Three-year-old Sharon can solve 4-piece jigsaw puzzles on her own but needs her
parents’ help to solve 6-piece jigsaw puzzles. Which of the following represents the
upper limit of Sharon’s zone of proximal development (ZPD) for solving such puzzles?
A.Sharon moving on to 10-piece puzzles
B.Sharon solving a 6-piece puzzles on her own
C.Sharon helping her 2-year-old brother with 4-piece puzzles
D.Sharon mastering 4-piece puzzles
Answer:
Sets of expectations that prescribe how females and males should think, act, and feel
are known as gender:
A.roles.
B.identities.
C.expectancies.
D.rules.
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Across childhood and adolescence, research suggests that:
A.females engage in more prosocial behavior.
B.males engage in more prosocial behavior.
C.girls are likely to be more aggressive than boys.
D.boys are better at reading and writing than girls.
Answer:
Other than pining for the lost person, which of the following is another dimension of
grief over death?
A.Depression
B.Insomnia
C.Separation anxiety
D.Death wish
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_____ is an area in the left frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in speech
production.
A. Broca’s area
B. Wernicke’s area
C. Morton’s area
D. SMA area
Answer:
Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and medical researchers all
share an interest in unlocking the mysteries of development through the life span. This
indicates how development is:
A. multidirectional.
B. plastic.
C. multidisciplinary.
D. multidimensional.
Answer:
French obstetrician Ferdinand Lamaze developed a method similar to natural childbirth
that is known as _____.
A. induced childbirth
B. prepared childbirth
C. simulated delivery
D. organic delivery
Answer:
Among ethnic groups in the United States, _____ have high death rates for stroke, heart
disease, lung cancer, and female breast cancer.
A.African Americans
B.Asian Americans
C.Latinos
D.Non-Latino Whites
Answer:
An individual’s body image encompasses his or her _____.
A.sexual identity
B.personality
C.relationship identity
D.physical identity
Answer:
According to Robert Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, consummate love is
characterized by:
A.passion, intimacy, and commitment.
B.romance, shared disclosure, and sexual desire.
C.commitment and exclusiveness.
D.eroticism and companionship.
Answer:
Sally’s mental age is 12, but her chronological age is 9. Sally’s IQ is _____.
A.75
B.100
C.92
D.133
Answer:
Stuart is 67 years old, widowed, and lives alone. Recently, he has started drinking too
much and frequently engages in binge drinking. Stuart’s example presents a case of
_____.
A.geriatric alcoholism
B.manic depressive alcoholism
C.late-onset alcoholism
D.relapse alcoholism
Answer:
Identify the concept, recently described by Phyllis Moen, which reflects ingrained
cultural beliefs that engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will
produce a path to status, security, and happiness.
A.The American dream
B.The mythical career
C.The career mystique
D.The golden handshake
Answer:
In predicting an adult woman’s behavior, it may be more important to know that she is
the mother of a 3-year-old child than to know whether she is 20 or 30 years old. This
reflects the concept of:
A.chronological age.
B.social age.
C.psychological age.
D.biological age.
Answer:
In the United States today, _____ percent of all deaths occur in nursing homes.
A.20
B.50
C.80
D.95
Answer:
Petra is in the fourth month of her pregnancy. Her unborn child is now referred to as a
_____.
A. gamete
B. zygote
C. fetus
D. embryo
Answer:
An analysis was conducted with its focus on individuals who, after experiencing
difficulties while growing up, were still showing maladaptive patterns in emerging
adulthood. However, they had become more organized by the time they were in the late
twenties and early thirties. Which of the following is a characteristic shared by these
“late-bloomers”?
A.Increased religiosity
B.Support from their children
C.Showing positive aspects of autonomy
D.Peer pressure
Answer:
One area of math in which boys were found to be better at is:
A.advanced calculus.
B.numeracy skills.
C.visuospatial skills.
D.computation skills.
Answer:
Which of the following statements is true about expectations at a workplace?
A.Researchers Hall & Mirvis suggest that very few adults usually have changing
expectations about work.
B.Many workers today want less control over their work schedules.
C.There is always absolute concurrence between the expectations of the employers and
the expectations of the employees.
D.Most employers offer very little flexibility to their employees.
Answer:
Which of the following factors has been associated with low self-esteem in late
adulthood?
A.Lowered cognitive skills
B.Empty nest syndrome
C.Fear of retirement
D.Declining health
Answer:
According to E. Mavis Hetherington’s research, the largest group of divorced people
falls into the category of:
A.the good-enoughs.
B.the enhancers.
C.the seekers.
D.the defeated.
Answer:
Which of the following is true of Down syndrome?
A. It primarily occurs in African American children.
B. It occurs when genetic imprinting goes awry.
C. Its symptoms include retardation of motor and mental abilities.
D. It is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome Y.
Answer:
According to Piaget, which of the following is the final stage of cognitive
development?
A.Sensorimotor stage
B.Concrete operational stage
C.Formal operational stage
D.Preoperational stage
Answer:
Three-month-old Marco has died unexpectedly while sleeping in his crib at night. The
doctors conclude that he had stopped breathing during the night and died with no
apparent cause. Which of the following is the mostly likely reason for Marco’s death?
A.Anorexia
B.Down syndrome
C.Salmonella infection
D.Sudden infant death syndrome
Answer:
The behaviors of mothers and infants involve substantial interconnection, mutual
regulation, and synchronization. This temporal coordination of social behavior is
termed
A. reflexive temporal nurturing
B. Parsonian functionalism
C. dyadic development
D. parent-infant synchrony
Answer:
Which of the following is a trend in the U.S. workforce?
A.Decrease in number of individuals who work at a series of jobs.
B.Disappearance of short-term career paths for adults.
C.Appearance of long-term careers for an increasing number of individuals.
D.Disappearance of long-term career for an increasing number of adults.
Answer:
Which of the following acts as the focus of stage theories trying to explain midlife?
A.Universals of adult personality development
B.Gender differences in adult personality development
C.Individual variations in adult development
D.Cultural variations in adult personality development
Answer:
Guidelines recommend that preschool children engage in _____ of physical activity per
day.
A. half an hour
B. two hours
C. one hour
D. four hours
Answer:
If born today in the United States, which of the following persons would have the
highest life expectancy?
A.Jerome who is an African American male
B.Larry who is a non-Latino White male
C.Miranda who is an African American female
D.Susan who is a non-Latino White female
Answer:
Which of the following statements about first words is NOT correct?
A. Infants recognize their name by the age of 3 months.
B. Children understand more words than they can speak.
C. By 18 months, most children have a spoken vocabulary of about 50 words.
D. A child’s first words usually include greeting terms.
Answer:
The Reggio Emilia approach is a(n):
A.nutrition program for young children.
B.educational program for young children.
C.program for training kindergarten and elementary school teachers.
D.parenting education program.
Answer:
Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky considered play to be valuable because:
A.it helps children release tension.
B.it advances the child’s cognitive development.
C.it helps children satisfy their need for mastery over their environment.
D.it allows children to interact with their peers.
Answer:
Which of the following is the main treatment for Parkinson in the earlier stages?
A.Dopamine agonists
B.L-dopa
C.Cholinerase inhibitors
D.Acetylcholine
Answer:
Define and discuss dementia.
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What is temperament?
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Identify the term that refers to the type of coping that involves drawing on beliefs,
values, and goals to change the meaning of a stressful situation especially in times of
chronic stress such as the death of a loved one.
Answer:
What is the term for the belief, reflecting adolescents’ egocentrism, that others are as
interested in them as they themselves are, as well as attention-getting behaviorattempts
to be noticed, visible, and “on stage”?
Answer:
Identify the theorists studied attachment styles in young adults and developed an
assessment tool to measure attachment style.
Answer:
What are the important factors influencing depression in older adults?
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What are some of the advantages of having children later in life?
Answer:
Identify and describe the most common type of cancer in children.
Answer:
What is the term for a focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or
some other aspect of the environment?
Answer:
How is the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence different from the Gesell test and the
Bayley Scales of Infant Development?
Answer:
Explore the link between hormones and behavior in adolescence.
Answer:
List and describe the levels of Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.
Answer:
Discuss the cellular clock theory of aging.
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Name the theorist who published On the Origin of Species, in 1859, that outlined
his/her theory of natural selection.
Answer:
Identify the nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.
Answer:
How does the development of self-understanding change from middle to late
childhood? Illustrate your answer with examples.
Answer:
Identify the theorist who developed a measure to test infant cognitive development
designed to distinguish normal babies from abnormal ones. The current version of this
theorist’s test combines the infant’s performance in four domains into an overall score
called the developmental quotient.
Answer:
According to Jean Piaget, identify the sixth and final substage of sensorimotor thought.
This substage is apparent in children between 18 and 24 months of age. The infant
develops the ability to use primitive symbols in this substage.
Answer: