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DEV PSY A) The child's sense of basic trust B) The child's secure attachment. 1. A child whose mother drank heavily C) The child's sense of control. when she was pregnant is at D) A and B only heigh...

DEV PSY A) The child's sense of basic trust B) The child's secure attachment. 1. A child whose mother drank heavily C) The child's sense of control. when she was pregnant is at D) A and B only heightened risk of: A) being emotionally excitable during 5. Chico spends a lot of time throwing childhood. his cereal bowl on the floor, having B) Becoming insecurely attached. mother pick it up, and throwing it down C) Being born with the physical and again. Mom gets frustrated, but Chico cognitive abnormalities of fetal alcohol is having great time learning about syndrome. gravity. Chico is in which stage of D) Addiction to a range of drugs sensorimotor development? throughout life. A) The first stage B) The second stage 2. As a child observes, liquid is C) The third stage transferred from a tall, thin tube into a D) The fourth short, wide jar. The child is asked if there is now less liquid in order to determine if he/she has mastered: 6. On the following, the best example of a fine motor skill is: A) The schema for liquids. B) The concept of object permanence. A) Scribbling with a pencil C) The concept of conservation. B) Roller skating around the block D) The ability to reason abstractly. C) Swimming across the pool D) Playing football 3. In a 1998 movie, a young girl finds that a gaggle of geese follows her 7. The sense that least develop at birth wherever she goes because she is: was the first "object" they saw after they were born. This is an example of: A) Hearing B) Vision A) Conservation. C) Taste B) Imprinting. D) Smell C) Egocentrism. D) Basic trust. 8. Which of the following would be considered a gross motor skill? 4. Joshua and Ann Bishop have à 13- month-old boy. According to Erikson, A) Painting a picture the Bishops' sensitive, loving care of B) Dialing a telephone their child contributes to: C) Swimming across a pool D) Picking up an insect  13. Alex is very helpful, listens well, 9. Which of the following would be an and seems to know how to example of holophrasic speech? communicate and negotiate with others. Gardner would suggest that A) "Give me crackers Alex has which type of intelligence? B) "All gone" C) "Bee Bee" for bottle A) logical-mathematical D) "Me do it!" B) intrapersonal C) existential 10. Children who are in Piaget's stage D) interpersonal of concrete operational thought are also in Erickson's stage of: 14. Aptitude test tends to measure all but which one of the following A) initiative vs guilt intelligence is not? B) trust vs mistrust C) generativity city vs stagnation A) spatial D) industry vs inferiority B) bodily-kinesthetic C) logical-mathematical D) linguistic 11. A second grade student is asked if 8 ounce of water becomes “more" when poured in a tall skinny container than when in short, wide container. 15. Adebe cannot understand that a This is a test of. picture of her mother as a child is still her mother. Adebe lacks which A) reversibility cognitive ability? B) classification C) conservation A) Conservation D) identity B) Identity C) reversibility D) reciprocity 12. Jack is upset because he got into trouble for calling another boy a bad name. As a result, he had to sit alone 16. Experiential or creative intelligence during story time in school. Jack is involves being able to: exhibiting which type of moral development? A) use the information that has been learned A) preoperational B) know the appropriate behavior for a B) preconventional situation C) conventional C) recite facts and definitions D) formal operation D) get along well with others 17. Overall physical growth rate is A) Yes, because he can focus on slowest during which stage of psychological factors and ignore childhood? sociocultural and biological factors. B) Yes, but only if he enjoys studying A) infancy sociocultural factors. B) toddlerhood C) No, because studying biological C) early childhood influences is a necessary component D) middle childhood to understanding development. D) No, because normative age-graded influences 18. Who is most likely interested in the are all biological. study of human development? A) Dr. Harvey, who studies the brain 21. Lynne always wants to go visit her cells of infants grandparents because when she visits B) Dr. Hatfield, who studies eating they give her a new toy. The disorders grandparents have her visiting C) Dr. Deal, who studies how political behavior. attitudes change with age D) Dr. Hersh, who studies elderly A) Reinforced patients with B) Extinguished Alzheimer's disease C) Punished D) Eliminated 19. Dr. Arantes uses a biopsychosocial framework for understanding human 22. Mr. Link tries to help his students development. Which position is she learn how to be assertive by having most likely to endorse on the nature them watch how other students can be vs. nurture issue? successful by acting assertively. Mr. Link is using principles of to help A) Nature is most important. his students. B) Nurture is most important. C) Nature and nurture both play A) Social learning theory important roles in human development. B) Operant conditioning D) Neither nature nor nurture is C) Cognitive-developmental theory important in the study of human D) Psychosocial theory development. 