Exam 9: Life-Span Development

Harmon is 40 years old. He is in a period of his life in which he is reflecting on his accomplishments, determining whether his life has been satisfying, and trying to decide his future behavior. According to Levinson, Harmon is going through ________.

In infants, signs of attachment generally become obvious and intensify between ________ months of age.

In the majority of cases, the relationship between parents and children markedly deteriorates during adolescence.

Luke is a thoughtful, responsible, and enjoyable child. As such, he is most likely to elicit ________ parenting from his parents.

As most adolescents grow, their thinking changes from concrete operations to ________.

Research studying deaf infants with deaf parents has found that they ________.

Erik is a newborn. According to Erikson, his main task will be to develop a sense of ________.

A researcher tries to reconstruct a person's past by interviewing the person and consulting various other sources that relate to the person's life. This method of conducting research is called the ________ approach.

Which of the following is true of newborns?

Newborn babies show almost no aptitude for imitation.

Most men and women over age 65 live ________.

Differences between individuals who were born and grew up at different times are known as ________ differences.

A method of studying developmental changes by comparing people of different ages at about the same time is a ________ study.

A researcher decides to study cognitive changes in children by simultaneously studying groups of 3-year-olds, 6-year-olds, 9-year-olds, and 12-year-olds. This researcher is conducting a ________ study.

Most women report ________ when they are employed.

Children typically are able to think about objects being simultaneously members of two classes, one being more inclusive than the other, beginning at about ages ________.

Children who watch 2 hours of television per day will see about ________ murders by the time they leave elementary school.

The country with the highest teen birth rate in the industrialized world is ________.

From the third month after conception until birth, the developing organism is known as a(n) ________.

As a child increases in age, especially after 2 years of age, it(s) ________.