​Martika is an accomplished businesswoman, and has decided to retire at the age of 53 years. She has begun taking cello lessons, something in which she has always been interested. While her friends keep telling her that it is too late for her to learn such a complex skill, she has started getting rather good on her instrument. Martika’s midlife development of a new skill demonstrates

​____ occurs when a teacher gauges the amount of assistance they provide to match the needs of a specific learner.

​A nursing one-month-old infant may grasp crudely at his mother’s breast while feeding. That same child at the age of one year will probably easily hold a bottle or cup, placing it to his lips, and then putting it down when he is done. This change in ability to use the hands and fingers demonstrates advances in

​Primarily based on the early work of Sigmund Freud, _______________ theories hold that development is largely determined by how well people resolve conflicts they encounter at different ages.

​A ____ is a set of cultural guidelines that dictate how a person should behave, particularly with other people.

​In what way are newborns more linguistically sophisticated than the average adult?

​Describe four key features of the life-span perspective. How do these features speak to the three recurring issues in developmental psychology?

​If you wanted to do research that specifically sought to uncover the reasons for various aspects of behavior and you wanted to study a small number of individuals very intensively over a prolonged period of time, you would most likely conduct _______________ studies.

​Why might you consider the appearance of overregularization a good thing in the process of a child’s language development?

​According to the theory of Mary Rothbart, a child’s temperament includes three different contributing dimensions. Which of the following is NOT one of them?