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Human Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that individuals experience throughout their lifespan, from conception through old age. The course examines major theories and research findings in developmental psychology, highlighting the dynamic interplay of genetic, environmental, and cultural influences on growth and behavior. Students will analyze stages of development, key milestones, and the impact of family, peers, and society, gaining insight into typical and atypical patterns as well as practical applications for supporting healthy development in various settings.
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Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 1st Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) The biopsychosocial model emphasizes that many different forces interact with each other in order to make up development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Marjorie believes that her husband, Tom, is an excellent father because he was born with a gentle nature and an abundance of patience. Tom, on the other hand, believes that he is a good father because he learned to be one from his own parents. Which fundamental question of human development does this issue address?
A) nature and nurture
B) external and internal
C) continuity and discontinuity
D) universal and context-specific development
Answer: A
Q3) The demands that are placed on individuals by their environment are referred to as environmental press.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) Wilma is afraid of the pain involved in delivering her baby. Are childbirth classes likely to help her?
A) Yes, because women who take these courses may experience less tension, and thus may have less pain during the delivery.
B) Yes, because women who take these courses qualify for painkilling medications they would not usually receive.
C) No, because childbirth courses only make people more knowledgeable about the birthing process and can have no effect on pain.
D) No, because individuals who know most about the birthing process experience the most pain.
Answer: A
Q2) A movement to improve the human species by letting only specific people with desirable characteristics procreate is called ________.
Answer: eugenics
Q3) The third stage of childbirth (labor) involves the expulsion of the afterbirth, also called the ________.
Answer: placenta
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development
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Q1) The newborn is to sleeping ________ hours at a time as the six-month old is to sleeping _______ hours at a time.
A) 3; 10-12
B) 1; 4
C) 4; 1
D) 10-12; 3
Answer: A
Q2) Your textbook discusses three different types of cries that a baby can produce. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) the basic cry
B) the mad cry
C) the hunger cry
D) the pain cry
Answer: C
Q3) Retinal disparity and motion parallax are both examples of pictorial cues.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) ________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs. Answer: Motor
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) ________ are psychological structures that organize information and regulate behaviors.
A) Assimilations
B) Accommodations
C) Scripts
D) Schemes
Q2) In ________-directed speech, adults tend to speak very slowly and to exaggerate their changes in pitch and loudness.
Q3) Mariposa is laying in her crib, and is making elongated single vowel sounds, like "ahhhhhhh" and "oooooooh." Which of the following best describes her verbalizations?
A) crying
B) whining
C) cooing
D) babbling
Q4) Describe the three main forms of learning as they related to the information-processing model of cognitive development.
Q5) The ________ hemisphere of the brain plays a critical role in understanding language.
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and
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Q1) Young Jim experiences the sadness of his friend Abdul when Abdul's dog runs away. Jim is exhibiting
A) empathy.
B) cooperation.
C) altruism.
D) sympathy.
Q2) A full understanding of one's gender begins by understanding that gender does not change over time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Full understanding of gender is said to develop gradually in three stages. Which of the following represents the correct chronological order in which those stages develop?
A) gender stability, gender constancy, and gender labeling
B) gender labeling, gender stability, and gender constancy
C) gender constancy, gender labeling, and gender stability
D) gender labeling, gender constancy, and gender stability
Q4) When children are playing by themselves but are watching each other while they do so, they are engaging in _____ play.
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Mental ________ are cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas, and they are usually acquired during the concrete operational period of cognitive development
A) schemes
B) accommodations
C) assimilations
D) operations
Q2) Research finds that by ________, most children have mastered the basic counting skills needed to start learning basic arithmetic.
Q3) ________ thinking involves using information to arrive at one standard and correct answer.
A) Top-Down
B) Intuitive
C) Convergent
D) Divergent
Q4) Creativity is strongly linked to ________ thinking, which refers to the ability to think in novel and unusual directions.
Q5) Understanding printed language, comprehending language, and knowing vocabulary are all components of ________ intelligence.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) A(n) ________ family is one where there is a child, a biological parent, and a stepparent.
Q2) As a typical parent in Latin America, Maria would place great emphasis on developing a strong sense of _____ in her children.
A) self-reliance
B) family ties
C) emotional restraint
D) free-thinking
Q3) There have recently been several high-profile cases of 'cyber-bullying,' where adolescents used social networking websites to torment a peer. In one instance, the bullies called a young girl names, interrupted her friendships with other classmates, and led her to feel very depressed and isolated. Which of the following is the type of aggression that was used in these cases?
A) relational
B) vigilant
C) instrumental
D) peer-delimited
Q4) Most ________ children, who are liked by most of their classmates, tend to excel both academically and socially.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Describe common causes of death for teens in the United States. Be sure to discuss how ethnicity and gender each contributes to the way teens die. How does adolescent risk-taking behavior contribute to these events?
Q2) Druzella tends to worry quite a bit about her appearance, particularly since her body began changing last year when she entered puberty. Which of the following factors may contribute to this concern, as well as to her dissatisfaction with her appearance?
A) If she is heterosexual.
B) If appearance is a frequent topic of conversation with her friends.
C) If she has parents who are only "moderately" attractive at best.
D) If she is does not perform well academically.
Q3) According to Lawrence Kohlberg, morality develops in a series of _____ levels, and each level, has _____ substage(s).
A) 2; 4
B) 3; 2
C) 6; 3
D) 8; 2
Q4) Girls typically start their _______ at around 11 years of age, while boys experience the same event at around 13 years of age.
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Chapter 9: Moving Into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) According to a theory proposed by Donald Super, ________ is a primary force in an adolescent's choice of career.
A) socioeconomic status
B) ethnicity
C) identity
D) parental occupation(s)
Q2) There is rather little evidence that sexual education programs focusing on ________ are effective in reducing sexual activity or increasing contraception use among adolescents.
A) exposure to parenting Difficulties
B) abstinence
C) religious values and morals
D) the impact of sexually transmitted diseases
Q3) Among American adolescent girls who have had sexual intercourse, approximately 1 in ____ becomes pregnant. As a result, nearly half a million babies are born to American teenagers per year.
A) 6
B) 8
C) 10
D) 12
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development
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Q1) Feared selves represent who we could become and what we would like to become, as well as the specific age by which we would like those changes to occur.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A friend hears that you are taking a course in human development and asks you to help her make sense of the nutrition-related terms metabolism, LDL, HDL, and BMI. Provide a written response in which you describe the role that each of these play in one's health.
Q3) The knowledge and information that you have acquired over the course of your lifetime comprises your ________ intelligence.
Q4) When presented with a moral dilemma, 52-year-old Ophelia recognizes that there is not one single way to determine the right answer. She looks for contextual cues to guide her thinking, and considers many different sources of information. Ophelia is demonstrating ________ thought.
Q5) Alcoholism is viewed by many experts as a form of ________, as it involves physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms.
Q6) Tagging a future event to a specific age by which it will be completed creates a social _____.
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Heather is only moderately happy with her marriage. Because of that, she is thinking about having a baby to make her marriage more satisfying. Is this a good idea?
A) Yes, because marital satisfaction increases with the birth of a baby.
B) Maybe, because when both parents want a baby, marital satisfaction increases after the birth of the baby.
C) No, as having a child typically decreases marital satisfaction.
D) It is uncertain, as there is no specific relationship between marital satisfaction and the birth of a child.
Q2) For middle-aged women, divorce represents an especially difficult financial hardship.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statement BEST reflects the principle of assortative mating?
A) Opposites attract
B) Love the one you're with
C) Birds of a feather flock together
D) You can't teach an old dog new tricks
Q4) A(n) ________ family consists of parents and children living in a home together.
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Q5) The "A" in the ABCDE model of adult friendship development stands for _____.
Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in
Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) If he is like most alienated workers, Rocky would be most likely to explain his feelings about his job by saying,
A) "I feel guilty for getting paid so much for doing so little."
B) "Nothing that I do at work really matters."
C) "My mentor does not help me at all."
D) "Most days on the job I really like my responsibilities, but there are some days I'd rather forget."
Q2) Job ________ refers to the positive feelings that result from an appraisal of one's work.
A) turnover
B) quality
C) satisfactoriness
D) satisfaction
Q3) Backup care involves having one spouse take off a day of work to care for children when the other is unable to do so.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In a study conducted in India, both men and women gave higher "________" ratings to males than females working in the same job.
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Chapter 13: Making it in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial
Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Traits associated with a person who is low in the agreeableness factor include ruthlessness, suspiciousness, antagonism, being highly critical and stingy, and being irritable.
A)True B)False
Q2) Which of the following is likely to be a major impetus for why Colin is planning on moving back home with his parents after he earns his Master's degree?
A) the fact that most "rental" properties will not rent to a person who is single, and thus he cannot find a living situation on his own
B) the fact that his parents have 'called' upon him to move back in to care for them
C) the fact that he is still unmarried and does not want to live alone
D) the increased cost of living on his own
Q3) In the normal course of female development, menopause precedes the climacteric. A)True B)False
Q4) Describe several different types of "styles" of grandparenting noted in your textbook.
Q5) Individuals with Type _____ behavior pattern tend to be hostile and impatient.
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) Dr. Nebinger is discussion population trends and their changes with her students. "As you can see looking at these graphics," she says, "in _____ the population of the United States looked most like a pyramid."
A) 1910
B) 1950
C) 1980
D) 2010
Q2) Choose three different biological theories of aging and provide a brief description of each.
Q3) The most important factor that is related to surviving cancer for older adults is A) the use of radiation-based treatments.
B) aggressive chemotherapy.
C) early detection.
D) the ability to tolerate carcinotoxic medications.
Q4) The _____ theory of aging focuses on proteins that interact randomly with body tissues like muscles and arteries.
Q5) ________ memory involves the processes and structures involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using it for other functions.
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship,
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Q1) According to ________ theory, people tend to cope with daily life in later adulthood by applying familiar strategies based upon past experiences.
Q2) Which of the following factors is the biggest predictor of the likelihood that a spouse who is caring for their sick partner will develop depression symptoms?
A) marital satisfaction
B) whether the partner's illness is or is not progressive
C) whether the partner's illness is psychological or physical in nature
D) the nature and severity of the partner's symptoms
Q3) More workers retire because their companies require them to do so when they reach a specific age than for any other reason.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One's ________ level can best be thought of as a state when competence and environmental press are at about the same level.
Q5) Environmental ________ refers to the physical, interpersonal, or social demands that environments put on people.
Q6) ________ is the most commonly reported form of elder abuse.
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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) What has research found about the five stages of dying proposed by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross?
A) Only two of the five stages were found to have any true validity.
B) The five stages do, in fact, occur in a set sequence across every culture studied.
C) The stages all exist, but occur in one set sequence for women and a different set sequence for men.
D) The stages should not be viewed as necessarily occurring in a specific sequence.
Q3) ________ is an approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management and death with dignity as opposed to the prolongation of life.
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