Human Growth and Development Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Human Growth and Development explores the biological, psychological, and social changes that occur from conception through late adulthood. This course examines major theories and research findings related to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development across the lifespan. Students will gain an understanding of the factors that influence human growth, including genetics, environment, culture, and life experiences. Emphasis is placed on developmental milestones, the impact of family, peers, and society, and the application of developmental principles to real-world contexts within educational, social, and healthcare settings.
Recommended Textbook Development Across the Life Span 8th Edition by Robert S. Feldman
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Lifespan Development
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Q1) Biological and environmental influences that are similar for individuals in a particular age group,regardless of where they are raised,are called ______ influences.
A)age-graded
B)history-graded
C)biological
D)environmental
Answer: A
Q2) Briefly describe some drawbacks of utilizing longitudinal research studies.
Answer: 1)Longitudinal research requires a tremendous investment of time as researchers wait for participants to grow older.
2)Participants drop out over the course of the research because they may move away,become ill,or die as the research proceeds.
3)Participants may become "test wise" and perform better each time they are assessed as they become more familiar with the procedure.4)Experimental participants may be affected by the repeated presence of an experimenter or observer.
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Chapter 2: The Start of Life: Prenatal Development
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Q1) What is the process by which a sperm and an ovum join to form a single new cell?
A)fertilization
B)sex
C)germinal stage
D)prenatal period
Answer: A
Q2) Along with schizophrenia,all of the psychological disorders below have been shown to be related,at least in part,to genetic factors.Which of the following disorders is likely to have a genetic factor,according to the text?
A)gender dysphoria
B)anorexia nervosa
C)attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
D)anxiety
Answer: C
Q3) The blood disorder hemophilia is an example of a disease that is produced by X-linked genes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Infant
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Q1) Which factor can classify an infant as meeting the criteria of very low birthweight?
A)an infant who loses weight and remains for an extended stay in the hospital
B)an infant who weighs 90% or less of a normal infant's weight
C)an infant who was in the womb for less than 30 weeks
D)an infant born prior to 38 weeks after conception
Answer: C
Q2) The attending nurse tells the expectant mother that her contractions are approximately 5 minutes apart.What hormones are high enough in the mother to cause the uterus to begin periodic contractions?
A)androgen
B)progesterone
C)oxytocin
D)estrogen
Answer: C
Q3) Newborns cannot register smells and tastes with facial expressions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy
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Q1) The basic nerve cell of the nervous system is called
A)synapse.
B)dendrite.
C)neuron.
D)myelin.
Q2) Which of the following is an explanation as to why a newborn's body lacks easy mobility?
A)The baby's head is disproportionately larger than its body.
B)Babies cannot get enough nourishment to increase their strength.
C)The baby's limbs are relatively long in relation to the rest of the body.
D)Babies' bodies are mostly muscle,so they lack the flexibility to pick their head up.
Q3) Briefly discuss the classic study by developmental psychologists Gibson & Walk and the "visual cliff."
Q4) Caucasian infants show a much more pronounced response to situations that produce the Moro reflex compared with Navajo infants.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly explain the process of "synaptic pruning."
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) What is the term for an organized pattern of functioning that adapts and changes with mental development?
A)assimilation
B)scheme
C)reception
D)skill
Q2) There are no disputes or disagreements with Piaget's theories.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Piaget believed that the earliest schemes are limited to ________ that we have when we are born.
A)inherited abilities
B)senses
C)neuron and synapse developments
D)reflexes
Q4) What is the name for the rules that govern the meaning of words and sentences?
A)phonology
B)semantics
C)morphemes
D)grammar
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) By what age are children purposefully using smiling to communicate positive emotions?
A)1 year
B)6 months
C)1.5 years
D)2 years
Q2) What is the term that refers to a style of attachment in which children do not seek proximity to the mother and,after the mother has left,seem to avoid her when she returns as if they are indifferent to her behavior?
A)Bowlby safety and security pattern
B)avoidant attachment pattern
C)secure attachment pattern
D)Ainsworth Strange Situation
Q3) When a child experiences pleasure with a person,or experiences comfort from that person when in distress,it is said that the child has
A)made a friend.
B)formed an attachment.
C)found a parental figure.
D)learned not to be lonely.
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in the
Preschool Years
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Q1) Approximately how many hours per week does the average preschool child watch TV?
A)40
B)30
C)21
D)15
Q2) Research suggests that the age at which toilet training takes place has risen over the years.In 1957,what percentage of children had been toilet trained by 18 months of age?
A)82%
B)92%
C)75%
D)65%
Q3) Children's lack of concern over the impact of their nonverbal behavior on others is evidence of their inherent selfishness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The average preschooler is not able to count in a fairly systematic,consistent manner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in the
Preschool Years
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Q1) What is the term for play in which children manipulate objects to produce or build something?
A)functional
B)parallel
C)cooperative
D)constructive
Q2) Maurice is a child who lives with a single parent.In 1960,less than ___ percent of children under the age of 18 lived in single parent homes.
A)22
B)55
C)10
D)33
Q3) What is the term that refers to the changes in people's sense of justice and of what is right and wrong,and in their behavior related to moral issues?
A)law and order
B)morality
C)moral development
D)heteronomous morality
Q4) Briefly give some reasons why parents physically abuse children.
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) For a child to remember a piece of information,_______ processes must function properly.
A)6
B)3
C)5
D)4
Q2) What is the name of the test for children that provides separate measures of verbal and performance (or nonverbal)skills,as well as a total score?
A)Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fourth Edition (WISC-IV)
B)deviation IQ scores
C)Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales,Fifth Edition (SB5)
D)Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children,Second Edition (KABC-II)
Q3) There is a simple diagnostic test available to diagnose ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Concrete operational thought involves applying _____ to solve problems.
A)reasoning
B)intuition or hunches
C)logical operations
D)acquired knowledge
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following children tends to academically outperform other children?
A)an only child of Chinese descent
B)a child of Chinese descent with siblings
C)a child born in the U.S.with siblings
D)a child born in the U.S.with one sibling
Q2) Parents can help break the cycle of low self-esteem in a child by using a(n)_________ child-rearing style.
A)authoritarian
B)permissive
C)authoritative
D)passive
Q3) Which of the following best describes the second of the three-stage process of women's morality,as theorized by Carol Gilligan?
A)goodness as self-sacrifice
B)orientation toward individual survival
C)morality of nonviolence
D)moral equivalence established between self and others
Q4) Briefly describe criticisms of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning.
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) For women,binge drinking is a problem and is defined as
A)10 or more drinks in one sitting.
B)5 or more drinks in one sitting.
C)4 or more drinks in one sitting.
D)3 or more drinks in one sitting.
Q2) Alcoholism has no genetic component.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Boys' and girls' sexual maturation follows the same time course of development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why is binge drinking more problematic for women than men?
A)It leads to women eating less and becoming malnourished.
B)It leads to more urination and bladder control problems in women.
C)When intoxicated,women are more likely to become the victims of violent crimes than men.
D)Women tend to weigh less than men,so their bodies cannot absorb alcohol as efficiently as men and they become drunk more quickly than men.
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Q5) Briefly describe some criticisms of Piaget's approach to cognitive development.
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Social norms oppose premarital sex for women in which of these areas?
A)Sub-Saharan Africa
B)United States
C)Spain
D)Middle East
Q2) Brandy is an overweight 15-year-old girl who is neither liked nor disliked by others at her school.Rather,Brandy gets no attention from her classmates at all,and she feels as though she might as well be invisible.Brandy would be considered
A)neglected.
B)an outcast.
C)controversial.
D)rejected.
Q3) According to a review of phone calls to suicide hotlines,the predominant adolescent difficulty that leads to a suicide attempt is
A)an eating disorder.
B)pregnancy.
C)mental illness.
D)family problems.
Q4) Briefly explain some criticism of Erikson's 8-stage theory of development.
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
Adulthood
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Q1) According to psychologist Jan Sinnot,postformal thought also takes into consideration which of the following?
A)inability to consider real-world constraints
B)a shift back and forth between an abstract,ideal solution and real-world constraints that might prevent a solution
C)that usually a person cannot reach the postformal thought process without first establishing Piaget's formal operations
D)only seeks a single right answer and an inability to consider alternative solutions
Q2) Regular exercise improves a person's overall physical health by improving which of the following?
A)dietary intake
B)lung capacity and endurance
C)brain density
D)sensory organ functioning
Q3) The study of creativity reveals several consistent developmental patterns.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly explain Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) In some cultures it is acceptable for college students to marry without love.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Brenda owns a small bookstore that also serves as an art gallery for her artwork and that of some of her friends.While this business may never make Brenda wealthy,she admits that it has been her dream since she was an art student in college.Brenda appears to be motivated by
A)career consolidation.
B)status.
C)intrinsic motivation.
D)extrinsic motivation.
Q3) The median age of first time marriage in the U.S.is now approximately _____ for men and _____ for women.
A)35;25
B)28;26
C)32;30
D)30;24
Q4) Briefly describe current research findings with regard to lesbian and gay relationships.
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Q5) Briefly explain some criticism of Ginzberg's career choice theory.
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Menopause by itself does not produce psychological symptoms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The initial,momentary storage of information that lasts only an instant,and is raw and meaningless,is called
A)short-term memory.
B)sequential memory.
C)sensory memory.
D)long-term memory.
Q3) Behavior characterized by noncompetitiveness,patience,and a lack of aggression is called
A)Type B behavior pattern.
B)psychological imbalance.
C)Type A behavior pattern.
D)polyphasic activities.
Q4) The increase in reaction time is usually quite significant once a person reaches middle age.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe the three types of memory.
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) Domestic violence occurs only in the U.S.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which two developmental psychologists believed that a person's personality is quite stable and continuous throughout one's lifetime?
A)Gould and Levinson
B)Erikson and Levinson
C)Costa and McCrae
D)Vaillant and Helson
Q3) Which of the following is a common reason why boomerang children return home to live with middle-aged parents?
A)homesickness
B)economic success
C)lack of employment or underemployment
D)middle-age parents miss their children and are experiencing empty nest syndrome
Q4) Being part of the sandwich generation is not a new phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) Older workers have fewer accidents than do younger workers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The theory that processing in all parts of the nervous system,including the brain,is less efficient is called
A)dendrite/axon theory.
B)peripheral slowing hypothesis.
C)generalized slowing hypothesis.
D)decreased myelination theory.
Q3) What is the term for a progressive brain disorder that produces loss of memory and confusion?
A)dementia
B)Alzheimer's disease
C)drug intoxication
D)a stroke
Q4) The elderly population shows a higher percentage of psychological disorders than young adults.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Briefly give some explanations for memory changes in older people.
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) Which of the following older people is most likely to experience elder abuse?
A)patient with a hip fracture in a nursing home
B)elder who is relatively independent and does not require an intense level of care
C)people with Alzheimer's or various forms of dementia living in their caretaker's home
D)an elderly person who resides in assisted living
Q2) What percent of people age 65 and older live in nursing homes?
A)3.5%
B)4.0%
C)4.5%
D)5.0%
Q3) Everyone passes through all five stages of retirement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What factor led to the development of the activity theory?
A)lack of support for the continuity theory
B)lack of correlational factors
C)too few subjects in studies
D)lack of support for the disengagement theory
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Chapter 19: Death and Dying
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Q1) The only alternative to home care for a dying person is nursing home care.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a respirator or other medical equipment that is sustaining a patient's life is removed,this is known as
A)proxy euthanasia.
B)voluntary active euthanasia.
C)death wish.
D)passive euthanasia.
Q3) A facility designed specifically for a dying person is called a hospice.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In traditional Hindu culture,the practice requiring a wife to throw herself into the funeral fire of her dead husband is now illegal.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The practice of assisted suicide is legal in most states in the U.S.
A)True
B)False
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