Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter 5 Developing Through The Life Span - 42 Questions
Chapter 5 Developing Through The Life Span - 42 Questions
a. Conservation
b. CORRECT: assimilation
c. Habituation
d. Accommodation
2. The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction
possible
a. Secondary sex characteristics
2. One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self
by testing and integrating various roles.
a. Intimacy
b. Imprinting
c. Fetus
d. CORRECT: Identity
2. The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to
independence.
a. Self-concept
b. CORRECT: Adolescence
c. Autism
d. Attachment
a. Autism
b. Puberty
c. CORRECT: Fetus
d. Schema
2. In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12)
during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
a. Concrete operational stage
2. one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
a. Critical Period
d. INCORRECT:
2. research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
a. INCORRECT:
b. social identity
c. Social clock
a. CORRECT: Zygote
b. Embryo
c. Schema
d. Puberty
2. Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality,
and body hair.
2. one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.
a. Adolescence
b. Object permanence
a. CORRECT: Schema
b. Zygote
c. Fetus
d. Autism
2. Physical and cognitive abnormalties in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy
drinking. Severe case: noticeable facial misproportions
a. Attachment
b. Developmental psychology
c. Sensorimotor stage
a. CORRECT: Puberty
b. Fetus
c. Schema
d. Embryo
2. People's ideas about their own and others' mental states- about their feelings, percetpions,
and thoughts and the behavior these might predict.
a. Teratogens
2. the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "who am I?" that comes
from our group memberships
a. Social clock
b. Identity
2. The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and
retirement.
a. social identity
2. In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental
task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
a. CORRECT: Intimacy
b. Autism
c. Schema
d. Identity
a. Maturation
b. assimilation
c. CORRECT: Accommodation
d. cognition
2. An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness
to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
a. Autism
b. Menarche
c. CORRECT: Attachment
d. Schema
21 True/False Questions
2. Sensorimotor stage → In Piaget's theory the stage (fom about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during
which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete
logic.
3. Emerging adulthood → For some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to
early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible
adulthood
5. cognition → Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively
uninfluenced by experience.
6. Menarche → The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological
changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
7. Egocentrism → One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a
sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
8. Embryo → The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of
reproducing
9. Teratogens → An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking
closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
11. Cross-sectional study → research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a
long period.
12. Stranger anxiety → One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to
solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
CORRECT: This is false. It should be Stranger anxiety → The fear of strangers that infants
commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age..
13. Developmental psychology → The culturally preferred timing of social events such as
marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
14. Imprinting → The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period
very easily in life.
16. Autism → The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
17. Self-concept → The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to
independence.
18. Basic Trust → According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and
trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.
19. Object permanence → The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from
puberty to independence.
CORRECT: This is false. It should be Object permanence → The awareness that things
continue to exist even when not perceived..
20. Critical Period → An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain
stimuli of experiences produces proper development.
21. Maturation → Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively
uninfluenced by experience.
1. When an infant finds him- or herself in a situation that he or she cannot make
sense of, the infant experiences:
3. At what age do infants start to smile at stimuli (such as toys) that bring them
pleasure?
8. The explanations that children use in order to explain other people's thinking
represents a __________.
10. Using examples from the Strange Situations study, match the different
attachment patters to children's responses.
10.1 secure A. This child shows great B. The child uses his
attachment distress when the mother mother as a home base, is
pattern leaves the room, but when at ease when the mother is
she returns, the child may present, becomes upset
both kick her and wish to when she leaves, but will
be close to her. go to her as soon as she
returns.
10.2 avoidant B. The child uses his D. The child does not seek
attachment mother as a home base, is close proximity to the
pattern at ease when the mother is mother, and after she
present, becomes upset leaves and comes back, the
when she leaves, but will child seems to avoid her.
go to her as soon as she
returns.
10.3 ambivalent D. The child does not seek A. This child shows great
attachment close proximity to the distress when the mother
patterns mother, and after she leaves the room, but when
leaves and comes back, she returns, the child may
the child seems to avoid both kick her and wish to
her. be close to her.
11. Children who are raised by overly responsive mothers are likely to be
__________ attached.
13. What is one of the main critiques of the Strange Situations experiment?
14. The process during which infants' behaviors prompt further responses from
parents and other caregivers and, in turn, initiates new responses from the
infants is known as:
15. Infants who are __________ exhibit a higher level of social behavior toward
each other than towards an unfamiliar infant.
17. Difficult babies have difficult moods but are quick to adapt to new situations.
18. When confronted with a new situation, difficult babies tend to __________.
19. Nearly __________ percent of children under the age of 3 are cared for by
other adults while their parents are at work.
Your Answer: 7
50
20. Describe the four classifications of infant attachment. Be sure to address the
four types as well as classification criteria.
Your Answer:
CHAPTER 16
Raven Helson suggests that it is not adults' _____ but _____ that determines
the course of their personality development.
9. Fathers and mothers tend to be equally sympathetic to their children who are
unemployed.
10. The majority of elderly people who live alone report that they:
11. __________ grandparents frequently call and visit their grandchildren, may
take them on vacations, or ask them to come for a visit.
13. What are some of the factors that increase the likelihood of spousal abuse?
15. Some researchers argue that the more a society differentiates between the
roles and statuses of women and men in the society, the __________ the
likelihood is of abuse.
16. In general, the older a person is, the more likely he/she is to be satisfied with
his/her job.
18. Less than 10% of women will be slapped, kicked, beaten, choked, or
threatened by an intimate partner at least once during a relationship.
19. According to Daniel Levinson, the early 40’s in an individual’s life is marked by
intense psychological turmoil, often resulting in a midlife crisis. In your opinion,
is a midlife crisis truly a reality for adults?
Your Answer:
BLANK BLANK BLANKBLANK
20. Describe the “cycle of violence” hypothesis. What are some of the ways to deal
with spousal abuse?
Your Answer:
BLANK BALANK BLANK NLANK