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Introduction to Psychology offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This course explores fundamental concepts such as perception, learning, memory, cognition, development, emotion, motivation, and personality. Students will examine the biological bases of behavior, psychological disorders, treatment approaches, and the influence of social and cultural contexts on human thought and action. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, research methods, and the application of psychological theories to everyday life.
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Lifespan Development Lives in Context 1st Edition by Tara L. Kuther
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Chapter 1: Understanding Human Development:
Approaches and Theories
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Q1) Which of the following is a limitation associated with self-report data?
A) It is very expensive and time consuming.
B) Answers may not reflect participants' true attitudes and behavior.
C) It is difficult to ensure anonymity of participant responses.
D) They can only be used for small samples of people.
Answer: B
Q2) The sequential research design combines both longitudinal and cross-sectional comparisons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Provide an example of how your current cohort (or generation) differs from that of your parents or grandparents.
Answer: Multiple answers will work for this question. Changes in access to college, changes in technology and/or social media, and historical events are among the examples that students can provide for this question.
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Chapter 2: Biological and Environmental Foundations
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Q1) Tonya has straight red hair, blue eyes, and her big toe is longer than her second toe. These characteristics are called _____ traits.
A) recessive
B) dominant
C) polygenic
D) codominant
Answer: A
Q2) All ova contain one X sex chromosome.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) _____ refers to the tendency of heredity to narrow the range of development to only one or a few outcomes.
A) Range of reaction
B) Epigenesis
C) Canalization
D) Passive correlation
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Prenatal Period, Birth, and the Newborn
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Q1) Research on low birth weight infants indicates that:
A) females show better catch-up growth than males.
B) males show better catch-up growth than females.
C) both male and female infants tend to catch up to their peers by adolescence.
D) only 20 percent improve in overall cognitive and socioemotional development.
Answer: A
Q2) Some sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, can be transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Renee, pregnant for the first time, wonders how the developing organism receives nutrients and oxygen and rids itself of waste. This principal organ of exchange between the mother and the developing organism is the ______.
A) placenta
B) embryo
C) endoderm
D) mesoderm
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Infants expect vision, auditory, and tactile information to occur together.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jordan is an infant who lives in a Romanian orphanage. She does not receive any sort of stimulating environment, but she does receive all the food and basic care she needs. She is not read to and she spends most of her days sitting in her crib. What can we conclude about Jordan's neural development?
A) Jordan will experience higher than average levels of myelination.
B) Jordan will experience a greater degree of synaptic pruning.
C) Jordan will experience higher than average levels of synaptogenesis.
D) Jordan will produce more neurons to compensate for the deficit in experiences.
Q3) Learning through association is known as:
A) classical conditioning.
B) operant conditioning.
C) neurogenesis.
D) habituation.
Q4) Explain why low-income women in the United States are less likely to breast-feed but low-income women in developing countries are more likely to breast-feed.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
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Q1) John is a child who visited his grandma's house when he was a toddler. He went on a typical summer weekend with his parents. Casey is a child who visited her grandma's house when she was a toddler. She got to pick out a puppy from a litter her grandma's dog had. Which of the children will remember the visit to grandma's house?
A) John, because the visit was to his grandma's house and he was with his parents.
B) Casey, because she was familiar and comfortable at her grandma's house and she was very excited to be getting a puppy so there was emotional engagement in the visit.
C) John, because the visit was to a familiar place.
D) John and Casey will be equally likely to remember the visit.
Q2) Danny had a head injury that resulted in his inability to speak fluently. He would mix up words in a sentence, so instead of saying "Mommy pick me up" he would say "up pick Mommy me." What area of Danny's brain was damaged?
A) The prefrontal cortex.
B) Wernicke's area.
C) The temporal lobe.
D) Broca's area.
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
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Q1) Thomas and Chess used the term _____ to describe whether an infant is predictable in their patterns of eating, sleeping, and defecating.
Q2) Roger is a father who is rejecting of his role as a parent. He tends to ignore his baby's needs. What attachment type is his baby most likely to develop?
A) Secure attachment
B) Insecure-avoidant attachment
C) Insecure-resistant attachment
D) Disorganized-disoriented attachment
Q3) Infants with difficult temperaments who live in hostile living conditions (such as nonindustrial countries plagued by drought) tend to survive at higher rates than do those with easy temperaments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a factor if an infant shows stranger wariness?
A) The infant's ability to regulate emotion.
B) The infant's overall temperament.
C) The infant's past experience.
D) The situation in which the infant meets a stranger.
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) From ages 2 through 6, the average child grows ____ inches taller.
A) 1 to 2
B) 2 to 3
C) 4 to 5
D) 6 to 7
Q2) One of the key features of the preoperational stage is children's ability to use:
A) symbolic thinking.
B) abstract thinking.
C) reflexive schemes.
D) complex memory strategies.
Q3) Private speech accounts for 20% to 50% of the utterances of children ages 4 to 10.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most children in developed nations:
A) do not eat enough calories for healthy development.
B) eat enough calories but often do not get enough vitamins or minerals.
C) get enough vitamins and minerals but often do not eat enough calories.
D) suffer from mild to moderate malnutrition.
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Chapter 8: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Which disciplinary method is most likely going to result in the parent modeling effective conflict resolution for their child?
A) Corporal punishment
B) Redirection
C) Inductive discipline
D) Reinforcement
Q2) If children do not develop a sense of initiative in early childhood, Erikson says they will instead develop guilt.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Kevin's parents have set the rule that he must clean up his toys every night as part of his bedtime routine. One night, he fell asleep before he cleaned up. He woke up crying after he realized that he didn't put his toys away before bedtime. What stage is Kevin illustrating?
A) Initiative versus guilt
B) Autonomy versus shame and doubt
C) Trust versus mistrust
D) Industry versus inferiority
Q4) Which type of motor skills are exercised through rough-and-tumble play?
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Dual language learning places foreign-speaking children into English-speaking classes, requiring them to learn English and course content at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When people do a good job evaluating what happens in their environment, modify it, and take what happens to fit their own needs, they are considered to be high in _____ intelligence.
Q3) The central executive is an important part of:
A) working memory.
B) long-term memory.
C) sensory memory.
D) attentional memory.
Q4) Why are children in middle childhood better able to change their speech in response to the needs of listeners?
A) They are more likely to be reinforced for speaking correctly.
B) They are more attuned to modeling adult speech.
C) Age and advances in perspective-taking skill.
D) They are more exposed to language differences in reading.
Q5) What is the most common chronic illness in childhood?
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Chapter 10: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Children who are _____ tend to display more difficulties in adjusting to remarriage than do younger children.
A) school age
B) adolescents
C) preschool age
D) infants
Q2) Which of the following risk factors are not common in homes with reported cases of child sexual abuse?
A) Poverty
B) Three or more children under the age of 5
C) Marital instability
D) Drug and alcohol abuse
Q3) Which of the following is not a common characteristic of popular children?
A) Helpfulness
B) Cliquish exclusion
C) Assertiveness
D) Trustworthiness
Q4) The child's adaptive capacity and strengths are known as:
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Q5) What are the common indicators and outcomes associated with child sexual abuse?
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) At which point in puberty do hormones impact an adolescent's feelings of depression, irritability, and aggression?
A) Early in puberty
B) At the midpoint of puberty
C) Late in pubertal development
D) All the way through puberty
Q2) The female-focused mode of moral reasoning in which individuals have a desire to maintain relationships and a responsibility not to cause hurt is called a(n) _____ orientation.
Q3) Which part of the brain is implicated in aggression?
Q4) Adolescents go to bed later because of puberty and because of the increased availability of television and other media.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the name of the protein found in fat that is linked to the onset of puberty?
Q6) What type of reasoning involves the ability to consider problems, generate and systematically test hypotheses, and draw conclusions?
Q7) Describe what occurs in the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG).
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) When adolescents feel that their parents are intrusive, they are more likely to self-disclose their thoughts and activities in an effort to gain their parents' trust.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Assume that you have been asked to speak to a group of parents and educators about adolescent suicide. Your textbook presents a number of warning signs that signal increased suicide risk. List five of these warning signs that you think are most important.
Q3) Which of the following events are risk factors-particularly when combined with other stressors-that contribute to suicide?
A) getting a bad grade on a quiz
B) moving to a new school
C) dating a friend's former boyfriend or girlfriend
D) loss of a friendship
Q4) Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to adolescent and adult depression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Distinguish between cliques and crowds.
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) Two or more instances of binge drinking within the past 30 days is called:
Q2) Which of the following changes in early adulthood physical development peaks around age 30?
A) Muscle development
B) Reproductivity
C) Skin elasticity
D) Cardiovascular health
Q3) What type of muscle strength involves the subtle contractions used to hold a hand grip, push off against a wall, stretch, or practice yoga?
Q4) Compared to the type of the institution (2-year, 4-year), what is the most important aspect of attending college for developmental outcomes?
A) The size of the institution
B) The rigorousness of the curriculum
C) Student involvement
D) Diversity of the institution
Q5) Advances in reasoning during the adult years entails integrating cognition with emotion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Socioemotional Development in Early
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Q1) Intimate violence includes all of the following except:
A) Physical violence
B) Neglect
C) Sexual abuse
D) Psychological harm
Q2) Which of the following does not increase in emerging adulthood?
A) Self-esteem
B) Depressive symptoms
C) Well-being
D) Emotion regulation
Q3) Arianna is very comfortable around babies. She loves to care for children. In her culture, she is seen as an adult. What country is she most likely from?
A) The United States
B) Romania
C) Israel
D) Argentina
Q4) The transition to marriage and the creation of a stable and fulfilling marital relationship entails transforming the romantic relationship from purely passionate to
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Who is least likely to be diagnosed with osteoporosis?
A) Debbie, a 60-year-old woman who runs one marathon every other year, doesn't smoke, and is small-framed.
B) Raymond, an 85-year-old man who has never exercised and doesn't like milk or cheese.
C) Andrew, a 70-year-old man who is fairly active but drinks alcohol to excess about every other week.
D) Rhonda, a 65-year-old woman who exercises frequently, smokes cigarettes, and has an identical twin with osteoporosis.
Q2) Why is night vision difficult for individuals as they age?
Q3) Michelle is trying to clasp her necklace. She cannot seem to focus and cannot see to hook the clasp. She has to ask her daughter to fasten the necklace. What is Michelle experiencing?
A) Presbycusis
B) Presbyopia
C) Nearsightedness
D) Localized occipital inhibition
Q4) What do adult returning students to college need in order to be successful?
Q5) The transition to menopause is called:
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Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in Middle
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Q1) Why is retirement planning important?
A) Because Social Security cannot support all the people in the United States.
B) Because retirement represents a major life transition, and those who plan have greater life satisfaction.
C) Because people are retiring earlier than in years past.
D) Because individuals in retirement have more pressure than ever before.
Q2) The highest and most prestigious positions in management are most likely held by:
A) White men
B) Black men
C) Asian women
D) Hispanic women
Q3) Which Big 5 personality trait is not associated with higher levels of well-being?
A) High in openness.
B) High in extroversion.
C) Low in neuroticism.
D) High in agreeableness.
Q4) Which of the Big 5 personality traits is the tendency to be responsible, disciplined, task oriented, and planful?
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) How are the amyloid plaques formed in the brain in patients who have Alzheimer's disease?
A) Beta-amyloid causes the myelin in the brain to harden and deteriorate, creating plaques in the brain.
B) The protein tau creates twisted bundles of threads that occur when neurons collapse.
C) Neurons in the brain combine due to an increase in dopamine in the brain and create blockages between other neurons.
D) Patients experience inflammation that causes the beta-amyloid to accumulate and join with clumps of dead neurons and glial cells.
Q2) Older adults do not have the ability to compensate for cognitive declines as the brain has limited ability for plasticity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How are Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia different from one another?
Q4) What is the impact of the decline in immune function in older adults?
Q5) What is the name of the gene that is associated with longevity?
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Chapter 18: Socioemotional Development in Late
Adulthood and the End of Life
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Q1) What message does providing assistance and support to older adults send to them?
A) The message that others need them
B) The message that they are not capable of taking care of themselves
C) The message that they are valued and gives them a sense of belonging
D) The message that there time left is short
Q2) When individuals share their feelings with others, they are more likely to enter into the _____ stage of death.
A) bargaining
B) acceptance
C) depression
D) anger
Q3) Couples over the age of 65 are less likely to divorce than are younger couples.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children, adolescents, and emerging adults tend to perceive themselves as older than their chronological age, adults older than 25 tend to have younger subjective ages.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the first stage of death according to Kubler-Ross?
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