Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Beluga has just been told that he has a rare form of cancer. He insists that there has been a mistake and asks his physician to retake his medical tests. According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Mr. Beluga is most likely in the ________ stage of dying.

Katherine is nice to Sally, even though she doesn't like Sally at all, because most of her friends like Sally. Katherine is in which stage of moral development according to Kohlberg?

In which stage of cognitive development does the conservation concept first appear?

Edmund is a Boy Scout. While on a camping trip, the scout leader tells the boys to stay away from the lake. Some of the scouts ignore the leader and go fishing by the lake anyway. Edmund wants to do what the leader tells him and believes that good behaviors are rewarded while bad behaviors are punished. Which level of moral reasoning is he in?

Generativity or stagnation are two feelings that may dominate a person's life during:

The life-span development approach has which of the following goals?

Professor Sanchez is interested in studying the development of motor skills. She collects data from 200, one-year-olds and follows and assesses them for a period of five years. What type of research design is Professor Sanchez using?

Greta's child has facial deformities, a smaller than normal head, heart defects, mental retardation, learning difficulties, and delayed growth. If these defects can be traced to a teratogen used by Greta when she was pregnant, which was she most likely abusing?

Ethan, a three-year old, asks his mom to cut a pizza pie into twelve rather than eight pieces because he is "really hungry." On the basis of this example, it is most appropriate to conclude that Ethan ________.

The germinal period begins at conception and ends when the organism firmly attaches to the wall of the uterus.

A trait controlled by a dominant gene will ________.

Which of the following is defined as a gene that controls the appearance of a certain trait?

A developmental psychologist believes that increased TV watching by young children is responsible for a decline in reading scores when these children enter school. To explore her hypothesis, she records the TV watching habits of toddlers in a suburban community. She examines these habits again when the children enter kindergarten and once more when they complete first grade. This method is _______.

Young infants cannot appreciate the carnival game in which a pea seems to disappear from under a walnut because they have not yet developed a sense of ________.

________ is a section of DNA containing a sequence of amines.

Kohlberg found that the typical responses of adolescents to the moral dilemmas he presented them were at the ________ level.

Which of the following statements is true?

On big moral issues, parents and teens tend to ________.

Fifteen-year-old Todd is writing an impassioned novel about growing up in America. In his novel, he describes his experiences in a way that portrays them as unique, such that no one has ever thought such deep thoughts or experienced such ecstasy before. Todd's writings most clearly reflect ________.

The theory in which aging is attributed to our bodies' organs and cell tissues simply wearing out with repeated use and abuse is called________.