Exam 3: Extension D: Human Development

According to Erikson, failure to resolve the tasks of middle adulthood leads to a sense of ____________________ involving a concern for one's own needs and comforts only.

In the ____________________ level of moral development, reasoning is based on a desire to please others or to follow accepted authority, rules, and values.

Gabe is sitting in his high chair calling to his dog, "Here Dog." He then turns to his mother and says "want juice." Gabe is exhibiting ____________________ speech.

Define temperament, and describe the temperamental traits of an easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up child.

About 40 percent of all newborns would be classified as difficult children, who are moody, intense, and easily angered.

A researcher who studies death is known as a(n) ____________________.

It is more common to "survive a crisis" at midlife than it is to make a "midcourse correction."

Paul and Sarah are having trouble with misbehavior from their two children, Jake and Amy.They have gotten notes from Jake's teacher, who says that Jake never turns in any homework even though Sarah tells him to do his homework every night.Amy tends to get out of most punishments by begging her father to get her mother to "lighten up." Jake and Amy both know that their father's "bark is worse than his bite," that is, he often threatens to "ground them forever,"but rarely remembers they are grounded the next day.When their father is not around, their mother lashes out at them verbally calling them "bad kids, who will never amount to anything unless they learn to behave." After reading the "Psychology in Action" section on "Effective Parenting," what suggestions would you make to help Paul and Sarah correct this situation?

When psychologists attribute development to nature, they are referring to the effects of heredity.

According to Thomas Gordon, ____________________ are communications that tell children what effect their behavior has on you. or