Exam 9: Life Span Development

Psychologists who emphasize stability believe that personal characteristics ________.

Mr. and Mrs. Miaki think that children should not speak at the dinner table unless an adult asks them a question. They stress obedience to their house rules and proper table manners; they expect mature behavior in their children. Baumrind would classify the Miakis as which type of parents?

Discuss Baumrind's different parenting styles, and how each has a different effect on the development of a child.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding a father's contribution to the health of the fetus?

Which of the following is an advantage of the cross-sectional approach to conducting research in human development?

At conception you were a single cell barely 1/175 of an inch in diameter, called a(n) ________.

Exposure to excessive stress during prenatal development can increase the risk for ________.

The critical period for development, when exposure to disease prenatally can have the most devastating effects, is ________.

Significant language advances tend to occur during what stage of cognitive development?

At what age do the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex typically reach full maturity?

According to Ainsworth's studies on infant attachment, if Cassie leaves her infant Dante in the room and he cries, but then he has mixed reactions when she returns, then Dante is exhibiting what behavior?

Aretha wanted all of the grape flavored gum from Halloween, so she made a deal with her brother that if he gave her his grape gum, she would help him get an extra cookie at dinner time. According to Kohlberg, what level of moral development is this?

Vygotsky's term for providing support during the learning process that is tailored to the needs of the student is instructional ________.

Ephraim has decided not to have his daughter immunized during childhood. "All of the other kids are going to receive vaccinations, so there is no reason for us to take that risk for her," he says. Ephraim is banking on the protection of ________.

Modern researchers sometimes use a method to study human development that combines which two methods?

The researcher who criticized Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of morality based on the fact that it applied more readily to men than to women was ________.