Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

________ refers to a time in middle childhood when the adrenal glands begin producing the adrenal hormone DHEA and other hormones that affect cognitive and social development.

After greeting her relatives at the airport, Joey's mother leaves him with his grandmother and gets the luggage. Eight-month-old Joey becomes fearful of the stranger holding him and begins to cry. This distress would be an example of:

According to Piaget, during their first year, infants develop ________, the understanding that an object continues to exist even when you cannot see it or touch it.

Which statement about gender schemas is false?

Which of the following describes the apparent relationship between parenting and self-control?

Mary Ainsworth devised an experimental method called the Strange Situation in order to determine:

Which of the following statements is true of menopause?

What are the three kinds of problems that, according to your textbook, are more common during adolescence than during childhood or adulthood?

Which of the following is one of the functions of the placenta during pregnancy?

According to Noam Chomsky, the human brain contains an innate mental module called ________ that allows young children to develop language if they are exposed to an adequate sampling of conversation.

The concept of a moral sense can be described as:

Abusive parenting leads to insecure attachment.

A provocative theory about gene-environment interactions discussed in your textbook can be summarized as:

All intersexed people are transsexual.

________, the pleasure of being touched and held, is important throughout life.

The research by Margaret and Harry Harlow demonstrated a need for ________ in young rhesus monkeys.

Emotional attachment is a universal capacity of all primates.

Anatolie was raised in a substandard orphanage where he was given little attention. He wasn't adopted until he was 6 years old. Anatolie is ________________ to become insecurely attached to his adoptive parents as compared to a child that did not experience the same level of abandonment and deprivation.

A person experiences too strong of a sense of guilt over his fantasies. According to Erik Erikson's theory, he had difficulty resolving the inevitable crisis that occurred when he was:

A person experiences too strong a sense of guilt over his fantasies. According to Erik Erikson's theory, he had difficulty resolving the inevitable crisis that occurred when he was: