A study of tenth-graders revealed that:
A.the number of romantic experiences reported had no link with levels of social
acceptance experienced by adolescents.
B.having more romantic experience was linked to a higher level of substance use and
delinquency.
C.co-rumination and romantic involvement predicted a decrease in depressive
symptoms.
D.having no experience of romantic relationships is a consistent predictor of depression
and deviant behavior.
Answer:
Which of the following is a positive feature of the transition from high school to
college?
A.Decreased focus on achievement and its assessment
B.Opportunities to explore different lifestyles and values
C.Reduced peer pressure
D.Movement to a smaller, more personal school structure
Answer:
According to the substages of Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of development, which of the
following statements about the coordination of secondary circular reactions is NOT
true?
A.It develops between 8 and 12 months of age.
B.The infant must be able to coordinate vision and touch, hand and eye.
C.It develops between 12 and 18 months of age.
D.It is marked by intentionality.
Answer:
Mr. Chang works at a boring but tense job. Stress from his job keeps him up late on
most nights. Mr. Chang is experiencing the stress of:
A.a major life event.
B.a daily hassle.
C.a middle-age development crisis.
D.psychological generativity.
Answer:
The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale is typically performed within
_____ after birth.
A. two to five hours
B. 24 to 36 hours
C. two to five days
D. one to two weeks
Answer:
Which of the following is TRUE of Dale Schunk’s findings about students with high
self-efficacy?
A.They are less likely than students with low self-efficacy to expend effort on learning
tasks.
B.They have an “I cannot” attitude and frequently experience helplessness.
C.They persist longer at learning tasks than students with low self-efficacy.
D.They avoid learning tasks, especially those that are challenging.
Answer:
In the visual cliff experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk, most babies
encouraged to crawl onto the deep side of the visual cliff would:
A.crawl onto the cliff side.
B.not crawl onto the cliff side.
C.crawl onto the cliff side only when their mothers called them.
D.not crawl onto the cliff side, but showed significant increases in heart rateindicating
anxiety.
Answer:
The neurotransmitter _____, which helps to control the preciseness of the signal sent
from one neuron to another, decreases with aging.
A.serotonin
B.dopamine
C.GABA
D.noradrenaline
Answer:
_____ refers to the ability to understand ideas expressed in words.
A.Verbal comprehension
B.Verbal memory
C.Implicit memory
D.Spatial orientation
Answer:
The vision of older adults can be affected by age-related changes. One of these changes,
which can make steps or street curbs difficult to manage, is a decline in:
A.eye-hand coordination.
B.depth perception.
C.ocular elasticity.
D.color vision.
Answer:
Which of the following religions believes in reincarnation?
A.Orthodox Judaism
B.Methodism
C.Buddhism
D.Roman Catholicism
Answer:
Which of the following is NOT a component of Sternberg’s triangular theory of love?
A.passion
B.exchange
C.commitment
D.intimacy
Answer:
Which of the following statements regarding autism in children is TRUE?
A.Higher-functioning children with autism show reasonable progress in understanding
others’ desires.
B.Children with autism have difficulty in understanding others’ beliefs and emotions
solely due to theory of mind deficits.
C.Children with autism are a homogeneous group.
D.Children with autism usually perform well on false-belief tasks.
Answer:
Identity _____ is the status of individuals who have made a commitment but not
experienced a crisis.
A.foreclosure
B.moratorium
C.achievement
D.diffusion
Answer:
Most deaths that occur during adolescence are caused by:
A.cancer.
B.motor vehicle accidents.
C.heart disease.
D.genetic disorders.
Answer:
_____ and _____ are the two birth defects that occur when the neural tube fails to close
24 days after conception.
A. Down syndrome; Tay-Sachs disease
B. Trisomy 13; Trisomy 18
C. Spina bifida; anencephaly
D. ADHD; autism
Answer:
Terrence has a learning disability that involves difficulty in math computation. This
disability is also known as a developmental arithmetic disorder. Identify Terrence’s
condition.
A.ADHD
B.Dysgraphia
C.ASD
D.Dyscalculia
Answer:
Which of the following is an outcome of the growing trend of having fewer children?
A.Institutional care is replaced by parental care.
B.Women have less time for other endeavors.
C.Men are apt to invest a greater amount of time in fathering.
D.Parents are bound to have more realistic expectations for their children.
Answer:
Two concepts that help provide a framework for describing and understanding an
individual’s development are:
A. developmental attributes and behavior.
B. developmental characteristics and traits.
C. developmental challenges and opportunities.
D. developmental processes and periods.
Answer:
In the continuity-discontinuity issue in development, continuity refers to _____, while
discontinuity implies _____.
A. abrupt change; stability
B. gradual change; distinct stages
C. qualitative change; quantitative change
D. discrete stages; gradations
Answer:
Researchers have found that children who have sleep problems:
A. exhibit no related outcomes in adolescence.
B. are less likely to consume alcohol in adolescence.
C. are unlikely to show any variations in brain development.
D. are more likely to be overweight.
Answer:
Changes in motor skills, nutrition, exercise, the hormonal changes of puberty, and
cardiovascular decline are all examples of _____ processes that affect development.
A. cognitive
B. biological
C. socioemotional
D. cultural
Answer:
One in every _____ children in the United States develops cancer before the age of 19.
A.75
B.130
C.250
D.330
Answer:
Cardiovascular disease is _____ in children.
A.uncommon
B.highly prevalent
C.nonexistent
D.on the decline
Answer:
_____ occurs when a single sperm cell from the male unites with an ovum (egg) in the
female’s fallopian tube in a process called fertilization.
A. Ovulation
B. Meiosis
C. Conception
D. Mitosis
Answer:
Tiara is in the Strange Situation and appears dazed, confused, and fearful. She would
most likely be classified as being _____.
A.insecure avoidant
B.insecure disorganized
C.insecure resistant
D.securely attached
Answer:
Children between the age of 4 and 12 usually prefer to play in groups that are made up
of:
A.mixed ages.
B.the same sex as theirs.
C.both boys and girls.
D.children from their own socioeconomic status.
Answer:
According to Kalish & Reynolds, middle-aged adults actually _____ than do young
adults or older adults.
A.fear death more
B.talk about death more
C.think about death more
D.accept death more readily
Answer:
Three-year-old Betty’s favorite pastime is scribbling designs that represent her parents,
cat, bicycle, and home. This indicates that Betty is in the _____ substage of Piaget’s
preoperational stage.
A.symbolic function
B.intuitive thought
C.operational
D.sensorimotor
Answer:
Jonas is being tested for decline in cognitive functioning. The test involves assessing his
ability to action planning, allocating attention to goals, detecting errors, monitoring
progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances. The researchers are
testing Jonas’ _____ attention.
A.sustained
B.executive
C.divided
D.selective
Answer:
A national study of more than 3,000 randomly selected 4- to 24-month-olds
documented that:
A. many parents in the U.S. are feeding their babies too many fruits and not enough
vegetables.
B. parents in the U.S. are feeding their babies fruits and vegetables, and very little junk
food.
C. by 1 year, bananas were the most common fruit that babies ate.
D. by 15 months, French fries were the most common vegetable that babies ate.
Answer:
What is John Clausen’s (one of the researchers in the Berkeley Longitudinal Studies)
criticism about the adult stage theories?
A.Too much attention has been given to the discontinuities in life.
B.Most people actually have stable, continuous lives with little change.
C.Personality is actually characterized by change, not stability.
D.Life changes do not follow through in stages, but rather in a continuum.
Answer:
Which of the following identifies the order of the three periods of prenatal development
in the correct sequence?
A. Fertile; embryonic; postterm
B. Preterm; germinal; postterm
C. Gestational; germinal; postnatal
D. Germinal; embryonic; fetal
Answer: