Psychology Midterm Test 5

The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing is called:

The selective loss of unused connections among brain cells is called:

Although there is a flurry of brain development in teens, the lack of development in the prefrontal cortex is often related to:

Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of:

Regis thinks it's wrong to drive over the speed limit simply because he might get punished for doing so. He is demonstrating Kohlberg's ________ stage of morality.

Respecting the laws of society is to ________ morality, whereas being guided by your own autonomous moral principle is to ________ morality.

According to Erikson, trust is to _______ as autonomy is to __________.

According to Erikson, teens who suffer role confusion have not yet:

Which of the following best describes adolescent self-esteem?

Adolescence is typically a time of:

Persistent exclusion from peer social relationships is most likely to increase teens' risk for:

Which of the following is true of adolescence in contemporary industrialized societies, as compared with previous centuries?

A developmental stage between adolescent dependence and responsible adulthood is called:

Erikson suggested that once we have a stronger sense of who we are in young adulthood we begin developing a greater capacity for

Menopause refers to:

Professor Kulema compared the moral intuitions of people of different ages. She had one group of children, one group of adolescents, and one group of adults. She assessed their reactions to a variety of moral dilemmas. Professor Kulema conducted a ________ study.

To compare moral reasoning skills of younger and older children, Professor Hauten tested and retested a group of children from the time they were 4 until they reached the age of 12. The professor conducted a ________ study.

The term social clock refers to:

Compared with their counterparts of 50 years ago, people in Western countries are marrying at a(n):

Erik Erikson suggested that the major psychosocial task of middle adulthood was to discover a sense of contributing to the world by being productive. According to Erikson, those who do this effectively demonstrate:

As we get older, our __________ intelligence tends to decrease, whereas our __________ intelligence tends to increase.

Autopsies show that the brains of Alzheimer victims:

Older adults who feel satisfied when reflecting on their lives demonstrate what Erikson called a sense of:

Mrs. Cannon has just been diagnosed as terminally ill, but she insists that she will recover and believes that her laboratory results were mixed up or misinterpreted. Dr. Kübler-Ross would say that Mrs. Cannon is in the stage of: