lifespan development exam questions

The goal of hospice care is to provide

death with dignity and pain management in a humane and comfortable settings

Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?

object permanence

________ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information.

schemata

During Jean Piaget's ________ stage, the world is experienced through what we can take in through our perceptual systems and how we can move our bodies.

sensorimotor

What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

genes and biology

What is an advanced directive?

a legal document that provides specific interventions that a person wants

Early maturing girls are ________.

at a higher risk of depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders

Which parenting style is most encouraged in modern America?

authoritative

Victoria has learned that she has metastatic breast cancer and has only a few months to live. She immediately goes to church and prays that she will "change her ways" and will become a model Christian if God will just heal her illness. Victoria is at the _______ stage of grieving.

bargaining

________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.

cognitive

During adolescence there is a tendency to see people engage in higher levels of risk-taking behavior. Emotional outbursts are also quite common. This is explained by the relative underdevelopment of the ________ lobe of the cerebral cortex.

frontal

What does nurture refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

environment and culture

According to ________, lifespan development encompasses eight stages and at each stage we encounter a psychosocial crisis that must be resolved.

erik Erikson

After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. Within the psychosocial model of development, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

integrity vs. despair

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.

milestones

Which theorist is credited with proposing the psychosexual stages of development?

sigmund freud

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for the new lifespan development category called emerging adulthood?

younger average age for marriage

Which theorist promoted the idea that development is fundamentally affected by one's culture as well as their interactions with their own environment?

Vygotsky

Grasping a toy, writing with a pencil, and using a spoon are all examples of ________ motor skills.

fine

Between birth and one year, infants are dependent on their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant's needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as a safe, predictable place. In Erikson's developmental theory, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?

trust vs. mistrust