Exam 8: C: Development Across the Life Span

Dr.Halk is studying the influence of getting older on intelligence.He tests a group of first graders,a group of third graders,and a group of sixth graders.They are all tested in one day.This is an example of _______ research.

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

The FIRST major event in the family cycle is:

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

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.

Which approach to the study of development views one's early experiences as a more critical period than later (e.g. ,adult)experiences?

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

A weakness of longitudinal studies is that they _______.

The study of psychological and physical changes from conception to death is _______ psychology.

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

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

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

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

The visual cliff was developed to measure __________.

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

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.

The drug most abused by pregnant women is __________.

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 _______.

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

According to Erikson,a sense of producing and contributing to the world is called _______.