Exam 13: Development Over the Life Span

A disorder that is caused during pregnancy and is characterized by the child having facial defects,stunted growth,and cognitive impairments is __________.

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

In Erikson's theory,children between the ages of 3 and 5 are concerned with the issue of _______.

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

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

The major turning point in most adults' lives is __________.

The emotional bond formed during the first year of life that makes human babies cling to their caretakers is called __________.

According to Erikson,the last stage of development involves the crisis of:

Which of the following states has as a main theme the ability to consider many possible solutions to a problem and the ability to systematically test those possibilities?

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

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

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

The cessation of menstruation is called __________.

A reflex crucial to an infant's survival is __________.

Piaget's theory of intellectual development assumes that:

The study of psychological and physical changes from conception to death is _______ psychology.

According to Erikson,a sense of producing and contributing to the world is called _______.

Lawrence Kohlberg is noted for his theories of __________ development.

The strange situation procedure,in which researchers unobtrusively watch an infant in the presence or absence of several combinations of the child,caretaker,and stranger,is used to study _________.

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 small 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.