Exam 1: Introduction-Exam

John Bowlby's work in attachment showed that an infant's attachment to a caregiver has important influence over the life span.Bowlby further suggested that attachment should take place:

The stage of industry versus inferiority in Erik Erikson's developmental theory occurs approximately during which period?

Which of the following is the quickest way to gain information from a large amount of people?

To chart the development of intelligence over the life span,researchers spent 1 year testing the intelligence of individuals ranging in age period from childhood to old age.Which approach to the time span of inquiry would they be taking?

List five of the seven characteristics of the life-span perspective discussed by Paul Baltes.

According to Urie Bronfenbrenner,this aspect of the environment refers to the setting in which an individual lives.

People with similar occupational,educational,and economic characteristics are said to share the same:

Gustav spends a lot of time thinking about the world as it is now and as it could be if everyone took more personal responsibility for environmental and social conditions.Jean Piaget would say that Gustav is probably in the __________ stage of development.

The information-processing approach to development is concerned mainly with:

The key developmental processes in life-span development include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is a weakness of the survey method of research?

A way of measuring age that is defined as the number of years that have elapsed since birth.

A developmental design where people of different ages are studied at the same time.

Compare and contrast behaviorism and social cognitive theory (describe the similarities and the differences between the two approaches).

The issue or controversy over whether development is influenced by biology or environment.

This cognitive theorist focused on the role of culture in the development of mind and thinking.

The idea that no age period dominates development highlights the life-span perspective that development is:

By age 50,many people need reading glasses or bifocals to improve their vision.This physiological change is a good example of a:

Briefly define biological processes,cognitive processes,and socioemotional processes.

If you studied the attitudes of elderly people today,you might find that most believe it is better for women to stay at home than to work.This is their attitude,probably because these people grew up during the early and middle part of the twentieth century rather than because they are elderly per se.This is an example of a(n)__________ effect.