Exam 9: Lifespan Development

____ development includes language acquisition, that human characteristic which permits communication.

The changes in mental functioning are generally related to the health of the person, not to age.

____ is the breakdown in the body's ability to monitor for organ system failure and to repair those organs.

Knowing the patient's age should not dictate a Paramedic's approach to assessment and care.

According to Piaget, children in middle childhood overcome their egocentrism and start to relate to others more in terms of common interests, goals, and so on.

EMS may be called to the scene of a dying person to administer comfort measures, called ____, such as morphine sulfate.

Most Americans ranging from age 65 to 84 years of age have sufficient health to allow them to perform their activities of daily living independently, including dressing, feeding, and caring for themselves.

____________________ is a period of striving and accomplishment that is punctuated with peak life events such as marriage and childbirth.

____ is the first stage of moral development and is simply avoidance of pain.

The changes in a person's patterns of thinking, feeling, and physical growth are all part of the person's development.

A decline in sex hormone production- estrogen and progesterone-results in ____________________.

The first stage of dying is ____.

Adolescents return to egocentrism, a stage previously encountered in early childhood.

____________________ theory suggests that play provides children an opportunity to gain mastery and demonstrate autonomy for the purpose of self-satisfaction.

____ is an age-related decrease in sex hormone production that occurs in both men and women.

The ____ portion of the person represents the psychosocial aspect of a person's development.

The traditional definition of an elderly person is anyone who is ____ years old or older.

In the final stage of dying, acceptance of death is a reasonable conclusion when faced with the facts of the patient's situation.

____________________ is a psychiatric illness involving problems with self-image and is characterized by self-starvation.

Potential causes of fetal malformation are toxic substances or agents called ____.