Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

If a child successfully navigates this stage of psychosocial development,they will make decisions and act independently.

Piaget's term for the knowledge that an object exists even when it is out of sight is ______.

When faced with a conflict between law and conscience,Liz follows her conscience despite the personal risk.This would be characteristic of__________.

The tendency of teenagers to feel that they are always "on stage" and that they are the center of everyone else's world,just as they are the center of their own,is a phenomenon known as ___________.

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people throughout their lives.This psychologist is most likely working in the field of___________.

The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called_________.

Tameeka is at a point in her pregnancy during which she is experiencing muscle contractions and movement and kicks.Which period of prenatal development is Tameeka currently experiencing?

At birth,newborns seem most responsive to________.

The theory in which aging is attributed to our bodies' organs and cell tissues simply wearing out with repeated use and abuse is called_________.

Which of the following is the term that refers to the difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the help of a teacher?

In Piaget's theory,the stage of cognitive development between 7 and 12 years of age,in which an individual becomes capable of logical thought processes but is not yet capable of abstract thinking,is the ______ stage.

Silvia has blond hair,even though her mother and father each have brown hair.What do we know about Silvia's parents?

In puberty,only the primary sex characteristics in the body reach their peak.

The period of five to ten years during which a woman's reproductive system begins to decline is called_______.

What is the sequence of stages of moral development as identified by Lawrence Kohlberg?

Each of the 10 children born to Ernest and Elvira Orangeburg has been born with red hair.Each child is also very intelligent and athletic.The Orangeburg's are expecting an 11^th child who is also likely to be born with the same traits according to ______________ as evidenced in the _____________________.

Dr.Smith believes people who are very aggressive have become so because of their life experiences.Dr.Goldberg believes people are more or less aggressive from birth because of genetic factors.Which of the following terms best describes an issue in human development that is highlighted by their disagreement?

Nature refers to "heredity" and nurture refers to "influence from the environment."

Fifteen-year-old Todd is writing an impassioned novel about growing up in America.In his novel he describes his experiences in a way that portrays them as unique,such that no one has ever thought such deep thoughts or experienced such ecstasy before.Todd's writings most clearly reflect ______.

According to Piaget,the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object's nature is known as ___________.