Exam 4: Human Lifespan Development

If an infant has a caregiver who provides consistently kind and responsive treatment, he or she may develop a working model that suggests that the world is an unfriendly and noxious place.

The major influence of the lifespan perspective on developmental psychology was

According to Baumrind, this parenting style is both firm and flexible, and includes mutual respect between children and parent in a relatively warm environment.

Once a sperm penetrates the oocyte, it divides into the _________ and secondary polar body.

Which of the following results is true regarding the persistence of temperament dimensions beyond early childhood?

Jean Piaget suggested instead that each infant and child passively assimilates an understanding of the world based on his or her sensory input, but does not do much in the way of actively constructing a model of the world.

You overhear a man describing his life to another person at the coffee shop. He says "from 30 to 40, I learned how to succeed at work. And now, at 50, I worry less about myself and more about my children." That person is in the midst of which of Erikson's conflicts?

Erikson proposed his psychological stages in part to explain how we form a concept of ourselves and how we fit into the world, termed

When the mother returns in the strange situation, the insecure-ambivalent infant may rush back to her, but is equally likely to resist her attempts at soothing.

These harmful agents, sometimes in the form of drugs and alcohol, increase the likelihood of a child being born with a congenital malformation.

One reason that risky behavior is common in adolescence stems from the fact that

The sperm of a male must reach this reproductive cell in the woman's uterus for conception to occur.

All of the following is true of working or choosing a career, EXCEPT:

________________ infants show friendliness toward strangers if the mother is present, but wariness if the mother is absent.

Nativism is the developmental view that babies enter the world

Theory of mind, or the ability for children to understand that other people think and have minds, just as they do, develops during this stage.

The illusory effect of parenting styles on an adolescent's development has been called

The clearest physical marker of adolescence begins when the adrenal glands first produce steroid hormones. This whole period is more commonly known as

Modern psychologists now know that infants have perceptual competencies that were never suspected as recently as two or three decades ago.

The quantity of white matter-mylenated axons-increases dramatically during adolescence, while, at the same time, the quantity of gray matter-the slower, unmylenated axons-generally decreases in density.