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

The emotional bond that forms between an infant and a primary caregiver is called_________.

According to your text's authors, how can a father's health habits affect his growing fetus?

After the age of 50 years, people have an increased difficulty hearing _______ sounds.

The cessation of menstruation and ovulation is called ______.

An inborn and automatic response to a stimulus is known as a(n) ________.

Jim, who is 84, and Bill, who is 24, are primed with negative words about old age. Consequently, who would be more likely to say that they'd reject treatment for serious illness?

Identify several of the physical changes that occur in boys and girls at puberty. You should include at least four changes for each gender, including mention of the approximate age when these changes take place.

What is another name for mental structures that organize sensory and perceptual input and connect it to the appropriate responses?

Which theory of cognitive development is based on the idea that perception and cognition rely on a host of distinct processes in the brain?

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

Language is based on sound units called ______ that help us distinguish words from each other.

Which famous researcher is responsible for the stages of cognitive development?

Isabelle's baby was born suffering from mental retardation. Which illness did Isabelle probably fight while her baby was an embryo?

Which reflex is elicited by stroking the infant's cheek lightly causing the infant to turn his or her head and start trying to suck?

A teratogen is typically thought of as ________ that can cause damage to the ________.

According to Gilligan, Kohlberg's theory of moral development

Fifteen-year-old Todd is writing an impassioned novel about growing up in America. In his novel he describes his experiences in a way that portrays them as unique, such that no one has ever thought such deep thoughts or experienced such ecstasy before. Todd's writings most clearly reflect ______.

Adult personality tends to ________.

Brad is in an electronics store with his parents. He looks at the CDs and thinks for a moment that he could grab one and put it beneath his coat. As he considers this possibility, he decides not to do it because he might get caught and his parents would punish him. What stage of moral development does Brad's decision represent?

The growth spurt for boys typically begins at age______.