Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

When adults are surprised by a loud noise,they often show the startle reflex.In infants,the same reflex is called the ________ reflex.

Which of the following developmental sequences is in correct order?

How did Erikson identify the conflict experienced in old age?

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

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

Which of the following ages is considered the period of adolescence?

Mary's physician is trying to test her visual perception.She shows six-month old Mary a picture of a boat until Mary no longer pays any attention to it.Then she shows Mary a picture of a house and immediately Mary begins to stare at the picture in entranced curiosity.Mary's physician was using the _______________ to test her visual perception.

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

The observation that infant attachment occurs in a variety of cultures supports the idea that ______ play(s)a role in attachment.

Reasoning out what one should do in posed moral dilemmas based on abstract principles of right and wrong and justice illustrates the _______ level of moral development.

A newborn baby is called a __________.

According to Erikson's theory,the _______ stage of development occurs in old age.

The proper sequence of the intellectual stages of development are:

In humans,the machinery for perceiving the world:

On what did Kohlberg think moral reasoning was principally based?

Erik knows that the Saint Bernard is a large dog instead of a little pony.This is an example of what Piaget called ________.

Postnatal is to after being born as _______ is to before being born.

Drugs that can distort the prenatal organism's physical development are called ___________.

Cultural and historical influences are BEST controlled using _______ research.

If a child can tell you what "Y" is equal to when you give her the equation X = Y + 10,then she is in the _______ stage of cognitive development.