Human Development Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Human Development is a multidisciplinary course that explores the biological, psychological, and social changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from conception to old age. Emphasizing major theoretical frameworks and empirical research, the course examines key developmental milestones, cognitive and emotional growth, identity formation, and the influence of family, culture, and environment. Students will gain insights into the processes shaping human behavior and the challenges individuals face at different stages, preparing them for advanced study or careers in psychology, education, health, and related fields.
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HDEV 2nd Canadian Edition by Spencer Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) What is Mark's conditioned response?
A) saying "gotcha"
B) touching his neck
C) laughing when he hears "gotcha"
D) laughing when his neck is touched
Answer: C
Q2) The sociocultural perspective focuses on children's aggressive and sexual impulses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Cross-sequential research combines the longitudinal and cross-sectional research methods.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Correlational studies prove causal relationships between variables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Prenatal Development
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Q1) What would you tell a woman who is worried about exposure to environmental hazards during her pregnancy?
A) Environmental hazards include ultrasound and X-rays.
B) Environmental hazards include lead, mercury, PCBs, and radiation.
C) Environmental hazards lead to severe cognitive disabilities, but rarely physical deformations.
D) Environmental hazards are only a problem if the pregnant woman was exposed during the embryonic period of development.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a characteristic of dominant alleles?
A) They cause traits in individuals when paired with recessive alleles.
B) They come from the father of the developing child.
C) They are determined during mitosis.
D) They are determined by the parents during the germinal period.
Answer: A
Q3) Vitamins cause no harm in developing fetuses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Baby: in the New World
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Q1) Which baby is most likely a preterm infant?
A) a baby with a weak sucking reflex
B) a baby resulting from his mother's first pregnancy
C) a small baby that generally shows no deficits
D) a baby with a higher than normal body temperature
Answer: A
Q2) How do newborns' sleeping habits differ from adults' sleeping habits?
A) Newborns sleep about 10% longer.
B) Newborns sleep about twice as much per day.
C) Newborns spend significantly less time in REM sleep
D) Newborns sleep less, but their sleep is broken into small segments across 24-hour periods.
Answer: B
Q3) Janet lives in the first province in Canada to regulate and legislate midwives.Where does she live?
A) Alberta
B) British Columbia
C) Ontario
D) Quebec
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) According to the textbook, what has research found regarding myelination?
A) It may continue into adolescence.
B) It is enhanced by vitamin B intake.
C) It is complete by the time the child is 3 years old.
D) It enhances cognitive functioning, but NOT motor functioning.
Q2) Mary is 4 months old.What is the priority for her nutritional needs and feeding routine?
A) proper introduction of foods, ideally one new food at a time
B) more simple sugars than adults because infants are rapidly growing
C) restriction of fat intake to avoid childhood obesity
D) the same nutritional needs as adults and older children: high in high-fibre, low in fats.
Q3) Martha said, "I can't believe it is possible.I swear my child grew overnight." How is her doctor most likely to respond?
A) No, growing overnight is NOT possible.
B) Yes, growing overnight is possible but only during the teen years.
C) Yes, research seems to confirm it is possible to grow overnight.
D) Yes, but in childhood growing overnight usually affects only girls.
Q4) Discuss what is meant by "canalization," in terms of human development.
Q5) Briefly describe how the parts of a neuron function.
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Learning theory explains language development primarily as a result of nature.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following has research taught us about infant memory?
A) Infants can remember only after 6 months of age.
B) Infants can memorize things after only one exposure.
C) Infants demonstrate memory for experiences they had in utero.
D) Infants do NOT demonstrate reliable memory until approximately 3 months of age.
Q3) Theo is 10 months old.His parents overhear him talking to himself in his crib.His language resembles adult speech in sound, with words rising and falling.What term best describes Theo's vocalizations?
A) echolalia
B) intonation
C) turn-taking
D) vocabulary development
Q4) Object permanence is recognition that an object exists when out of sight.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is object permanence and what abilities does it represent?
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Most North American infants are securely attached.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements does NOT reflect researchers' findings regarding infant emotion?
A) They agree that a handful of emotions are shown by infants during the first few months.
B) They agree that emotions develop in an orderly fashion.
C) They disagree on which emotions are first shown and whether discrete emotions are present at birth.
D) They dispute the idea that infant emotion unfolds in a predictable fashion.
Q3) Whose view is contradicted by Harry and Margaret Harlow's (1966) attachment research with monkeys?
A) Ainsworth's view
B) Erikson's view
C) Freud's view
D) Bowlby's view
Q4) Briefly describe the three types of temperament identified by Thomas and Chess (1989).
Q5) Describe how autistic children can be distinguished from non-autistic children.
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Chapter 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Suppose both of your parents are left-handed.What are your chances of being left-handed?
A) 50%
B) 80%
C) 92%
D) 100%
Q2) Children understand passive sentences before active ones.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jean-Paul demonstrates to his son, Marc, how to tie shoes.Gradually, Jean-Paul turns the responsibility for tying shoes over to Marc.What kind of guidance is Jean-Paul exhibiting?
A) attachment
B) scaffolding
C) conservation
D) the zone of proximal development
Q4) Children become more active as they get older.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe The Aboriginal Head Start on Reserve program.
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Infants cry in response to the crying of others because they feel bad about the others' distress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Children have few fears until middle childhood.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following are you most likely to hear from an authoritarian parent?
A) "Because I said so."
B) "Children have opinions too."
C) "Children can be reasoned with."
D) "Children should be involved in their own rearing."
Q4) What is the typical experience for the older sibling when a new sibling is born?
A) The older sibling is rarely resentful.
B) The older sibling will have a negative experience.
C) The older sibling tends to receive more attention from the parents.
D) The older sibling may experience both positive and negative emotions.
Q5) What are the two dimensions of child rearing? How are they combined in the four parenting styles?
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Q6) How are later-born children different from first-born children?
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Chapter 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) According to the Binet-Simon scale, what is meant by mental age?
A) the child's physical age
B) the age at which IQ can begin to be tested
C) the intellectual level at which the child is functioning
D) the child's age when he or she attains average intelligence
Q2) Jack is an average 7-year-old.How have his nutritional needs changed compared with two years ago?
A) Jack needs to eat less.
B) Jack needs to eat more.
C) Jack needs to eat more fat.
D) Jack needs to eat the same amount.
Q3) Which of the following is a common symptom of dyslexia?
A) stuttering
B) difficulty learning to read
C) poor language development
D) difficulty in processing complex mathematical equations
Q4) College students with dyslexia may be excellent at word recognition, yet have trouble decoding new words.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements does NOT explain why peers are important?
A) They help to socialize children.
B) They are from a different generation and perspective than parents.
C) They have different skills and competencies than parents.
D) They support their friends because self imposed parent-differentiation begins.
Q2) Richard Green (1978) studied children reared by lesbians or transsexuals.What sexual orientation tended to be the norm for the children he studied?
A) a bisexual orientation
B) a transsexual orientation
C) a homosexual orientation
D) a heterosexual orientation
Q3) When children participate in the Infinity Project, they acknowledge that it hurts when you feel alone.What symbolic gesture do they make?
A) signing an online pledge card to never bully
B) wearing a pink T-shirt
C) marking a figure 8 on their wrist
D) joining a police controlled web-group devoted to reporting cases of bullying in their schools
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Chapter 11: Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Olivia is worried about what to wear today, and she is convinced that her girlfriends are also thinking about her clothes.What term describes Olivia's worries?
A) a personal fable
B) concrete thinking
C) deductive reasoning
D) the imaginary audience
Q2) Chronic illnesses are experienced by more than half of the adolescents in Canada today.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How do adolescents choose careers?
Q4) Which question involves hypothetical thinking?
A) Who is?
B) What might be?
C) Where?
D) Why?
Q5) Describe adolescent cognitive development.
Q6) What are the characteristics of moral development in adolescence?
Q7) What are the sex differences in cognitive abilities in adolescence?
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Chapter 12: Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) According to data from Project Teen 2008, what percentage of all Aboriginal teens living on reserves expects to get the job they want?
A) 24%
B) 44%
C) 64%
D) 84%
Q2) Which of the following words best describes dating relationships in early adolescence?
A) sexual
B) intense
C) committed
D) short-lived
Q3) Zach is excited about his friend's offer to go to the movies.He immediately says yes, only to arrive home and be reminded that an important family event is planned for the same time.What identity status does Zach's behaviour represent?
A) diffusion
B) foreclosure
C) moratorium
D) achievement
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Chapter 13: Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following best characterizes menstrual problems?
A) They are rare for women.
B) They typically involve severe symptoms.
C) They are primarily caused by psychological problems.
D) They include amenorrhea and premenstrual syndrome.
Q2) Jordan loves taking hallucinogens and made a list his favourites.Which of the following would NOT appear on his list?
A) PCP
B) cocaine
C) LSD
D) ecstasy
Q3) Which of the following best characterizes post-formal operational thought?
A) It is the same as dualistic thinking.
B) It can only be learned in college or university.
C) Developmentalists do NOT agree on its existence.
D) It involves being able to solve logical problems by using abstract ideas.
Q4) During early adulthood, most men's body composition has a higher percentage of muscle than fat.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a reason why people cohabit?
A) to save money
B) to avoid legal entanglements
C) to avoid living alone
D) to avoid procreation
Q2) What type of love did Sternberg identify as being high in passion and intimacy, but low in commitment?
A) foolish love
B) romantic love
C) consummate love
D) companionate love
Q3) Monogamous marriage involves two people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the numbers of single young adults in our society.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What conflict did Erikson identify for the phase of early adulthood? How is this conflict resolved?
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Chapter 15: Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following best characterizes the change in abilities in middle adulthood?
A) a sharp decline in memory abilities
B) an improved ability to use elaborative rehearsal
C) an improved ability to ignore distractions
D) a decline in the ability to learn through rote repetition
Q2) You have been diagnosed with cancer and your doctor informs you of a treatment plan that will involve chemotherapy.Which of the following would your doctor likely state?
A) The use of hormones will stop tumour growth.
B) The use of high-dose X-rays will kill the tumours.
C) Chemotherapy is less effective than other treatments for cancer.
D) Chemotherapy often leads to negative side effects, such as hair loss and nausea.
Q3) Schaie's research, which began in 1956, has shown that younger adults are smarter than older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How do menopause, perimenopause, and the climacteric differ?
Q5) Are Canadian adults healthier today than in the past?
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Chapter 16: Middle Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) When does the onset of midlife occur?
A) It occurs at age 35.
B) It occurs at age 40
C) It occurs at age 45.
D) It depends on when you were born.
Q2) Neuroticism declines between early and middle adulthood, meaning that people become more emotionally stable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Donna believes that life is difficult, often gloomy, and negative.She would score high on what factor of the big five model of personality?
A) neuroticism
B) agreeableness
C) conscientiousness
D) openness to experience
Q4) Middle-aged adults tend to have more friends than young adults.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What are some developmental tasks of middle adulthood, according to Havighurst?
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Chapter 17: Late Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Life expectancy is the maximum expected length of life for a member of a species.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best characterizes presbycusis?
A) hearing loss
B) a vision problem
C) rare in older adults
D) a problem that occurs more for women than men
Q3) Men are more likely than women to die from accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, strokes, suicide, homicide, HIV/AIDS, and some forms of cancer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The stress hormone theory of aging is an example of a cellular damage theory. A)True
B)False
Q5) Alzheimer's disease can be cured.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How do vision and hearing change during late adulthood?
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Chapter 18: Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following illustrates a positive example of Erickson's eighth and final stage of psychosocial development?
A) Frank, who is 68 years old, can NO longer read the sports statistics in the newspaper.
B) Janet, who is 75 years old, is NOT able to actively play on the swing and teeter-totter, but enjoys taking her youngest grandchild to the park and watching her play.
C) Gladys, who is 73 years old, NO longer meets her friends for lunch because her hands tremble so much that she can't hold a tea cup.
D) Jack, who turned 80 last week, refused to go fishing with his 55-year-old son because his arthritis is so advanced that he can NO longer bait a fishing hook.
Q2) Which of the following best represents the findings of research on adjustment in retirement?
A) People are least happy when they retire at age 65.
B) Those who were married and retired "on time" were happiest.
C) Those who were single and retired later than others were happiest.
D) The adjustment is easiest when people reduce the amount of activity they are involved in.
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Chapter 19: Life's
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Q1) Withholding a life-saving medical procedure is illegal in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shneidman (1977) explained that people typically change their personalities radically after they are diagnosed with a terminal illness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following does NOT describe the story of Nancy B.?
A) She was a young woman who was living with an incurable disease (Guillain-Barré syndrome) and bedridden for life.
B) She asked the doctors to disconnect the respirator that was keeping her alive, arguing that no one can be made to undergo treatment without consent.
C) The Supreme Court denied her argument, stating that to allow this act would erode the belief of the Canadian people in the sanctity of life.
D) The courts allowed this request stating that the doctors would NOT be aiding the patient to commit suicide.
Q4) How do bereavement, grief, and mourning differ?
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