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The three major issues that interest developmental psychologists are nature/nurture, stability/change, and...

continuity/stages

Although development is lifelong, there is stability of personality over time. For example...

b: temperament tends to remain stable throughout life.

Body organs first begin to form and function during the period of the ______ ; within 6 months, during the period of the ______ ; the organs are sufficiently functional to allow a good chance of survival.

c: embryo; fetus

Chemicals that pass through the placenta's screen and may harm an embryo or fetus are called ______ .

teratogens

Stroke a newborn's cheek and the infant will root for a nipple. This illustrates ______

a: a reflex

Between ages 3 and 6, the human brain experiences the greatest growth in the ______ lobes, which enable rational planning and aid memory.

frontal

Which of the following is true of motor-skill development?

b: The sequence, but not the timing, is universal

Why can't we consciously recall how we learned to walk when we were infants?

We have no conscious memories of events occurring before about age 3 1/2, in part because major brain areas have not yet matured.

Use Piaget's first three stages of cognitive development to explain why young children are not just miniature adults in the way they think.

Infants in Piaget's SENSORIMOTOR STAGE tend to be focused only on their own perceptions of the world and may, for example, be unaware that objects continue to exist when unseen.

A child in the PROPORTIONAL STAGE is still egocentric and incapable of appreciating simple logic, such as the reversibility of operations.

A preteen in the CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE is beginning to think logically about concrete events but not about abstract concepts.

Although Piaget's stage theory continues to inform our understanding of children's thinking, many researchers believe that...

a: Piaget's stages begin earlier and development is more continuous than he realized.

An 8-month-old infant who reacts to a new babysitter by crying and clinging to his father's shoulders is showing...

stranger anxiety

In a series of experiments, the Harlows found that monkeys raised with artificial mothers tended, when afraid, to cling their birth mother, rather than to their mother holding the feeding bottle. Why was this finding important?

Before these studies, many psychologists believed that infants became attached to those who nourished them.

Adolescence is marked by the onset of...

b: puberty

According to Piaget, a person who can think logically about abstractions is in the ______ ______ stage.

formal operations

In Erikson's stages, the primary task during adolescence is...

b: forging an identity

Some developmental psychologist now refer to the period that occurs in some Western cultures from age 18 to the mid-twenties and beyond (up to the time of full adult independence) as ______ ______ .

emerging adulthood

By age 65, a person would be most likely to experience a cognitive decline in the ability to...

a:recall and list all the important terms and concepts in a chapter

How do cross-sectional and longitudinal studies differ?

cross-sectional studies compare people of different ages. Longitudial studies restudy and retest the same people over a long period of time.

Freud defined the healthy adults as one who is able to love and work. Erik son agreed, observing that the adult struggles to attain intimacy and ______ .

generativity

Contrary to what many people assume, ...

c: people of all ages report similar levels of happiness

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