Exam 13: Life-Span Development

One of the most widely discussed theories of moral development is that proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg. What are his 3 levels of morality? Provide an example for each level. Also, make sure you identify each stage within each level.

The ability to know that just because I physically spread out my money, there really is not any more, is an example of:

My younger sister has a child. My sister has mentioned to me that her daughter grows out of her clothes as fast as the clothes are bought. I told her that a big growth spurt is likely to occur when her daughter is about _____years old.

Transitivity develops during which stage?

Piaget argued that _____ is the modification of schemas to fit reality.

Which of the following supports the idea that people can overcome a bad start in childhood or infancy and that attachment style and behavior is only probabilistic?

My young son watches his young friend trip and fall on the ground. He starts crying, feeling the distress as his friend who actually fell. My son is displaying what psychologists refer to as:

The growth spurt of girls occurs _____ puberty.

The tendency of humans, even from birth, to pay more attention to novel stimuli than to stimuli to which they have become habituated is known as:

I hold my younger sister's newborn baby. I notice that if you stroke the baby's cheek, the baby will turn in the direction of the stimulation and open her mouth. Such behavior is called:

According to Piaget, _____ is an organized, repeatedly exercised pattern of behavior or thought.

According to Erikson, one and two year old children are concerned with developmental tasks of

In the Strange Situation experiment, a child with an ambivalent attachment style is most likely to

Using your own experiences, do you support the conflict or the continuity model of adolescence? Begin by defining each and then choose ONE. Explain, clearly, why you made that selection using your own behavior at that time.

Based on what you saw in your textbook, the best way to prevent age-related declines in dementia would be

My niece is just learning to read. She started by learning her letter sounds, then she sounded out words. Now, she has memorized some simple words and is adding to her list of words that she knows. According to developmental psychologists, my niece's learning to read reflects

Which stage is associated with egocentrism?

The idea that early attachment patterns affect adult life is reflected in the concept of _____ attachment.

Reasons for menopause in women to be traumatic include all of the following:

Senile dementia appears to be