Exam 4: Human Lifespan Development

This ability to understand another person's state of mind or experience is thought to underlie the development of moral reasoning and behavior.

Because of the postponement of marriage or opting out of having children, a new developmental period has emerged after adolescence called

This stage of Piaget's developmental theory begins at birth and involves only simple responses to internal and external events.

Haidt (2001) proposed that members of western cultures often utilized this foundation of morality when evaluating moral scenarios.

This tendency to respond in relatively consistent ways (i.e. calm, or fussy) by infants throughout the first years of life is called

The false-belief task depicts a situation where children must understand that their own knowledge of the true facts of a situation may conflict with someone else's false beliefs about the situation. The task is used as a test of this.

According to Erikson, the key conflict of middle adulthood is _____________, and is characterized by thoughts about the value of accomplishments to be passed to the next generation.

____________ is a process leading to the reduction in number of seldom-used neurons to allow those that are being used frequently to be maintained efficiently.

Rutter and collegues (2004) found that the longer the period of institutionalization that Romanian orphans endured after six months of life

The concrete operations stage differs from the formal operations stage in that

In adolescence, the brain is marked by an increase in the speed and efficiency of neural transmission in the brain, primarily associated with the expansion of the quantity of

The preoperational child may also have difficulty performing mental operations requiring an understanding that, for example, an object may retain its identity even if its appearance is changed for some reason.

According to attachment researchers, the child develops an understanding of his or her place in the world and arrives at expectations about the likely behavior of other people by developing a(n)

According to Baumrind, this parenting style is characterized by warmth and highly accepting environments, but also the lack of boundaries, limits, and rules on behavior.

Eight-year-old Simian knows that when his teacher pours liquid from one of two identical containers into a taller, slimmer container, the amount of liquid is the same in both containers. Simian is most likely in this developmental stage.

Only if motor development is substantially delayed beyond the normal range is there cause for concern.

Research on social and emotional development in adolescents highlights the role of parenting but also the role of peer relationships in the formation of the adolescent's adult identity. Describe one example of how parenting styles might affect adolescent emotional development and also distinguish between peer influence and peer selection.

Approximately 15 percent of infants are born with problems resulting from teratogens. These and other physical abnormalities present at birth are called

Among the assertions by attachment theorists about the existence of the attachment styles and cultural significance, which of the following is best supported by research?

Though it is difficult to test causal hypotheses regarding the benefits of marriage, all of the following benefits of marriage have been described in research except