Lifespan Development Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Lifespan Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from conception to old age. The course examines major theories and research findings related to development at each stage of life, considering factors such as genetics, environment, culture, and individual differences. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences that shape human growth and behavior across infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and late life.
Recommended Textbook Children and Their Development 6th Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Science of Child Development
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Q1) Viewing infants as tabula rasas suggests that
A)infants will develop naturally unless the environment interferes.
B)experience will mold infants into unique individuals.
C)nature is more important than nurture.
D)infants are born with a sense of morality.
Answer: B
Q2) A strength of field experiments is that the results are more likely to be representative of behavior in real-world settings than results obtained in a laboratory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following theories has a biological perspective?
A)Freud's psychosexual theory
B)Bandura's social cognitive theory
C)Gesell's maturational theory
D)Erikson's psychosocial theory
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Genetic Bases of Child Development
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Q1) Inherited disorders
A)are more often caused by recessive alleles than by dominant alleles.
B)are more often caused by dominant alleles than by recessive alleles.
C)are due to dominant alleles about half the time.
D)do not usually seriously impair a child's development.
Answer: A
Q2) Chromosomes consist of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A female who has normal stature,but delayed language,and motor development could have which of the following disorders?
A)Klinefelter's syndrome
B)XYY complement
C)Turner's syndrome
D)XXX syndrome
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth and the Newborn
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Q1) Teratogens usually affect a wide range of body systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Gitte has AIDS and is pregnant.What are the potential consequences for her offspring?
A)frequent infections,neurological disorders,and death
B)mental retardation,damage to eyes,ears,and heart
C)deafness,blindness,and an abnormally small head
D)encephalitis,enlarged spleen,and improper blood clotting
Answer: A
Q3) Hypoxia refers to
A)not receiving adequate oxygen.
B)not receiving adequate nutrition.
C)receiving excessive amounts of oxygen.
D)excessive bleeding.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Growth and Health
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Q1) The extent to which brain organization is flexible is known as A)synaptic pruning.
B)plasticity.
C)myelinization.
D)experience-expectant growth.
Q2) Your friends have an 18-month-old who often becomes fussy when he is in his car seat for long periods of time,so they will take him out of the car seat.What can you tell your friends that might make them change their minds about this unsafe practice?
Q3) According to one longitudinal study,children who gradually slept less between sixth and eighth grade had the most symptoms of depression and the largest drop in self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q4) For preschool children,no more than __________ percent of their daily caloric intake should come from fat.
A)10
B)20
C)30
D)40
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Chapter 5: Perceptual and Motor Development
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Q1) Thomas and Alva should begin to be concerned about a possible hearing impairment if their infant son does not begin to imitate speech sounds and simple words by
A)1 month of age.
B)4 months of age.
C)6 months of age.
D)12 months of age.
Q2) Which of the following children is illustrating the impact of motor-skill development on the development of perceptual skills?
A)Jason,a 6-month-old infant,can hold,turn,and stroke the toy duck which allows him to learn about the three-dimensional nature of the toy duck.
B)Franklin,a 4-month-old infant,is able to tell that the banana and the apple are different objects because of the differences in shape and color.
C)Veronica,an 8-month-old infant,demonstrates knowledge of depth by avoiding crawling over the deep side of a visual cliff.
D)Carina,a 3-month-old infant,will focus almost entirely on the interior of the face,particularly the eyes and the lips.
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Chapter 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Q1) Assimilation and accommodation are usually in balance,or equilibrium.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Knowledge of people was the first core-domain identified by scientists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Piaget,cognitive development occurs in eight stages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Piaget
A)children will not be curious unless parents provide a stimulating environment.
B)children create theories about how the world works.
C)children are capable of abstract thought from the time they are born.
D)children's thinking is very similar to adult's thinking.
Q5) Infants form categories from the important clues provided by perceptual features and the organization of these features.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the development of object permanence.
Q7) What are some commonly accepted weaknesses of Piaget's theory?
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
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Q1) Who would be able to most accurately judge whether children are telling the truth or fabricating by watching a videotape of children's statements?
A)Steve,a law-enforcement officer
B)Blair,a child protection case worker
C)Rick,a developmental psychologist
D)Neither Steve,Blair,nor Rick is likely to be able to distinguish children who are telling the truth from those who are not.
Q2) Autobiographical memory typically begins in A)infancy.
B)the preschool years.
C)the school-age years. D)adolescence.
Q3) By ________,most children know the numbers to 20.
A)age 2
B)age 3
C)age 4
D)age 5
Q4) What are some factors that contribute to improved reading comprehension?
Q5) Name and briefly describe the three basic principles of counting.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
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Q1) Sternberg defines successful intelligence as using one's abilities skillfully to achieve one's personal goals.Which of the following is NOT an ability that people use to achieve personal goals?
A)analytic ability
B)practical ability
C)contextual ability
D)creative ability
Q2) Charles Spearman argued that many different intelligences exist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Learning disabilities
A)are easy to diagnose.
B)have virtually the same cause.
C)do not occur together (i.e. ,the same child will not have both math and reading disabilities).
D)should be treated by specifically tailoring instruction to the individual child's needs.
Q4) Creative ability involves knowing what solution or plan will actually work.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) The production of two-word speech
A)usually occurs around the first birthday.
B)is haphazard and is not based on any rules.
C)follows rules that are very different from language to language.
