Exam 8: Development

Developmental psychology encompasses the growth and changes from birth through puberty.

In the nature via nurture issue,nature refers to environment.

Research that takes a number of different age groups and examines them at several points in time is known as _____________ research.

Research that traces the behavior of one or more participants as the participants age is known as ___________ research.

Explain what happens in the embryonic period of development.

Jean Piaget was not a stage theorist like Freud and Erikson and Kohlberg.

Rigid and punitive,____________ parents value unquestioning obedience from their children.

There is no scientific proof that the midlife crisis is real.

_____________ disease is a progressive brain disorder that leads to a gradual and irreversible decline in cognitive abilities.

Gerontologists study discrimination.

Environmental agents such as a drug,chemical,virus or other factor that produce a birth defect are known as ________________.

A disease,which gets its name from the abnormally shaped red blood cells it causes,and which creates episodes of pain,yellowish eyes,stunted growth,and vision problems,is known as ____________.

An awareness and understanding of one's own cognitive processes,involving the planning,monitoring,and revising of these cognitive processes,is known as _____________.

People try to discover who they are,what their strengths are,and what kinds of roles they are best suited to play for the rest of their lives through their concept of identity.

Infants lose the primitive reflexes that they are born with after the first few months of life,replacing them with more complex and organized behaviors.

Explain what happens in the germinal period of development.

According to the ______ theory of aging,people who age most successfully are those who maintain the interests,activities,and level of social interaction they experienced during middle adulthood.

Unlearned,involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of certain stimuli are known as ______________.

Neonates can discriminate facial expressions and can even imitate them.

We have 46 pairs of chromosomes that come from our mother;they contain all basic heredity information.