Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

The field of _______ focuses on the questions of how people of different ages differ from one another and what caused those differences.

Shelley and Julie are mothers who both have three-month-old infants. Shelley tells Julie, "My son is so fussy," to which Julie replies, "That's funny-my son is so easy." It appears that Shelley and Julie are discussing their newborns' ________.

In the ________ level of moral development, right and wrong are decided by the probability of subsequent punishment.

Which type of attachment style is characterized by babies who do not seem to care very much whether the mother is present or absent, and are equally comfortable with her and a stranger?

Preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations are all stages devised by _______.

Each of the following is a main theme of one of Kubler-Ross' five stages in accepting one's own death except ________.

Piaget's theory of intellectual development assumes that:

The period of life from about age 13 to the early twenties, during which a young person is no longer physically a child but is not yet an independent, self-supporting adult, is called ________.

Your little brother has a big ball of clay. While he watches, you roll the ball of clay into a long snake-like shape. He begins to cry because he thinks he has less clay now. Which of Piaget's stages is your brother likely to be in?

Adjusting behavior or thoughts to fit new environmental demands is called ________.

Tameeka is at a point in her pregnancy during which the major organs and structures of her baby are first developing. Which period of prenatal development is Tameeka currently experiencing?

John, a 43-year-old father dying of cancer, makes frequent nasty remarks to his wife such as, "You can't wait until I die so you can get the insurance money and live it up, can you." This illustrates which of Kubler-Ross' stages?

Which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development is characterized by abstract thinking and the creation of hypotheticals?

Chester is irritable, loud, and negative most of the time. He doesn't like it when new people pick him up, and he has irregular sleeping, eating, and waking schedules. What temperament does he exhibit?

The period of five to ten years during which a woman's reproductive system begins to decline is called _______.

The development of formal operations in adolescence leads to ________.

________ develop when two eggs each get fertilized by different sperm cells, resulting in two zygotes in the uterus at the same time.

Emily and her husband are thrilled as they peer into Emily's uterus by means of an ultrasound. The physician reports that the pregnancy appears normal, and that their baby's fingers, toes, heart, and circulatory system are developing as expected. The couple learns that the baby is only an inch long. Given this information, the current stage of prenatal development is the ________.

By the time a child enters the concrete operations stage of cognitive development, he or she is capable of grasping the concept of conservation.

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.