Exam 7: Development Across the Lifespan

Suppose that you show a small boy two bars of fresh fudge that are equal on all dimensions (exactly the same size,shape,and weight).You ask him if the two bars are the same,and he says "Yes." You then cut one of the bars into 10 chunks as he watches.You are surprised when he now asks if he can have the cut up fudge because it has more candy than the intact bar.This episode illustrates that the youngster:

Which of the following concepts was NOT used by Piaget?

The first stage of Erikson's personality theory is known as:

Which of the following sequences of Piagetian stages is the correct order?

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 Kübler-Ross' stages?

George,at age 42,lost his job,was divorced by his wife,and couldn't seem to keep friends for very long.George came more and more to feel that he was accomplishing nothing with his life.According to Erikson,George is probably:

Who interviewed terminally ill patients and concluded they went through a series of stages in dealing with their impending deaths?

The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink juice was trying to coax him to drink some.Taking the glass of juice,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.

An infant will turn his head toward anything which touches his cheek.This is the ________ reflex.

The belief that one is the center of the world is called,by Piaget:

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

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.

Traits which are typical of a sex but not directly concerned with reproduction are called _______.

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

Piaget's theory of intellectual development assumes that:

In order to make the transition from dependence on parents to dependence upon one's self,the adolescent must develop a stable sense of ____________________.

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

The five stages of dying postulated by Kübler-Ross are _______.

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

How did Erikson identify the conflict experienced in old age?