Exam 9: Life-Span Development

The first stage of Erikson's theory of social development is characterized by the challenge of ________.

The acquisition of skills involving movement, such as grasping, crawling, and walking is known as ________ development.

The visual cliff is used to measure visual acuity.

Neonates are passive and relatively unresponsive to the outside world.

A problem with cross-sectional studies is that they ________.

Fear of death is the central concern for people in later adulthood.

In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development begins at about 11 years of age and is marked by the individual becoming capable of abstract reasoning, is the ________ stage.

Amy is 5 years old and entering kindergarten. According to Erikson, her main task is to develop a sense of ________.

Human infants are born with approximately ________ billion neurons.

Morality based on concepts such as duty and social order, as well as putting oneself in the other person's shoes, develops at the ________ level of moral thinking.

Each of the following is linked to increased risk of teenage violence in boys except ________.

A mother's level of psychological stress is ________ to the health of the newborn, and the way she copes with stress is ________ to the health of the newborn.

G. Stanley Hall saw adolescence as a period characterized by ________.

It takes about ________ for a baby's visual system to fully develop.

About ________ percent of all Americans will marry at some point in their life.

The study of the changes from birth through old age is called ________ psychology.

The emotional bond formed during the first year of life that makes human babies cling to their caretakers is called ________.

Piaget believed that children are born with a sense of object permanence and person permanence.

Conflicts over what is moral and what is legal are likely to first occur during the ________ level of moral thinking.

Explain what developmental psychology studies, and discuss the three major themes on which developmental psychologists focus.