Exam 4: Human Lifespan Development

The _______________ level of morality, characteristic of older adolescents and adults, involves more complex personal judgments based on abstract principles, such as fairness or justice.

Many preoperational children are highly verbal but have trouble describing the world from any perceptual perspective but their own. This type of thinking is termed

According to Jean Piaget, babies construct meaning from their environment. Describe the push and pull of the two learning processes known as assimilation and accommodation, and briefly describe each stage in Piaget's 4-stage theory of cognitive development.

A baby is born with behaviors designed to automatically assist survival the survival of the developing human and so are appropriately known as ________ reflexes.

Beginning when the infant is about 6 months old, an intimate bond develops between caregivers and infants, called

Two-month-old Jacqueline has some understanding of object permanence because she reacts to her mother's attempts to engage in games of peek-a-boo. According to Piaget Jacqueline is in this stage of development.

Babies that score highly on this dimension of temperament are the most outgoing and least shy of the bunch.

According to Piaget, these units of knowledge are cognitive models that children and adults construct of what the world is and how it works.

This part of the womb connects the embryo with the uterus and is the eventual source of the baby's naval.

In developmental psychology, empiricism refers to

____________ are experiences that can include chance adverse events such as trauma or infection in infancy, differences in the way that important adults treat each sibling.