Exam 12: Development Over the Lifespan

Which of the following statements regarding the sex of a child is true?

Can newborns learn through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modelling?

In what stage of cognitive development is Anna, if she can think logically about concrete events?

According to Erikson's psychosocial theory, the order of the four crises that occur in infancy and childhood are ___________.

Megan is developing her attachment bonds. She is at age where she can walk. According Bowlby's theory of attachment, Megan will stay close to her mom and dad because of

The phenomenon of imprinting best demonstrates the concept of

Studies on infant attachment across most cultures indicate that which percentage of infants are securely attached?

Some theorists assert that children still learn new and unique ways of processing information as they age, whereas results from studies examining the information-processing abilities of young children are often used to argue that cognitive development is ____________.

Some people believe that if a person has not learned a second language in childhood, learning a second language as an adult, while possible, is a much more difficult task. This belief would support a(n) _________ view of bilingualism.

Studies examining the intellectual changes associated with aging have found that

Jena has high self-esteem, is a high achiever at school, and demonstrates very few conduct problems. Most likely, the parenting style used by her parents was

A child in the concrete operational stage would typically state that he would place a hypothetical third eye

A middle-aged person who is very concerned about giving something back to his community. The person has joined the Big Brother/Big Sister program and spends a couple of hours each week volunteering at a local shelter for homeless teens. This person's behaviours are most relevant to which of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?

Research has demonstrated that while the learning mechanisms of habituation and classical conditioning are operating at birth, the mechanism of operant conditioning is a later development in human infants.

Describe the major research findings that 1) support and 2) contradict Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

An infant is born with facial irregularities and a small, malformed brain. As the child grows up, she shows symptoms of mental retardation and tends to be both irritable and hostile. It is most likely that this infant's abnormalities are a function of her mother's prenatal exposure to

Research has found that careers were most likely disrupted for _____________.

Overall, most sensory-perceptual processes rapidly improve during the ___________ of life.

For approximately the first two weeks of development, beginning when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the fertilized egg is called a(n)

Questions such as "Who am I?" and "How do I want to live my life?" are most likely to be addressed in which of Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages of development?