Question 1

Behavior that receives no reinforcement or is punished is likely to be

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A) continued. 
B) intermittent. 
C) extinguished. 
D) accelerated.

Question 2

What kind of evidence is based on one or two instances of a phenomenon,haphazardly discovered or encountered?

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A) scientific 
B) experimental 
C) anecdotal 
D) unethical

Question 3

What learning model seeks to identify the ways individuals take in,use,and store information?

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A) Piaget 
B) neo-Piaget 
C) information processing 
D) social-cognitive

Question 4

Freud believed that the _________ contains infantile wishes,desires,demands,and needs that are hidden from conscious awareness because they are disturbing.

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A) superego 
B) id 
C) ego 
D) unconscious

Question 5

According to Freud,a series of stages that children pass through in which pleasure,or gratification,is focused on a particular biological function and body part is called

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A) psychosexual development. 
B) the psychosexual approach. 
C) the psychoanalytic theory. 
D) the psychoanalytical approach.

Question 6

What type of research is designed specifically to test some developmental explanation and expand scientific knowledge?

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A) experimental 
B) hypothetical 
C) theoretical 
D) applied

Question 7

Researchers who use intelligence quotient (IQ)testing as part of their research project with elementary age students are likely to be researching _________ development.

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A) personality 
B) cognitive 
C) social 
D) physical

Question 8

In ____________ development,each stage is ________.

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A) discontinuous change;distinct 
B) continuous change;distinct 
C) distinct change;discontinuous 
D) distinct change;gradual

Question 9

Explain the differences between how a developmentalist who is specializing in personality and a developmentalist who is specializing in social development go about their work.

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Question 10

William is participating along with a group of adolescents trying to lose weight.One of his assignments is to keep a diary of his food intake and the times that he eats daily.This can be considered an example of what type of research?

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A) experimental 
B) ethnography 
C) case study 
D) survey research

Question 11

All developmental specialists acknowledge that neither heredity nor environment alone can account for the full range of human development and change.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

A correlational study can conclude that the viewing of television aggression causes more aggressive behavior in children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which theorist(s)championed the idea of self-actualization?

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A) Freud and Erikson 
B) Skinner and Piaget 
C) Rogers and Maslow 
D) Bandura

Question 14

Which of Bronfenbrenner's five levels represents broader influences,including societal institutions such as local government,community,schools,places of worship,and the local media?

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A) microsystem 
B) macrosystem 
C) mesosystem 
D) exosystem

Question 15

Susan learned at a young age that developing good study habits,such as doing her homework,brought about good grades and made her want to work harder in school.This sort of encouraging outcome of an action is called

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A) learning. 
B) classical conditioning. 
C) reinforcement. 
D) social-cognition.

Question 16

Provide insight as to why the humanistic perspective has not had a major impact upon the field of lifespan development.

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Question 17

What is the learning approach that emphasizes modeling,which involves learning by observing the behavior of another person?

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A) classical conditioning 
B) behavior modification 
C) social-cognitive learning 
D) operant conditioning

Question 18

Which approach to development suggests that there are five levels of the environment that simultaneously influence individuals?

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A) Piaget's cognitive approach 
B) Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach 
C) Skinner's behavioral approach 
D) Freud's psychoanalytical approach

Question 19

Piaget's two basic principles of growth in children's understanding of the world are

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A) reward and punishment. 
B) schemas and assessment. 
C) assimilation and accommodation. 
D) cognitive and behavior.

Question 20

A type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response is called

Accepted Answer

A) classical conditioning. 
B) behavioral perspective. 
C) operant conditioning. 
D) psychodynamic approach.

Exam 1: An Introduction to Lifespan Development