Exam 13: Life-Span Development

The ability of an individual to use and comprehend language should take place during Piaget's stage referred to as:

The capacity to associate sensations of an object from different senses or to match one's own actions to behaviors that are observed visually is known as:

At what age should we expect most children to speak like an adult, with respect to grammar?

Psychomotor slowing is particularly problematic as people age because it leads to

The tendency for an increase time for processing and acting on information associated with aging is known as:

What is the difference between a critical period and a sensitive period? Why was it that sensitive periods were proposed?

My nephew seems to revel in the role of "bad boy". He is 18, and his delinquent behavior seems to be something he enjoys for some reason, despite the increasingly severe punishment. According to Erikson, he:

Attachment behavior appears to peak during the _____ year of life.

Most psychologists believe that development, like intelligence or personality, reflects the action and mutual influence of genes and environment. The most important question concerning nature and nurture is:

Which of the following is NOT a typical error of children in the preoperational stage?

Research findings suggest that approximately _____ percent of adolescents show no signs of severe storm or stress, thereby supporting the continuity model.

Support for the notion that critical periods do not truly exist comes from:

Erik Erikson's theory of adult development is well considered because it possesses a number of important features. Which is one of those features?

The stage of development that coincides with adolescence, according to Erikson, is:

Mary Ainsworth recognized that children vary in their responses to separation, finding that children respond to their mothers' absence and return in three basic ways. Describe the "Strange Situation" procedure Ainsworth employed to demonstrate these differences. Following that, identify and define each of these three attachment styles. Finally, describe the more recently identified "disorganized" attachment style.

Your textbook shows a picture of the three-mountain task, in which a stuffed animal is looking at the mountains at a different angle from the child. As a child goes through the preoperational stage, they would gain the ability to

According to the information-processing approach to cognitive development, processing speed is important because it allows for

Neopiagetian theorists such as Robbie Case argue that:

The study involving nubbed and smooth pacifiers revealed that infants are capable of intermodal processing as early as:

Cross-culturally, approximately _____ percent are considered to be securely attached in relation to their own parents.