisis, but has not resolved it. According to Marcia's work on the search for identity, this teenager is in a state of