23. What type of theorist would most 20. Your friend David has decided to likely describe human cognitive start studying human development development using the analogy of because he hates studying biology. "mental software"? According to your text, will David find happiness in his new area of interest? A) An information processor B) An Eriksonian C) An operant conditioning theorist D) A social learning theorist 27. Which is an example of your genotype? 24. Dr. Simpson's students were rightfully upset when he used very A) Your complete set of genes accurate weight scales (assessing the B) Your physical appearance poundage of each pupil) to determine C) Your behaviors their grades in a developmental D) Your personality psychology class because his method of assessment lacked 28. A developing human being that is traveling from a fallopian tube to the A) Sufficient sample size uterus would most accurately be B) Reliability described as a C) Validity D) The ability to identify practice A) Embryo effects. B) Fetus C) Zygote 25. Based on a study that finds that D) Amnion self-esteem is negatively correlated with college grades, which person would you predict would have the 29. Which is not an Apgar factor? highest grades? 0 A) Size 0 B) Color A) Michael, who has very high self- 0 C) Respiration esteem 0 D) Muscle tone B) Davey, who has average self- esteem C) Peter, who has very low self- 30. A friend hears that you are in a esteem developmental psychology course and D) it's impossible to predict because a asks you how long their newborn negative correlation means these two daughter is supposed to sleep. Being a variables are unrelated very bright student, you would give the correct answer of 26. Zsuzsi is conducting a study to A) "8-10 hours a day determine whether skateboarding B) "12-14 hours a day causes a reduction in intelligence C) "16-18 hours a day In this experiment, skateboarding is D) "20-22 hours a day the A) Control group. B) Independent variable. 31. A visual cliff is designed to assess C) Dependent variable. D) Cohort effect. A) Gross-motor skills B) Rapid eye movement C) Cone development C) breast development D) Depth perception D) an accumulation of fat on the thighs and hips 32. After Nadia learned that penguins can't fly, she had to modify her existing 36. Bob helped his sports team win the concept of birds. This best illustrates state championship and now he thinks the process of: he may someday be famous. This reflects: A) Conservation B) Attachment A) the invincibility fable C) Assimilation B) egocentrism D) Accommodation C) the personal fable D) the imaginary audience 33. The correct order of the three stages of human prenatal development 37. Laverne and Shirley are 16 years are old. Both are experiencing their adolescence in the late 2000's. They A) Embryo, zygote, fetus are unrelated and do not know each B) Zygote, embryo, fetus other. Laverne lives in Cleveland, OH., C) Embryonic, placental, umbilical and Shirley lives in Nashville, TN. D) Placental, umbilical, embryonic Laverne is of high SES and Shirley comes from a lower middle class family. Laverne's parents are divorced. 34. Which of the following is true about Shirley's are still married. Shirley is puberty? Caucasian and Laverne is Latino. Both are juniors in public high school. A) Only males experience lowered According to Bronfenbrenner, which voices during puberty contextual system is most similar for B) Both males and females may Laverne and Shirley? experience breast growth during puberty A) Microsystem C) Teens typically gain about 20 B) Mesosystem pounds in weight during puberty C) Exosystem D) Males have greater body image D) Macrosystem problems than do females 38. Which of the following statements 35. Changes in secondary sex about the characteristics include all but which production of hormones at puberty is one is not? false? A) growth of the testes A) The body begins to produce several B) the development of pubic hair hormones that have not been present in the body up until this time. B) There is an increase in the production of certain hormones. 41. Which of the following factors have C) Boys' bodies produce more not been found to influence the onset androgens and girls' bodies produce of maturation? more estrogens. D) The feedback loop regulating the A) father absence endocrine system's set point for each B) good nutrition hormone becomes increasingly C) family conflict important. D) peer pressure 39. All of the following are ways that 42. The most important factor for hormones can affect behavior except: explaining individual differences in the timing and rate of puberty among A) hormonal changes of puberty may individuals growing up in the same increase adolescents' desire for highly general environment is: rewarding, sensation-seeking activities. A) genetic factors. B) rapid increase in hormones may be B) physical environmental factors. associated with irritability, impulsivity, C) social factors. aggression (boys) and depression D) nutrition and health factors. (girls). C) the "storm and stress" of adolescence is caused by raging 43. One reason early-maturing males hormones. have the difficulties they have may be D) hormonal changes may stimulate that: an individual'ssex drive. A) the hormonal changes they experience tend to be stronger than 40. The adolescent growth spurt the changes experienced by late- maturing males. A) generally begins two years earlier B) they tend to come from families that for girls than for boys. have more problems. B) generally begins two years earlier C) they do not have as much time as for boys than for girls. their late-maturing male peers to adapt C) is slower in the early adolescent to the changes that puberty brings. years, then speeds up around age 15 D) they are looked down upon by their for boys and girls. peers. D) proceeds along a smooth and rapid course over the teen years. 