​A memory for some significant life event is called a(n) ____ memory.

​Only a single sperm cell can successfully make the journey up a woman’s Fallopian tube to an unfertilized egg.

​By the age of ____ years, most youngsters can apply the basic principles of counting to as many as nine objects, even though they may still make some mistakes.

​Peter is doing a study where psychology students are asked how confident they are that they will do well on an exam immediately before taking that test. Peter seems to be assessing the ____ of the students.

​The life-span perspective in human development maintains the position that most of our development is complete by the time we finish our adolescent years.

​Dennis is sitting on a train and is looking at the mountains in the distance. He suddenly becomes aware that the trees and signs that are very close to the tracks look as if they are moving by far more rapidly than the mountains that are several miles away. Those mountains look as if they are just crawling by. Dennis is currently using ____ to determine the distance of what he is seeing.

​The primary pioneer in the study of behaviorism was Erik Erikson.

​Which of the following are the two general designs used by human development researchers?

​If a dominant gene meets up with a recessive gene, the traits that are contained in the dominant gene will ultimately be expressed.

​The idea that genotypes are not the only things that control traits reflects the fact that