Psychology of Aging Test Questions
Course Introduction
Psychology of Aging explores the psychological processes and changes that occur as individuals grow older. The course examines key topics such as cognitive development, memory, learning, emotion, personality, social relationships, and mental health in late adulthood. Students will analyze both normative aging processes and atypical changes, such as those associated with neurocognitive disorders. Emphasis is placed on the role of cultural, social, and biological factors in influencing the aging experience, as well as current research methodologies and real-world applications in supporting successful and healthy aging.
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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) Developmentalists reject the notion that behavior is the sole result of either nature or nurture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Social-cognitive learning theorists argue that the difference between people and animals is the occurrence of
A)classical conditioning.
B)operant conditioning.
C)mental activity.
D)reinforcement/punishment.
Answer: C
Q3) Identify the four important issues of lifespan development that have been debated since lifespan development became established as a separate field.
Answer: 1)Continuity versus discontinuity;2)the importance of critical periods;3)whether to focus on certain periods or on the entire life span;and 4)the nature versus nurture controversy.
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Chapter 2: The Start of Life: Prenatal Development
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Q1) What is the term for the determination of traits by a combination of both genetic and environmental factors,in which a genotype provides a range within which a phenotype may be expressed?
A)multifactorial transmission
B)inheritance
C)natural selection
D)role of environment
Answer: A
Q2) What type of gene is considered recessive and located only on the X chromosome?
A)heterozygous
B)X-linked
C)homozygous
D)recessive
Answer: B
Q3) Increasing evidence suggests that ingestion of even small amounts of alcohol and nicotine by a pregnant mother can disrupt the development of the fetus.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Infant
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Q1) Because a neonate's liver does not work effectively at first,almost half of all newborns develop a yellowish tinge to their bodies and eyes called A)meconium.
B)amniotic fluid.
C)neonatal jaundice.
D)pigmentation.
Answer: C
Q2) By age six,approximately ____ of preterm infants have mild problems,such as learning disabilities or behavior disorders.
A)75%
B)50%
C)25%
D)38%
Answer: D
Q3) Infants who remain inside their mother's womb and unborn for two weeks after the mother's due date are at no risk.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy
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Q1) What is the term for the degree of awareness an infant displays to both internal and external stimulation?
A)rhythm
B)attention
C)sensitive period
D)state
Q2) Infants are able to pick up small objects like marbles off the ground at A)11 months.
B)12 months.
C)8 months.
D)14 months.
Q3) By the infant's first birthday,the average infant's birth weight has A)quadrupled.
B)doubled.
C)tripled.
D)increased only slightly in comparison to later months.
Q4) Researchers know the causes of and preventive measures for SIDS.
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 kind of memory is conscious and can be recalled intentionally?
A)explicit
B)encoded
C)retrieved
D)stored
Q2) What is term for the lack of memory for experiences that occurred in infancy?
A)memory loss
B)infantile amnesia
C)storage
D)retrieval
Q3) Piaget believed that _________ appears in Substage 4 and enables the infant to realize that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen.
A)accommodation
B)object permanence
C)assimilation
D)goal-directed behavior
Q4) Briefly explain the differences in infant-directed speech in various cultures.
Q5) Briefly describe how the information processing approach is analogous to a computer.
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Q6) Briefly discuss criticisms,if any,of Piaget's theories.
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) Erikson believed that we all enter the autonomy-versus-shame-and-doubt stage at what time in our lives?
A)beginning of infancy
B)when we are around 5 years old
C)when we turn to adolescents
D)at the end of infancy around 18 months to 3 years
Q2) Who was the author of the 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and argued that humans and primates have an inborn,universal set of emotional expressions?
A)Izard
B)Darwin
C)Benson
D)Sroufe
Q3) What percentage of children up to age 17 live with two married parents?
A)just under one-half
B)about one-third
C)just under one-fifth
D)about two-thirds
Q4) Briefly highlight the concerns of how infant childcare affects later development.
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in the
Preschool Years
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Q1) After the age of 2,how many hours per day of television does the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend for children?
A)2 or more hours
B)2 hours per day
C)1 to 2 hours of quality programming
D)1 hour of quality programming
Q2) What is the term that Piaget used for the process in which one state is changed into another?
A)transformation
B)conservation
C)centration
D)concrete operations
Q3) During the preschool years,which part of the brain demonstrates a growth in nerve connections and is responsible for sophisticated information processing?
A)cerebral cortex
B)cerebellum
C)corpus callosum
D)hippocampus
Q4) Briefly describe criticism of Vygotsky's theories.
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in the
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Q1) According to developmental research,what contributes to the decline of aggression in preschool children?
A)more access to better child care
B)personality and social development of the child
C)more authoritarian parenting
D)more authoritative parenting
Q2) Five-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister were playing together in the living room,and his sister grabbed at the toy that Benjamin was playing with.He lashed out at his sister and punched her in the arm and took back the toy,making her cry.Benjamin's mother immediately took Benjamin aside and,rather than punishing him,tried to explain how his choice of behavior made his sister cry,and that he needs to learn to share his toys.This is an example of what type of parenting style?
A)authoritative
B)permissive
C)authoritarian
D)uninvolved
Q3) Preschool-age children have no knowledge of racial and ethnic identity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Some developmentalists suggest that two kinds of intelligence exist.What is the term for intelligence that reflects information processing capabilities,reasoning,and memory?
A)triarchic theory of intelligence
B)fluid intelligence
C)crystallized intelligence
D)intellectual quotient
Q2) What is the term that Binet developed for the typical intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age?
A)standard age
B)chronological/physical age
C)intelligence quotient
D)mental age
Q3) According to Wechsler,what is the term for the capacity to understand the world,think with rationality,and use resources effectively when faced with challenges?
A)education
B)assertiveness
C)achievement
D)intelligence
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) According to psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg,which of the following stages reflects a person's approach to moral problems as a member of society,where the person is interested in pleasing others by acting as a good member of society?
A)conventional morality
B)postconventional morality
C)moral reasoning
D)preconventional morality
Q2) Middle-school-age girls tend to __________,while middle-school-age boys tend to _________.
A)play in pairs;develop a dominance hierarchy
B)have a smaller network of friends;ignore differences in status
C)avoid differences in status;have a smaller network of friends
D)focus on one or two "best friends";smooth over disagreements
Q3) 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
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) By age 8,_________ Caucasian American girls and ________ African American girls develop breasts or pubic hair.
A)1 out of 7;1 out of 2
B)1 out of 2;1 out of 7
C)2 out of 7;1 out of 2
D)1 out of 2;2 out of 7
Q2) One of the most telling indicators of success in education is the relationship between educational achievement and socioeconomic status.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is the term for a severe eating disorder in which individuals refuse to eat,while denying that their behavior and appearance,which may become skeletal,are out of the ordinary?
A)bulimia
B)obesity
C)malnutrition
D)anorexia nervosa
Q4) Briefly describe some criticisms of Piaget's approach to cognitive development.
Q5) Briefly describe aspects of adolescent drinking.
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Why do adolescent boys succeed in committing suicide more often than adolescent girls?
A)Boys attempt suicide more frequently than girls.
B)Boys encounter more serious episodes of major depression than girls.
C)Boys experience more social stigma for attempting suicide than girls.
D)Boys tend to use more violent means,like guns,to attempt suicide.
Q2) Randal is a 17-year-old whose parents have left him mostly on his own for several years.They leave for days on end to drink and gamble,leaving no food or assistance for him in the home.When they do come around,they often beat Randal and criticize him because the house is unkempt.Randal is usually on the streets vandalizing cars and getting involved in arson.Randal would be categorized as a(n)
A)juvenile delinquent.
B)conduct disorder.
C)undersocialized delinquent.
D)oppositional defiant.
Q3) There is overwhelming evidence that family problems are worse during adolescence than at any other stage of a child's development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) Bernice's male science professor gives her an easier research project than the males in the class.Although the professor thinks he is being helpful,this makes Bernice feel that she is not being taken seriously and this undermines her view of her competence.The professor is practicing
A)stereotype threat.
B)blatant sexism.
C)poor advising.
D)benevolent sexism.