D)often is called telegraphic speech.
Q2) Children's use of grammatical morphemes is based primarily on
A)learning individual words.
B)the use of rules.
C)inflection.
D)telegraphic speech.
Q3) Cooing refers to
A)single syllable utterances consisting of a consonant and vowel.
B)the production of vowel-like sounds such as "ooooooo" or "ahhhhhhh."
C)the repetition of a sound such as "dahdahdahdahdah."
D)a pattern of rising and falling pitch.
Q4) If a child knows the word dinosaur and sees that one dinosaur is consistently called Dino,the child will conclude that Dino is the name of the dinosaur.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the rules that children use for learning new words?
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Your friend Jamal has a 12-month-old daughter,Kia.Recently,they ran into one of Jamal's coworkers who Kia did not know.When this "stranger" approached,Jamal thought that Kia looked at him to gauge his reaction to the "stranger" and then smiled after she saw Jamal greet the "stranger" in a friendly manner.When Jamal told this story to his wife,Yolanda,she laughed and told him that he was giving Kia more credit than a 1-year-old should get.Is Jamal or Yolanda correct? Explain your answer.
Q2) Children with secure attachment relationships have higher-quality friendships and fewer conflicts with peers than children with insecure attachment relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adults with dismissive attachment representation are the most likely to provide the sensitive caregiving that promotes secure attachment relationships in their own children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children who are frequently angry or fearful are more prone to depression.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Understanding Self and Others
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Q1) Who is likely to have the highest self-esteem?
A)Abe,who just started high school
B)Tex,who just started junior high school
C)Gus,who is in early elementary school
D)Len,who is in preschool
Q2) Because Danielle,a junior high school student,has low self-esteem,she is
A)likely to get along well with peers.
B)unlikely to become depressed.
C)unlikely to be involved in bully and aggressive behavior.
D)likely to do poorly in school.
Q3) Which gifted student's self-esteem is most likely to suffer if she is placed in a class for gifted students?
A)Blythe,who is very intent on mastering challenging academic material
B)Stacey,who values being at the top of the class
C)Holly,whose gifted classroom emphasizes individualized work
D)Blythe,Stacey,and Holly are equally likely to suffer a drop in self-esteem
Q4) Achievement and moratorium statuses are more common in young adolescents.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name and briefly describe Selman's five stages of perspective taking.
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Chapter 12: Moral Understanding and Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes the developmental changes in aggressive behavior?
A)All forms of aggression become more frequent as children develop.
B)Instrumental aggression becomes less common as children develop.
C)Instrumental aggression emerges during the elementary-school years.
D)All forms of aggression become more common between the preschool years and adolescence.
Q2) The belief that breaking a rule always leads to punishment is referred to as A)moral relativism.
B)postconventional reasoning.
C)conventional reasoning.
D)immanent justice.
Q3) Your friend is an elementary school teacher who has noticed that there are a few children in his class who are very aggressive and,consequently,have been rejected by the other children in the class.Your friend would like to train these aggressive children to behave more appropriately and has come to you for advice.What elements should be included in the training program?
Q4) Self-control emerges in infancy and gradually improves during the preschool years.Describe the changes in self-control between the ages of 1 and 3.
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Chapter 13: Gender and Development
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Q1) Gender differences in brain maturation may lead to gender differences in verbal ability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Boys do better than girls on tasks that involve fine-motor coordination.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 3 years of age,children show a firm preference for sex-typed toys.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mothers are more likely than fathers to treat sons and daughters differently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Matthew,a preschooler,sees a boy playing with dolls.Matthew is likely to A)also want to play with dolls.
B)not yet understand that the boy is engaged in cross-gender play.
C)tease the boy for playing with dolls.
D)be accepting of the boy even though he knows that he is playing with a girls' toy.
Q6) What are some of the explanations for gender differences in spatial ability?
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Chapter 14: Family Relationships
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Q1) According to Bronfenbrenner the child is embedded in a series of complex and interactive systems.Name and describe these five interacting systems.
Q2) 39 __________ is any action that increases the likelihood of the reoccurrence of the response that it follows.
A)Punishment
B)Counterimitation
C)Modeling
D)Reinforcement
Q3) Your friend Shabrisha is concerned because her 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son seem to fight constantly.Shabrisha's daughter has always been temperamental and Shabrisha thinks that the fighting may be her fault.Shabrisha remembers being very close to her sister when they were children and she thinks that her own children might be unusual because they fight so much.What can you tell Shabrisha about the factors that are related to harmonious relationships between siblings?
Q4) Multiple adults are important - but who the adults are seems to matter more than what they do.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Influences Beyond the Family
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Q1) 141 Teens who participate in programs that involve role-playing about sexual situations are more likely to abstain from intercourse or use contraceptives when they do have intercourse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 92 Research suggests that children who watch a lot of television
A)have reduced attention spans.
B)become more impulsive.
C)have increased activity levels.
D)do not have reduced attention spans,greater impulsivity,or increased activity levels.
Q3) 54 Which of the following probably has a role in the development of a homosexual sexual orientation?
A)Sons become gay when they have a domineering mother and a weak father.
B)Heredity and hormones seems to influence sexual orientation.
C)Girls are more likely to become lesbians if their fathers are their primary role models.
D)Children who are raised by gay and lesbian parents usually become homosexual.
Q4) Name and describe the characteristics typically associated with successful teachers.
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