People belonging to the _____ category often spent more time in singles bars and had
more casual sex than their counterparts in the other divorce categories.
A.libertine
B.defeated
C.seekers
D.competent loners
Answer:
_____, a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, is
released during breast feeding and by contact and warmth.
A.Adrenaline
B.Oxytocin
C.Vasopressin
D.Estrogen
Answer:
Which of the following is an example of explicit memory?
A.John summarizes the plot of a novel that he has just read to his friend.
B.Max drives the car from his office to his home.
C.Linda turns off the lights before going to bed.
D.Maria types on her computer while talking to her friend.
Answer:
Dr. Nasrin believes that associating behavior with consequence can shape the
probability of a behavior occurring. He is arguing that _____ conditioning is important
for behavioral modification.
A. stimulus
B. operant
C. classical
D. cognitive
Answer:
Which of the following statements is NOT true of crying?
A. It is the most important mechanism newborns have for communicating with their
world.
B.The first cry verifies that the baby’s lungs have filled with air.
C.It provides information about the health of the newborn’s central nervous system.
D.Newborns respond with positive facial expressions when they hear other newborns
cry.
Answer:
According to a recent large-scale study of eighth- and tenth-graders, amongst the
various risk factors, which of the following is the strongest predictor of substance
abuse?
A.Monitoring in schools
B.Genetic predisposition
C.Ethnicity
D.Peer relations
Answer:
Who is most likely to abuse the elderly?
A.Their children
B.Their spouse
C.Their health care workers
D.Their neighbors
Answer:
Which of the following is Kübler-Ross’ fifth stage of dying?
A.Depression
B.Acceptance
C.Bargaining
D.Anger
Answer:
Mary Carskadon and her colleagues’ research on adolescent sleep patterns found that:
A.when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 9 hours and 25
minutes a night.
B.adolescents’ biological clocks undergo a shift as they get older, so that older
adolescents start to feel sleepy an hour earlier than younger adolescents.
C.younger adolescents tend to be sleepier during the day than older adolescents.
D.increased sleepiness in adolescents during the day was primarily due to academic
work or social pressures.
Answer:
Which of the following statements about bone density is TRUE?
A.Maximum bone density occurs in late adolescence.
B.Maximum bone density occurs by the mid- to late thirties.
C.Peak functioning of the body’s joints occurs in the fifties.
D.The rate of bone density loss accelerates and then decelerates.
Answer:
According to a national survey in 2012, which of the following is the primary way that
most adolescents connect with parents?
A.Voice mailing
B.Instant messaging
C.E-mailing
D.Text messaging
Answer:
Moral rules are widely accepted, somewhat impersonal, and:
A.arbitrary.
B.obligatory.
C.only applicable to certain individuals.
D.subject to change by social consensus.
Answer:
According to Jerome Kagan, temperament:
A.is the result of inherited physiological characteristics; however, it can be modified to
some degree by the environment.
B.is the result of inherited physiological characteristics and cannot be modified by the
environment.
C.is minimally influenced by inherited physiological characteristics but is primarily the
result of environmental input.
D.results completely from environmental factors such as parenting styles.
Answer:
Bo, two months old, weighs 10 pounds. His father wants to know how many calories he
should be consuming every day. What would you tell him?
A. 100 calories
B. 200 calories
C. 500 calories
D. 800 calories
Answer:
According to Carol Gilligan, Kohlberg’s theory puts _____ at the heart of morality.
A.egocentrism
B.care
C.benevolence
D.justice
Answer:
Phonology is to _____ as morphology is to _____.
A. sound; meaning
B. meaning; sound
C. appropriate use of language in different contexts; correct word order
D. correct word order; appropriate use of language in different contexts
Answer:
All of the following are peer statuses, EXCEPT _____.
A.rejected
B.neglected
C.controversial
D.conforming
Answer:
Which of the following is NOT true of older adults’ response to hearing loss?
A.Older adults often don’t recognize that they have a hearing problem.
B.Older adults deny that they have a hearing problem.
C.Older adults accept loss of hearing as a part of growing old.
D.Older adults show a greater decline in hearing than in their sense of taste.
Answer:
In a Canadian study of 40- to 64-year-olds conducted by Wright in 2006, only _____
percent reported that their sexual life was less satisfying than it had been when they
were in their twenties.
A.70
B.50
C.40
D.30
Answer:
_____ is based on knowledge of the typical progress of children within an age span, as
well as the uniqueness of the child.
A. The child-centered kindergarten
B. Developmentally appropriate practice
C. The Montessori approach
D. The success-oriented approach
Answer:
According to Jean Piaget, at approximately 11 to 15 years of age, adolescents enter the
_____ stage of cognitive development.
A.formal operational
B.concrete operational
C.preoperational
D.sensorimotor
Answer:
Which of the following statements is true about genital herpes?
A.It is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum.
B.It is a very rare infection affecting only one in 100,000 cases.
C.It is commonly called the drip or clap.
D.It involves an eruption of sores and blisters.
Answer:
Life-span developmentalist Paul Baltes and his colleagues believe that successful aging
is related to three main factors:
A.assortment, enhancement, and remuneration.
B.reorganization, compensation, and optimization.
C.selection, optimization, and compensation.
D.remuneration, selection, and enhancement.
Answer:
A girl’s first menstruation is called _____.
A.demarche
B.menarche
C.menopause
D.andropause
Answer:
Tapi believes that all human beings have certain inalienable rights that need to be
protected. She believes that the current law in her country which prohibits interracial
marriage is unfair and should be changed. According to Kohlberg, which of the
following describes Tapi’s level of moral reasoning?
A.Postconventional
B.Conventional
C.Preconventional
D.Universal
Answer:
The incidence of cancer in children has _____ in recent years.
A.been linked to obesity
B.increased dramatically
C.slightly increased
D.decreased dramatically
Answer:
Compared with earlier decades, U.S. adults today are:
A. more likely to be married.
B. more likely to be childless.
C. less likely to be living alone.
D. less likely to need social relationships and support.
Answer:
On your first day of class, Professor Red-Elk claims that for too long we have focused
on the development of young children, especially infants. She argues that the
development of adults and elderly people is just as important. This professor is
articulating a(n) _____ approach.
A. evolutionary
B. constructivist
C. normative
D. life-span
Answer:
Twenty-four-month-old Tyler is placed in front of a mirror with a spot of rouge on his
nose. Tyler will most likely:
A.touch his own nose to wipe off the spot.
B.touch the spot on the mirror because he wants to wipe the spot off his own nose.
C.touch the spot on the mirror because he wonders why that other child has a spot on
his nose.
D.crawl away from the mirror because he does not recognize himself with the spot on
his nose.
Answer:
The _____ approach stresses that reading instruction should parallel a child’s natural
language learning.
A.assisted-language
B.remedial-language
C.complex-language
D.whole-language
Answer:
Perceptual speed shows considerable decline in late adulthood and is strongly linked
with declines in _____.
A.selective attention
B.semantic memory
C.working memory
D.divided attention
Answer:
In the Gibsons’ view, objects have _____, which are opportunities for interaction
offered by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform activities.
A.allowances
B.aptitudes
C.abilities
D.affordances
Answer:
How can parents help their adolescents develop the ability to attain autonomy, gain
control over their behavior, and make mature decisions?
Answer:
Identify a type of dementia that is characterized by muscle tremors, a gradual slowing
of movement, and partial facial paralysis.
Answer:
What are the two important classes of goals identified by socioemotional theory? How
do they differ across different age periods?
Answer:
Distinguish between explicit memory and implicit memory.
Answer:
What is term for the type of grief which describes an individual’s grief over a deceased
person that is a socially ambiguous loss that can’t be openly mourned or supported?
Answer:
Identify the term that is given to a condition, often occurring in middle and late
adulthood, which is characterized by hypertension, obesity, and insulin resistance. This
disorder may lead to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Answer:
Which theory of aging suggests that older adults become more selective about their
social networks because they place a high value on emotional satisfaction in their
relationships?
Answer:
Which theory of aging states that aging in the body’s hormonal system can lower
resistance to stress and increase the likelihood of disease?
Answer:
Identify the type of memory that includes a person’s fields of expertise, general
academic knowledge of the sort learned in school, and “everyday knowledge” about the
meanings of words, famous individuals, important places, and common things.
Answer:
Briefly describe the three major types of love?
Answer:
According to research conducted by Wu & others in 2009, what is the best strategy to
lose weight?
Answer:
Identify the theorist who criticized most theories of moral development, and argued that
they reflect a gender bias. He/she proposed an alternate perspective that emphasizes
connectedness with others.
Answer:
Discuss how early or late maturation affects boys and girls.
Answer:
Describe the major changes in physical appearance and movement in old age.
Answer:
Identify the term given to the common practice among college students of drinking
alcohol before going out.
Answer:
Identify the term, according to the ecological view, that refers to opportunities for
interaction by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform functional activities.
Answer:
Discuss the impact of working while in college.
Answer:
Briefly describe the four phases of attachment as identified by John Bowlby.
Answer:
In what circumstances are adolescents likely to feel more comfortable disclosing
information to their parents?
Answer:
Identify the term that refers to the capacity for change.
Answer: