chapter 8 part 2

Cindy is studying cognitive development during adulthood. She administers several memory and problem-solving tasks to a group of 20-year-olds, a group of 40-year-olds, and a group of 70-year-olds. Cindy is using a _____ research design.

cross-sectional

An intelligence test battery includes an assessment of short-term memory capacity. This assessment may be seen as a test of _____ intelligence.

fluid

Children of _____ parents tend to lack self-control, act impulsively, and show no respect for boundaries.

permissive

Brown eyes, curly hair, and a slim build are elements of Jarrod's:

phenotype.

the topic of maturation is MOST likely to arise in a conversation concerning _____ development.

physical

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of intimacy versus isolation occurs during:

young adulthood

Monozygotic twins share _____% of their genetic material. Dizygotic twins share _____% of their genetic material.

100; 50

Deanna enjoys using Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. She is not alone: about _____ in 10 American adolescents have established identities on social media sites.

8

Danielle is consulting her college's course catalog. The description of an upper-level psychology course begins, "This course surveys growth and change across the life span in physical, cognitive, and social domains." This course is MOST likely titled:

Developmental Psychology

Preconventional moral reasoning is to conventional moral reasoning as _____ is to _____.

Self interest; social relationships

Baby Jacquie eats and sleeps on a regular schedule. She is quickly soothed when she cries. Jacquie appears to have a(n) _____ temperament.

easy

Mrs. Janssen is pregnant. Her baby's limbs and ears have just started to form. The baby is in the _____ stage of prenatal development.

embryonic

As young people move from adolescence to emerging adulthood, they move from the search for _____ to the search for _____.

identity; intimacy

Peek-a-boo games are compelling for babies because infants in the sensorimotor stage lack:

object permanence

Which language acquisition stage or phenomenon is matched with its definition?

telegraphic speech — two-word phrases