44. Professor Kendall has been researching adolescent maturation around the world. Which of the following is she likely to find B) the reason that high schools begin contributes the least to the secular classes earlier than middle schools or trend: junior high schools is that adolescents are more alert during the morning A) nutrition. hours than later in the day. B) sanitation. C) getting fewer than 8 hours of sleep C) infectious diseases. a night is associated with poorer D) genetics. mental health and lower grades for adolescents. D) although most adolescents do not 45. Joe is extremely moody. His get sufficient sleep during the week, mother attributes his mood swings to they are able to make up for the deficit being an adolescent. Based on your by sleeping later on weekends. understanding of adolescent mood swings, what would you tell Joe's mom? 48. Suzanne and Greg are the first members of their class to begin the A) Joe is a victim of raging hormones. pubertal transition. Based on what B) Moodiness is a genetic trait that Joe you know about early maturing inherited from his parents. adolescents, Suzanne and Greg are C) Joe's moods are most likely linked more likely to: to his daily activities. D) Moodiness during adolescence is A) become involved in deviant rare and Joe should seek psychiatric activities. help. B) do better in school. C) be ostracized by their classmates. D) get along with their parents. 46. Which of the following does not contribute to changes in sleep patterns during adolescence? 49. The most virulent threats to adolescent health come from all of the A) later secretion of melatonin following, except: B) mood fluctuations throughout the day A) unhealthy behaviors, such as drug C) television, computers, and artificial use. light sources B) chronic disabilities, such as cancer D) early school starting times and arthritis. C) violence inflicted by themselves or by others. 47. Researchers have found that, with D) risky activities, such as unprotected regard to adolescent sleep patterns: sexual intercourse. A) adolescents today are getting more sleep than adolescents 30 years ago. 50. Mai can understand the metaphor, 54. Jesse is in the 7th grade at a "My heart is an open book." because school that has open classrooms with she is able to focus on the: multiple teachers instructing their classes in one large area. Which of the A) concrete and familiar associations. following cognitive processes will help B) semantic structure of the sentence. Jesse focus on his teacher? C) abstract and conceptual relations. D) observable features of the objects. A) working memory B) selective attention C) long-term memory 51. Javier spends a great deal of time D) divided attention talking about relationships, politics, philosophy, religion, and morality with his friends, demonstrating his ability to 55. Chris and his parents had an think: argument because they did not want him to go to a New Year's Eve party A) abstractly. across town. A few days after the B) hypothetically. argument, Chris's anger subsided C) concretely. because he realized his parents were D) deductively. worried about his safety. Which cognitive process did Chris use to reach this conclusion? 52. Teenagers often become seif- conscious because they believe that A) implicit personality theory people are talking about them. B) mutual role-taking Which characteristic are they C) automatization exhibiting? D) social perspective-taking A) an imaginary audience B) a personal fable C) propositional logic 56. When the teacher asks a question D) metacognition in class, students raise their hands to answer. This example illustrates: 53. Dave knows that kids who drink A) social conventional behavior. and drive sometimes get killed, but he B) a specialized structural system. believes that he is somehow immune C) metacognitive behavior. to having such a terrible thing happen D) dominance theory. to him. Dave's belief is an example of: A) the imaginary audience. 57. According to the text in B) a personal fable. developmental psychology, what are C) social cognition. some markers of the end of D) metacognition. adolescence and the beginning of adulthood? A) Completion of formal education B) Financial independence from 61. How do religious activities benefit parents older adults, according to the C) Marriage information? D) All of the above A) They provide opportunities for earning money 58. What distinguishes emerging B) They combat the fear of death adulthood from adolescence and C) They offer opportunities for travel young adulthood, according to D) They encourage isolation from Arnett? others A) Identity exploration B) Feeling in-between 62. According to the text in C) Being self-focused developmental psychology, what is the D) All of the above most disruptive experience for an older adult? 59. Do males experience a A) Grandparenting climacteric? B) Marriage C) Divorce A) Yes, they go through a similar D) The death of a spouse reproductive transition as women. B) No, their reproductive ability remains constant throughout life. 63. Which theory of aging is C) Yes, but it is called andropause and associated with the accumulation of is characterized by increased free radicals and their impact on testosterone levels. cellular damage? D) No, only females experience hormonal changes during midlife. A) Mitochondrial Theory of Aging B) Cross-linking/Glycation Theory C) Free Radical Theory 60. What is the definition of elder D) Telomere Theory abuse, as provided in the text? A) Accidental harm to older adults B) Any act or failure to act that causes 64. According to the text, what is the harm to an older adult Hayflick limit related to? C) Abuse that only occurs in nursing homes A) The number of birthdays a person D) Harm inflicted by strangers has B) The number of times cells can divide before becoming senescent C) The maximum lifespan of an individual D) The age at which individuals typically retire  69. The following are ALL components 65. Which of the following is a of the Triangular Theory of Love common symptom of Parkinson's BUT.... disease? A) Intimacy component A) Loss of memory B) Commitment component B) Tremors and difficulty with balance C) Belonging component and movement D) Passion component C) Joint swelling and connective tissue damage D) Loss of cognitive functioning 70. Which of the following statements best describe the developmental task of late adulthood except? 66. What is the leading cause of disability in older adults? A) Adjusting to death of spouse B) Meeting social and civic obligations A) Alzheimer's disease C) Establishing satisfactory living B) Cancer quarters C) Arthritis D) Helping teenage children to D) Parkinson's disease become happy and responsible adults 71. The developmental stage wherein 67. Which of the following is not one of it begins with rapid physical changes Kubler-Ross's stages of grief/loss? like dramatic gains in height, in weight, changes in body contour, and A) Recollection development of sexual characteristics B) Denial such as enlargement of breast, C) Bargaining development of pubic and facial hair D) Anger deepening of voice A) Adolescence 68. The assessment of whether one's B) Young adulthood coping abilities and resources are C) Late childhood adequate to overcome the harm, D) Early Childhood threat, or challenge posed by the potential stressor. 72. The traditional approach to A) Primary appraisal development emphasizes: B) Secondary appraisal C) Third appraisal A) little change from birth through old D) Fourth appraisal age. B) extensive change from birth to adolescence, adulthood, and old age. C) extensive change from birth to C) Early childhood adulthood, then little change for the D) Infancy rest of the life span. D) extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in 76. Like many others her age, Velma adulthood, then decline in late old does not know how to use a computer, age. but her six-year-old grandson has no problem navigating the Internet and using a word processing program. This 73. The traditional and life-span is an example of a perspectives are contrasting views of developmental change. According to A) normative age-graded influence the life-span perspective, when do B) normative history-graded influence developmental changes occur? C) nonnormative life event D) nonnormative socioemotional event A) during infancy and early childhood B) during adolescence and early adulthood C) during middle and late adulthood 77. When Ben was thirteen when his D) throughout the entire life cycle father was killed in a car accident. This is an example of a: 74. Allan spends a great deal of time working and trying to establish his A) normative age-graded influence career. He also has been thinking B) normative history-graded influence about how his personal relationship is C) nonnormative life event going and considering whether it could D) nonnormative socioemotional event be long-term and lead to establishing a family. Allan is most likely in: 78. Rozee is 86 years young. She A) Late adolescence continues to learn phrases in new B) Early adulthood languages, she writes poetry, and she C) Middle adulthood enjoys going to museums to see the D) Late adulthood latest up-and-coming artists. These examples of her adaptive capacities demonstrate: 75. Paul depends almost completely on his parents. He is just learning to A) chronological age recognize things that he wants and B) biological age how to get them. Paul is in the C) psychological age development period called: D) social age A) Late childhood B) Middle childhood 79. As he was studying life-span development, Tyrell had to learn several interrelated, coherent sets of ideas that would help him explain and make predictions about development. Tyrell had to learn: 83. Life-span development begins with ends with A) theories B) hypotheses A) birth; death C) models B) conception; old age D) scientific methods C) infancy; old age D) conception; death 80. Which theory would be BEST to 84. Marcus is 14 months old and consider if youwanted to understand having great difficulty when left with and why children copy the behaviors the babysitter. His separation anxiety they see in TV cartoons? is an example of interaction between which two types of development? A) Skinner's behaviorism B) Piaget's cognitive theory A) Intellectual and physical C) Erikson's psychosocial stages B) Cognitive and intellectual D) Bandura and Michel's social C) Physical and emotional cognitive theory D) Intellectual and social 81. Alex believes people are primarily 85. Marlane is large for her age and influenced by the environment and does not have many friends. This is an learned experiences, so he believes example of interaction between which plays a more powerful role in human two types of development? development. A) Physical and intellectual A) nurture B) Intellectual and social B) maturation C) Physical and social C) change D) Personality and social D) nature 86. Which of the following statements 82. Which statement best resolves the about hereditary and environmental nature-nurture controversy? influences on development is true? A) Nature is clearly more important in A) Internal influences are more development important because they occur first B) The interaction between nature and B) External influences are more nurture is most important in important because they are active for a development longer time C) Nurture is clearly more important in C) Internal and external influences development interact and often cannot be separated D) Neither plays a particularly strong role in development D) Internal and external influences are A) Parents' emotional state independent and can be readily B) Home environments separated C) Presence of models for young people D) Breakdown of the nuclear family 87. Meghan recorded events in the 91. Some religious groups have taught lives of her sons Joseph and Jacob children consistent traditions for such as their first words, their first weddings and funerals. Teaching these step, and the events of puberty. These ways to the next generation is an events are examples of the process of example of A) Environmental influences A) context B) Genetic influences B) ethnic diversity C) Inherited characteristics C) culture D) Maturation D) morality 88. Environmental or experiential 92. The impact of technological factors that help define individual developments such as video games, differences in development include all computers, and the Internet are of the following except A) nonnormative age-graded A) Genetic inheritance influences B) Socioeconomic status B) normative history-graded influences C) Ethnicity C) normative age-graded influences D) Historical events D) nonnormative history-graded influences 89. A child born today in Iraq will have different experiences than children 93. Rubella has a disastrous impact if born in the United States or Mexico. it is contracted during the first trimester These experiences will affect the of a pregnancy yet has hardly any course of development for these impact if contracted at the end of a children because each child develops pregnancy. This is an example of within a unique A) fetal immune system maturation A) Biological context B) normative age-graded events B) Social and historical context C) maturational timing C) Genetic content D) a critical period D) Maturation period 94. Which of the following statements 90. All of the following may be about the living will is false? considered indirect effects of poverty EXCEPT A) It is a legally binding document 98. Adam has been diagnosed with B) Only the terminally ill can write one incurable cancer. However, he C) The individual must be in a clear promises to lead a reformed life state of mind when writing it dedicated to God if God will spare his D) The document contains the life. Adam is in which of Kübler-Ross' individual's wishes regarding medical stages of dying? treatment A) denial 95. Tom was in a major car accident B) hope and, as a result, cannot live without C) bargaining being hooked up to a respirator. D) acceptance After several months, Tom's parents decide to have the respirator turned off 99. After learning she has terminal and Tom dies 2 days later. cancer, Ivana joins a wellness group This is an example of: and begins taking control of as many aspects of her life as she can, A) uninformed euthanasia believing this will cause her cancer to B) informed euthanasia go into remission. Based on the C) active euthanasia research, we might expect that Ivana D) passive euthanasia will: A) die more quickly 96. Which of the following medical B) become more alert and cheerful interventions would most likely be C) become depressed if this does not found in a hospice? work D) become more serious and A) morphine compulsive B) respirator C) dialysis machine D) heart-lung machine 100. A baby is repeatedly shown à blue circle. Over time the baby shows less and less interest in the blue circle. 97. Kim is having difficulty coping with This illustrates: the death of her 3-month-old son, who appeared healthy but stopped A) sensory deprivation breathing for no apparent reason. B) habituation What was the likely cause of the C) dishabituation baby's death? D) reflexive adjustment A) asthma B) SIDS C) respiratory distress syndrome D) pneumonia