Lifespan Development Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Lifespan Development is an interdisciplinary course that explores the psychological, biological, and social changes that occur from conception to old age. The course examines the stages of human growth and development, including infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging, while emphasizing key theories, research findings, and real-life applications. Topics include physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development, the impact of family, culture, and environment, and the unique challenges and milestones present at each stage of life. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how individuals change throughout their lives and the factors that influence human development across the lifespan.
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Essentials of Understanding Psychology 11th Edition by Robert S. Feldman
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following guidelines is true regarding the use of nonhuman animals in experiments?
A) Researchers must minimize discomfort,illness,and pain for the animals.
B) Researchers must house,feed,and care for the animals properly.
C) Researchers must promote the animals' well-being,at least for some species.
D) Research with animals has failed to provide psychologists with valuable information.
Answer: A
Q2) What is a placebo?
A) A small marsupial
B) A Japanese "hybrid" car
C) A false experimental treatment
D) A sac that contains and nourishes a fetus
Answer: C
Q3) The formal beginning of psychology is associated with:
A) Wundt.
B) James.
C) Descartes.
D) Ebbinghaus.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior
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Q1) New neurons are created even during adulthood,in a process called .
Answer: neurogenesis
Q2) The rule that neurons are either on or off is known as the _____ law.
A) intensity of stimulus
B) graded action
C) all-or-none
D) incremental transformational
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following structures is especially important for carrying messages received by the dendrites to other neurons?
A) Neurotransmitter
B) Synapse
C) Axon
D) Glial cell
Answer: C
Q4) The area in the parietal lobe encompasses specific locations associated with the ability to perceive touch and pressure in a particular area of the body.
Answer: somatosensory
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The sorting out,interpretation,analysis,and integration of stimuli by the sense organs and brain is known as _____.
A) perception
B) sensation
C) activation
D) stimulation
Answer: A
Q2) When the are bent by the vibrations entering the cochlea,the cells send a neural message to the brain.
Answer: hair cells
Q3) The lens focuses light by changing its own thickness.This process is known as .
Answer: accommodation
Q4) _____ are physical stimuli that consistently produce errors in perception.
A) Tactile illusions
B) Auditory illusions
C) Gestalt illusions
D) Visual illusions
Answer: D
Q5) When a cell is damaged,it releases a chemical called .
Answer: substance P
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Chapter 4: States of Consciousness
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Q1) Jordan is a Caucasian child raised by his birth parents in the United States.Adia was born in Africa.She lives with her adoptive parents in the United States Hua is a Vietnamese boy living with his biological parents in a tight-knit community of recent Vietnamese immigrants in an American city.All else being equal,what might we predict regarding the relative likelihood of these three children developing a problem with alcohol later in life?
A) The three children are equally likely to develop a problem with alcohol.Ethnic differences in alcohol abuse are negligible.
B) Jordan and Adia are more likely to develop a problem with alcohol than is Hua.
C) Hua is more likely to develop a problem with alcohol than are either Jordan or Adia.
D) Jordan is less likely to develop a problem with alcohol than are either Adia or Hua.
Q2) Dexedrine,benzedrine,and crystal methamphetamine are examples of .
Q3) Alcohol is a member of a broad class of drugs termed .
Q4) Describe the different ways in which psychoactive drugs can enhance or impede the activity of neurotransmitters,providing examples where possible.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Based on your reading of the text,exposure to actual firearm violence increases by a factor of _____ the likelihood that an adolescent will commit serious violence within the succeeding two years.
A) 1.5
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Q2) Learning by watching the behavior of another person,or model is known as _____.
A) perceptual learning
B) observational learning
C) latent learning
D) tangential learning
Q3) Shaping is one way that organisms learn behavior.
Q4) Observational learning research suggests that seeing others reinforced for particular behaviors may encourage our own acquisition of similar behaviors.To what extent is exposure to media violence associated with the acquisition of aggressive behavior?
Q5) Dr.Tabachnik focuses on the expectations participants develop regarding the likelihood that a given behavior will be punished.Dr.Tabachnik might be described as a(n)theorist.
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes the processing of information in working memory?
A) Working memory is the initial,momentary storage of information,lasting only an instant.
B) Working memory uses cognitive resources during its operation,which makes us less aware of our surroundings.
C) Stress can increase the effectiveness of working memory by reducing its capacity.
D) Working memory is a set of permanent memory stores that actively manipulate and rehearse information.
Q2) "I know it! It''s um ...um ...It starts with 'G'," begins a trivia-game contestant excitedly.The contestant is falling prey to the _____ phenomenon.
A) tip-of-the-tongue
B) flashbulb memory
C) motivated forgetting
D) retrograde interference
Q3) Mental arithmetic entails the activity of both the visual and the verbal stores in working memory;the coordinates the operation of these two subsystems.
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Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Based on the text's discussion,which of the following alternatives best captures the difference,if any,between the terms mental retardation and intellectual disability?
A) The terms are used interchangeably and equally.
B) Intellectual disability is the term in use,while mental retardation is the traditional term.
C) The term intellectual disability has replaced the term mental retardation.
D) The terms refer to different types of deficits in functioning.
Q2) The theory that a genetically determined,innate mechanism directs language development is known as the _____ approach.
A) learning-theory
B) nativist
C) interactionist
D) prescriptive
Q3) Which of the following professionals would most likely display spatial intelligence?
A) A dancer
B) An actor
C) A social worker
D) An architect
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Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Max,a German,reports experiencing schadenfreude.He is experiencing a:
A) mood of vulnerable heartache colored by frustration.
B) feeling of pleasure over another person's difficulties.
C) mood of depression over his inability to reach his ideal weight.
D) feeling of reluctance to yield to unreasonable demands made by one's parents.
Q2) Which figure best approximates the number of people in the United States who are overweight?
A) 50 million
B) 100 million
C) 150 million
D) 200 million
Q3) Establishing and maintaining relationships is very important to Amelia;she has a high need for .
Q4) _____ refers to the factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms.
A) Development
B) Intelligence
C) Cognition
D) Motivation
Q5) is the body's tendency to maintain a steady internal state.
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) is the positive emotional bond that develops between a child and a particular individual.
Q2) During the concrete operational period,children learn to undo operations in their minds.Piaget termed this ability as the principle.
Q3) According to Baumrind,parents value unquestioning obedience from their children.
Q4) Which technique of developmental researchers requires a significant expenditure of time as the researcher waits for the participants to get older?
A) Longitudinal research
B) Cross-sectional research
C) Empirical research
D) Applied research
Q5) _____ are rod-shaped structures that contain all basic hereditary information.
A) Spleens
B) Chromosomes
C) Serotonins
D) Norepinephrines
Q6) Each chromosome contains thousands of ,smaller units through which genetic information is transmitted.
Q7) Elaborate on the various stages of cognitive development put forward by Piaget.
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Chapter 10: Personality
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Q1) The primary defense mechanism is that of ,in which unacceptable feelings or impulses are pushed back into the unconscious.
Q2) Baby Celeste is busy,active,and sleeps fitfully;her sister,by contrast,was calm and placid as a baby.This vignette illustrates differences in:
A) outlook.
B) intelligence.
C) temperament.
D) attachment style.
Q3) Which of the following stages of psychosexual development is correctly matched with an age range?
A) Oral - 3-6 years
B) Phallic - 0-1 years
C) Anal - 1-3 years
D) Genital - 6-12 years
Q4) Davina cannot bear to be late for anything.She is particular about how people have to do things "just right" for her to be satisfied.A psychodynamic theorist might suggest that Davina is fixated at the stage of development.
Q5) The ,or MMPI-2-RF,is the most widely used self-report measure of personality.
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Chapter 11: Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
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Q1) After a year of avoiding cigarettes,the probability of relapse is _____.
A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 35%
D) 50%
Q2) The component of the Type A pattern most strongly linked to coronary heart disease is that of:
A) hostility.
B) competitiveness.
C) time urgency.
D) ambitiousness.
Q3) Jermaine remains impassive and emotionless in the face of both positive and negative events in his life.Jermaine appears to cope with stress through .
Q4) Being insecure,negative,and anxious are personality traits that are characteristics of the _____ personality style.
A) Type A
B) Type B
C) Type D
D) Type C
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) _____ is a statistically based approach that observes what behaviors are rare,or occur infrequently in a specific society or culture,and labels those deviations from the norm "abnormal."
A) Abnormality as deviation from the average
B) Abnormality as deviation from the ideal
C) Abnormality as a sense of personal discomfort
D) Abnormality as the inability to function effectively
Q2) Amok is a psychological disorder:
A) in which males develop an intense panic and the penis withdraws into the abdomen.
B) found in Malaysia but not in the West.
C) found in parts of Africa but not in the West.
D) that is characterized by severe,incapacitating mood changes related to a woman's menstrual cycle.
Q3) Social phobia is the fear of being:
A) suffocated in confined spaces.
B) judged or embarrassed by others.
C) attacked by a clown.
D) sexually abused.
Q4) Define somatic symptom disorders.Describe a type of somatic symptom disorder.
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Chapter 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) is a statistical technique in which the results of a large number of studies are combined.
Q2) The first major antipsychotic drug to be introduced was _____;it was used to treat
A) paliperidone;bipolar disorder
B) paliperidone;schizophrenia
C) chlorpromazine;bipolar disorder
D) chlorpromazine;schizophrenia
Q3) Many newer antidepressants are selective reuptake inhibitors.
Q4) _____ treatment approaches make use of the basic processes of learning,such as reinforcement and extinction,and assume that normal and abnormal behaviors are both learned.
A) Cognitive
B) Psychodynamic
C) Behavioral
D) Humanistic
Q5) Describe the general aim of cognitive therapy.Write a note on Ellis's rational-emotive therapy.
Q6) Describe using examples how behavior therapists can use averse conditioning to modify behavior.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) The Implicit Association Test was developed because:
A) people may not be consciously aware of their own racial attitudes.
B) people are very direct and frank while reporting their racial attitudes.
C) existing measures failed to tap into the emotional aspect of racial attitudes.
D) people do not censor their responses regarding their own racial attitudes.
Q2) Dr.Greene studies ways to increase the safety behavior of workers on offshore oil platforms.Dr.Greene is a(n)_____ psychologist.
A) developmental
B) social
C) cognitive
D) industrial-organizational
Q3) Which of the following occurs when the recipient thoughtfully considers the issues and arguments involved in persuasion?
A) Central route processing
B) Cognitive dissonance
C) Peripheral route processing
D) Emotional appeal
Q4) is to conformity as Milgram is to obedience.
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