Exam 4: Developing Through the Life Span

Marissa resents the burden and constraints of caring for her infant daughter and frequently ignores her cries for attention. As a consequence, her daughter is most likely to display signs of

When Joan touched her infant's cheek, he turned his head toward the side that was touched and opened his mouth. Joan was eliciting the reflex to ________ a nipple.

An awareness that children's temperaments influence parents' child-rearing practices should inhibit our tendency to

Lambs born and raised in the barn where the cattle are kept tend to stay near the cattle when subsequently placed in open pasture. This best illustrates a process known as

Biological growth processes that are relatively uninfluenced by experience and that enable orderly changes in behavior are referred to as

The preferred age for retirement is quite different in Mexico than in Western Europe. This best illustrates that ________ differs from culture to culture.

The social clock refers to

Teratogens are

Stranger anxiety develops soon after

A child's temperament is likely to be

Theories of human development have been most susceptible to criticism for overemphasizing

Cognition refers to

Object permanence is the understanding that

Professor Appledorn emphasizes that whether people flourish in later life depends on a continuous interaction among their inborn temperaments, their personal relationships, and their mental expectations regarding the aging process. The professor's viewpoint best illustrates

Laboratory games reveal that people's desire to punish wrongdoings is driven mostly by automatic emotional reactions rather than by deliberate conscious calculations that punishment will deter crime. This most clearly supports the ________ perspective on morality.

In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting, infants with an insecure maternal attachment are most likely to

The accelerated loss of cognitive abilities in the last years of life is called

If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to

According to Erikson, trust is to infancy as identity is to

Jessica acts so differently with her parents than with her girlfriends that she often thinks her personality is completely phony. Erik Erikson would have suggested that Jessica is experiencing