Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Which of the following statements about marital satisfaction appears to be true?

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

Kohlberg found that the typical responses of seven-year-old children to the moral dilemmas he presented them were at the _______ level.

A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a long period of time is,by definition,using the __________ method.

A reflex crucial to an infant's survival is __________.

Which of the following is NOT a stage of development?

Which of the following is directly concerned with reproduction?

In one study,a little more than half of the elderly people surveyed reported being __________ as when they were younger.

The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink milk was trying to coax him to drink some.Taking the glass of milk,she poured it all into a small cup and said,"There! Now you won't have to drink so much." She would never have fooled the child if he had not been in the ________________ stage.

Fifteen-year old Harriet has begun to write an impassioned novel about growing up in America.In her novel she describes her experiences in a way that portrays herself as unique and special,such that no one has ever thought such deep thoughts or experienced such ecstasy before.Harriet's writings most clearly reflect __________________.

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 _______.

The final stage of accepting one's impending death is,according to Kubler-Ross:

Which of the following is NOT incompletely developed at birth?

Which of the following is NOT considered a major event in the FAMILY CYCLE?

Which of the following states has as a main theme the ability to consider many possible solutions to a problem and the ability to systematically test those possibilities?

Which of the following stages is the most critical,according to Erikson?

Kubler-Ross has identified denial and isolation as the _______ stage in the adjustment to dying process.

Facial hair in boys and breast development in girls are both signs of:

One way to minimize the effects of aging on physical condition is to _______.

During prenatal development,the organism depends on the ________ to exchange food and waste products with the mother's blood stream.