Gerontology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Gerontology is the multidisciplinary study of the aging process and the challenges and issues faced by older adults. The course explores the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging, examining how individuals and societies adapt to increasing life expectancy. Students will investigate topics such as age-related changes in health, cognitive function, social roles, and policy implications for aging populations. By integrating perspectives from healthcare, social work, psychology, and public policy, the course prepares students to understand the complexities of aging and to contribute thoughtfully to fields that serve older adults.
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Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 2nd Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) One of the main challenges of a cross-sectional research is the appearance of _______________ effects, which refer to differences between age groups that are caused by environmental, rather than developmental, factors.
Answer: cohort
Q2) Which of the following research study approaches is MOST susceptible to the influence of cohort effects?
A) longitudinal studies
B) cross-sectional studies
C) sequential studies
D) divergent studies
Answer: B
Q3) According to Bandura, experience gives people a sense of self-____, which to a person's beliefs about their own abilities and talents.
A) efficacy
B) esteem
C) image
D) concept
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) _______________ refers to a birth complication in which umbilical blood flow is disrupted and the infant does not receive adequate oxygen.
Answer: Hypoxia
Q2) Which of the following types of sensory input are most salient to a fetus?
A) visual input
B) tactile input
C) olfactory input
D) auditory input
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is the correct order of the stages of pregnancy?
A) period of the embryo, period of the fetus, period of the zygote
B) period of the zygote, period of the embryo, period of the fetus
C) period of the fetus, period of the zygote, period of the embryo
D) period of the embryo, period of the zygote, period of the fetus
Answer: B
Q4) Of the three types of prenatal screenings discussed in the textbook, ________ requires the longest wait for results because the genetic material cannot be evaluated until enough cells have reproduced for analysis.
Answer: amniocentesis
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Caleb is four months old. If he is like others his age, when he grasps a rattle, he will grasp it with
A) his fingers and thumb.
B) his thumb only.
C) his fingers only.
D) one finger from each hand.
Answer: C
Q2) According to ____ systems theory, learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific goals.
A) teratogenic
B) dynamic
C) fluid
D) static
Answer: B
Q3) The _______________ appears when you stroke a child's foot and the toes fan outward.
Answer: Babinski reflex
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Q4) _______________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) The fact that the last number name differs from the previous ones in a counting sequence by denoting the number of objects is called the ____ principle.
A) nominal-ordinal-interval
B) stable-order
C) one-to-one
D) cardinality
Q2) The idea that number names must be counted in the same sequence, without change, defines the ____.
A) stable-order principle
B) one-to-one principle
C) cardinality principle
D) universality principle
Q3) According to Piaget, children understand the world with scripts, which are psychological structures that organize experience.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The fourth stage of cognitive development in Piaget's model is the _______________ period.
Q5) A(n) _______________ is an early infant vowel-like sound.
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Do children typically develop attachments to their fathers? If so, what is the nature of those relationships?
Q2) As early as ____ month(s) of age, infants begin to distinguish facial expressions associated with different emotions.
A) one
B) three
C) four
D) six
Q3) Giselle is watching a television program with her mother, when something happens in the show that she does not understand .When she looks up to see her mother laughing, she starts laughing too. Giselle is engaging in social _______________.
Q4) The phrase, "interest but no interaction," best describes ____ play.
A) cooperative
B) simple social
C) parallel
D) make-believe
Q5) Discuss the first the stages of Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. Make sure to include the age range, crisis, and the strength that develops in each stage.
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) While higher IQ may be related to a person's tendency to be drawn toward certain occupations, research has found that even within an occupation (where educational backgrounds are similar between different people), those with higher IQs have better job performance and higher earnings, particularly for A) less skilled jobs.
B) more complex jobs.
C) jobs requiring fluency two or more languages.
D) jobs where one must work in solitude.
Q2) Creativity is strongly linked to ________________ thinking, which refers to the ability to think in novel and unusual directions.
Q3) Schools that are most successful have staff and students who recognize that a primary emphasis on ____ fosters positive outcomes.
Q4) Intelligence tests have been found to be very poor predictors of both school and workplace success.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________________ is the meal that should provide approximately one-quarter of a child's daily calorie intake.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Sexual abuse and physical abuse are both types of A) neglect.
B) abandonment.
C) maltreatment.
D) reconstitution.
Q2) Jordan sometimes watches his parents play Angry Birds on their computer, and sometimes they give an exasperated, "Oh, MAN!" when they fail to get a better score. After he is allowed to play on the computer, he is playing a children's game one afternoon and when he fails to capture enough gold stars, he slaps his forehead and yells, "Oh, MAN!" Clearly Jordan has learned this behavior through A) direct instruction.
B) modeling.
C) feedback.
D) guided participation.
Q3) One of these things is not like the others. Can you spot the "odd man out"?
A) blended family
B) reconstituted family
C) reconstructed family
D) remarried family
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following represents the correct stages of moral development, according to Lawrence Kohlberg?
A) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
B) childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
C) sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations, postformal operations
D) preconventional, conventional, postconventional
Q2) The average age of the onset of puberty in girls is ____, while the average age of onset of puberty in boys is ____.
A) 13 years, 11 years
B) 11 years, 13 years
C) 12 years, 10 years
D) 10 years, 12 years
Q3) Postformal morality is the final stage of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children often rely on _______________, or "rules of thumb" to solve problems.
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to have a host of problems in adolescence, such as drug use and lower grades, as well as less satisfying relationships in adulthood?
A) Bernardo, who has been dating the same person for three years, a relationship that began when he was 15 years old
B) Madhavi, who has had only one or two girlfriends during his adolescent years, and in both cases was with his partner for over a year
C) Andrea, who did not start dating until she was in college
D) Samira, who has dated many people since she started dating
Q2) Miranda is a clinical psychologist with a private practice. She also teaches a psychology class to undergraduates one night a week. Miranda is most likely which personality type?
A) social
B) investigative
C) conventional
D) realistic
Q3) The phase of Donald Super's theory of career development that would most likely be seen as a person leaves college in their twenties is _______________.
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood
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Q1) Tony enjoys intense skateboarding. He often rides his board down steep roads, sometimes without a helmet, and sometimes tells people that he gets an incredible thrill from the risk and danger associated with these activities. Tony's desire to engage in threatening situations is called ________________.
Q2) During ____, there tends to be a significant drop in one's participation in risky behaviors such as driving recklessly, having sex without contraception, and engaging in extreme sports.
A) young adulthood
B) late adolescence
C) early adolescence
D) middle adolescence
Q3) Identify at least five different forms of cancer and five different non-cancer medical conditions for which a person is at increased risk when they smoke cigarettes.
Q4) Alcoholism is viewed by most experts as being separate and different from addiction to other mind-altering substances, since it is the most easily treated form of substance-related problem.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Children who are raised by gay or lesbian parents are no more likely to experience problems or have psychological difficulties than those raised by heterosexual parents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Tom and Katie are a middle-aged couple, and they have decided to get a divorce. They have one daughter, Laurie, who is seven years old. Discuss how the divorce is likely to affect all three members of this family. What would you recommend as a way of easing the negative impact of the divorce?
Q3) Guy has been struggling since he and his wife finalized their divorce. He still speaks with her at least once a day, has not dated anyone, and isn't developing any new friendships. Experts would say that Guy is experiencing a(n)
A) failure to launch.
B) conciliatory mourning.
C) divorce hangover.
D) analysis paralysis.
Q4) The "A" in the ABCDE model of adult friendship development stands for
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Surveys of mothers with preschool children reveal that the motivation for returning to work tends to be related to ____ and how attached mothers are to their work.
A) social interaction needs
B) feelings of worth
C) financial need
D) pressure from their spouse
Q2) Martina has been studying the social cognitive career theory of job selection, and has mastered her understanding of the simple form of this theory. She is now going to work on understanding the more complex SCCT. Which additional variables will she have to read about?
A) self-efficacy and outcome expectations
B) barriers and supports
C) institutions and individuals
D) interests and choice goals
Q3) Across ethnic groups, European American women participate the most in the workforce, and African American women participate the least.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) An individual who is very willing to work with others and who is viewed as very caring would score high on the five-factor dimension of _______________.
Q2) One method of treating the symptoms of menopause is MHT, or menopausal hormone therapy. This medical approach involves the use of low doses of _______________, which are sometimes combined with a synthetic form of progesterone.
Q3) Brenda has gone through menopause in recent months. Which of the following physical changes to her genitalia should not be occurring?
A) a decrease in vaginal lubrication
B) a receding of the clitoris
C) a shrinking and/or thinning of the vaginal walls
D) a shrinking of the external genitalia
Q4) According to Erikson, ____ is a state in which people are unable to deal with the needs of their children or to provide mentoring to younger adults.
A) despair
B) stagnation
C) isolation
D) encapsulation
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) Presbycusis is the most common age-related
A) form of dementia.
B) variety of COPD.
C) visual disorder.
D) type of hearing problem.
Q2) Gina is recalling the time last year that she hiked up a big hill in the rain with a group of her friends. This memory would be best described as a(n) ____ memory.
A) episodic
B) vigilance
C) semantic
D) implicit
Q3) The rapidness with which a person can execute a mental function and provide a specific response is called ____ speed.
A) visuographic
B) psychomotor
C) working
D) cognitive
Q4) Of countries examined, _______________ has the highest average life expectancy at just over 83 years.
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues
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Q1) If you were to look at the prototypical resident of a long-term care facility in the United States of America, which of the following would NOT be one of the characteristics you'd see?
A) This person would be female.
B) This person would be African-American.
C) This person would be over 85 years old.
D) This person has a 50/50 chance of having dementia, depression, or both.
Q2) The key point in the model developed by Wickrama et al. (2013) is that marriage relationships in late life are primarily influenced by past experiences and A) the amount of conflict.
B) genetic makeup.
C) the number of children in their family.
D) the amount of pleasure they report.
Q3) Discuss the competence-environmental press approach and how it relates to the adaptation level, the zone of maximum comfort and the zone of maximum performance potential
Q4) According to ____ theory, people tend to cope with daily life in later adulthood by applying familiar strategies based upon past experiences.
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) After the death of his mother, Srulik covers the mirrors in his home, makes a cut in his necktie to symbolize the loss he has experienced, and holds a small religious service in his house every night for a week. These actions best describe Srulik's ____ process. A) bereavement
B) mourning
C) grieving
D) reactive
Q2) Which of the following individuals has opted for hospice care?
A) Janet, whose treatment plan focuses on making her comfortable, managing her pain, and letting her die with dignity
B) Willetta, who is refusing all medical care or intervention for her illness, including pain management and comfort care
C) Kathleen, who is staying in a hospital so her doctors can use experimental treatments to cure her disease
D) Blake, who is seeking the assistance of alternative medicine to treat his illness
Q3) Hospice is best thought of as an approach and not a physical place. Explain.
Q4) Death _______________ refers to people's worries or fears of death and dying.
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