Exam 11: A: Human Development Across the Life Span

A youngster can't wait to be a "grown-up." What is the first concrete indicator that this youngster's childhood is ending?

What type of parenting style is most likely to produce an effective parent-child bond?

A child has two favourite glasses: a tall,skinny one with a picture of a giraffe on it and a short,fat one with a picture of a hippopotamus on it.When her mother pours her some milk using the "hippo" glass,the girls asks that the milk be moved into the "giraffe" glass because she is really thirsty.If the girl believes that simply transferring the milk into the taller glass increases the amount,what can be concluded about her cognitive development?

Most research on development uses a cross-sectional design,in which groups of participants of different ages are observed and compared at a given time.

On which of the following types of memory tests would elderly individuals be most likely to show the greatest performance deficits?

A boy can provide directions from home to the neighbourhood store and,if asked,he can also state how to return home.Which Piagetian term best captures this ability?

Preoperational children tend to be captivated by the more perceptually striking features of objects.Which Piagetian concept is being described?

Many theorists believe that important aspects of the acquisition of grammar are biologically predetermined.To determine what knowledge is innate,what type of cross-linguistic studies have been done?

A professor conducted a developmental study using a cross-sectional design.What type of comparisons would most likely have been made?

A disadvantage of longitudinal research is that some types of generalizations can be made only to cohorts of the research participants.

Which finding would most likely be the product of a normative investigation?

Robert Fantz and others have observed babies as young as 4 months old to determine if they prefer plain objects or objects with contours,complex or simple objects,viewing whole faces or those in disarray,and human faces or other similar visual stimuli.What did these studies conclude about infant preferences?

A man has developed a sense of personal identity,has been successful in establishing a career,and has been happily married for eight years.If he is like most other men,what question is he likely to ask himself at this stage in his life?

An elderly adult is more likely to have difficulty hearing high-frequency sounds,even though speaking voices increase in pitch with aging.

During early language development,rules of language may be applied too widely,resulting in the grammatical error called __________.An example may be a child saying that he "runned" home.

According to Piaget,which process restructures existing schemes so that new information is accounted for more completely?

George Vaillant conducted a longitudinal study of the personality development of highly intelligent men.Who were the men with the best physical and social outcomes by mid-life?

__________ is a form of learning in which some infant animals physically follow and form an attachment to the first moving object they see and/or hear.

In Piaget's theory,the __________ stage extends roughly from 2 to 7 years of age.

Baby Timmy has just developed the ability to combine information from each eye to perceive depth.Most likely,what age is Baby Timmy?