Human Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Milestones

Cognitive and Intellectual Milestones

• 1. Post-formal dialectic development implies: Synthesis of relativism and the...
• 3. A decrease in intelligence occurs at age: 50 years.
• 6. During middle adulthood, there is: An increase in crystallized intelligence.
• 11. In old age, there is: A decline in intellectual performance.
• 13. Intelligence increases until: 50 years.
• 16. Formal operations allow: Hypothetical reasoning.
• 23. Formal operations are: A style of reasoning.
• 24. The hydraulic fluid intelligence:
• 28. Formal intelligence is achieved due to: Reflective abstraction.

Adolescence, Puberty, and Physical Changes

• 4. Teenage sexual maturity is acquired when: It arrives at menarche.
• 9. Factors regulating the onset of puberty include: Genetic factors, a certain minimum critical weight, and health status.
• 12. Thinking is completed at: 16 years.
• 30. Adolescence ends when the individual reaches sociological adulthood.
• 35. The adolescent growth spurt lasts: 2 years.
• 36. In adolescence, the following should be achieved: Heterosexual relations, a profession or activity, and the development of a philosophy of life.

Adult Development and the Aging Process

• 2. Hearing loss begins gradually at: 25 years.
• 10. The majority of the elderly: Are resigned to death.
• 14. Subjectivity and intuition are characteristics of thought in: Middle adulthood.
• 15. The task of generativity is proper to: Middle adulthood.
• 32. If adulthood is reached after age 30, it produces: Identity confusion.
• 34. Senescence is the period when: You start to grow old.

Moral Reasoning and Psychosexual Stages

• 5. Conceptualize the causes and results of processing:
• 7. The adolescent must achieve, according to society: Adopting the philosophy of life of society.
• 8. The desire to transcend death is reflected in: The need to procreate.
• 17. According to Marcia, identity levels are related to: Anxiety, patterns of behavior, and moral reasoning.
• 18. The adolescent:
• 19. Loyalty comes from: The crisis of indeterminacy.
• 20. The upper limit of moral development is established by: The cognitive stage reached.
• 21. Counterphobic behaviors toward death arise in: The genital stage.
• 22. At the genital stage, the person must: Have passed all the conflicts of earlier stages.
• 25. The masculine identity is formed by:
• 26. In the genital stage, the person has moderate traits from all previous stages.
• 27. The "genital" stage implies: Personal maturity.
• 29. During Stage IV of Kohlberg's moral development, the person is in the stage called: Social system and conscience.
• 31. The second Oedipal crisis occurs between: None (see this).
• 33. The different psychological development of men and women implies that women focus on "being."