If a researcher was interested in learning how children’s moral development changes between the ages of 3 and 5, the researcher may follow them until they are 5 years old, testing them periodically. This research strategy is known as __________ research.

Who wrote the groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species and is responsible for the birth of the evolutionary perspective?

For which issues do lifespan developmental experts seek information?

When developmentalists combine the results of many research studies into one overall conclusion, they are conducting a __________.

Advocates of the __________ perspective believe that much behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts of which a person has little awareness and over which a person has little control.

A specific time during development at which a particular event has its greatest consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli is necessary for development to proceed normally is called __________.

Freud believed that the ego operates on the __________.

Explain the four different types of cohort effects.

What is the greatest criticism of the Piagetian perspective?

Researchers in the early learning department of a university are conducting a long-term study to see how problem-solving skills change over time as school-age students move from elementary school to high school to college. What type of development are the researchers most likely studying?