Exam 7: Development Over the Lifespan

Edmund is a Boy Scout. While on a camping trip, the scout leader tells the boys to stay away from the lake. Some of the scouts ignore the leader and go fishing by the lake anyway. Edmund wants to do what the leader tells him and believes that good behaviors are rewarded while bad behaviors are punished. Which level of moral reasoning is he in?

Which of the following is true of adolescence?

Intimacy was defined by Erikson as the

What changes can a person expect as they age beyond their 60s?

Which of the following is a limitation on the cognitive life of children in Piaget's preoperational stage?

The enduring, social-emotional relationship that develops between a child and a caretaker is termed

What is the sequence of stages of moral development as identified by Lawrence Kohlberg?

Billy looks at two identical strings of beads, one stretched out in a line and the other heaped in a small pile. His ability to recognize that although the beads look different they are not different in number is called ________.

A person who is lonely and who cannot form meaningful connections with others did not successfully resolve the ________ crisis, according to Erikson.

Which type of attachment style is characterized by babies who do not seem to care very much whether the mother is present or absent, and are equally comfortable with her and a stranger?

Which of the following is TRUE of infant vision?

The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called

What are some of the common consequences to a child whose mother smoked while pregnant?

Describe the transitions that are characteristic of adolescence including changes that occur involving physical maturation and sexuality.

________ is the term for the predictable process of growth that is typical of all species members reared in adequate environments.

Which of the following illustrates Vygotsky's concept of scaffolding?

As adults, "secure" individuals may tend to

Erikson would explain a child's interest in achieving goals on the sporting field or in the classroom as being due to

A child in the two-word stage would be LEAST likely to say

In which of Piaget's stages does the child develop conservation?