Human development chapter 1 HW
According to Paul Baltes's perspective on life-span development, which of the following statements is true?
Development is multidimensional.
According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following statements is true?
People's basic personality is shaped during the first five years of their life.
_____ processes involve changes in the individual's relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality.
Socioemotional
Development can be defined as the pattern of movement or change that
begins at conception and continues through the human life span.
Ramada, 69, an avid golfer and fitness enthusiast, recently got a comprehensive health exam done, and her physician remarked that her vital organs were in such good shape that her _____ age was about 10 years less than her chronological age.
biological
Behavioral and social cognitive theories emphasize
continuity in development.
Ariel wants to describe the strength of the relationship between the number of airplane companies in the world and global warming. Which of the following kinds of research is Ariel most likely to perform?
correlational
Which of the following is a characteristic of the developmental period known as early childhood?
development of school readiness skills
Jenny is 4 years old. She becomes self-sufficient and develops school readiness skills. In this scenario, identify the developmental period that Jenny is most likely in.
early childhood
A(n) _____ is a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
experiment
The cross-sectional approach to developmental research compares
individuals of different ages.
Daniel is 10 months old and is completely dependent on his parents. He is just beginning to acquire language and develop symbolic thought. In this scenario, which of the following developmental periods is Daniel most likely in?
infancy
In his psychology class, Professor Sharma emphasizes that developmental change occurs throughout adulthood as well as childhood. Professor Sharma is taking a(n) _____ approach to developmental change.
life span approach
Jeremy becomes fluent in English at the age of 4. At the age of 6, he becomes fluent in French. However, when Jeremy's parents try to teach him Spanish when he is 8 years old, they find that Jeremy's capacity to acquire a new language has decreased. This scenario most likely illustrates Paul Baltes's view that development is
multidirectional
Thomas is a teenager who lives with his parents in an American city. During one of his high school years, Thomas's house gets destroyed in a fire, forcing his family to relocate to a rural area. According to Paul Baltes, this incident is likely to affect Thomas's development and life and is likely an example of a
nonnormative life event.
The developmental pattern experienced by most people in which psychological functioning peaks in early middle age and starts to decline in the early eighties is called
normal aging.
By age 51, most women enter menopause. This is an example of how a biological process can exert a _____ influence on development.
normative age-graded
The cultural makeup of the U.S. population has changed over the past few years because of immigration and other factors. Such long-term changes in the genetic and cultural makeup of a population are part of
normative historical change.
Lynne, at 5 years old, loves to draw and color. She represents the world with words and her drawings. According to Piaget's cognitive development theory, Lynne is in the _____ stage of cognitive development.
preoperational
Dr. Berenstein holds the view that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that a true understanding of development requires analyzing the symbolic meanings of behavior and the deep inner workings of the mind. Dr. Berenstein can be described as a(n)
psychoanalytic theorist.
Human infants go through an attachment period. John Bowlby calls this a _____ period, meaning that for optimal development attachment should occur during this period.
sensitive
Gina's therapist attributes her delinquent behavior to heredity and to the gross neglect she suffered as a baby at the hands of her alcoholic mother. Gina's therapist appears to be emphasizing the _____ aspect of her development.
stability
Piaget's four stages of cognitive development
start at birth and continue through adulthood.
The longitudinal method of research consists of studying
the same individuals over a long period of time.
