Module 13 LearningCurves
Twenty-five-year-old Jonah is wondering whether his rate of sperm cell production is within normal range. For a man his age, his doctor will likely tell him that the average rate of production is about _____ sperm per second.
1,000
During intercourse, approximately _____ million sperm are released.
250
A developmental psychologist is interested in the visual abilities of newborn children. Baby Katherine is participating in a study of newborns' visual abilities. While her mother holds Katherine, a psychologist shows the baby a variety of images. Of these images, which will Katherine look at the longest?
A human face
Danielle is consulting her college's course catalog. The description of one psychology course begins, "This course surveys growth and change across the life span in physical, cognitive, and social domains." What is this course MOST likely titled?
Developmental Psychology
Preoperational is to preconventional as _____ is to _____.
Piaget; Kohlberg
Jean Piaget proposed a stage theory of _____ development.
cognitive
Dr. Grove studies how obesity rates change from childhood through old age. Dr. Grove is MOST likely a _____ psychologist.
developmental
Jake is a 3-month-old baby who is no longer as interested in a puppet head as he once was. In this example, Jake is BEST seen as demonstrating:
habituation.
Dr. Babineaux asks a sample of 8-year-old children to complete measures of several personality traits. When the same children are 16 years old, she asks them to complete measures of the same traits. Dr. Babineaux then computes correlations between the two sets of measures. Her results are MOST relevant to the _____ issues.
stability and change
When Mrs. Perez touched her newborn's lips, he produced an automatic response called the ______ reflex.
sucking
Developmental psychologists have found that one's general level of emotionality, called _____, remains fairly constant from childhood into adulthood.
temperament
Gabriel recently signed up for a website that reunites one with former classmates from elementary school. He is curious to see if many of his former classmates still look and act the same. Research on stability and change would predict:
that some things about his classmates will be the same while other aspects will be quite different.
Juan Carlos' son was just arrested for setting the school's outdoor shed on fire. Juan Carlos and his wife admitted to the police that their son has always had an aggressive streak. This example represents:
the stability side of the stability and change developmental issue.