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Human Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from conception through old age. This course examines major theories and research findings related to developmental processes and milestones at various stages of life, considering influences such as genetics, environment, culture, and family. Students will analyze how individuals adapt and grow in response to biological maturation, personal experiences, and societal expectations, gaining insights into both typical and atypical patterns of development.
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Human Development A Life-Span View 3rd Edition by Christine Ateah
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) After studying his history, Giles is excused from having to wash the dishes, a task he detests. What are Giles's parents attempting to use to increase Giles's studying?
A) positive reinforcement
B) punishment
C) extinction
D) negative reinforcement
Answer: D
Q2) What best explains the fact that Tiffany likes to listen to the Salads (a 2000s band) and her grandmother prefers listening to Bill Haley and the Comets (a 1950s band)?
A) age effects
B) non-normative factors
C) cohort effects
D) time-of-measurement effects
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Which chromosomes are known as autosomes?
A) the first 2 pairs
B) the first 10 pairs
C) the first 22 pairs
D) the first 46 pairs
Answer: C
Q2) Why do teenage mothers tend to give birth to less healthy infants than mothers in their 20s?
A) because the teens tend to neither seek nor receive good prenatal care
B) because the teens take too many vitamins
C) because the teens have more genetically defective eggs
D) because the teens are more likely to smoke while pregnant
Answer: A
Q3) In congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the fetal adrenal glands have produced too much androgen. What is the effect upon the child with this condition?
A) cognitive impairment of boys
B) speech impediments
C) behavioural problems
D) masculinization of girls
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World
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Q1) What is linguistic intonation?
A) a variation in sound pitch
B) a variation in sound meaning
C) a variation in sound length
D) a variation in sound comprehension
Answer: A
Q2) Two-month-old Ben requires a great deal of energy for growth. Approximately what percentage of the body's energy is devoted to growth at Ben's age?
A) 30
B) 40
C) 50
D) 60
Answer: B
Q3) Which of these is an example of a newborn reflex?
A) crying
B) laughing
C) rooting
D) rolling
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Entering the Social World
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Q1) Tyler is beginning to realize that he is independent of the people and objects around him. What does this say about Tyler?
A) He is becoming self-aware.
B) He is becoming independent.
C) He is becoming physically mobile.
D) He is becoming less attached to his caregivers.
Q2) According to research, how many types of attachment are there?
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
Q3) What does a secure infant attachment predict during later childhood?
A) greater intelligence
B) more capable peer interactions
C) greater independence
D) more competence
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Chapter 5: Growing and Learning in the Preschool Years
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Q1) What are the neural structures we are born with sometimes called?
A) mental software
B) cognitive schemes
C) neural pathways
D) mental hardware
Q2) Ben's mom, Sofia, makes up a nonsensical word and has Ben repeat it immediately after to her so that he can learn different speech sounds. What is the name for this ability to briefly remember a speech sound?
A) overextension
B) phonological memory
C) phonological repetition
D) speech therapy
Q3) Who is most associated with the principle of the zone of proximal development?
A) Lev Vygotsky
B) Jean Piaget
C) Carolyn Rovee-Collier
D) Noam Chomsky
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Chapter 6: Interacting and the Work of Play
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Q1) Billy is an excellent student who is friendly with others. He is a self-reliant and responsible young man. With what type of parents has Billy likely been raised?
A) indifferent-uninvolved
B) authoritarian
C) authoritative
D) indulgent-permissive
Q2) Phil believes that all women are emotional, physically weak, and interested in cooking. What do Phil's beliefs about women illustrate?
A) a social role
B) altruism
C) sexism
D) a gender stereotype
Q3) Dana is a typical 10-year-old North American female. In which of the following ways is she most likely to differ from a same-age male counterpart?
A) She is more likely to be aggressive.
B) She is more likely to have a smaller vocabulary.
C) She is more likely to be emotionally expressive.
D) She is more likely to score highly on a test of spatial ability.
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Chapter 7: Off to School
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Q1) What do Canadian French immersion programs usually involve?
A) 100% French instruction in Kindergarten, dropping to 50-80% French instruction by Grade 7
B) 50% French instruction in Kindergarten, increasing to 100% French instruction by Grade 7
C) 90% French instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 7
D) 50% French instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 7
Q2) Zachary is a child with outstanding divergent-thinking skills. Which of the following would he definitely have a lot of?
A) anxiety
B) originality
C) knowledge
D) friends
Q3) At what approximate age does a child enter the concrete-operational stage of thinking?
A) 7 years of age
B) 8 years of age
C) 9 years of age
D) 10 years of age
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Chapter 8: Expanding Social Horizons
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Q1) According to Amato and Keith (1991), at which stage of life is divorce most harmful to a child?
A) infancy
B) preschool
C) adolescence
D) adulthood
Q2) Jeb wants to play hockey, and his brother Joe, who wants to watch TV, says that he understands Jeb's desire, because Jeb has been studying all week with no time for recreation and fun. At what stage of Selman's perspective-taking are the two boys?
A) social-informational
B) third person
C) self-reflective
D) societal
Q3) Which child is most likely to succeed academically and graduate from college?
A) Teri, who is first-born
B) Martha, who is second-born
C) Dorothy, who is third-born
D) Vanessa, who is the youngest child
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Chapter 9: Rites of Passage
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Q1) Which gland regulates pubertal changes by signalling other glands to secrete hormones?
A) thyroid
B) adrenal
C) pituitary
D) pineal
Q2) Which event defines spermarche?
A) the production of sperm
B) the ejaculation of sperm
C) the original meiosis of sperm
D) the implantation of sperm into an egg
Q3) Gilbert is an adolescent who is able to figure out weaknesses and problems in scientific evidence, and he loves to debate his theories based upon logical argument. What feature in adolescent information professing describes Gilbert's state?
A) problem-solving and reasoning
B) strategies and metacognition
C) content knowledge
D) working memory and processing speed
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Chapter 10: Moving into the Adult Social World
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Q1) What percentage of Canadian cases of juvenile delinquency involves males?
A) 49%
B) 66%
C) 77%
D) 86%
Q2) Seventeen-year-old Caroline develops an interest in astronomy. If she is in Super's specification stage of career development, what would her next step most likely involve?
A) taking a full-time job at an observatory
B) signing up for a course in basic astronomy
C) determining whether she has a personality type suited for work as an astronomer
D) trying to get a handle on other aspects of her life (e.g., relationships)
Q3) Which of the following is considered to be an advantage for an adolescent who has achieved a strong ethnic identity?
A) He/she has less trouble with the law.
B) He/she makes more money at a part-time job.
C) He/she is more popular among his/her peers.
D) He/she gets better grades in school.
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Chapter 11: Becoming an Adult
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Q1) Sofia has made the statement that she "would believe that there is life on other planets if she could see the actual proof." What type of reasoning does Sofia's statement reflect?
A) prereflective reasoning
B) quasi-reflective reasoning
C) reflective reasoning
D) post-reflective reasoning
Q2) Which of the following individuals is still experiencing an improvement in his/her primary mental abilities?
A) Cassandra, who is 41 years old
B) Jocelyn, who is 45 years old
C) Everett, who is 48 years old
D) Mitchell, who is 52 years old
Q3) Paula has a firm sense of her childhood, who she is as a person today, and how she will live her life in the future. What does this constitute?
A) Paula's possible selves
B) Paula's fluid intelligence
C) Paula's life-span construct
D) Paula's scenario
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Chapter 12: Being with Others
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Q1) O'Leary (1993) presents a continuum of aggressive behaviour in abusive relationships anchored by two elements, one at each end of the continuum. What are the two elements?
A) physical aggression and verbal aggression
B) severe aggression and murder
C) verbal aggression and murder
D) physical aggression and murder
Q2) Dylan has been divorced for five years, but he is still preoccupied with his former spouse, has not developed any new friendships, and is an emotional mess. What condition does he appear to have?
A) a "divorce hangover"
B) a "divorce fixation"
C) a "divorce breakthrough"
D) a "divorce covenant"
Q3) Who are more likely to identify problems early in a marriage?
A) couples who engage in mutual activities
B) women, who tend to be more sensitive about such issues
C) rich couples, who spend more on "things" than on each other
D) highly educated men who are workaholics
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Chapter 13: Work and Leisure
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Q1) What is one of the largest roadblocks to adequately understanding the reasons why men and women choose traditional or non-traditional occupations?
A) We have yet to define what we mean when we talk about traditional and non-traditional occupations.
B) There is a lack of research examining the differences between individuals who hold traditional vs. non-traditional occupations.
C) There is not enough research interest in this area.
D) There are still too few women entering non-traditional fields to warrant extensive research into this issue.
Q2) According to Chen, Aryee, and Lee (2005), which of the following attributes will help to improve a worksite in which employees feel alienated?
A) trust
B) loyalty
C) honesty
D) fairness
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Chapter 14: Making It in Midlife
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Q1) Fifty-year-old Esmerelda has been a heavy smoker since her youth. In addition, she lives in a sunny climate and always has a deep tan. Which of the following would you expect about her?
A) She will have more grey hair than most other people her age.
B) She will have a larger middle-aged bulge than most other people her age.
C) She will have more wrinkles than most other people her age.
D) She will have less hair than most other people her age.
Q2) The stress and coping paradigm focuses on the interactive relationship between two elements. What are they?
A) person and environment
B) mind and body
C) hormones and neurotransmitters
D) family and work
Q3) An individual low on a certain characteristic would likely be described as even-tempered and comfortable. What is that characteristic?
A) neuroticism
B) openness to experience
C) conscientiousness
D) agreeableness
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Chapter 15: The Personal Context of Later Life
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Q1) Maura suspects that she has some memory deficit. What kind of assessment should she undergo?
A) a biopsychosocial assessment
B) a divided attention assessment
C) a neuropsychological assessment
D) a selective attention assessment
Q2) What is the only universal behaviour change in aging?
A) Older adults cannot locate targets in selective attention tasks.
B) Older adults exhibit dysphoria.
C) Older adults benefit from haloperidol.
D) Older adults have slower reaction times.
Q3) Which of the following conditions does not belong?
A) emphysema
B) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
C) presbycusis
D) asthma
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Chapter 16: Social Aspects of Later Life
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Q1) Which statement best fits with an individual whose life is characterized by minimal continuity?
A) "Could I get any duller?"
B) "Consistency is my middle name."
C) "I wish that I were more spontaneous."
D) "I am never sure what I am going to do next."
Q2) How do most researchers explain the path to retirement?
A) It involves a sequence of predictable phases.
B) It is a complex process based on a number of factors.
C) It is different for men and women.
D) It varies according to culture.
Q3) Which of the following phrases would best complete the analogy, "Docility is to proactivity as?"
A) social is to cognitive
B) extrovert is to introvert
C) maximum comfort is to maximum performance
D) environmental control is to self-control
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Chapter 17: The Final Passage
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Q1) Before he dies, Juan is checking his insurance, rewriting his will, and making arrangements for his funeral. What is Juan dealing with?
A) death anxiety
B) bereavement
C) end-of-life issues
D) grief work
Q2) What is a key benefit to sanctification of a deceased spouse?
A) It forces an individual to take an unbiased look at his or her life.
B) It promotes a feeling of high self-worth and capability.
C) It replaces anticipatory grieving.
D) It reduces the incidence of health problems.
Q3) After Sonia's sister died, she established a charity in Sonia's honour. Of which of the five themes related to the experience of grief is this an example?
A) affect
B) narrative
C) coping
D) change
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