Exam 4: Developing Through the Life Span

When Tommy's mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it. Tommy is clearly near the beginning of Piaget's ________ stage.

According to Piaget, accommodation refers to

Insecurely attached infants who are left by their mothers in an unfamiliar setting often will

Chloe can clearly sense when her sister's teasing is intended to be friendly fun or a hostile put-down. This best illustrates that Chloe has developed a(n)

A student who does not cheat on tests because he doesn't want to violate classroom rules is in Kohlberg's ________ stage.

Immediately after birth, infants are able to distinguish between their mothers' and strangers'

A failure to practice important motor skills can result in a loss of agility because unused neural connections

Vygotsky suggested that new words provide a temporary ________ from which children can step to higher levels of thinking

People typically experience an increasing sense of confidence and self-esteem

The relative lack of neural interconnections in the hippocampus and frontal lobes at the time of birth is most likely to contribute to

A susceptibility to the curse of knowledge is especially likely to be associated with

Alcohol may cause fetal damage by leaving chemical marks on DNA that switch genes abnormally on or off. This best illustrates

Intense and reactive infants become unusually anxious and aroused when facing new or strange situations. This best illustrates the impact of

The cognitive ability that has been shown to decline during adulthood is the ability to

Research on the perceptual abilities of newborns indicates that they

Menopause refers to

According to Erikson, the central psychological challenges pertaining to adolescence, young adulthood, and middle age, respectively, are

To assess attachment differences among infants, Mary Ainsworth placed them in a laboratory setting called a

According to Erikson, late adulthood is to integrity as young adulthood is to

A child whose mother drank heavily when she was pregnant is at heightened risk of