Exam 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser

Your little sister picks up objects, feels every part of them, and then puts them in her mouth. What stage of Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development does this behavior suggest she is in?

What marks the beginning of adolescence?

Martin Hoffman conducted research that found that by early adolescence, most children have developed a sophisticated sense of ________, or the ability to understand the feelings of another person.

What are the psychosocial stages of development in adulthood?

The local health department of a small town has hired a research firm to study the development of cancer in residents in the town due to a suspected cancer-causing agent and environmental pollution. The researcher will compare data on participants at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, etc. to see if there are increasing rates of cancer in the town. This type of research study is called a __________________.

According to Freud, Bryanna, a young girl, should learn more about gender roles from her________.

Anabelle is very aware of her baby daughter's moods. When Anabelle leaves the room, her daughter gets upset and cannot be comforted by a stranger. It is most likely that Anabelle's daughter has what type of attachment style?

The habituation technique operates on the premise that infants ________.

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 ___________.

Maccoby and Jacklin (1987) found that 4-year-old children spend three times as much time with their same sex peers as they do with the opposite sex. By the time the children were 6 years old, they spent _____ as much time with their own sex peers versus the opposite sex.

What term is used to describe a child's inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes except his or her own?

Which type of specific ability that has been studied extensively in older adults is what people mean when they refer to "wisdom"?

Abe just got his driver's license. He loves to speed around town going more than 20 miles above the speed limit. He believes that he can speed through red lights due to his perfect timing. This is an example of ________.

When the major axis of the body is present, it signals the beginning of which prenatal developmental stage?

Javier was born 3 days ago. His parents have noticed that he has several reflexes which the doctors have been testing. Which of the following is not a reflex exhibited by healthy newborns?

The visual cliff experiment ________.

In a __________design, one group of participants is followed and assessed as the group ages.

________ is the process that produces genetically programmed changes with age.

The period of life from about age 13 to the early twenties, during which a young person is no longer physically a child but is not yet an independent, self-supporting adult, is called ________.

The growth spurt for girls typically begins at what age?