Baby Kendra, who is 6 days old, is presented with two breast pads. One comes from her
mother, and the other has not been used. Which one will Kendra probably prefer?
A. Kendra will probably not show any preference.
B. Kendra will prefer her mother’s breast pad.
C. Kendra will prefer the clean breast pad.
D. Whether she shows a preference depends on whether she has been fed recently or
not.
Answer:
Tara holds her 2-month-old daughter, Sonia, close to her, makes eye contact, and smiles
and sings softly to her. Tara is engaging in:
A.face-to-face play.
B.parallel play.
C.joint attention.
D.imitation.
Answer:
Which of the following is the average age of marriage for males in the United States?
A.30
B.28
C.26
D.25
Answer:
It is estimated that _____ of women 85 years and older are at risk for developing
dementia.
A.23 percent
B.17 percent
C.31 percent
D.55 percent
Answer:
_____ play, which can be engaged in throughout life, involves the 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.
A.Pretense
B.Practice
C.Social
D.Sensorimotor
Answer:
_____ replaces traditional 15-minute physician visits with 90-minute peer group
support settings and self-examination led by a physician or certified nurse-midwife.
A. Centering Pregnancy
B. The use of doulas
C. The use of professional midwives
D. Nurse Family Partnership
Answer:
Austin is in the Strange Situation and shows strong patterns of avoidance and
resistance. He also displays extreme fearfulness around the caregiver. He would be
classified as being _____.
A.resistant
B.avoidant
C.attached
D.disorganized
Answer:
Olivia believes that the more dynamic and involved older adults are, the more likely
they are to be satisfied with their lives. Thus she believes in:
A.activity theory.
B.Erikson’s theory of integrity versus despair.
C.socioemotional selectivity theory.
D.selective optimization with compensation theory.
Answer:
Which of the following is true of work patterns in the U.S.?
A.Most individuals spend half of their time at work.
B.Most Americans work less than 30 hours a week.
C.More than a third of Americans work 40 hours a week.
D.A majority of Americans work 51 hours or more per week.
Answer:
The researchers in the Mills College Study concluded that rather than being in a midlife
crisis, the women were experiencing _____.
A.perimenopausal agitation
B.midlife consciousness
C.the empty nest syndrome
D.generational unlearning
Answer:
Research relating to individual temperaments has indicated that children with easy
temperaments at age 3 to 5:
A.are more likely to have learning disabilities in adolescence.
B.largely do not carry that temperament into adulthood.
C.are less likely than other adults to be assertive.
D.are more likely to be well adjusted as young adults.
Answer:
Basilio sustained severe and irreversible brain damage due to an accidental overdose of
insulin. His wife and children decided to remove the life-support system, and Basilio
subsequently died. This is an example of:
A.active euthanasia.
B.passive euthanasia.
C.natural euthanasia.
D.culturally acceptable euthanasia.
Answer:
Scientists had thought that humans had as many as 100,000 or more genes, but recent
research indicates a figure of approximately:
A. 250.
B. 1,500.
C. 20,500.
D. 1,000,000.
Answer:
Which of the following statements about cocaine use during pregnancy is true?
A. Cocaine quickly crosses the placenta to reach the fetus.
B. Cocaine is broken down in the mother’s bloodstream before it can reach the fetus.
C. Cocaine molecules are too large to pass through the placenta.
D. Cocaine exposure during prenatal development has no negative effects on the fetus.
Answer:
Researchers have found that in children from 3 to 6 years of age, the most rapid growth
takes place in the _____ lobe areas of the brain.
A. temporal
B. parietal
C. frontal
D. occipital
Answer:
Which of the following is evaluated by the Apgar Scale?
A. Newborn’s kidney function
B. Newborn’s birth weight
C. Newborn’s height
D. Newborn’s heart rate
Answer:
When a mother plays peek-a-boo with her baby she moves from covering the baby and
saying “peek-a-boo” to covering her own eyes and saying it. This illustrates:
A. sociability.
B. scaffolding.
C. emotionality.
D. disorganized attachment.
Answer:
Which of the following statements about sexual orientation is considered true today?
A.Most individuals have a bisexual orientation.
B.Sexual orientation is an either/or proposition where individuals are either
heterosexual or homosexual.
C.Sexual orientation is a continuum from exclusive male-female relations to exclusive
same-sex relations.
D.Individuals of different sexual orientation have different physiological responses
during sexual arousal.
Answer:
Apart from chronological age, individuals may have all of the following age
categorizations EXCEPT:
A.biological age.
B.anthropological age.
C.psychological age.
D.social age.
Answer:
Puberty refers to a period of:
A.declining abstract thought and emotional maturation during late adolescence
involving neural and synaptic development in the brain.
B.declining gross motor development during late childhood due to the maturation of the
temporal and parietal lobes.
C.rapid psychological and emotional maturation that lasts through adolescence and is a
product of enhanced cognitive development.
