Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

At what stage of moral development is moral thought guided by principles that have been decided upon by the individual and may be in disagreement with accepted social norms?

A researcher who selects a sample of people of varying ages and studies them at one point in time is, by definition, using a __________ design in his study.

Kahn measures how long baby Lydia looks at a particular stimulus. The technique is known as __________.

Shontae, a 1-year-old, fears being away from her mother. It appears that Shontae has __________.

Identical twins are also called monozygotic twins.

In the process of fertilization, the __________ and __________ unite, resulting in a single cell.

According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between ages 2 and 7, in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe, remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion, is the __________ stage.

Discuss the terms nature and nurture as they pertain to human development.

Erikson's theory of psychosocial development viewed the ages of 1 to 3, his second stage, as being characterized by the major challenge of __________.

Psychologists say that an elderly person who is looking back over his or her life and coming to terms with the actions of that life is engaging in __________.

To summarize the research on "nature versus nurture," all that people are, and all that people become, is the product of an interaction between nature and nurture.

Which of the following cognitive abilities declines during adulthood?

What is the critical period? What are teratogens? List four common teratogens and discuss their effects on development.

Drugs that can distort the prenatal organism's physical development are called __________.

According to several published research studies, how could individuals like Adolf Hitler or Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev commit such acts according to the "nature versus nurture" debate?

Which of the following represents the fertilization process for monozygotic twins?

The typical sequence of the five stages of dying postulated by Kübler-Ross is __________.

The activity theory suggests that the more involved adolescents stay in hobbies until they turn into adults, the more likely they are to be happy.

According to Kohlberg, most adolescents are at which level of morality?

The study of ethical and moral issues brought about by new advances in biology and medicine is called __________.