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Developmental Psychology explores the patterns of growth and change that occur throughout the human lifespan, from conception to old age. The course examines key theories, research methods, and empirical findings related to cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development. Topics include prenatal development, attachment, language acquisition, moral reasoning, and identity formation, as well as the influence of family, culture, and environment. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic processes that shape human development and learn to critically analyze how individual differences and contextual factors contribute to developmental outcomes.
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Visualizing The Lifespan 1st Edition by Jennifer Tanner
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Chapter 1: Understanding Human Development: Theories and Approaches
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Q1) The __________ issued by the federal government present(s) guidelines for protecting human participants in research studies.
A) confidentiality rule
B) common rule
C) ethical guidelines
D) informed consent
Answer: B
Q2) Researchers use _______________to explore research questions by organizing observations and systematically testing hypotheses
A) experiments
B) research
C) the research design
D) the scientific method
Answer: D
Q3) Correlation does not equal causation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development and
Birth
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Q1) A ________ is a type of delivery that involves the surgical removal of the baby from the mother's uterus via an incision in the mother's abdomen.
A) natural delivery
B) Cesarean delivery
C) medical delivery
D) none of the choices
Answer: B
Q2) If the alleles from both parents are alike, their child will be
A) monozygotic.
B) female.
C) homozygous.
D) heterozygous.
Answer: C
Q3) A(n) ______ in Cesarean delivery has contributed to a(n) __________ in infant mortality.
A) increase; reduction
B) decrease; increase
C) decrease; reduction
D) increase; increase
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) The visual cliff is an experimental apparatus used to test an infant's __________________perception.
A) depth
B) pain
C) visual
D) emotion
Answer: A
Q2) Noam Chomsky introduced the term _________________ to describe a theoretical structure that prewire infants and children to learn the language of our culture.
A) babbling
B) language acquisition device
C) infant-directed speech
D) expressive language
Answer: B
Q3) When an infant physically receives a stimulus, she typically feels a sensation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Socioemotional Development in Infancy: The
First Two Years
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Q1) With respect to a child's attachment to fathers, the child's ________________ plays a role in determining the level and type of attachment security a child is likely to develop.
A) gender
B) age
C) activity preferences
D) temperament
Q2) Approach and withdrawal behaviors describe extremes of a young child's temperament, both on the same:
A) end of the scale.
B) stage.
C) continuum.
D) pattern.
Q3) Parents can expect that the first facial expression they will see in infancy is a social smile.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pride, guilt, shame, and empathy are secondary emotions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
Childhood:two to Six Years
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Q1) "Fast-mapping" refers to_____________.
A) the ability to draw a map after being given verbal directions
B) understanding a new word and being able to use it after hearing it once
C) being able to learn a new language as a preschooler
D) listening to several conversations at once with understanding
Q2) One defining feature of ______________ is that a young child will demonstrate a deficit on assessments, such as the false-belief task.
A) generalized anxiety disorder
B) depression
C) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
D) autism
Q3) Which child is healthier?
A) Joe, who eats chips, crackers, and drinks milk
B) Sam, who eats beef burgers, fries, and drinks coke
C) Ben, who eats chicken nuggets, macaroni, and drinks grape juice
D) Andy, who eats apples, peanut butter, and drinks skim milk.
Q4) Many preschoolers are egocentric and empathic.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Early
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Q1) Sid thinks if he puts on a dress he will become a girl. Sid is lacking gender
A) schema
B) constancy
C) identity
D) role
Q2) Which type of parent is more likely to use corporal punishment?
A) authoritarian
B) authoritative
C) indulgent
D) permissive
Q3) Gender schema refers to
A) cultural differences in males and females.
B) biological differences in males and females.
C) the mental categories children develop to tell the difference in males and females.
D) the knowledge that gender does not change.
Q4) Findings from empirical studies of television violence indicates that children's exposure to media violence desensitizes them to real violence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and
Late Childhood: Six to Eleven Years Old
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Q1) Reading can lead to decreased motivation which will call on a child's
A) temperament.
B) effortful control.
C) emotion regulation skills.
D) all of the choices
Q2) Ricardo is teaching his class to read. He likes the students to look at the relationship between and among the words. Ricardo is using a __________ approach.
A) whole-language
B) phonics
C) word
D) relationship
Q3) Vygotsky is a developmentalist known for his research on child social development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Researchers have identified _____key features of scaffolding
A) one
B) three
C) five
D) seven
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Chapter 8: Socioemotional Development in Middle and
Late Childhood: Six to Eleven Years
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Q1) In middle childhood, resolving the task of industry versus inferiority results in a child:
A) internalizing a sense of competence.
B) expecting that others will see him as competent.
C) attaining a strong sense of her future self.
D) achieving the foundation of an ideal self.
Q2) Principal Scott, a developmentalist, explained to parents why he was replacing report cards for elementary school students. To facilitate development of students' academic self-concepts, he is replacing grades with:
A) student and teacher evaluations of students' strengths and weaknesses in each school subject.
B) rankings of each student compared to their peers.
C) standardized test scores.
D) teacher evaluations of effort and creativity each student demonstrates.
Q3) According to Piaget, moral development in middle childhood mirrors:
A) maturation of physical coordination.
B) cognitive development.
C) visual-spatial capacity.
D) auditory-spatial ability.
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) In developing countries, the following factor increases the likelihood of a teen becoming sexually active.
A) illiteracy rate
B) unemployment
C) neither a nor b
D) both a and b
Q2) Maturation of the skeletal system through adolescence is associated with awkward phases of _________________ development.
A) physical
B) self
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
Q3) The following factor influences the amount and rate of muscle gain during adolescence:
A) hormones.
B) activity level.
C) ethnic background.
D) all of the choices
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Chapter 10: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Evan felt a strong reaction when he found out he was not invited to the party his friend had planned for the following night. _________________ wasn't the most adaptive emotion-regulation strategy he could have used, but it was necessary because he had much work to complete before leaving for the ban??d competition that afternoon.
A) Expressive suppression
B) Cognitive reappraisal
C) Cognitive dissonance
D) Cognitive distortion
Q2) Erica was supposed to be going to the prom this weekend; instead she is in bed. When her parents tell the pediatrician that Erica __________________, the pediatrician tells the parents to bring Erica in immediately to be evaluated for depression.
A) feels sad, empty, and hopeless
B) has lost about 10 pounds in the past 2 weeks
C) wishes she wasn't alive
D) any of the choices
Q3) The natural state of the adolescent is change rather than stability.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood
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Q1) The fact that the brain is not fully mature until emerging adulthood has implications for laws that dictate minimum age requirements for:
A) employment.
B) receiving unemployment benefits.
C) driving.
D) any law that dictates the minimum age requirement to gain a legal right.
Q2) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is used to
psychiatric disorders.
A) diagnose
B) treat
C) estimate the prevalence of D) describe
Q3) Cognitive development is associated with advances in reasoning about social justice issues in emerging adulthood because cognitive development gives rise to: A) forensic development.
B) moral development.
C) logical reasoning.
D) emotion-focused reasoning.
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood
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Q1) Emerging and young adult couples who are not married may share the same type of love as those who are married, but they receive fewer ________________ rewards and rights.
A) social
B) legal
C) financial
D) all of the choices
Q2) Although only 10% of emerging adults expect to remain childless, by the mid-40s, ____ of women and ___ of men have not had a biological child.
A) 15%; 25%
B) 20%; 30%
C) 35%; 50%
D) 50%; 75%
Q3) In general, emerging and young adult children ______________________from their parents.
A) report receiving high levels of support
B) report a lack of support
C) want less emotional support
D) prefer financial over emotional support
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Changes in hormones have a significant influence on well-being in middle adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In middle adulthood, bone loss begins to outpace bone repair.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In middle adulthood, race is risk factor for heart disease and stress. Risk is higher for ___________________ compared to European Americans.
A) Asian Americans
B) African Americans
C) Hispanic Americans
D) Australians
Q4) We can find numerous examples of __________________ contributing to successes in middle adulthood.
A) crystallized intelligence
B) fluid intelligence
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
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Chapter 14: Socioemotional Development in Adult-Hood
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Q1) Middle adulthood is the life stage during which most adult children shift from support-recipients to support-givers in relation to their aging parents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The National Alliance for Caregiving is a useful resource because family caregivers don't always know how to provide:
A) emotional support (e.g., fears about being ill)
B) practical support (e.g., how to shower another)
C) medical support (e.g., how to make medical decisions).
D) all of the choices
Q3) When middle-aged parents launch adult children, this is often a trigger for loneliness and depression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Childlessness at midlife has little, if any, influence on the well-being of: A) men.
B) women.
C) neither a nor b; childlessness affects neither.
D) both a and b; childlessness affects them in the same way.
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in the Later Years
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Q1) The leading cause of vision loss for older adults is age-related:
A) glaucoma.
B) cataracts.
C) presbyopia.
D) macular degeneration.
Q2) Changes in the brain are associated with cardiovascular health due to a reduction in the amount of:
A) oxygen supplied to the brain.
B) oxygen supplied to the heart.
C) the amount of blood pumped through the heart.
D) the amount of blood pumped to the brain.
Q3) Telomere length provides information about cellular health.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Conclusions about memory change across adulthood may be biased because; study participants may recall test questions from one assessment to the next.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in the Later Years
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Q1) The "retirement phase":
A) is a period of time spent catching up on sleep and relaxation.
B) can go in different directions depending on personal feelings about being unemployed.
C) often triggers depression associated with isolation and loneliness.
D) encourages individuals to reflect positively on accomplishments.
Q2) During the first phase of retirement, the adult:
A) is still employed.
B) feels like he or she is on a vacation.
C) spends time traveling.
D) focuses time and energy on hobbies.
Q3) In older adulthood, a stronger religious faith is associated with:
A) stronger social connections with others.
B) opportunities to keep active.
C) neither a nor b
D) both a and b
Q4) Emotional well-being plays less of a role in the lives of older adults compared to younger adults.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving
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Q1) When grief takes a turn into non-normative territory, ______________________ is a common diagnosis when a person experiences complicated grief.
A) major depressive disorder
B) anxiety disorder
C) substance use disorder
D) all of the choices
Q2) One risk factor associated with an increased likelihood that a person will experience complicated grief is:
A) personally seeing a loved one die a traumatic death.
B) having low social support.
C) insecure attachment.
D) all of the choices
Q3) Above all else, mourning is a(n) ___________________process.
A) individual
B) independent
C) universal
D) predictable
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