Exam 9: Section 3: Lifespan Development

In strong support of Piaget's theory of cognitive development contemporary researchers have confirmed that virtually all adults display abstract reasoning and other formal operational thought processes in diverse areas of knowledge.

Research has found that authoritative parenting produces a broad range of beneficial effects for adolescents including better adjustment and greater confidence.

For some women, andropause involves hot flashes, disturbances in sex drive and sleep, and emotional instability.

Renée Baillargeon's research on young infants' cognitive development uses visual tasks to assess the infants' understanding of object permanence.

Infants all over the world use the same sounds when they first begin babbling, including sounds that do not occur in the language of their parents.

Men experience a gradual decline in testosterone levels, sometimes called andropause, which can cause changes in physical and psychological health.

According to Piaget, the capacity to engage in symbolic thought emerges during the preoperational stage of cognitive development.

Developmental psychologist Robert Zimmerman and colleagues found that babies who never watched "educational" videos knew more words than babies who did.

Young Angelo can roll over and grasp his rattle but is not yet able to sit up without support. In terms of physical development he is approximately 15-months old.

According to Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky the "zone of proximal development" refers to a child's acquisition of cognitive skills and knowledge through formal schooling.

When parents exercise control over their children's behavior yet are responsive to their children's desires and needs, their children are likely to be well adjusted in adolescence.

By the fourth month of prenatal development the fetus is capable of reflexive movements and is able to move its arms, legs, and head.

Assuming that a newborn infant is developing favorably, his brain will be about one-fourth the size of an adult human brain and will weigh about one pound or less.

Moral reasoning is defined as an aspect of cognitive development that has to do with how an individual reasons about moral decisions.

The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky is best known for his theory of psychosocial development that proposes eight distinct stages of development over the lifespan.

When 8-year-old Jack is asked by his mother to tidy up his room, he does so because he knows that she will then stop nagging him. Kohlberg would say that Jack is operating at the preconventional level of moral reasoning.

If you inherit a dominant version of the freckles gene, you will have the potential to display freckles. But to be freckle-free, you would need to inherit two recessive "no freckles" genes, one from each biological parent.

The human genome is the complete set of DNA in the human organism.

Each level in Kohlberg's theory of the development of moral reasoning is based on the degree to which a person conforms to conventional standards of society.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed that people who are dying invariably progress through the stages of (1) denial, (2) anger, (3) bargaining, (4) depression, and finally (5) acceptance.