Chapter 5d.Adulthood Flashcards
A series of small strokes that progressively damage an older adult’s brain is MOST likely to produce:
neurocognitive disorder.
Physical exercise in adulthood does NOT:
shorten telomeres but it helps
1) slow the progression of Alzheimer’s
2) stimulate neurogenesis.
An example of prospective memory is:
remembering to buy something or take something
The culturally preferred timing of events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement is known as:
the social clock
Fewer than ____________ of all ____________ survive beyond the first two weeks after fertilization.
half: zygotes
Jake, a 3-month-old baby, is no longer as interested in a puppet head as he once was. What has happened here?
he has become habituated
Bradley loves to play peek-a-boo with his dad because he believes that his dad has disappeared. Bradley lacks:
a sense of object permanence
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, morality is defined as the aspect of cognitive development:
that has to do with how an individual reasons about moral decisions.
When parents are consistently warm and responsive to their infant, the infant is likely to develop a(n) _____ attachment to the parents; when parents neglect the infant, are inconsistent, or insensitive to the infant’s needs, the infant is likely to develop a(n) _____ attachment to the parents.
secure: insecure
Lana cannot recognize faces. She has to pretend to know or recognize people she has already met. Lana MOST likely suffers from:
prosopagnosia.
