According to Bowlby’s conceptualization of attachment, which of the following is the
time period for phase 3?
A.From birth to 2 months
B.From 2 to 7 months
C.From 7 to 24 months
D.From 24 months on
Answer:
A relationship marked by intimacy and commitment but low or lacking in passion is
called _____, a pattern often found among couples who have been married for many
years.
A.romantic love
B.consummate love
C.affectionate love
D.fatuous love
Answer:
Jerome Kagan’s classification of temperament focuses on:
A.inhibition to the unfamiliar.
B.positive or negative mood state.
C.effortful control.
D.(hyper) activity level.
Answer:
3-year-old Zelda always asks questions like “Where Daddy is going?” and “What
Mommy is doing?” This indicates that she is yet to learn the auxiliary-inversion rule
and also to apply the rules of:
A. pragmatics.
B. morphology.
C. syntax.
D. phonology.
Answer:
_____ was the main cause of death in the United States until the middle of the twentieth
century.
A.Infectious disease
B.Accident
C.Chronic disease
D.Homicide
Answer:
According to Levinson, which of the following is a major task that needs to be mastered
in early adulthood?
A.Exploring the possibilities for adult living
B.Determining one’s goals in life
C.Testing one’s dreams in the real world
D.Becoming independent
Answer:
According to John Horn, _____ steadily declines from middle adulthood onward.
A.fluid intelligence
B.crystallized intelligence
C.verbal memory
D.kinesthetic intelligence
Answer:
Ursula is allowed to set her own schedules for playtime and for studying. Her mother
drives her to her ballet classes and soccer practice. However, Ursula needs to keep her
grades up and must go to bed early on most weeknights. Ursula’s mom is most likely
a(n):
A.authoritarian parent.
B.authoritative parent.
C.indulgent parent.
D.neglectful parent.
Answer:
As per the survey conducted by American Psychological Association in 2007, _____
was identified as the leading source of stress at the workplace.
A.low salaries
B.uncertain job expectations
C.long working hours
D.sexual harassment
Answer:
Which of the following substages of sensorimotor development is characterized by
coordination of sensation and action through reflexive behaviors?
A. Conditioned reflexes
B. First habits and primary circular reactions
C. Simple reflexes
D. Coordination of secondary circular reactions
Answer:
In which of the following groups is death through homicide especially common in
adolescence?
A.African American males
B.Latino males
C.Non-Latino White American males
D.Asian American males
Answer:
The life expectancy in the United States is currently:
A. 60 years.
B. 78 years.
C. 85 years.
D. 53 years.
Answer:
Selective attention is _____, whereas divided attention is _____.
A.vigilance; focusing on a specific event
B.paying attention only occasionally; constantly paying attention
C.focusing on one thing; focusing on many things
D.paying attention to detail; paying attention to significant events
Answer:
_____ theory describes how people can produce new resources and allocate them
effectively to the tasks they want to master.
A.Activity
B.Selective optimization with compensation
C.Socioemotional selectivity
D.Psychoanalytical
Answer:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only children and
adolescents at or above the _____ percentile are classified as obese.
A. 97th
B. 95th
C. 90th
D. 88th
Answer:
The psychoanalytic theory of gender stems from Freud’s view that the preschool child
develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent. Which of the following
describes this condition in girls?
A.Galatea effect
B.Electra complex
C.Golem effect
D.Oedipus complex
Answer:
According to Erik Erikson’s developmental stages, which of the following is the
resolution an individual is most likely to experience if he or she is in the last stage of
human development?
A.Care
B.Fidelity
C.Wisdom
D.Hope
Answer:
Erikson proposed that middle-aged adults face a significant issue which he termed
_____.
A.intimacy versus isolation
B.integrity versus despair
C.generativity versus stagnation
D.autonomy versus shame and doubt
Answer:
A study by Shan & others found that the volume of the brain was _____ in older adults
than younger adults.
