Exam 4: Human Development

The level of moral reasoning where the individual focuses on whether behavior maintains the social order when making a moral decision is:

According to Erikson, infants in the first year of life face the psychosocial crisis of trust versus ____________________, which involves their determining which individuals in their environment can be relied on to meet their basic needs.

Four-year-old Brittany mistakes her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitty cat.Brittany's error best illustrates the process that Piaget referred to as:

Identify Kohlberg's three levels of moral development and discuss how children reason about moral dilemmas at each stage.

According to Erikson, adolescents have to deal with the crisis of ____________________ versus role confusion, which involves their trying to find their true identity.

Since the 1880s in the U.S., the age at which girls typically begin menarche has changed from a younger age in the 1880s to an older age now.

According to Terror Management Theory:

The three stages of prenatal development, in order, are:

An organized set of beliefs and perceptions held about women and men is a:

When multiple groups of individuals who differ in age are tested in the same study, the researcher is using:

The onset of puberty has decreased 3-4 years in the last century, probably due to:

Unlike Piaget, ____________________ believed that cognitive abilities emerged directly out of the child's interactions with others.

According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, an individual who faces his or her own impending death would experience the stages in which of the following orders?

Infants with an avoidant attachment tend to have parents who are:

If an individual at the conventional level of moral reasoning had to choose between stealing and letting a loved one die, that person might:

Eugene is 27 years old, and he feels very insecure about some of the personal and career choices he has made so far; and consequently he is reluctant at this point to undertake a serious, committed relationship with another person.Based on Erikson's theory, it is likely that Eugene will:

Sexual differentiation occurs:

Cross-cultural research studies designed to evaluate various aspects of Piaget's theory of cognitive development have found:

A teratogen is:

Specific patterns of behavior that are consistent with how society dictates males and females should behave are known as: