Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

The Strange Situation is an experimental method devised in order to test an infant's depth perception.

Psychologists studying the acquisition of language have found that:

Most children become wary or fearful of strangers between the ages of:

Parents who listen to the child's concerns and set reasonable limits are:

What is meant by parentese? What seems to be its purpose? What have researchers discovered when they have observed parent-infant language throughout the world?

Match each crisis with the stage in which it occurs. -autonomy vs. shame and doubt

Preschoolers are not as egocentric as Piaget thought. In fact, most three- and four-year-olds can take another person's perspective.

An adolescent has just experienced menarche. This means that:

Gender schemas reflect the status of men and women in society.

The greatest gains in brain and nervous system development occur between:

All over the world, boys' gender schemas are more rigid than are girls' gender schemas.

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -a mental network of knowledge, beliefs, metaphors, and expectations about what it means to be male or female

Match the descriptions of language development with the age at which they occur. -They begin to recognize key vowel and consonant sounds of their native language.

Harry learns the schema for a "dog" by playing with his golden retriever. On a trip to a farm, he sees a collie and points, saying, "Doggie!" Then he notices a lamb and says, "Doggie!" Explain Harry's schema using Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation.

When a mother is exposed to lead during pregnancy, fetal abnormalities and deformities can occur.

Research on the onset of puberty has revealed that:

Your nephew knows he is a boy and thinks it is better to be a boy than a girl. This view best describes your nephew's:

Analyze the statement made by the textbook authors that "the Sphinx was the first life-span theorist."

Many adults say that they treat boys and girls equally or that "my little girl was just naturally feminine but my boy was born feisty." Explain how learning theorists would respond to these statements. What evidence do learning theorists cite to support their position?

After greeting her relatives at the airport, Joey's mother leaves him with his grandma and gets the luggage. Eight-month-old Joey becomes fearful of the stranger holding him and begins to wail. This distress would be an example of: