Exam 10: Life Span Development

According to Kohlberg, behavior motivated by the avoidance of punishment represents ________ morality.

Older adults remember more positive pictures when exposed to both positive and negative pictures.

In Piaget's theory, the process of modifying existing cognitive structures in response to experience and new information is called _______________.

The placenta is:

The loss of weak nerve cell connections in the brain is known as ____________.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the effects of preterm birth?

What are some of the common consequences to a child whose mother smoked while pregnant?

Which of the following has not been recommended for helping preterm infants survive and thrive?

Alice is sitting at the table with her son Nikko. She takes his tall glass of milk, and pours exactly half of it into a shorter wider glass. Then she says "Honey, which glass has more milk?" Nikko immediately points to the taller glass. Nikko has not yet mastered Piaget's skill of _____________.

Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky behavior when they are in the presence of other adolescents.

A healthy adult with no signs of dementia in his or her 80s is likely to have the most difficulty doing which of the following tasks?

A(n) __________ refers to a group of people who lived during the same time period.

The field of _______ focuses on the questions of how people of different ages differ from one another and what caused those differences.

Which of the following is true about longitudinal studies?

The germinal stage:

__________ studies collect data from the same individuals over a period of time to track age-related changes.

A child who interacts with doll-size objects as though they are real sized rather than miniatures is committing _______.

If a child can tell you what "Y" is equal to when you give her the equation X = Y + 10, then she is in the _______ stage of cognitive development.

According to Piaget, children begin to develop concepts and the ability to think in terms of abstractions in the __________ stage.

Older people who were often labeled as "senile" in the past, were most likely suffering from __________.