Exam 8: C: Development Across the Life Span

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

The vast majority of older adults are __________.

The adage,"Out of sight,out of mind," is most accurately applied to the early part of the _______ stage of development.

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

What event marks the end of the Piagetian stage of sensorimotor development?

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

Parents often feel that,as their child gets older,the child shares less intimacy with them.Which statement about the intimacy between parents and adolescents is true?

The second stage of the grief process 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?

Betty and Bob are 12-year-old twins.Which of the following is probably an accurate statement about their physical development?

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

On what did Kohlberg think moral reasoning was principally based?

John was a real hell-raiser in his 20's.After marrying and having children,though,John seemed to calm down.He took life more seriously;he quit smoking,drank moderately,and focused on his career and family.Levinson would describe John's transition as one of _________.

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

When adolescents are asked what they MOST dislike about themselves,they are most likely to say they dislike their __________________.

The proper sequence of the intellectual stages of development are:

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

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.

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of _______________.

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