Exam 4: Developing Through the Life Span

Mark thinks that language development over the life span requires a slow but steady shaping process.His belief is most directly relevant to the issue of

Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a nonnourishing cloth mother

Shanda used cocaine while she was pregnant,which damaged her developing fetus.The cocaine was a(n)

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described our moral intuitions as

According to Erikson,adolescents who are unable to develop a sense of identity experience

Most 20-year-olds outperform most 70-year-olds on video games because of age-related differences in

Babies as young as ________ month(s)learned that their own kicking moves a mobile;and they retained that learning without later practice for as long as ________ month(s).

Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of

ASD has differing levels of severity.Those formerly diagnosed with ________ generally have normal intelligence and function at a high level.

The fact that many happy and well-adjusted adults were once rebellious and unhappy as adolescents is most relevant to the issue of

Adolescents who feel excluded from peer relationships are at increased risk for reduced physical health and

Critics have noted that Kohlberg's theory of moral development is biased against ________ societies.

The physical changes associated with puberty are typically characterized by individual differences in ________ of major sexual maturation milestones.

In the strange situation experiment,toddlers with an anxious attachment to their mothers were most likely to

Mature eggs begin to be released from the ovaries of human females a short time after the onset of

The importance of schemas was most clearly highlighted by

According to Piaget,the preoperational stage is to the concrete operational stage as ________ is to ________.

Using a large box to symbolize a boat and brooms to symbolize fishing poles,Jerry and Tommy imagined themselves catching fish out of a lake.The children are most clearly demonstrating

Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child

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