Psychology of Aging Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Psychology of Aging explores the psychological processes and challenges associated with aging across the adult lifespan. The course examines cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur in later life, as well as factors influencing successful aging such as lifestyle, health, and social support. Topics include age-related changes in memory, intelligence, personality, mental health, and the impact of ageism. Students will critically analyze theories of aging, current research findings, and practical issues relevant to elders, caregivers, and society, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the complexities involved in psychological 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) Which research study would you most expect to see from a researcher with a life-course perspective?
A) the effect of smoking on neurotransmitter systems and memory
B) how memory processes change from infancy to old age
C) growing up in the 1960s, and its influence on drug use in adulthood
D) sex differences in marital satisfaction
Answer: C
Q2) Dr. Swartzman wants to know if children who are raised in lower socioeconomic environments have more difficulty succeeding in school as they grow up. He enlists a group of four-year-old children and their parents, and he observes the children in school twice a year until they turn 18. Dr. Swartzman's study would be best described as A) cross-sectional.
B) longitudinal.
C) sequential.
D) correlational
Answer: B
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) Which of the following circumstances would indicate the greatest level of heritability of a trait?
A) Francois performs as well in school as the siblings with whom he was raised, even though he was adopted and is not genetically related to them.
B) D'artagnan prefers to watch movies on television, while his parents prefer to watch movies at a movie theater.
C) Luigi and his siblings are all about the same height.
D) Mario's results on a personality test are far more similar to his biological parents than they are to his adopted parents.
Answer: D
Q2) A child who weighs less than 1,000 grams at birth would be described as being a "low birth weight" baby.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The process of deliberately seeking environments that are consistent with one's heredity is called _______________.
Answer: niche-picking
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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) A waning of newborn reflexes may be partially responsible for the fact that _______________ is most likely to occur between the ages of 2 and 4 months.
Answer: SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Q2) The newborn has no innate, unlearned reflexes. Reflexes are a result of environmental input, and usually start to appear by two weeks of age.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) 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
Q4) Roughly half of a newborn's sleep time is spent in the ____ stage.
A) rapid eye movement (REM)
B) nonREM-1
C) nonREM-2
D) nonREM-3
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Flannery is only a few years old, and she likes to do puzzles. As she snaps the pieces together, she can be heard saying things like, "This one goes here," and "No, that doesn't fit!" Flannery's verbalizations are an example of ____ speech.
A) mirroring
B) utility
C) private
D) ambitious
Q2) Provide an example of how egocentrism, centration, and appearance as reality might affect the actions or thoughts of a child.
Q3) 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
Q4) According to the core knowledge hypothesis, infants are born with some rudimentary knowledge of the world, and that knowledge is elaborated upon as they have experiences.
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) What is the correct order of the first three stages of psychosocial development?
A) basic trust vs. mistrust, initiative vs. guilt, autonomy vs. shame and doubt
B) autonomy vs. shame and doubt, basic trust vs. mistrust, initiative vs. guilt
C) initiative vs. guilt, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, basic trust vs. mistrust
D) basic trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt
Q2) Four-year-old Luticia pretends to be a doctor and has begun to realize that she needs to be responsible and cooperate with her parents. According to Erikson, this indicates that she is beginning to achieve a sense of A) trust.
B) purpose.
C) intimacy.
D) will.
Q3) Cooperation, empathy, and altruism are all examples of _______________ behavior.
Q4) Giselle is watching a television program with her mother, when something happens in the show that she does not understand .When she looks up to see her mother laughing, she starts laughing too. Giselle is engaging in social _______________.
Q5) What are three techniques that older children might use to enhance their emotional self-regulation skills?
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) When they come back to school in the fall, many school children are asked by their teacher to write an essay entitled, "What I Did Last Summer." What kind of writing strategy would be used to complete this assignment by younger children?
A) knowledge-telling
B) phonological expressive
C) semantic inversive
D) knowledge-transforming
Q2) The ability to draw a conclusion from a set of facts reflects ____ reasoning.
A) inductive
B) co-constructive
C) combinatorial
D) deductive
Q3) Through most of the elementary school years, boys and girls are about the same size.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe why the statement, "Children with 'learning disabilities' are identical to those with 'intellectual disability'" is false. In doing so, be sure to provide definitions of both cognitive categories.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) When Jonathon's son, Graham, misbehaves in the grocery store, Jonathon firmly scolds him and tells him, "If you do not start behaving, I will put back the cookies that you asked for." Jonathon is using a type of feedback called negative reinforcement with his son.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Even well-crafted intervention programs have failed to reduce the rates of child abuse and maltreatment in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research into the different "types" of children found in elementary school classrooms found five different categories. Which of the following is NOT one of these categories?
A) rejected children
B) neglected children
C) controversial children
D) solitary children
Q4) The typical U.S. high school graduate has watched _______________ hours of television.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) In support of Kohlberg's theory of the development of morality, research has found that individuals at ____ feel compelled by internal factors to behave in a moral manner.
A) early levels
B) advanced levels
C) intermediate levels
D) all levels
Q2) 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.
Q3) In stage two of Kohlberg's model, referred to as the _______________ orientation, an individual bases moral decisions on looking out for his or her needs.
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) ____ which involves teaching academic and social skills to children, teaching life and vocational skills to adolescents, and teaching effective child-rearing skills to parents, reduces the risk of adolescent antisocial behavior.
A) For Now and For Later
B) Straight and Narrow
C) Right Path
D) Fast Track
Q2) Patrick wakes up one morning to find that he has developed an enormous pimple right on the end of his nose. All throughout the school day he is absolutely sure that everyone is staring at the blemish, when in reality almost nobody cares enough about it to even look. Patrick's certainty that he is the focus of others' attention demonstrates
A) identity moratorium
B) adolescent arrogance
C) limited centration
D) the imaginary audience
Q3) _______________ tends to become more differentiated as children become adolescents, and develop the ability to evaluate themselves in many different domains.
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood
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Q1) Ruth has been smoking cigarettes for many years, and her habit has become so severe that she smokes at least two packs every day. For which of the following medical issues is she at increased risk?
A) Turner's syndrome
B) ulcerative colitis
C) Parkinson's
D) a fractured hip
Q2) When all of the research regarding Erikson's proposed relationship between identity and intimacy is examined, it appears that
A) the theory only applies to women.
B) there are multiple pathways to achieving identity and intimacy.
C) young adults who attend college achieve identity formation sooner.
D) the theory only applies to men.
Q3) The ____ campaign was launched in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help people make better, healthier selections when it came to their meals.
A) Eating Smarter Not Larger
B) Food Wheel
C) Nutritional Pyramid
D) Choose My Plate
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) A relative strength of online friendships involves the ability of the user to
A) control the level of intimacy in the relationship.
B) know exactly who they are dealing with.
C) ensure compatibility.
D) meet in a less anonymous manner than in face-to-face friendships.
Q2) To promote positive relationships between stepparents and stepchildren, the text recommends
A) allowing stepchildren to choose which home they prefer as their residence.
B) engaging in intensive attachment-oriented stepparent-stepchildren workshops.
C) bringing in a third party as a mediator of stepparent and stepchildren conflicts.
D) allowing stepchildren to develop a relationship with the stepparent at their own pace.
Q3) Research conducted by Schmidt at colleagues (2004) found that approximately 80% of the cultural groups studied demonstrated ____ romantic attachments
A) preoccupied
B) arranged
C) dismissive
D) secure
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) A growing need in the workplace is for ____ care, which provides emergency day care for children or dependent adults so that the employee does not need to lose a day of work.
A) backup
B) personal
C) occupational
D) individualized
Q2) Charlie learns that her company is downsizing, and immediately becomes terribly worried that she is going to lose her job. In order to cope with this fear, she tells herself, "Well I've been thinking of having another child anyway, so if I lose my job it will really be okay." Charlie is using ____-focused coping to deal with her employment uncertainty. A) emotion
B) problem
C) solution
D) structure
Q3) White-collar professionals generally experience an increase in job _______________ as time goes on, while blue-collar workers generally do not.
Q4) The _______________ limits women's promotional opportunities within a company.
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) What advice is most appropriate for post-menopausal women?
A) There is no physiological reason not to continue to have an enjoyable sex life.
B) Hormone replacement is essential for sexual activity after menopause.
C) While she may choose to have sex to please her partner, she is unlikely to enjoy it.
D) The extent of physical changes makes post-menopausal sex impossible for many.
Q2) Men typically experience a normative decline in the _______________ of sperm that they produce.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the mechanics of intelligence?
A) It is based largely on one's experiences with life problems.
B) It involves content-poor processing.
C) It is a universal, biological aspect of cognition.
D) It is a factor to which one is genetically predisposed.
Q4) Generative ____ relates to life satisfaction and overall happiness.
A) concern
B) strength
C) defensiveness
D) integrity
Q5) List and give a brief description of each of the Big Five personality traits.
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) _______________, a protein that is produced in abnormally high levels in patients with Alzheimer's disease, may be responsible for the neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques that are related to the development of the illness.
Q2) Which of the following is a common medication used to treat Parkinson's disease by supplying a combination of levodopa and carbidopa?
A) Sinemet®
B) Clozaril®
C) Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
D) SSRIs
Q3) Later onset Alzheimer's disease may be linked to ____ genes, which are those that increase one's likelihood of developing the illness in question.
A) concordance
B) eruption
C) risk
D) ascension
Q4) Of countries examined, _______________ has the highest average life expectancy at just over 83 years.
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues
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Q1) Laura has been living in the same house for over 20 years. She has recently become widowed, and she no longer needs that much space. In fact, she has trouble keeping up with all of the work needed to keep the house clean and neat. When her friends suggest that she sell the house and move into someplace smaller, she says, "I really should, but I just can't leave my home!" Clearly Laura feels a sense of ________ in her house.
A) foundation
B) familiarity
C) place
D) support
Q2) According to continuity theory, older adults adapt to new challenges and struggles by continuously developing novel and unique problem-solving strategies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Elder abuse is often noted by _____ first.
A) a family member of the victim
B) a caretaker of the victim
C) a physician
D) a psychologist.
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) Muller and Thompson (2003) suggested that there are five different themes to people's experience of grief. They include all EXCEPT which of the following?
A) coping
B) affect
C) ending
D) change
Q2) Which of the following pairs are the criteria for clinical death?
A) lack of heartbeat and lack of respiration
B) lack of spontaneous response to stimuli and absence of brain activity
C) lack of urinary output and lack of pupillary response
D) absence of Babinski response and no hypothalamic activity
Q3) Coping is the aspect of grief that involves what people do to deal with a loss in terms of what helps them.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When a person no longer has a heartbeat or spontaneous respirations, the criteria for _______________ death have been satisfied.
Q5) _______________ refers to the ways in which we express our grief following a loss.
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