Exam 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span

The transition to adulthood is mainly marked by ________ issues such as accepting self-responsibility.

Alzheimer's disease is associated with ________ in the nervous system.

Fourteen-year-old Katherine's frontal lobe is less active than an adult's, which may explain why she

Walk and Gibson (1961) demonstrated that infants tend to respond to visual cues for depth by the time they are able to

Conservation is to concrete operations as abstract thinking is to formal operations.

As the formal operational adolescent becomes increasingly logical, he/she often fails to consider the practical implications of his/her reasoning. This can result in a new form of

Mary, who is beginning middle school next year, has started to be able to reason more logically, problem solve in social situations, attend to a teacher's lecture, and set goals for herself. These activities are more likely sustained in the ________ of the brain and are referred to as ________.

Kübler-Ross lists five stage of dying. They are _____, _____,_____,_____, and _____.

Erik Erikson described an early stage of psychosocial development during which we depend on primary caretakers. This relationship determines the emergence of

You are playing hide-and-seek with your preoperational child. You count to 10 while he/she hides. You find your child sitting in the middle of the room with his/her eyes closed. The child believes because he/she cannot see you, then you cannot see him/her. This demonstrates

Another term used for fluid intelligence is working memory.

Erikson's late adulthood stage is referred to as

Formal operations allow children to think

A preference for familiar figures occurs during the __________ stage of attachment.

_____ intelligence is to work experience as _____ intelligence is to memory skills.

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy has been linked to

One of the disadvantages of a cross-sectional study is the ________ effect.

Who is most likely to be caught in the sandwich generation?

In the Strange Situation method, a child who keeps playing with building blocks and doesn't make eye contact with his mother when she returns, is demonstrating a(n)

During late adulthood, physical decline is likely to be experienced in