D.rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occurs
primarily during early adolescence.
Answer:
Which of the following is a common way to assess speed of information processing?
A.Reaction-time task
B.Phonic simulation
C.Visual perception test
D.Neuropsychological test
Answer:
The number of juvenile court delinquency caseloads in the United States has:
A.increased dramatically since 1996.
B.increased slightly since 1960.
C.decreased dramatically since 1996.
D.decreased slightly since 1996.
Answer:
Which of the following statements is an accurate criticism of Kübler-Ross’ theory of
dying?
A.She underestimates the amount of time people stay in the anger stage.
B.She did not consider that men and women go through each stage differently.
C.She did not demonstrate the existence of the five-stage sequence.
D.She ignored that most people do not realize they are dying.
Answer:
Dakota was born after 40 weeks of gestation and weighed 4 pounds. Dakota would be
considered:
A. a preterm baby.
B. a premature baby.
C. to have a low birth weight.
D. normal and average for babies born today.
Answer:
Jerome and Tyrone are fraternal twins. This means that they developed from:
A. a single egg that was fertilized by a single sperm.
B. a single egg that was fertilized by two different sperms.
C. two eggs that were fertilized by a single sperm.
D. two eggs that were fertilized by two different sperms.
Answer:
The early stages of love have more _____ love ingredients.
A.romantic
B.companionate
C.passionate
D.consummate
Answer:
Jonathan is almost completely dependent on his parents for his wants and needs and is
only just beginning to acquire language skills and sensorimotor coordination. Which of
the following development periods is Jonathan in?
A.Late childhood
B.Middle childhood
C.Early childhood
D.Infancy
Answer:
Which of the following is the effect of the drug treatment given to patients with
Alzheimer disease?
A.It increases the amount of amyloid beta in spinal fluid.
B.It treats mild cognitive impairment.
C.It increases levels of acetylcholine in the brain.
D.It activates the apolipoprotein E gene.
Answer:
Five-month-old Caitlyn demonstrates surprise when an unexpected event occurs. This is
a demonstration of a(n) _____ emotion.
A. negative
B. self-conscious
C. other-conscious
D. primary
Answer:
_____ are larger than cliques and less personal.
A.Bands
B.Crowds
C.Teams
D.Squads
Answer:
_____ memory is memory without conscious recollection.
A.Implicit
B.Prospective
C.Source
D.Explicit
Answer:
What is the result of the public and government demand for increased accountability
from schools?
A.The spread of state-mandated tests to measure just what students had or had not
learned.
B.The inclusion of government evaluators for academic curricula.
C.The separation of academic responsibilities into private coaching and government
assessment.
D.The inclusion of new legislation for assessment of teaching and supporting staff in
schools.
Answer:
In the United States, approximately _____ of individuals 40 to 59 years of age are
employed.
A.30 percent
B.50 percent
C.65 percent
D.80 percent
Answer:
Identify the leading developmental neuroscientist who along with his colleagues
recently proposed that the prefrontal cortex likely orchestrates the functions of many
other brain regions during development.
Answer:
Identify the theorist who developed a cognitive development theory that suggests that
development is universal and occurs in a fixed stage-like sequence. He or she proposed
that infants are in the stage of ‘sensorimotor development.
Answer:
Which microbiological theory of aging suggests that human cells are subject to a fixed
limit on the number of times they can divide and that this decreased ability to divide
places an upper boundary on the human life-span potential?
Answer:
Eighteen-month-old Moira knows that her mother is “mommy”, but she now calls all
women she meets “mommy.” According to Piaget, this illustrates _____.
Answer:
Is there any gender difference in the incidence of adolescent depression? What accounts
for this gender difference?
Answer:
Discuss Erikson’s final stage of development.
Answer:
In addition to chronological age, list and briefly describe the three other ways that “age”
has been conceptualized.
Answer:
What is cognitive pragmatics? Explain in brief the distinction between cognitive
mechanics and cognitive pragmatics.
Answer:
Identify the researcher that carefully observed and documented the development of
motor skills in the 1930s. Based on this work, he/she concluded that motor development
is entirely due to maturation.
Answer:
What is the term for “reading” emotional cues in others to help determine how to act in
a particular situation.
Answer:
In Jewish tradition, what is the term for the time between death and burial?
Answer:
Briefly explain the independent variable and the dependent variable in an experiment.
Describe the relationship between them.
Answer:
Identify the life-support systems of the embryo, where a group of disk-shaped tissues
and small blood vessels from the mother and the offspring intertwine.
Answer:
What is the term for death induced deliberately for a person (who is suffering from an
incurable disease or severe disabilities) by injecting a lethal dose of a drug?
Answer:
Cell division in the eggs and sperms. A cell duplicates its chromosomes and divides
twice. This leads to the formation of four cells that contain only half of the genetic
material of the parent cell. What is this process called?
Answer:
Compare and contrast convergent thinking with divergent thinking.
Answer: