Except for the sperm and the egg, all cells in the human body have _____
chromosomes.
A.10
B.32
C.23
D.46
Answer:
Which of the following is an example of implicit memory?
A.Being at a grocery store and remembering what an individual wanted to buy
B.Typing on a computer while talking to a friend
C.Being able to name the capital of Illinois
D.Recounting the events of a movie an individual has seen
Answer:
Which of the following is the leading cause of death in the 75 to 84 and 85 and over age
groups?
A.Cardiovascular disease
B.Kidney disease
C.Cancer
D.Hypertension
Answer:
Working-class and low-income families are more likely to practice a(n) _____
parenting style.
A.authoritarian
B.egalitarian
C.permissive indulgent
D.permissive ignoring
Answer:
Adolescent _____ is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.
A.mirror complex
B.ethnocentrism
C.solipsism
D.egocentrism
Answer:
Which of the following is true of the usage of Internet among older adults?
A.Older adults visit fewer Web sites than their younger counterparts.
B.Older adults spend less money on the Internet than their younger counterparts.
C.Increasing numbers of older adults use e-mail to communicate with relatives.
D.Older adults are especially interested in going online for social networking.
Answer:
Sabine has a severe impairment in reading and spelling ability. Identify the condition
that Sabine has.
A.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
B.Dysgraphia
C.Dyslexia
D.Dyscalculia
Answer:
_____ illness is long-term, often lifelong, and requires long-term, if not life-term,
management.
A.Acute
B.Chronic
C.Terminal
D.Debilitating
Answer:
6-year-old Gina has a BMI at the 95th percentile. According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, she is:
A. obese.
B. overweight.
C. at risk for being overweight.
D. not at risk for being overweight.
Answer:
Which of the following is the conclusion of the study conducted by Costa and McCrae
on approximately 1,000 college-educated men and women aged 20 to 96?
A.Considerable stability occurs in the five personality factors.
B.Extraversion is the most unstable personality factor.
C.While extraversion and openness remained stable, agreeableness and
conscientiousness varied greatly.
D.The five personality factors were very unstable across different age groups.
Answer:
Which of the following statements is TRUE of peer groups and peer interactions in
middle and late childhood?
A.Children in middle and late childhood spend approximately 30 percent of their time
with peers.
B.The size of the peer group decreases with the age of the child.
C.Children under 12 years of age prefer mixed-sex peer groups to same-sex peer
groups.
D.As children move through middle and late childhood, peer interaction is more closely
supervised by adults.
Answer:
The slowdown in learning new information has been linked to changes in _____, where
individuals manipulate and assemble information when making decisions, solving
problems, and comprehending written and spoken language.
A.working memory
B.brain circuitry
C.episodic memory
D.neural network
Answer:
The connection across biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes is most
obvious in the two rapidly emerging fields of:
A. developmental cognitive neuroscience and developmental social neuroscience.
B. developmental biological neuroscience and developmental social neuroscience.
C. developmental socioemotional pharmacology and developmental biological
pharmacology.
D. developmental cognitive biology and developmental cognitive biology.
Answer:
Rates of ever experiencing major depressive disorder range from _____ percent for
adolescents.
A.5 to 10
B.10 to 15
C.15 to 20
D.25 to 30
Answer:
According to Baumrind, a parent who is uninvolved in a child’s life, showing neither
responsiveness nor control, is displaying a(n) _____ parenting style.
A.authoritarian
B.authoritative
C.indulgent
D.neglectful
Answer:
Which of the following is NOT part of the group of vitamin supplements called
antioxidants?
A.Vitamin C
B.Vitamin E
C.Beta-carotene
D.Vitamin B1
Answer:
A study of HRT’s effects was halted as evidence emerged that participants who were
receiving HRT faced an increased risk of _____.
A.lung disease
B.cancer
C.stroke
D.arthritis
Answer:
The average adult in middle adulthood _____ height and _____ weight.
A.loses; loses
B.loses; gains
C.gains; gains
D.gains; loses
Answer:
Which of the following can be attributed to giving Americans the option to retire?
A.The Age Discrimination Act of 1967
B.The deletion of mandatory retirement in 1986
C.Establishment of the Social Security system in 1935
D.The extension of the mandatory retirement age in 1978
Answer:
When children experience cognitive conflict in trying to understand the world, they
shift from one stage of thought to the next. The mechanism through which this shift
occurs is called _____.
A. equilibration
B. assimilation
C. organization
D. amalgamation
Answer:
Alice who is three weeks old is in the _____ substage of Piaget’s sensorimotor
development; she will latch on to and suck anything that is touched to her lips.
A. simple reflexes
B. first habits
C. secondary circular reactions
D. primary circular reactions
Answer:
Megan, who is eight years old, has a test tomorrow. “It’s an easy test,” she tells her
mother. “I just have to recognize a bunch of stuff on a chart. I finished studying for it
yesterday.” Megan is exhibiting her:
A.brainstorming ability.
B.creative thinking.
C.metamemory.
D.metadata.
Answer:
Which of the following countries has the highest percentage of single-parent families?
A.Canada
B.The United States
C.Germany
D.Sweden
Answer:
According to Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory, a person’s family, peers, school,
and neighborhood constitute his/her:
A.microsystem.
B.mesosystem.
C.chronosystem.
D.macrosystem.
Answer:
Which of the following were considered to be clear signs of death twenty-five years
ago?
A.A flat EEG (electroencephalogram) reading for a specified period of time
B.The end of certain biological functions
C.The end of electrical activity in the brain
D.The lack of response to sensory stimuli
Answer:
According to Kenneth Dodge, aggressive boys are more likely to perceive another
child’s actions as hostile when:
A.their self-esteem is challenged.
B.the child’s intention is ambiguous.
C.their aggressive responses can be exercised discreetly.
D.the child presents itself as a weak and gullible victim.
Answer:
_____ are the most noticeable changes in physical appearance in late adulthood.
A.Loss of hair and brittle nails
B.Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
C.Reduction in height and weight
D.Wrinkles and age spots
Answer:
Researchers have had mothers put a dot of rouge on the noses of babies and place the
babies in front of mirrors to see their reaction. These researchers are studying the
concept of:
A.trust.
B.attachment.
C.temperament.
D.sense of self.
Answer:
Chemical interactions in ____ connect axons and dendrites, allowing information to
pass from neuron to neuron.
A. nephrons
B. synapses
C. neurotransmitters
D. myelin sheaths
Answer:
According to life-span developmentalist Paul Baltes, the benefits conferred by
evolutionary selection decrease with age. Natural selection has not weeded out many
harmful conditions and nonadaptive characteristics that appear among older adults.
Why?
A. Degeneration aids in the transmission of desirable traits to future generations.
B. Natural selection operates primarily on characteristics that are tied to reproductive
fitness.
C. Human evolution has no effect on previous generations.
D. Evolved mechanisms are always adaptive in contemporary society.
Answer:
Define grief and discuss its major dimensions.
Answer:
What is postformal thought like in practice?
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Identify the researcher who showed that when the child’s attention to relevant aspects of
the conservation task is improved, the child is more likely to conserve.
Answer:
Identify the term for awareness of young children that helps them to know that altering
an object’s or a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties.
Answer:
Shelby babbles using the sounds “ba, ba, ba” or “ch, ch, ch.” These basic units of sound
that our language is composed of are known as _____.
Answer:
Identify the type of memory that helps in retention of information without conscious
recollection, involving skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed.
Answer:
What kind of play involves repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned or
when physical or mental mastery and coordination of skills are required for games or
sports?
Answer:
What is the difference between life span and life expectancy?
Answer:
List five benefits that a child receives from breast feeding.
Answer:
Briefly describe the two stages of preoperational thought. Provide an example of
children’s thinking at each stage.
Answer:
Define gross and fine motor skills, and give an example of each.
Answer:
How would you connect the concepts of the overproduction of synaptic connections
and their subsequent retraction, or pruning, with the nature-versus-nurture issue?
Answer:
In E. Mavis Hetherington’s research, which individuals made up only about 10 percent
of the divorced group?
Answer:
Identify the linguist who proposed that humans are biologically prewired to learn
language. He or she proposed that infants are born into the world with a language
acquisition device that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language.
Answer:
What are the typical effects of ageism?
Answer:
Name and describe three prenatal diagnostic tests.
Answer:
Identify a cognitive theorist who emphasized the social contexts of learning and the
construction of knowledge through social interaction.
Answer:
Identify the term given recently to refer to the transition from adolescence to adulthood
that occurs from approximately 18 to 25 years of age.
Answer:
A recent study revealed that habituation assessed at 3 or 6 months of age was linked to
verbal skills and intelligence assessed at 32 months of age. How can parents use the
concepts of habituation and dishabituation to better interact with their babies and maybe
boost their verbal skills and intelligence in the process?
Answer: