Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Regarding the health of your brain as you move through your adult years, which of the following is the best cliché to bear in mind?

If a child is exposed to the "strange situation," then he or she _______.

A baby's language, which consists of repetition of consonant-vowel combinations, is called _______.

According to Erik Erikson, the crucial task confronting a person approaching death is that of establishing or attaining _______.

A gradual and inevitable decline in the life processes begins in __________.

When children observe their same-sex parents behaving in certain ways and imitate that behavior, a psychologist uses which theory to explain the situation?

Abby and Brittany Hensel _______.

Psychologists say that an elderly person who is looking back over his or her life and coming to terms with the actions of that life is engaging in _______.

Kubler-Ross is associated with research on:

Most young adolescents are at the level of thinking which Piaget described as __________.

In the Strange Situation, __________ babies would cry when their mother left the room but were happy upon her return.

The period of life from about age 13 to 19 years, during which a young person is no longer physically a child but is not yet an independent, self-supporting adult, is called _______.

Each of the following is a main theme of one of Kubler-Ross' five stages in accepting one's own death except _______.

The free radical theory of aging suggests that unstable oxygen molecules cause damage to the structure of cells, increasing with age.

Which of the following theories sees aging as a process whereby cells are assumed to have a limitation on the number of times they can reproduce to repair damage?

The tendency of children to develop a mental pattern for being male or female in much the same way they develop other concepts, such as "dog," "bird," and "big," can best be explained by ________.

Which of the following cognitive abilities declines during adulthood?

Kohlberg found that the typical responses of seven-year-old children to the moral dilemmas he presented them were at the _______ level.

Which of the following is the correct order for Piaget's four stages of cognitive development?

According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age, in which the child learns to use words, images, or actions to understand the world, is the _______ stage.