Exam 10: Life Span Development

A group of psychologists study how adults change and grow,both psychologically and physiologically,as they age.These psychologists are most like ___________.

Which statement best summarizes emotion and life satisfaction at old age?

A researcher performs a cross-sectional study comparing the video game playing ability of 20-year-olds to 60-year-olds.The results indicate that the 20-year-olds learned to play a new game much faster than the 60-year-olds,however the researchers are uncertain whether this indicates that the 20-year-olds' ability will decrease over time,or whether the 60-year-olds had more difficulty because they grew up before there were video games.What issue is this an example of?

Erik Erikson found that each stage in personality development has a particular _______.

A child's ability to understand that others' thoughts,beliefs,and expectations can differ from theirs is called theory of ___________.

Erikson's theory of social development viewed the ages of two to three,his second stage,as being characterized by the major challenge of __________.

Early attachment theories state that a mother is rewarding to her infant because she provides the food.This was disproven with Harlow's experiments using _________.

A reflex crucial to an infant's survival is __________.

According to Erik Erikson,the crucial task confronting a person approaching death is that of establishing or attaining _______.

Jean Piaget is best known for his pioneering work in the area of ________ development.

According to Lev Vygotsky,a child working with a teacher is considered in the ____________________ when they attempt a skill or activity that is beyond their ability to do alone,but within their ability to do when working with assistance.

The zone of __________ development refers to the difference between what a child can do alone and what a child can do together with a more competent person.

According to Piaget,what are the ages for the formal operational stage?

The creation of new synaptic connections between neurons is called ___________________,whereas the removal of weak connections is called _______________.

__________ is to girls as __________ is to boys.

In Erikson's theory,children between the ages of 3 and 5 are concerned with the issue of _______.

According to Piaget,children learn to retrace their thoughts,correct themselves,see more than one dimension to a problem,but cannot yet handle abstract concepts during the __________ stage.

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people as they get older.This psychologist is most likely a(n)__________ psychologist.

A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a long period of time is,by definition,using the __________.

Erikson's theory of social development viewed the ages of three to six,his third stage,as being characterized by the major challenge of __________.