Exam 8: Development

The midlife crisis always occurs for people who are unhappy with their lives and are looking for change.

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

If a child cannot produce an enzyme that is required for normal development,resulting in an accumulation of poisons that eventually cause profound intellectual disabilities,the child has a disease known as __________________.

_______________ processing is the way in which people take in,use,and store information.

A developing individual,from eight weeks after conception until birth,is called a(n)___________.

Human attachment grows through the responsiveness of infants' caregivers to the signals the babies provide,such as crying,smiling,reaching,and clinging.

The __________ theory of aging suggests that aging produces a gradual withdrawal from the world on physical,psychological,and social levels.

Describe the environmental influences that can affect a developing fetus.

Adolescence is the developmental stage between infancy and early childhood.

Explain what is meant by the age of viability and prenatal sensitive periods.

High-quality daycare provides little or no gain,and may even hinder the social development of children.

The process by which people examine and evaluate their lives is called _________.

Kohlberg suggests that the changes in moral reasoning can be understood best as a _______ level sequence.

The __________ theory of aging suggests that the elderly who are most successful while aging are those who maintain the interests and activities they had during middle age.

The ___________ approach to the nature-nurture issues states that it is a combination of both environment and heredity that influence development.

____________ intelligence,which is based on the accumulation of information,skills,and strategies learned through experience,remains steady and in some cases actually improves.

Describe the warning signs that may indicate the possibility of a suicide attempt.

According to the information processing theory,speed of processing increases with age,as some abilities become more automatic.

If you are playing with a child and you drop a toy out of their sight,but they do not attempt to look for it,then they have not likely developed a sense of ______________.

The psychosocial stages of development were created by _____________,and included a comprehensive description of the stages of development from birth through death.