Exam 11: Human Development Across the Life Span

On what did Kohlberg think moral reasoning was principally based?

A characteristic that first shows up in the formal operations stage is _______.

Katherine is nice to Sally even though she doesn't like Sally at all,because most of her friends like Sally.Katherine is in which stage of moral development,according to Kohlberg?

From the second week until the third month after conception,the developing organism is called a(n)__________.

The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink milk was trying to coax him to drink some.Taking the glass of milk,she poured it all into a smaller cup and said,"There! Now you won't have to drink so much." She would never have fooled the child if he had not been in the __________ stage.

As children approach their teen years,contact with _______ becomes more important in their development.

An approach that is concerned with description and explanation of changes within an individual and between individuals from conception until death is call the _______ approach.

The most obvious change ushering in adolescence is __________.

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

When adults are surprised by a loud noise,they often show the startle reflex.In infants,the same reflex is called the ________ reflex.

Which of the following phenomena is most closely associated with the concept of critical period?

A gradual and inevitable decline in the life processes begins in __________.

The period of development from conception to birth is called the __________.

According to Erikson's theory,the _______ stage of development occurs in old age.

According to Piaget,the stage of cognitive development between two and seven years of age,in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe,remember,and reason about the world,though only in an egocentric fashion,is the __________ stage.

A researcher who studies a fixed group of people over a long period of time is,by definition,using the __________ methoD)

The emergence of sexual feelings in adolescence is closely followed by and intertwined with a need for _______.

A weakness of longitudinal studies is that they _______.

Erikson's theory of social development viewed the ages of 3 to 6,his third stage,as being characterized by the major challenge of __________.

When adolescents are asked what they MOST dislike about themselves,they are most likely to say they dislike their __________________.