Exam 9: Section 2: Lifespan Development

According to the Focus on Neuroscience box on the adolescent brain, from approximately age 6 to adolescence, brain development is characterized by:

Susceptibility to peer influence peaks during:

Dillon had been a teacher in the local public school system for more than 40 years. Now retired, she finds herself wondering why she ever took up teaching, and thinking about how she wasted the best years of her life trying to teach ungrateful and lazy students. She wishes that she had chosen another profession when she was younger. According to Erikson's theory, Mrs. Dillon is probably experiencing:

Tyler is a typical early-maturing boy. Compared to late-maturing boys, he is likely to:

Trina is 7 months old. If she is like most children in terms of language production, she will:

Which of the following BEST defines a gene?

In general, researchers have found that people who are dying:

With the exception of the reproductive cells, every cell in a person's body contains:

Lawrence Kohlberg is best known for:

Permissive-_____ parents are responsive to their children but do not exert much control over them. Permissive- _____ parents do not impose rules on their children and are also not very responsive to them.

This drawing depicts some of the key structures involved in the biological basis of heredity. After studying the image, identify the letter that labels deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

Which of the following is the term used by psychologists to describe an infant's inborn predisposition to consistently behave and react in a particular way?

Both Bonnie and Brendan spend a lot of time in the sun. Bonnie has freckles but her brother Brendan doesn't have freckles. You can safely assume that:

Psychologist Renée Baillargeon found that 3-and-a-half-month-old infants appeared surprised when they watched a carrot pass behind a screen but fail to appear in a window in the screen. According to Baillargeon, this suggests that infants understand _____ at a much earlier age than Piaget suggested.

Alleles are:

According to David Buss, the most important adaptive problem for female reproductive behavior is to:

The theory that gender-role development is influenced by the formation of mental representations of masculinity and femininity is called _____ theory.

Segal, a developmental psychologist, contends that gender roles develop because young children observe others modeling particular gender-appropriate behaviors. She also thinks that the children are rewarded when they behave accordingly and punished when they don't. Dr. Segal's views are most consistent with the _____ theory of gender-role development.

During the germinal period:

A structure called the _____ eventually thickens into three bulges that will form the three main regions of the brain: the hindbrain, the midbrain, and the forebrain.