A.20 percent more
B.15 percent less
C.25 percent less
D.10 percent more
Answer:
_____ development involves the development of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
regarding rules and conventions about what people should do in their interactions with
other people.
A.Conventional
B.Superego
C.Moral
D.Pragmatic
Answer:
The longitudinal study conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development in 1991 concluded that:
A. a majority of the child care in the first three years of life was of very high quality.
B. a child in child care, regardless of the quality, will be more socially incompetent.
C. the home environment is the most important predictor of attachment to caregivers.
D. children who were given high-quality child care performed better on cognitive and
language tasks.
Answer:
According to evolutionary psychologists, natural selection favored females who chose:
A.multiple partners to have many children.
B.a mate who would stay home and help raise the children than provide resources.
C.ambitious mates who could provide their children with resources and protection.
D.short-term mating strategies.
Answer:
Early interest in the XYY syndrome focused on the belief that the extra Y chromosome
found in some males contributed to _____. However, subsequent research has proved
this to be _____.
A. aggression and violence; false
B. aggression and violence; true
C. impotence; false
D. impotence; true
Answer:
The Bayley Scales of Infant Development are used to assess Mathias, who does very
well on it. A high score on the Bayley mental scale:
A.indicates that Mathias will perform poorly in social skills quotient (SSQ) tests later in
childhood.
B.indicates that Mathias will have a high score in IQ tests later in childhood.
C.indicates that Mathias will have a very low IQ score later in childhood.
D.does not indicate that Mathias will have high IQ scores later in childhood.
Answer:
Which of the following is an example of active euthanasia?
A.Injecting a lethal dose of a drug
B.Turning off a respirator
C.Removing a heart-lung machine
D.Stopping antibiotics
Answer:
From about the ages of 28 to 33, a man goes through a transition period in which he
must face the more serious question of:
A.achieving his independence.
B.forming his dreams.
C.achieving his goals.
D.determining his goals.
Answer:
When four-year-old Jared plays, he often talks to himself. This form is self-talk is used
for self-regulation. Developmentalists call this:
A.mindstream.
B.drawling.
C.lisping.
D.private speech.
Answer:
According to recent research, which of the following risks is linked to environmental
tobacco smoke?
A. Reduced head circumference
B. Withdrawal symptoms
C. Lower quality reflexes at 1 month of age
D. Low birth weight
Answer:
Older adults characterized by _____ do not live as long as those who display _____.
A.empathy; sympathy
B.materialism; spiritualism
C.negative affect; positive affect
D.generosity; frugality
Answer:
Which of the following is one of the main characteristics that applies to people
suffering from anorexia nervosa?
A.Precocious puberty in girls
B.Amenorrhea in girls who have reached puberty
C.Body weight that falls in the 98th percentile of the BMI scale
D.Binge eating followed by purging
Answer:
_____ refers to the ability to quickly and accurately make simple discriminations in
visual stimuli.
A.Spatial orientation
B.Inductive reasoning
C.Perceptual speed
D.Verbal comprehension
Answer:
Speed and accuracy of the processes involved in sensory input, attention, visual and
motor memory, discrimination, comparison, and categorization are components of:
A.cognitive perceptions.
B.cognitive pragmatics.
C.cognitive mechanics.
D.cognitive intelligence.
Answer:
In the formal operational stage, adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks,
devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions. This type of
problem solving requires _____.
A.trial-and-error reasoning
B.hypothetical-deductive reasoning
C.concrete operational reasoning
D.preconventional reasoning
Answer:
Stages of adulthood in the Gusii culture of Kenya are defined by:
A.a person’s age.
B.events in a person’s life.
C.the evaluations of the elders within a culture.
D.the type of midlife crisis a person experiences.
Answer:
Most anorexics are young adult females from:
A.middle- and upper-income families.
B.poor and working-class families.
C.Asian American and African American families.
D.families with low achievement demands.
Answer: