Question 1

Charmaine is interested in going to graduate school to gain expertise into the ways in which people experience physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes over the course of their lives. The type of program that Charmaine should be applying to is __________ psychology.

Accepted Answer

A)  developmental 
B)  child 
C)  social 
D)  ecological

Question 2

Adolescents begin to think _____ about things that are not present or events that are impossible or even _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  concretely; imaginary 
B)  abstractly; hypothetical 
C)  abstractly; absolutely realistic 
D)  concretely; realistic

Question 3

A teacher plans to assign her students the task of imagining and describing what the world would be like if all water disappeared completely for 24 hours. Piaget would probably predict that only children in the _______ stage of development would be capable of even entertaining this scenario.

Accepted Answer

A)  formal operational 
B)  preoperational 
C)  sensorimotor 
D)  concrete operational

Question 4

Miss Johnson gave Mark and Tia equal sized lumps of clay. Tia immediately rolled hers into a long shape. Mark cried and complained that Tia had received more clay. Mark's behavior represents:

Accepted Answer

A)  an inability to accommodate. 
B)  an inability to conserve. 
C)  difficulty with formal operational tasks. 
D)  an inability to assimilate.

Question 5

The social intuitionist model of morality indicates that ______ also play a role in our reactions to a moral dilemma.

Accepted Answer

A)  emotions 
B)  rules 
C)  hormones 
D)  knoweldge

Question 6

The ____________ is involved in impulse control, regulates mood, and facilitates planning, organizing, and reasoning.

Accepted Answer

A)  prefrontal cortex 
B)  thyroid glands 
C)  temporal lobe 
D)  basal ganglia

Question 7

Janis sees a bat flying over the lake and says, "Birdie"! Her mother says, "That flies like a bird, Janis, but that is a bat." Janis begins pointing saying, "Bat! Bat! Bat!" Piaget would say that this is an example of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  accommodation 
B)  preoperational thought 
C)  assimilation 
D)  egocentric thinking

Question 8

Which of the following may help explain why adolescent decision making is sometimes problematic?

Accepted Answer

A)  Adolescents are still in the concrete operational stage of development. 
B)  Adolescents are limited to inductive and deductive reasoning. 
C)  Adolescents' decisions are overly based on emotions. 
D)  Adolescents' prefrontal cortex, which controls decision-making processes, is still developing.

Question 9

Emotional well-being tends to ___________ as adults age.

Accepted Answer

A)  decrease slightly 
B)  increase 
C)  decrease precipitously 
D)  remain fairly constant

Question 10

Sonya and her 12 month old child are recruited to participate in a research study. During the first part of the study, Sonya is instructed to sit in a room while her child plays. During the second part of the study, Sonya is asked to leave her child in the room for several minutes and then return. The researchers in this study appear to be using the ___________________ protocol.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Sonya and her 12 month old child...

Question 11

Changes that occur at the individual cell level include are best described as:

Accepted Answer

A)  myelination, synaptogenesis, and synaptic pruning. 
B)  pruning and connecting. 
C)  acceleration, decreasing activation, and connecting. 
D)  sensory, motor, and speech activation.

Question 12

An enduring emotional bond characterized by a strong motivation for physical and psychological comfort is referred to as _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  empathy 
B)  attachment 
C)  object permanence 
D)  theory of mind

Question 13

Martial satisfaction in couples with children tends to increase

Accepted Answer

A)  when the child reaches two years of age. 
B)  after children have left the nest. 
C)  when the child reaches adolescence. 
D)  when the child has reached the formal operational stage of development.

Question 14

Which of the following theories of attachment was effectively discredited by the work of Harry Harlow?

Accepted Answer

A)  Babies become attached to adults who are pleasant to touch. 
B)  Babies become attached to adults who provide them with nourishment. 
C)  Babies become attached to adults who smile at them. 
D)  Babies become attached to adults who talk in quiet voices.

Question 15

Psychologists refer or abrupt developmental changes as occurring ______________. In contrast, they refer to slower, more gradual changes as being _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  continuously; in stages. 
B)  in stages; continuous 
C)  normal; abnormal 
D)  abnormal; normal

Question 16

A psychologist spends her entire career studying how and why changes occur in people as they get older. This psychologist is most likely a(n) __________ psychologist.

Accepted Answer

A)  evolutionary 
B)  personality 
C)  health 
D)  developmental

Question 17

Lawrence Kohlberg is noted for his theories of __________ development.

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive 
B)  social 
C)  moral 
D)  emotional

Question 18

Which of the following states has as a main theme the ability to consider many possible solutions to a problem and the ability to systematically test those possibilities?

Accepted Answer

A)  preoperational 
B)  sensorimotor 
C)  formal operations 
D)  concrete operations

Question 19

The __________ roughly resembles a human being.

Accepted Answer

A)  zygote 
B)  fetus 
C)  embryo 
D)  placenta

Question 20

According to Piaget, egocentrism involves:

Accepted Answer

A)  the perception that others view the world as you do. 
B)  the perception that others view the world differently than you do. 
C)  the perception that you might be incorrect in your judgments. 
D)  the perception that you are better than others.

Exam 10: Life Span Development