Exam 9: Lifespan Development

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by binge-eating and then purging via laxatives or vomiting.

Erikson attached great importance to sexuality and linked a person's psychosocial development to sex.

The final stage of human development, per Erikson, is ____.

____________________ is the result of irreversible damage to the brain that typically is manifest over a longer period of time.

____________________ is the natural acceptance of the inevitable and the start of mourning.

____________________ medicine is focused on providing for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a terminal patient.

The majority of people, both male and female, reach their peak height in their early thirties, and their health is generally at its peak as well.

The most remarkable changes in the human physique, the body habitus, occur in ____________________.

The highest level of moral development, and the sixth stage, is ____ morality.

A ____ can be thought of as a set of expectations, placed on the individual by society, to complete certain tasks within a predetermined time.

Dr. K. Warner Schaie's sequential studies have indicated that while intelligence (the ability to think) peaks at different ages for both men and women, all intellectual abilities show decline at about age ____.

When discussing an elderly person's mental state, dementia and delirium are essentially the same condition.

Children of ____ parents tend to be happy, self-confident, and independent, to the point of genuine openness to other adults.

A desire to die and suicide are closely linked to aging.

____ is a loss of calcium from the bones.

According to Freud, a person's ____ consists of the person's biological needs, such as water and food.

____ is an acute brain syndrome, which is usually associated with reversible metabolic derangements.

Taking an age-related average, Arnold Gesell distributed the different developmental tasks across a timeline, called developmental ____________________.

____ advanced one of the first psychosocial developmental theories in the late 1800s.

Depression in the elderly, unlike delirium, is a non-reversible mental illness.