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AP Psychology Ch 4: The Developing Person Answer Key

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Stages of Cognitive Development
#1 What is the stage called when the ages range from 12 through adulthood? Formal Operational
#2 What is the stage when the child pretend plays? Preoperational
#3 What is the stage when they experience the world through senses and actions? Sensorimotor
#4 what happens in the Concrete Operational stage? You begin to think logically about concrete events and you are able to perform mathematical transformations
#5 Who came up with these stages? Piaget
Adolescence
#1 What is adolescence? It's the transition period from childhood to adulthood
#2 What is the period of sexual maturation called? Puberty
#3 Femal Ovaries are what sex characteristics? Primary
#4 Give an example of secondary sex characteristics Female--Breast and hips Male--vioce quality and body hair
#5 What is Menarche? The first menstration period
Kohlberg's Moral Ladder
#1 Which level is the morality of abstract principles: to affirm agreed-upon rights and personal ethical principles? Postconventional Level
#2 Explain the Convention Level It's the morality of law and social rules. It's to gain approval or avoid disapproval
#3 What level is the morality of self-interest: to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards? Preconventional Level
#4 As moral developement progresses, the focus of concern moves from the self to the _____ wider social world
#5 Who rejected Kohlberg's theory in favor of the ethic of care? Carol Giligan
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
#1 What stage for a toddler (2nd year), Autonomoy vs. __________ shame and doubt
#2 What is the stage called when preschoolers learn to initiate tasks and carry out plans, or they feel guility about efforts to be independent? Initiative vs. Guilt
#3 What is the approximate age for the stage of Identity vs. Role Confusion? Adolescence (teens into 20's)
#4 What stage does young adults go through? Intimacy vs. Isolation
#5 What age does the stage Integrity vs. Despair tak place at? Late adulthood (late 60's and up)
Adulthood: Social, Physical, and Cognitive Development
#1 One's sense of self is called what? Identity
#2 What is Intimacy? The ability to form close, loving relationships
#3 When women go through menopause, what ability declines? To reproduce
#4 What is one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, tends to increase with age? Crystallized Inteligence
#5 What is Fluid Intelligence? One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease during late adulthood
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