Exam 13: Life-Span Development

During what stage of development would children most likely find magic boring?

According to information in the textbook, explicit memory becomes more completely developed between:

Based on neuroimaging studies, the decline in working memory with age is the result of:

I try to think back as far as I can, to my earliest childhood memories. Chances are, my explicit memory for events will only go back to the age of 2 or 3. This is likely because

The idea that the origins of attachment are not tied to feeding was due to the research of:

Puberty can be initiated earlier in girls by:

Bowlby noticed that an interesting relationship existed between attachment behavior in humans and _____ in non-humans.

Without a doubt, one of the most famous developmental psychologists is Jean Piaget. What did he have to say about how children develop morals? How do they start out and how do they end up? Do you think it's true?

The ability of humans to correctly categorize animals appears to occur between:

One of my teachers from high school (Mr. Boyles) told us a story of an experience he had in Vietnam. Some of his buddies were in a deep hole when a Vietnamese soldier threw a grenade into the hole. To save the lives of his friends, one of the guys jumped on the grenade. He sacrificed his own life so that many others could live. His behavior and thinking exemplify what stage or level of Kohlberg's theory of moral development?

The second thing a child must do in order to learn a language is:

One researcher found that roughly _____ of men interviewed were in a state of midlife crisis around age 40, as they began to think of themselves as middle-aged instead of young and to question the basic structure of their lives.

For many years, psychoanalysts and behaviorists were in rare agreement on the origins of attachment behavior, both linking it to feeding. Why was it that the psychoanalytic and behavioral approaches drew this conclusion? Explain how both theories were proven wrong in a series of experiments performed by Harry Harlow. Be sure to include a clear description of his methods, his findings, and the implication of these findings for human development.

I find something interesting. I find that when genes are considered in isolation, they are thought to contribute a certain percentage to a particular behavior. When the environment is considered alone, it too is thought to contribute a certain percentage to behavior. Interestingly, when the contributions of gene and environment are taken together, at once, the percentage is greater than if genes and environment were considered separately. This is commonly referred to as gene-environment:

Looking back at the entirety of her life, my grandmother feels a sense of satisfaction that she has lived it well, given the situations she faced. She experienced loss of loved ones, but she acknowledges that she made reasonably good choices or that her life as a whole was worthwhile. According to Erikson, my grandmother is in the stage of:

John Bowlby linked Harlow's findings to the _____ literature.

In recent years, Piaget's theory of cognitive development has come under fire. Discuss the four main criticisms this theory has received.

The effect of having both genetic and environmental vulnerabilities is different from that which would be predicted by simply adding up their independent effects. Such a notion is called gene-environment:

An analysis of nearly 100 studies with a combined total of 38,000 subjects found that the correlation between worker productivity and age is:

The fact that children in Western cultures draw close objects as larger best fits which theory?