Exam 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span

The major body of research supports the conclusion that your brain will work differently as you age,the changes in functions reflect compensation and distraction with respect to day-to-day cognitive tasks.

John Watson argued that human infants are utterly helpless and only capable of making a few simple responses.How would you argue against this and show that infants are prewired for survival?

What do MRI scans reveal about the regions of the frontal lobe that play an important role in regulating social behaviour and emotional functioning?

How are play styles and toy preferences typically shaped?

In the Strange Situation Test,how will a securely attached child typically appear when the parent leaves the room?

What makes over-regularization an interesting error?

Which scenario is likely the result of egocentrism?

Technically,the eighth week following conception marks the beginning of which stage?

In Harlow's research,the monkeys became attached to a "cloth mother".What deficits did these monkeys display in adulthood?

A child has parents who require him to conform to appropriate rules of behaviour that they have established,but they are also willing to talk with him about his concerns.What type of parenting is being characterized?

In the nativist view of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,development occurs as a result of the stimulation people receive as they are nurtured,an approach known as empiricism.

Priscilla is pregnant for the first time and is visiting her doctor.The doctor reports that the heartbeat is now detectable,and that her baby is a few centimetres in length.Which stage of development is being described?

At approximately age 50,most women can expect the diminishing or cessation of menstruation and ovulation.Which term best characterizes this phenomenon?

Erik Erikson conceptualized the life span as a series of crises with which individuals must cope.Briefly describe the various stages in his approach,then focus on the psychological bonding that occurs during an infant's development of attachment.How is attachment studied and what have developmental psychologists learned about the various types of attachment and its consequences? Briefly relate the ideas of attachment theory to Erikson's thoughts about development of trust,will,competence,and purpose.

Studies of the perceptual capabilities of infants have been done using the visual cliff.What have these studies illustrated?

James loves to read science fiction.He particularly likes works in which alternative worlds are described and he has begun writing his own story set in a world where good triumphs over evil,and cunning wins out over treachery.What stage of cognitive development is being described?

What did a longitudinal study conclude about couples who divorce?

Much of a child's behaviour is based on inborn schemes,but,as her parents can attest,she is learning that her actions have an effect on external events.According to Piaget's theory,which stage of cognitive development is being described?

Piaget used the term __________ to refer to the fact that young children are unable to take more than one perceptual factor into account at the same time,often focusing on perceptually salient dimensions of a situation.

Kyle is in the "naming explosion" phase of language acquisition.On average,how many words is he most likely to learn in a day?