Which of the following statements is true about the attitudes toward death among older
adults and younger adults?
A.Younger adults lack any anticipation and hence death is usually emotionally less
painful to them.
B.Older adults are more likely to have children who need to be guided to maturity than
younger adults and hence cannot accept death.
C.Older adults are less likely to have unfinished business than are younger adults and
hence are more likely to cope with death better than younger adults.
D.Young adults think more about death and talk more about it than older adults.
Answer:
Which of the following statements is true about the involvement of left and right
hemispheres in performing different functions?
A. Most neuroscientists believe that complex brain activity involves only one particular
hemisphere.
B. Logical thinkers are primarily ‘right-brained’ due to the excessive involvement of
right hemisphere.
C. Humor and use of metaphors usually depends on activity in the right hemisphere.
D. Excessive involvement of left hemisphere results in creative thinking.
Answer:
By the end of the fourth month of pregnancy, the fetus measures approximately _____
inches.
A. 3
B. 6
C. 8
D. 12
Answer:
Anthony is just starting to crawl and has taken to following his mother around the
house. He also lifts his arms up to her when he wants to be picked up. According to
Bowlby’s conceptualization of attachment, which phase is Anthony currently in?
A.Phase 1
B.Phase 2
C.Phase 4
D.Phase 3
Answer:
An inhibited temperament has been associated with all of the following EXCEPT:
A.low thyroxine level.
B.stable heart rate.
C.high level of the hormone cortisol.
D.high activity in the right frontal lobe of the brain.
Answer:
Pilar is using non-medical techniques for pain management during labor; she has
someone insert fine needles into specific locations of her body. She is most likely using
_____.
A. acupressure
B. acupuncture
C. aromatherapy
D. allostasis
Answer:
Hidalgo, 8, is very good at addition and subtraction, but he has a hard time
understanding the complex algebraic problems that his 14-year-old sister does. Hidalgo
is currently in which of Jean Piaget’s stages of development?
A.Preoperational
B.Concrete operational
C.Formal operational
D.Conceptual operational
Answer:
Accommodation of the eye experiences its sharpest decline between:
A.20 and 29 years of age.
B.60 and 79 years of age.
C.40 and 59 years of age.
D.30 and 35 years of age.
Answer:
Advances in the _____ of the brain are linked to children’s _____.
A.parietal lobe; sharper color and peripheral vision
B.occipital lobe; better spatial skills
C.prefrontal cortex; improved attention, reasoning, and cognitive control
D.temporal lobe; eye-hand coordination and pincer grasp
Answer:
Which of the following is one of the ten most frequent daily hassles for adults in middle
age?
A.Concerns about being lonely
B.Concerns about meeting high standards
C.Concerns about weight
D.Wasting time
Answer:
For hospice services to be covered by Medicare, the patient must be:
A.diagnosed with terminal cancer.
B.deemed by a physician to have six months or fewer to live.
C.deemed by a physician to have between one and two years to live.
D.suffering from a life-threatening condition.
Answer:
Jule’s 23rd chromosome pair consists of an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. This
indicates that Jule:
A.has Down syndrome.
B.has XYY syndrome.
C.is a female.
D.is a male.
Answer:
Compared to middle age, which of the following BEST describes late middle age for
many individuals?
A.Health problems start to decline
B.Losses may begin to outnumber gains
C.Life-changes decrease: the path is relatively fixed
D.Losses and gains even out
Answer:
According to the cellular clock theory, after about 70 or 80 replications, the cell no
longer can reproduce and the _____ are dramatically reduced.
A.mitochondria
B.telomeres
C.chromosomes
D.sperm cells
Answer:
As a result of aging, which of the following is NOT likely to deteriorate?
A.Discrimination
B.Comparison
C.Language comprehension
D.Categorization
Answer:
Compared to men, women have a higher incidence of _____ during middle age.
A.arthritis
B.hypertension
C.stroke
D.cardiovascular disease
Answer:
Terry is in the final stages of lupus, a condition which causes her severe pain and
discomfort. At Terry’s insistence, her caregiver agrees to end her pain by administering
a lethal dose of a drug. This is an example of _____ euthanasia.
A.passive
B.universally legal
C.natural
D.active
Answer:
According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which of the following is the second stage of
dying?
A.Denial and isolation
B.Bargaining
C.Acceptance
D.Anger
Answer:
In Erik Erikson’s theory, adults strive for generativity to achieve a sense of _____.
A.immortality
B.recognition
C.achievement
D.omniscience
Answer:
A phenotype can consist of _____ as well as _____ characteristics.
A. physical; environmental
B. conscious; subconscious
C. biological; ecological
D. physical; psychological
Answer:
According to Freud, infants become attached to the person or object:
A.that is perceived to be a non-stranger.
B.that provides physical comfort.
C.that provides oral satisfaction.
D.that provides a sense of trust.
Answer:
The concept of _____ emphasizes that changes in cognitive activity patterns might
result in disuse and consequent atrophy of cognitive skills.
