Exam 5: A: Development

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The issues that middle-aged people face in a midlife transition resemble an adolescent identity crisis.​

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Exercise programs designed to increase older people's physical activity levels also lead to improvements in their memory and cognition.​

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The personalities of adopted children correlate highly with those of the adopting parents.​

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What are some examples to show that children do or do not appear to understand a concept,depending on how we test it?​

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Infants show no indication of learning or memory before age 2 weeks.​

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The different activities that a society expects of males and females are known as ___________ roles.​

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According to Piaget,children lack the concept of object permanence during the ____________ stage.​

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Infants may or may not seem to understand object permanence,depending on how we test them.​

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In Piaget's terminology,modifying a schema to fit a new situation is called ___________.​

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Infants start making muscle movements before their sense organs send any messages to the brain.​

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In Piaget's terminology,applying an old schema to a new situation is called __________​

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Selective attrition is a greater problem with longitudinal research than with cross-sectional research.​

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Most people experience intense "storm and stress" throughout their adolescent years.​

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To study whether nervous children tend to become nervous adults,a longitudinal design is better than a cross-sectional design.​

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If a mother drinks much alcohol during pregnancy,her child may have a set of physical and behavioral abnormalities known as __________________ syndrome.​

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Lev Vygotsky emphasized that children have to discover concepts on their own.​

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A research design that combines the advantages of both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs is known as ____________________.​

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According to Piaget,a child who cannot easily take another person's perspective is said to be ___________.​

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To measure or predict attachment behavior in a 3-month-old infant,a parent plays with a child and then shifts to an unresponsive,unexpressive face.This procedure is called the _____-_____ Paradigm.​

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Lev Vygotsky emphasized the idea that with appropriate help,children can advance a certain distance beyond what they can do by themselves.He called this distance the zone of __________ development.​

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