Exam 11: Human Development Across the Life Span

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of __________.

The description and explanation of behaviour changes in the individual and the differences between individuals from conception to death is called _________.

Developmental norms are useful because they ___________________.

According to Erik Erikson,the crucial task confronting a person approaching death is that of establishing or attaining _______.

An audience of 20-year-olds finds a series of off-colour jokes highly amusing.A group of 50-year-olds finds the same jokes highly offensive.It is concluded that,as people age,their senses of humour become more rigid and narrow.The major difficulty in drawing conclusions of this sort is that _______.

Erik knows that the St.Bernard is a large dog instead of a little pony.This is an example of what Piaget called ________.

Jean Piaget is noted for his theory of _______.

The vast majority of older adults are __________.

Dr.Halk is studying the influence of getting older on intelligence.He tests a group of first-graders,a group of third-graders,and a group of sixth-graders.They are all tested in one day.This is an example of _________ research.

One way to minimize the effects of aging on physical condition is to _______.

Which of the following ages is considered the period of adolescence?

The smallest meaningful units in a language are __________.

According to Piaget,which of the following is crucial to cognitive development at the sensorimotor stage?

In order to make the transition from dependence on parents to dependence upon one's self,the adolescent must develop a stable sense of ____________________.

Dr.Cross is studying whether the psychological trait of dependency vs.independence changes as one gets older.He collects data from first-,fourth-,and ninth-graders.Dr.Cross is studying the relationship between age and dependency/independence using _______ research.

A man beat up two men who had raped his daughter.If you were asked "Was the old man right to do this?" which answer would be HIGHEST according to Kohlberg's level of moral development?

Suppose that you show a small boy two bars of fresh fudge that are equal on all dimensions (exactly the same size,shape,and weight).You ask him if the two bars are the same and he says,"Yes." You then cut one of the bars into 10 chunks as he watches.You are surprised when he now asks if he can have the cut-up fudge because it has more candy than the intact bar.This episode illustrates that the youngster:

Preoperational,concrete operations,and formal operations are all stages devised by _______.

The __________ roughly resembles a human being.

Erik is a newborn.According to Erikson,his main task will be to develop a sense of __________.