Exam 12: Development

Bea is 70 years old and works part-time at a discount store.She has kept herself busy by engaging in various activities she enjoyed during middle adulthood.She volunteers occasionally at a local food bank,and enjoys the company of her family and the members of her bridge club.According to the _____ theory of aging,Bea is aging successfully.

Approximately _____ of American children are likely to experience the breakup of their parents' marriage.

Discuss the risks associated with longitudinal research studies.

As psychologists use the term,habituation means:

_____ is the period at which maturation of the sexual organs occurs,beginning at about age 11 or 12 for girls and 13 or 14 for boys.

During the concrete operational period,children learn to undo operations in their minds.Piaget termed this ability as the_____ principle.

"Age-related declines in memory and cognition are largely a matter of nature." "Age-related declines in memory and cognition are largely a matter of nurture." Support either of these propositions and provide strong evidence in support of your answer.

Which of the following primarily studies the patterns of growth and change that occur throughout life?

Making explicit reference to specific stages and concepts,describe your own adolescent and young adult development from an Eriksonian perspective.Try to capture some of the developmental tensions and challenges during this period in your narrative.

Which of the following sequences accurately reflects the order of the stages of prenatal development?

Yolanda is 24,Zachary is 44,and Andrew is 73.Assume that each successfully completes the identity crisis associated with his or her current Eriksonian stage.Which of the following alternatives matches each individual with the correct developmental outcome?

A local community center asks you to give a presentation to parents-to-be on out-of-home care and its potential influence on child development.What points might you include in your presentation? Make explicit reference to the prevalence of out-of-home care and to the effects of the child's background,the quality of the care,and the amount of time spent in out-of-home care.

Maura and Trish are eighth graders who have been caught smoking.Maura's parents yell at her and refuse to let her explain things.They ground her for a month and take away her television and Internet privileges for two months.Trish's parents talk to her about their disappointment and concern; additionally,they make her spend every afternoon for a week at the library,researching the dangers of smoking and discussing her findings with them each night at dinner.Most likely,Maura's parents are _____ and Trish's are _____.

Preschoolers can hold only two or three chunks of information in short-term memory,5-year-olds can hold four,and 7-year-olds can hold _____.

Bonnie is 3 months old.Her parents are inconsistent in attending to her needs.Sometimes they are very attentive,feeding her promptly when she cries and comforting her when she seems upset.At other times,Bonnie cries for a long time before her parents attend to her.Based on Erikson's theory,it is likely that Bonnie will develop:

Identical twins are _____identical.

Which alternative below best approximates the frequency of adolescent suicide?

The realization that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight is termed as_____ in Piaget's theory.

According to Carol Gilligan,women's morality centers on individual well-being and social relationships-a morality of _____.

As compared to Piaget,Vygotsky placed _____ emphasis on the _____ bases of cognitive development.