Exam 12: Lifespan Development

Compared to children whose parents had extensive European-influenced schooling, children from Mexican families whose parents had little exposure to European-influenced schooling showed greater

Annie appears rather dazed in interaction with her mother and seems contradictory in her behaviour, showing no emotion when held though she stops crying when picked up. She is showing __________ attachment.

Buss has argued that some gender differences exist because

The phase of the life-span characterized by the most rapid growth in development of the nervous system and the body is the __________ phase.

One day Shaun realized that a horse was not really a "big doggie"but an animal called a "horse."This is an example of

Through accommodation, infants

The idea that things do not disappear when they are moved out of sight is called

Younger people have a greater fear of death than older people.

Helmut is struggling with his identity and the direction his life should take, but he cannot decide what is best for him. His identity status is one of

Children begin to think symbolically by the end of which stage of cognitive development?

The process of __________ in Piaget's theory radically reorganizes a child's schemata and provides the key points that divide cognitive development into four periods.

A child talking to herself as she draws a picture would be interpreted by Piaget as a sign of __________ but by Vygotsky as a sign of __________.

Rovee-Collier (1999) demonstrated that infants of 18 months had a maximum duration of memory for a toy train of

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by loss of memory and other cognitive abilities.

Children are NOT capable of thinking hypothetically during all of the following periods of cognitive development EXCEPT the __________ period.

According to Erikson and to Marcia, what exactly does it mean to have an "identity crisis"?

What has research using Ainsworth's Strange Situation revealed to investigators about the nature of attachment?

The response of __________ was used by Baillargeon and colleagues to measure "violation-of-expectation"in infants.

Prenatal development begins at

In the Strange Situation, an infant who shows moderate signs of distress when her mother leaves, but who is easily consoled upon her return is showing __________ attachment.