A.multiple intelligence
B.”mind over matter”
C.terminal decline
D.”use it or lose it”
Answer:
Carl and Tulip are getting a divorce and want to know how they can best communicate
the news to their young children. Ellen Galinsky and Judy David would suggest that:
A.the children be told that the support they receive from their parents is bound to
change.
B.it is best that only one parent be present while breaking the news.
C.it is best that this painful matter should not be discussed repeatedly with the children.
D.the children be told that they are not the cause of the separation.
Answer:
Which of the following is TRUE about Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs’s need for
efficacy?
A.This need refers to the fact that present events draw meaning from their connection
with future events.
B.This need can lend a sense of goodness or positive characterization of life and justify
certain courses of action.
C.This need involves the belief that one can make a difference.
D.This need implies that most individuals want to be good, worthy individuals.
Answer:
Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs believe that a meaningful life can be understood in
terms of four main needs. Which of the following is NOT one of those needs?
A.The need for shelter
B.The need for purpose
C.The need for values
D.The need for self-worth
Answer:
Based on the 2009 survey funded by Kaiser Family Foundation, adding up the daily
media use figures to obtain weekly media use leads to the staggering levels of more
than _____ hours a week of media use by 11- to 14-year-olds.
A.60
B.100
C.10
D.25
Answer:
Clarissa thinks that people should be nice to others, so that others are nice to them.
According to Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, Clarissa is currently in which of
the following levels?
A.Individualism, instrumental purpose, and exchange
B.Social contract or utility and individual rights
C.Punishment and obedience orientation
D.Social systems morality
Answer:
Securely attached adults:
A.are hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships, but are committed once
they are in one.
B.demand closeness in relationships and are more emotional.
C.are less likely than others to have one-night stands.
D.tend to distance themselves from their partner.
Answer:
Which of the following statements about reflexes is true?
A. Reflexive behavior is identical among babies.
B. Some reflexes persist through life.
C. All reflexes have survival value today.
D. All newborn reflexes disappear a few months after birth.
Answer:
Which of the following is true of rape?
A.About two-thirds of college men usually deny that they fondle women against their
will.
B.Usually only 1,500 rapes are reported each year in the United States.
C.Researchers point out that rapists in general are seldom angry with women.
D.Legal definitions of rape usually differ from state to state.
Answer:
The amount of daily discretionary time that American adolescents have is _____ what
adolescents have in East Asia.
A.significantly less than
B.significantly more than
C.equal to
D.declining compared with
Answer:
Dylan does his homework in front of the television while listening to music on his iPod
and also simultaneously text messaging his friends. This is indicative of a major trend
in the use of technology known as:
A.media multitasking.
B.simulcasting.
C.surfing.
D.media-conferencing.
Answer:
According to a recent meta-analysis, which of the following program types was linked
to a reduction in recidivism for juvenile offenders?
A.Individual treatment
B.Restorative justice
C.Family treatment
D.Case management
Answer:
According to the socioemotional selectivity theory, the emotion trajectory is high
during:
A.early adulthood.
B.adolescence.
C.middle childhood.
D.infancy and early childhood.
Answer:
Describe the effect of alcohol on pregnancy. What is FAS? What are some of the
problems children with FAS face?
Answer:
Discuss the misconceptions about gay and lesbian couples.
Answer:
Identify the term that refers to the mental ability to quickly and accurately make simple
discriminations in visual stimuli.
Answer:
What is discourse? What are some of the changes in discourse that occur with aging?
Answer:
Children who have reached the concrete operational stage are also capable of _____,
which is the ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length).
Answer:
What is Denise Park and Patricia Reuter-Lorenz’s view on the aging brain and
cognition?
Answer:
Describe shrinking of the brain in the aging process.
Answer:
Discuss the hormonal stress theory of aging.
Answer:
If we look at Madeline’s mental age and divide it by her chronological age, and then
multiply it by 100, we are calculating her _____.
Answer:
Aubrey is in a school that takes into account the typical development of children within
an age span as well as the uniqueness of the child. It also emphasizes the importance of
creating settings that encourage active learning and reflect the child’s interests and
capabilities. This view represents a _____.
Answer:
Identify the language problem in which individuals have difficulty retrieving
information from memory, even though they are confident that they can do so.
Answer:
Discuss three types of attention.
Answer:
What is the term for the view that our aging society is being unfair to its younger
members because older adults receive inequitably large allocations of resources?
Answer:
Which term refers to the “gap” between childhood security and adult autonomy where
society leaves adolescents free to “try out” many different identities?
Answer:
Deshawn believes that development is the result of an ongoing, bidirectional
interchange between heredity and the environment. He has most likely adopted which
theoretical perspective?
Answer:
Identify the theorist who developed a scale to assess infant behavior and predict later
development. The current version, which is Bayley-III, has five scales: cognitive,
language, motor, socioemotional, and adaptive.
Answer:
What are the short segments of DNA that are located on the chromosomes, and which
are considered to be the basic units of hereditary information?
Answer:
Describe two reasons for developmental changes in memory span.
Answer:
Explain eclectic theoretical orientation. What is the merit in using such an orientation?
Answer: