Adult Development and Aging Exam Review
Course Introduction
Adult Development and Aging explores the psychological, social, and biological processes of adulthood and later life. The course examines key theories and research related to physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that occur from early adulthood through old age. Topics include identity and personality development, family and work transitions, health and wellness, aging and memory, age-related challenges, and societal attitudes toward aging. Students will gain insights into normative and non-normative experiences, diversity in aging, and strategies to promote successful and healthy aging.
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Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 2nd Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) Cohort effects are most likely to be a problem when it is difficult to separate the effects of developmental processes from ____ when examining age effects across a wide range of ages.
A) unique environmental events
B) dependent variables
C) biological components
D) genetic factors
Answer: A
Q2) On the hit reality television show, "Hell's Kitchen," contestants vying for a position of Executive Chef at a posh restaurant are often placed in circumstances where their culinary skills are tested in creative and novel ways. According to ____, the one most likely to succeed would be the one whose skills are most fully consistent with the tasks laid before them.
A) the psychosocial theory of development
B) Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development
C) the competence-environmental press theory of development
D) Kohlberg's theory of moral development
Answer: C
Q3) A subset of a population is called a(n) _______________.
Answer: sample
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) Ferdinand _______________ was one of two physicians who revolutionized childbirth by advocating for a more "natural," or prepared childbirth and saw it as a life event to be celebrated rather than a medical event to be endured.
Answer: Lamaze
Q2) Nora was born just after the 32nd week of pregnancy. According to your authors, she would be referred to as a ________ baby.
A) preeclampsia
B) low birth weight
C) preterm
D) viability
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the physical changes that a woman is likely to experience after pregnancy?
A) Her breasts may begin to produce milk.
B) Her uterus becomes smaller.
C) Her levels of female hormones may drop.
D) Her weight will return to normal within a week.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) According to your textbook, which of the following themes do infants have the ability to attribute to people's behaviors?
A) deceptiveness
B) conceptuality
C) intentionality
D) awareness
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is an example of intersensory redundancy?
A) laying a child on her back to help her sleep
B) using a soft sponge to clean the child during bath time
C) singing "Pat-a-cake" to your baby while also clapping her hands
D) softly blowing in your child's face to make her smile
Answer: C
Q3) _______________ is accepted as the best way to make sure a baby gets adequate nutrition and proper antibodies.
Answer: Breast-feeding, Breastfeeding
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Q4) Some researchers have coined the term _______________ to refer to the fact that many children with autism spectrum disorder seem to lack a theory of mind.
Answer: mindblindness
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) When adults speak slowly and with exaggerated changes in pitch and volume, they are using ____ speech.
A) symbolic
B) off-stressed
C) phonemic
D) infant-directed
Q2) Preschool children may have difficulty providing reliable testimony about events, particularly abuse, because children at this age _____.
A) have not yet developed a hippocampus
B) are particularly suggestible
C) have an inactive amygdala
D) are overly skilled at monitoring
Q3) Provide an example of how egocentrism, centration, and appearance as reality might affect the actions or thoughts of a child.
Q4) Piaget's theory is often criticized for having overestimated the cognitive skills of infants and young children and for underestimating the cognitive skills of adolescents.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) The child who responds to his/her parent as if they were saying, "Why do you keep leaving me to fend for myself?" is demonstrating a(n) _______________ attachment style.
Q2) Research has found that a(n) _______________ mother-child attachment is just as likely to occur, regardless of the quality, duration, and frequency of childcare. The age at which a child enters child care is similarly unlikely to interfere with such an attachment.
Q3) When a baby is upset when her attachment figure leaves the room, and then demonstrates anger when the attachment figure returns, she is displaying an avoidant attachment style.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A ____ is a set of cultural guidelines that dictate how a person should behave, particularly with other people.
A) social role
B) social rule
C) social norm
D) social more
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Q5) Cooperation, empathy, and altruism are all examples of _______________ behavior.
Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Why is it that children are typically able to improve their handwriting skills as they move through the elementary school years?
A) Because there are more opportunities to use those skills, including painting and the use of electronic tablets
B) Because they develop better fine motor control in their hands and fingers
C) Because 'texting' on electronic devices strengthens their fingers
D) Because schools have moved away from computers and back toward longhand writing in recent years
Q2) On modern tests of intelligence, IQ scores are determined
A) by comparing a child's score with the average score of same-age children.
B) by using the same IQ calculation as on the original Stanford-Binet exam.
C) based on a child's gender and race.
D) by subtracting a child's chronological age from their mental age.
Q3) What used to be referred to as "mental retardation" is now more properly called ________________, and is marked by a deficit in intelligence quotient and problems adapting to one's environment.
Q4) Schools that are most successful have staff and students who recognize that a primary emphasis on ____ fosters positive outcomes.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Friendships serve many important purposes, one of which is mutual support and caring. When two friends spend a lot of their time together discussing each other's personal problems, they are engaging in co-_______________.
Q2) The ____ parenting style can be described as highly controlling but low in warmth.
A) authoritative
B) permissive
C) indulgent
D) authoritarian
Q3) What advice should you give to a parent who is trying to discourage prejudice in his or her child?
A) "Simply put your child in contact with individuals from other groups and let things occur on their own."
B) "Have your child role-play being members of another group."
C) "Work on strengthening your child's feelings toward his or her own group."
D) "Let things alone, as attempts to reduce prejudice almost always result in increased prejudice."
Q4) _______________ instruction involves telling a child what to do, when to do it, and why it should be done.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) A child's attempt to solve a problem is to ____ as an adolescent's attempt to solve that same problem is to ____.
A) heuristics; analysis
B) experience; novelty
C) approximation; specificity
D) algorithms; hypotheses
Q2) Puberty refers to the three types of physical changes that mark the transition from childhood to young adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does research consistently find about the six stages of moral development proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg?
A) All of the stages are encountered by most people, but in varying sequences.
B) Individuals progress through them in order and virtually no individuals skip stages.
C) Males tend to make it to stage 6 of the theory, but females generally stop developing at stage 4 or 5.
D) Females tend to make it to stage 6 of the theory, but males generally stop developing at stage 4 or 5.
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) According to Holland, a person who likes applying their verbal or quantitative skills to structured, well-defined tasks that have been assigned to them as a(n) _______________ personality type.
Q2) Which of the following statements BEST describes the position of your authors regarding the self-esteem of adolescents?
A) Self-esteem can vary across different domains and the social domain is particularly important to adolescents.
B) Self-esteem is global; that is, if an adolescent feels good about herself in one area, she is most likely to feel good about herself in all areas.
C) Self-esteem is surprisingly unaffected by the relationships that adolescents have with their peers.
D) Self-esteem is surprisingly unaffected by the relationships that adolescents have with their parents and siblings.
Q3) The self-absorption that marks the teenage search for identity is referred to as adolescent _______________.
Q4) The portion of one's self that focuses on heritage and group culture is referred to as one's _______________ identity.
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood
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Q1) In Western cultures, voting, completing an education, beginning full-time employment, leaving home and establishing financial independence, getting married, and having children are all examples of the assumption of new responsibilities that defines
A) genotypical markers.
B) emergent shifts.
C) role transitions.
D) rites of passage.
Q2) The knowledge and information that you have acquired over the course of your lifetime comprises your ________________ intelligence.
Q3) More than 90% of those who successfully stop smoking cigarettes do so
A) by taking prescription medications.
B) by chewing nicotine gum.
C) on their own.
D) by using nicotine replacement patches.
Q4) Cigarette smoking is associated with many different forms of cancer, including cervix, colon, bladder, and stomach cancer.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Familism is the idea that a family's well-being takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members, and is a value most associated with ____ families.
A) African American
B) Latino
C) European American
D) Middle Eastern
Q2) Fatimah is a Muslim woman who lives in Malaysia. She is in her early twenties, and has not yet married. This has led to her losing status in her community. Which of the following is Fatimah likely to cite as a reason for her status as a single woman?
A) jodoh
B) nervios
C) koro
D) namaste
Q3) _______________ divorce is a voluntary, contractually based alternative dispute resolution process for couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than having a ruling imposed upon them by a court or arbitrator.
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Across ethnic groups, European American women participate the most in the workforce, and African American women participate the least.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One reason why the number of sexual harassment complaints in the United States is declining might be due to
A) the publicity it has received in the media.
B) increased sensitivity by employers.
C) increased acceptance of sexual behavior in the workplace.
D) the "don't ask, don't tell" policies of many organizations.
Q3) If you were told that research suggests that those in white-collar occupations generally experience an increase in job satisfaction with age, while those in blue-collar occupations do not, you should assume that these findings apply to
A) women but not men.
B) men but not women.
C) both men and women.
D) neither men nor women.
Q4) The _______________ limits women's promotional opportunities within a company.
Q5) According to Kahlil Gibran, "_______________ is love made visible."
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) One method of treating the symptoms of menopause is MHT, or menopausal hormone therapy. This medical approach involves the use of low doses of _______________, which are sometimes combined with a synthetic form of progesterone.
Q2) As Dr. Benton is looking at an X-ray of bones in your leg, his comment, ____, would indicate that you may have osteoporosis.
A) "I see less mass than normal"
B) "I see excessive encapsulation"
C) "I see a significant increase in density"
D) "I see a lot of 'senile' plaques"
Q3) An individual characterizing what Erikson called "stagnation" feels unable to
A) make meaningful appraisals concerning hassles.
B) form a superego.
C) contribute to a society's continuation.
D) think in an encapsulated manner.
Q4) As compared to younger individuals, adults tend to have a higher need to know why they should learn something before undertaking it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) Generally speaking, research has found that creativity tends to peak during a person's early ____ and declines thereafter.
A) twenties
B) thirties
C) forties
D) fifties
Q2) A population _______________ is a graphical technique used by demographers to illustrate the changes that occur in population age structures over time.
Q3) Thankfully, in the United States there are governmental programs already established to provide adequate support and assistance to the growing elderly population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define longevity, and define and differentiate between the three different types of life expectancy that comprise longevity.
Q5) Dementia that is caused by a series of small strokes is called _______________ dementia.
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues
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Q1) One proposal that has been made to help offset the future Social Security crisis in the United States of America suggests ________, which would allow workers to invest at least part of their money in personal retirement accounts managed by the federal government or other investment companies.
Q2) A willingness to seek pastoral care, participation in various religious activities, and a faith in God who cares about people are all aspects of ________ support.
Q3) Which of the following factors is the biggest predictor of the likelihood that a spouse who is caring for their sick partner will develop depression symptoms?
A) marital satisfaction
B) whether the partner's illness is or is not progressive
C) whether the partner's illness is psychological or physical in nature
D) the nature and severity of the partner's symptoms
Q4) Many people who retire from their careers opt to spend some of their reclaimed time volunteering in their community.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ is the most commonly reported form of elder abuse.
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) The psychological side of coming to terms with a loss is called _______________.
Q2) Compare and contrast the four-component and dual-process models of coping with bereavement. How are they different from the grief work as rumination hypothesis?
Q3) Because of her diagnosis, Brittany Maynard qualified for physician-assisted suicide under the ____ Act.
A) Death With Dignity
B) National Right to Life
C) Compassion & Choices
D) Euthanasia
Q4) _______________ is the practice of ending a person's life for reasons of mercy.
Q5) Whichdiscipline refers to the study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes toward these attitudes?
A) erotology
B) thanatology
C) geropsychiatry
D) orthopsychiatry
Q6) Demonstrate your knowledge of the legal definitions of death by differentiating between clinical death, whole-brain death, and a persistent vegetative state.
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