Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

A characteristic that first shows up in the formal operations stage is _______.

From the second week until the third month after conception,the developing organism is called a(n)__________.

The strange situation procedure has been used to study _________.

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

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 smaller 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.

Dr.Halk is studying a group of 25 youngsters from the time they are born until they reach school age.This is known as _______ research.

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

Which of the following couples are MOST likely to have a happy,stable marriage,all other factors being equal?

The typical sequence of the five stages of dying postulated by Kubler-Ross is _________________.

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?

Human and animal neonates come into the world equipped with a number of built-in responses called _______.

According to Piaget,what are the ages for the formal operational stage?

Which group of retired men would be MOST likely to consider "women's work" demeaning?

_______ is most famous for his theory that all children go through a series of sequential intellectual stages.

Comparing the same group of people on the same measure(s)over a lengthy time period defines _______ research.

The period of life between roughly the ages of 10 and 20 when a person is transformed from a child to an adult is __________.

Tim and Jean are both young adolescents who are maturing earlier than most of their peers.Based on this information,which of the following is MOST likely to be true?

Before puberty,males do not produce sperm,even though their genitals are physically equivalent to a man's.This illustrates which of the following?

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people as they get older.This psychologist is most likely a(n)__________ psychologist.

Based on Piagetian theory,which of the following relationships is NOT correct?