Lifespan Development Exam
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Course Introduction
Lifespan Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur in individuals from conception through old age. The course examines major theories of development, research methods, and factors influencing growth at different stages of life, including infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and late adulthood. Students will gain a broad understanding of the ways biological, psychological, and cultural contexts interact to shape human development across the lifespan, and apply this knowledge to real-world contexts and issues.
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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) Following a stroke that affected his balance and muscle strength, Jose participated in three months of physical therapy. Today, Jose feels as strong as he did before the stroke and walks at least ten miles a week for exercise. Jose's ability to overcome his physical limitations after his stroke is an example of:
A) lateralization.
B) plasticity.
C) neuroscience.
D) specialization.
Answer: B
Q2) Baby Li is participating in a research study in which his physical growth is measured once a day. Li's parents were surprised to find out that monthly measurements of height showed gradual increases, but daily measurements revealed growth spurts that sometimes lasted up to 24 hours. This example supports the assertion that physical growth is:
A) primarily characterized by continuity.
B) primarily characterized by discontinuity.
C) both continuous and discontinuous.
D) characterized neither by continuity nor discontinuity.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Biological and Environmental Foundations
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Q1) Gia has brown hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. These traits are part of Gia's ______.
A) genotype
B) phenotype
C) reaction range
D) epigenetic framework
Answer: B
Q2) Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes illustrate the concept of _____.
A) polygenic inheritance
B) genomic imprinting
C) dominant-recessive inheritance
D) incomplete dominance
Answer: B
Q3) In Africa, children who inherit a single sickle cell allele are more resistant to malarial infection and more likely to survive. This demonstrates:
A) that nature is more influential than nurture.
B) the epigenetic framework.
C) that mutations can sometimes be beneficial.
D) the purpose of behavioral genetics.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Prenatal Period, Birth, and the Newborn
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Q1) Cell differentiation occurs roughly ____ hours after fertilization.
A) 6
B) 12
C) 24
D) 72
Answer: D
Q2) The placenta allows the exchange of nutrients, oxygen, and wastes through the _______.
A) mesoderm
B) endoderm
C) umbilical cord
D) blastocyst
Answer: C
Q3) Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders:
A) affect between 10% and 15% of American school-age children.
B) have been mostly eradicated due to public health campaigns.
C) have a more negative impact on girls than boys.
D) refer to the continuum of effects of exposure to alcohol.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) If synaptic pruning occurs in an infant's or toddler's brain, it signifies that there is a significant cognitive deficit in that child.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the process of combining information from more than one sensory system?
Q3) After birth, which part of the body grows last using the proximodistal growth principle?
A) Trunk
B) Arms
C) Legs
D) Feet
Q4) Which statement below is not representative of the contextual view of motor development?
A) Preterm infants reach motor milestones later than do full-term infants.
B) Infants who spend the first two years of life lying on their backs walk at later ages than other children.
C) Infants who practice the stepping reflex daily walk earlier than those who do not.
D) Infants who spend time lying on their stomachs each day will crawl earlier.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) What part of the information processing system is considered to be a control processor that directs the flow of information and regulates cognitive activities such as attention, action, and problem solving?
A) Sensory memory
B) Sensory regulator
C) The central executive
D) Core processor
Q2) The understanding that objects continue to exist outside of sensory awareness is called:
A) habituation.
B) mental representation.
C) tertiary circular reaction.
D) object permanence.
Q3) Newborn infants and adults have the same duration of sensory memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The structure of the information processing system remains the same throughout the lifespan.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
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Q1) Which theoretical perspective emphasized that feeding was a critical context for infants and caregivers to interact and for infants to have their needs met and thereby develop a sense of trust?
A) Psychoanalytic
B) Behaviorist
C) Ethological
D) Cognitive-developmental
Q2) When does the social smile emerge?
A) Between 6 and 10 weeks.
B) Birth to 2 weeks.
C) Twelve months.
D) Six months.
Q3) Virtually all infants are attached to their parents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Adjustment difficulties are more likely when children do not develop a sense of individuality and confidence in their own abilities to meet new challenges.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Howie, age 4, will be able to recall _____ items.
A) two
B) three or four
C) seven
D) eight or nine
Q2) The upper limit of the zone of proximal development is what the child can accomplish ______.
A) independently
B) with a skilled partner
C) in a specified time limit
D) at home versus school
Q3) Preschool programs provide educational experiences for children ages ___ to ___.
A) 1; 4
B) 2; 5
C) 3; 6
D) 4; 6
Q4) According to Vygotsky, children's self-talk is a form of egocentric speech.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Who is most likely to be a perpetrator of child maltreatment?
A) Biological parents
B) Boyfriend or girlfriend of a child's parent
C) Babysitter
D) Relatives other than parents
Q2) Maddie really wants to paint at the easel. She walks up to Jeffrey who is painting and takes his paint brush. What type of aggression is Maddie engaging in?
A) Focused aggression
B) Interfering aggression
C) Inhibited aggression
D) Instrumental aggression
Q3) The methods a parent uses to teach and socialize children toward acceptable behavior is called:
A) guided direction.
B) social referencing.
C) discipline.
D) pragmatics.
Q4) Which type of motor skills are exercised through rough-and-tumble play?
Q5) The most advanced form of play is:
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Focusing on the relevant information and ignoring other information is called:
Q2) Which stage in Piaget's cognitive-developmental perspective involves children gaining the capacity to use logic to solve problems but still are unable to apply logic to abstract and hypothetical situations?
A) Preoperational stage of reasoning
B) Sensorimotor stage of reasoning
C) Formal operational stage of reasoning
D) Concrete operational stage of reasoning
Q3) Jennifer has extreme difficulty reading. She has difficulty in matching letters to sounds and difficulty with word recognition and spelling. Her eyesight is fine and she does well in other classes that do not involve reading. Jennifer would most likely be diagnosed with:
A) spatial difficulties.
B) dyslexia.
C) whole-language interference.
D) ADHD.
Q4) Inadequate growth in childhood is called:
Q5) Dyslexia is the most commonly diagnosed learning disability.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Children who are disliked and shunned by their peers are experiencing:
Q2) What happens when school-age children become more independent?
A) The parent-child relationship becomes friendlier, and children go to their parents more for advice.
B) They spend less time with parents, but when they do, it is in task-oriented activities.
C) They spend more time with parents.
D) They show more respect for parental authority than they did when they were younger.
Q3) Authoritarian parenting skills will help to reduce the incidence of bullying behavior and peer victimization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What important finding do resilient children illustrate?
A) Resilience does not become relevant until the school-age years.
B) Having friends is an important factor in resiliency.
C) Most children who have adversity in their lives do not have resilience.
D) Exposure to adversity in childhood does not necessarily lead to maladjustment.
Q5) What are the risk factors for sexual abuse in childhood?
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Raj learns that they are going to raise tuition 25% at his university. He realizes that the decision was because the state was cutting funds to the school. Raj decides to contact his legislators to try and get them to understand the importance of continuing to fund higher education. He organizes a campaign to spread awareness of the issue. Raj is in which stage of Kohlberg's moral reasoning?
A) Stage 5-Social contract orientation
B) Stage 6-Universal ethical principles
C) Stage 4-Law and order
D) Stage 3-Good girl/good boy orientation
Q2) Why does stress affect pubertal timing?
A) Stress can raise leptin levels in the body, causing early puberty.
B) Stress causes risks for disease, which delays puberty.
C) Stress causes more severe reactions to the effects of poverty.
D) Stress can trigger irregular ovulation and menstruation in females and reduce sperm production in males.
Q3) Which part of the brain is implicated in aggression?
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following statements about gender and ethnic differences in adolescent arrest rates is true?
A) Differences in arrest rates may be influenced by the tendency for police to arrest and charge low-SES ethnic minority youths.
B) Gender and ethnic differences in arrests accurately reflect rates of delinquent activity.
C) White adolescent boys and girls actually engage in much higher rates of criminal activity than their ethnic minority peers.
D) Overall, white youths are five times more likely than ethnic minority youths to commit crimes, get arrested, and face serious legal repercussions.
Q2) Global self-esteem tends to increase at about 11 years of age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) About one in ____ U.S. adolescents experience a STI each year.
A) three
B) six
C) nine
D) 12
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
Adulthood
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Q1) The capacity to be aware of emotions, integrate positive and negative feelings about an issue, and regulate intense emotions to make logical decisions about complicated issues is called:
Q2) What is the focus of Super's crystallization stage of vocational development?
A) Individuals accumulate experience and advance up the career ladder.
B) Individuals begin to think about careers in more complex ways, considering their own interests, personality, abilities, and values, as well as the requirements of each career.
C) Individuals complete training, enter the job market, and make the transition to become an employee.
D) Individuals identify specific occupational goals and pursue the education needed to achieve them.
Q3) What does the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that the U.S. educational system provide in schools to support non-college-bound students?
Q4) Which stage of vocational development is from ages 25 to 35 and entails becoming established in a career?
Q5) What is the relationship between cognitive-affective complexity and social development?
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Chapter 14: Socioemotional Development in Early
Adulthood
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Q1) Over the first year of marriage, most couples report a drop in satisfaction.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Out of all the people listed, who is least likely to marry?
A) Andy and Jessica, a Caucasian couple who live in a low socioeconomic area of Dallas, TX.
B) Darian and Beth, an African American couple who are both attorneys in San Francisco and live in an upscale, gated community.
C) Andre and Trish, an Asian American couple who are cohabitating.
D) David and Olivia, a Caucasian couple who are both from upper middle-class families and currently in college.
Q3) Currently, divorce rates in Western industrialized countries have:
A) increased dramatically.
B) stabilized and even declined.
C) increased by a small amount.
D) declined dramatically.
Q4) What is the childhood like of individuals who grow up to be abusive spouses?
Q5) What is the type of marriage in which the man and woman share rights and responsibility?
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
Adulthood
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Q1) Smoking has not been found to impact skin aging.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The greatest change in information processing capacity with age is a reduction in:
Q3) How many adult learners are female?
A) 10%
B) 27%
C) 39%
D) Over 66%
Q4) Adult learners show advancements in all of the following areas except:
A) academic knowledge.
B) the ability to distinguish practical from impractical challenges in life.
C) social reasoning.
D) self-evaluation skills.
Q5) The more complex the task, the greater the age-related decline in reaction time.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What do adult returning students to college need in order to be successful?
Q7) The transition to menopause is called:
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Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in Middle
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Q1) Relationships between mothers and daughters are closer than other parent-child relationships and especially close as daughters enter middle age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People choose behaviors, lifestyles, mates, and contexts based on their personalities, and then the outcomes of these choices and life experiences may strengthen and stabilize personality traits.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The sense of mental exhaustion that accompanies long-term job stress, excessive workloads, and reduced feelings of control is called:
Q4) Which of the following Big 5 personality traits increases in middle adulthood?
A) Agreeableness
B) Neuroticism
C) Extroversion
D) Openness
Q5) What percentage of adults report planning for retirement?
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Q6) What are some ways that individuals spend their time when in retirement?
Q7) How is generativity often expressed in early midlife?
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
Adulthood
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Q1) Expertise in the conduct and meanings of life is called:
A) concrete thinking.
B) abstract thought.
C) wisdom.
D) dialectical thinking.
Q2) Which of the following is not a type of long-term memory that shows an age-related decline?
A) Semantic memory
B) Episodic memory
C) Autobiographical memory
D) Memory for experiences
Q3) Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the most common cause of subcortical dementia?
Q5) Who is at the highest risk for physical and mental health problems?
A) Young-old
B) Old-old
C) Oldest-old
D) Elderly
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Chapter 18: Socioemotional Development in Late
Adulthood and the End of Life
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Q1) Maureen has received a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer. She has been asking herself « why me » and is upset at the doctors and her spouse who smoked and exposed her to second hand smoke. She feels cheated and robbed out of life and the time she would have been able to spend with her grandchildren. Which stage of death is she experiencing?
A) Denial
B) Anger
C) Bargaining
D) Depression
Q2) Which of the Big 5 personality traits are associated with happiness, self-content and self-centeredness, and less preoccupation with productivity and how do older adults benefit from developing these personality traits?
Q3) What characteristic is typical of a victim of maltreatment in old age?
A) A person of advanced age who has impairment with activities of daily living
B) A man who is of advanced age
C) A woman who lives with her adult children
D) An elderly person of good health and psychological functioning
Q4) Acts or omissions that cause harm to the older person and occur within the context of a trusting relationships is called:
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