Exam 8: Development Across the Life Span

Professor Ahmad is interested in studying the development of motor skills. He collects data from 200 1-year-olds and follows and assesses them for a period of 5 years. What type of research design is Professor Ahmad using?

In which of the following cultures is a home destroyed if someone dies there, because there is a fear that there will be exposure to evil spirits?

Which of the following theorists believed that people go through stages, each of which has a "crisis" associated with it?

The most obvious change ushering in adolescence is __________.

According to Mary Ainsworth's research on attachment, the four attachment styles are secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized-disoriented.

Assimilation is to accommodation as __________.

Jasper, a 3-year-old, asks his mom to cut a pizza pie into 12 rather than eight pieces because he is "really hungry." On the basis of this example, it is most appropriate to conclude that Jasper __________.

Marcus tends to rule his home with an iron fist. His children know the rules and they are expected to obey them without question, or there will be harsh consequences. Diana Baumrind would describe Marcus's parenting style as __________.

According to Erikson's theory, the __________ stage of development occurs in late adulthood.

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people throughout their lives. This psychologist is most likely working in the field of __________.

The tendency of teenagers to feel that they are always "on stage" and that they are the center of everyone else's world, just as they are the center of their own, is a phenomenon known as __________.

In which stage of cognitive development does the conservation concept first appear?

Which of Erik Erikson's psychosocial crises revolves around the child's learning to direct his or her own behavior?

The development of formal operations in adolescence leads to __________.

According to Piaget, __________ is the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object's nature.

By the time a child enters the concrete operations stage of cognitive development, he or she is capable of grasping the concept of conservation.

The cognitive and social changes students go through because they are born and grow up in an age of smartphones would be referred to as a(n) __________.

The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called __________.

Who was the physician who first published research suggesting a relationship between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism?

The development of secondary sex characteristics __________.