Deck 9: Lifespan Development

Question 1

Knowing the patient's age should not dictate a Paramedic's approach to assessment and care.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A desire to die and suicide are closely linked to aging.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Genital human papillomavirus (HPV), genital warts, is the most common sexually transmitted disease among sexually active adolescents.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Erikson attached great importance to sexuality and linked a person's psychosocial development to sex.

Question 5

The majority of people, both male and female, reach their peak height in their early thirties, and their health is generally at its peak as well.

Question 6

The Paramedic may encounter patients ranging in age from newborns to over a hundred years of age.

Question 7

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by binge-eating and then purging via laxatives or vomiting.

Question 8

In the final stage of dying, acceptance of death is a reasonable conclusion when faced with the facts of the patient's situation.

Question 9

The authoritarian parent, sometimes referred to as the democratic parent, has all four qualities in balance.

Question 10

The changes in a person's patterns of thinking, feeling, and physical growth are all part of the person's development.

Question 11

Most Americans ranging from age 65 to 84 years of age have sufficient health to allow them to perform their activities of daily living independently, including dressing, feeding, and caring for themselves.

Question 12

When discussing an elderly person's mental state, dementia and delirium are essentially the same condition.

Question 13

At the moment of birth, the newborn's heart is beating between 60 and 100 beats per minute.

Question 14

Young women tend to establish same-sex friendships based on common activities.

Question 15

Depression in the elderly, unlike delirium, is a non-reversible mental illness.

Question 16

Understanding the patient's developmental stage will help the Paramedic adjust his approach accordingly and to connect more therapeutically with the patient.

Question 17

Adolescents return to egocentrism, a stage previously encountered in early childhood.

Question 18

According to Piaget, children in middle childhood overcome their egocentrism and start to relate to others more in terms of common interests, goals, and so on.

Question 19

The changes in mental functioning are generally related to the health of the person, not to age.

Question 20

Hospice is a concept of care that is a branch of mainstream medicine.

Question 21

Children of ____ parents tend to be happy, self-confident, and independent, to the point of genuine openness to other adults.

A) permissive
B) authoritarian
C) uninvolved
D) authoritative

Question 22

The highest level of moral development, and the sixth stage, is ____ morality.

A) conventional
B) preconventional
C) principle-based
D) postconventional

Question 23

____ is the breakdown in the body's ability to monitor for organ system failure and to repair those organs.

A) Senescence
B) Mithormesis
C) Progeria
D) Climacteric

Question 24

____ development includes language acquisition, that human characteristic which permits communication.

A) Affective
B) Associative
C) Cognitive
D) Social

Question 25

The final stage of human development, per Erikson, is ____.

A) integrity versus despair
B) intimacy versus isolation
C) receptivity versus stagnation
D) initiative versus guilt

Question 26

Potential causes of fetal malformation are toxic substances or agents called ____.

A) teratogens
B) androgens
C) dermatogens
D) probiotics

Question 27

____ is an acute brain syndrome, which is usually associated with reversible metabolic derangements.

A) Confusion
B) Disorientation
C) Hallucination
D) Delirium

Question 28

The second semester of a pregnancy sees rapid growth in the fetus and the first signs of life, fetal movements called ____.

A) presentation
B) acceleration
C) quickening
D) advancement

Question 29

EMS may be called to the scene of a dying person to administer comfort measures, called ____, such as morphine sulfate.

A) sedative care
B) palliative care
C) analgesic care
D) hospice

Question 30

____ is an age-related decrease in sex hormone production that occurs in both men and women.

A) Puberty
B) Apogee
C) Perigee
D) Climacteric

Question 31

____ is the first stage of moral development and is simply avoidance of pain.

A) Conventional
B) Preconventional
C) Principle-based
D) Postconventional

Question 32

Dr. K. Warner Schaie's sequential studies have indicated that while intelligence (the ability to think) peaks at different ages for both men and women, all intellectual abilities show decline at about age ____.

A) 48
B) 60
C) 68
D) 80

Question 33

Childbirth, the culmination of nine months of growth and development, begins when the uterus starts to contract in a process called ____.

A) effacement
B) labor
C) dilation
D) conception

Question 34

____ advanced one of the first psychosocial developmental theories in the late 1800s.

A) Carl Jung
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Friedrich Nietzsche
D) Karl Marx

Question 35

A ____ can be thought of as a set of expectations, placed on the individual by society, to complete certain tasks within a predetermined time.

A) biological lock
B) social clock
C) system clock
D) collective

Question 36

____ is a loss of calcium from the bones.

A) Osteoporosis
B) Calcium deficiency
C) Climacteric
D) Andropause

Question 37

According to Freud, a person's ____ consists of the person's biological needs, such as water and food.

A) libido
B) ego
C) character
D) id

Question 38

The ____ portion of the person represents the psychosocial aspect of a person's development.

A) affective
B) associative
C) cognitive
D) behavioral

Question 39

The first stage of dying is ____.

A) depression
B) acceptance
C) denial
D) anger

Question 40

The traditional definition of an elderly person is anyone who is ____ years old or older.

A) 55
B) 65
C) 75
D) 85

Question 41

____________________ is a psychiatric illness involving problems with self-image and is characterized by self-starvation.

Question 42

Taking an age-related average, Arnold Gesell distributed the different developmental tasks across a timeline, called developmental ____________________.

Question 43

____________________ medicine is focused on providing for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a terminal patient.

Question 44

The most remarkable changes in the human physique, the body habitus, occur in ____________________.

Question 45

____________________ is a period of striving and accomplishment that is punctuated with peak life events such as marriage and childbirth.

Question 46

____________________ implies that life had meaning-that the dream of young adulthood has come to fruition.

Question 47

____________________ theory suggests that play provides children an opportunity to gain mastery and demonstrate autonomy for the purpose of self-satisfaction.

Question 48

____________________ is the natural acceptance of the inevitable and the start of mourning.

Question 49

A decline in sex hormone production- estrogen and progesterone-results in ____________________.

Question 50

____________________ is the result of irreversible damage to the brain that typically is manifest over a longer period of time.