Q2) The overall proportion of the minority population entering college has increased over the past decade.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Labouvie-Vief,the complexity of society requires specialization of thought.Therefore,thought is not necessarily based on only logic but also requires which of the following?
A)practical experience
B)intellectual superiority
C)immoral judgments
D)physical proclivity
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) Everyone's social clock is culturally determined.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jack is 16 years old and wants to become an architect like his father and eventually take over the family architectural firm when he grows up.However,Jack has been evaluated and found to have a specific learning disability in mathematics.Jack may need to reconsider his plans based upon the difficulty he experiences with all forms of math.According to Ginzberg,Jack is in the A)fantasy period.
B)tentative period.
C)career consolidation period.
D)realistic period.
Q3) The likelihood of divorce declines after the ____ year of marriage,when there is a period of stabilization.
A)1<sup>st</sup>
B)3<sup>rd</sup>
C)5<sup>th</sup>
D)10<sup>th</sup>
Q4) 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) Surveys indicate most adults in middle adulthood are afraid or "very afraid" of having A)cancer.
B)diabetes.
C)heart problems.
D)psychological problems.
Q2) Memory is traditionally viewed in terms of three sequential components,including which of the following?
A)autobiographical memory
B)sequential memory
C)sensory memory
D)muscle memory
Q3) Which of the following is cited by your textbook as an acceptable treatment for cancer?
A)hypnotherapy
B)chemotherapy
C)holistic therapy
D)homeopathic remedies
Q4) Briefly explain the benefits of regular moderate exercise in middle age in relation to muscles.
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) Which group of divorced women has the best opportunity to be remarried?
A)women under the age of 25
B)women over the age of 40
C)women who are considered unattractive
D)women who are not younger,smaller,and of lower status than men
Q2) Dr.Roe is a marriage counselor who specializes in infidelity.She is counseling a group of five couples that have been unfaithful in their marriage over the last year.One couple wants to know the recent statistics regarding infidelity.What statistics can Dr.Roe provide concerning infidelity in a given year?
A)10% of men and 14% of women
B)12% of men and 7% of women
C)6% of men and women
D)20% of men and 18% of women
Q3) Which of the following is a reason why men and women cite satisfaction with their marriage?
A)They stated that their spouse is not their best friend.
B)Marriage brings a long-term commitment with the same aims and goals.
C)They state that their spouse has sex with them as often as they want.
D)Their spouses have grown less interesting over the course of the marriage.
Q4) Briefly explain the changes in marital satisfaction over time.
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the meaning of "functional age"?
A)cognitive functioning
B)physical and psychological well-being
C)emotional/behavioral functioning
D)how well people recuperate from illness
Q2) When an elderly person demonstrates difficulty with verbal information that is presented quickly,the person is exhibiting problems with _________ memory.
A)episodic
B)long-term
C)implicit
D)short-term
Q3) Because the elderly begin to lose their sensitivity to taste and smell,they begin to do which of the following?
A)eat less
B)eat more,because they don't remember what they ate
C)experience healthy levels of weight loss
D)lose the ability to determine when food is spoiled and suffer more food poisoning
Q4) Briefly describe some of the aspects of the gender gap in life expectancy.
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) A life review is a common theme for most personality theorists focusing on late adulthood.
A)True
B)False
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) Most great-grandmothers have close relationships with their great-grandchildren.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How does a person experience ego transcendence?
A)seeing their contributions lasting beyond their own lives
B)preoccupation with the question of whether their life had meaning
C)experiencing their life as positive
D)reaffirming their dedication to life
Q5) The "Big Five" personality traits remain stable throughout adulthood.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Death and Dying
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Q1) Which of the following lies between passive euthanasia and voluntary active euthanasia?
A)natural death
B)mercy killing
C)assisted suicide
D)suicide
Q2) According to theorist Charles Corr,people who are dying face a set of psychological tasks including which of the following?
A)pushing themselves physically as the body fights to live
B)financially preparing for the security of loved ones
C)ending relationships with others
D)fostering hope through spiritual searching
Q3) What is the most frequent cause of death in middle adulthood?
A)cancer
B)heart attack or stroke
C)gun accident
D)automobile accident
Q4) The only alternative to home care for a dying person is nursing home care.
A)True
B)False
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