Chapter 7: Life Span and Development

Question 1

What is the age range for a neonate?

Answer 1

Birth to one month

Question 2

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of a Neonate.

Answer 2

Pulse rate: 100 to 180 Beats per min
Respirations: 30 to 60 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 50 to 70 mmHg
Temperature: 98 to 100 degrees fahrenheit

Question 3

What is the age range for an infant?

Answer 3

One month to one year

Question 4

What is the age range for a toddler

Answer 4

One to three years

Question 5

What is the age range for preschool age

Answer 5

Three to six years

Question 6

What is the age range for school age

Answer 6

Six to 12 years

Question 7

What is the age range for an adolescent?

Answer 7

12 to 18 years

Question 8

What is the age range for an early adult?

Answer 8

19 to 40 years old

Question 9

What is the age range for a middle adult?

Answer 9

41 to 60 years old

Question 10

What is the age range for middle adult?

Answer 10

41 to 60 years

Question 11

What is the age range for the older adult?

Answer 11

61 years and older

Question 12

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of an infant.

Answer 12

Pulse rate: 100 to 160 Beats per min
Respirations: 25 to 50 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 70 to 95 mmHg
Temperature: 96.8 to 99.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 13

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of a toddler.

Answer 13

Pulse rate: 90 to 150 Beats per min
Respirations: 20 to 30 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 80 to 100 mmHg
Temperature: 96.8 to 99 degrees fahrenheit

Question 14

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of a preschool age human.

Answer 14

Pulse rate: 80 to 140 Beats per min
Respirations: 20 to 25 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 80 to 100 mmHg
Temperature: 98.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 15

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of a school age patient.

Answer 15

Pulse rate: 70 to 120 Beats per min
Respirations: 15 to 20 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 80 to 110 mmHg
Temperature: 98.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 16

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of an adolescent.

Answer 16

Pulse rate: 60 to 100 Beats per min
Respirations: 12 to 20 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 90 to 110 mmHg
Temperature: 98 to 100 degrees fahrenheit

Question 17

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of an early adult.

Answer 17

Pulse rate: 60 to 100 Beats per min
Respirations: 12 to 20 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 90 to 130 mmHg
Temperature: 98.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 18

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of a middle adult.

Answer 18

Pulse rate: 60 to 100 Beats per min
Respirations: 12 to 20 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 90 to 130 mmHg
Temperature: 98.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 19

What is the pulse rate, respirations, systolic blood pressure, and temperature of an older adult.

Answer 19

Pulse rate: 60 to 100 Beats per min
Respirations: 12 to 20 Breaths per min
Systolic blood pressure: 90 to 130 mmHg
Temperature: 98.6 degrees fahrenheit

Question 20

Which of the following statements regarding middle adults is correct?
Select one:
- Women in the middle adult age group typically experiance menopause in their late 50s or early 60s.
- Increced cholesterol levels in the middle adult age group often do not respond to excersize and diet.
- Significant impairments in hearing and visoin begin to occur in persons between the ages of 41 and 44 years.
- Cardiovascular health becomes an issue in this age group, as does the greater incidenve of cancer.

Answer 20

Cardiovascular health becomes an issue in this age group, as does the greater incidence of cancer.

Question 21

With increasing age, the heart must work harder to move the blood effectively becasue:
Select one:
- The blood thickens as a person ages.
- The blood vessels become stiff.
- Diastolic blood pressure decreases.
- The arteries dilate significantly.

Answer 21

The blood vessels become stiff.

Question 22

The decline in cardiac function that commonly occurs in late adulthood is the most often related to:
Select one:
- Medication use.
- Hypotension
- Kidney failure
- Atherosclerosis

Answer 22

Atherosclerosis

Question 23

An infants blood pressure typically increases with age because:
Select one:
- Blood pressure directly corresponds to body weight.
- As the infant gets older, his or her blood vessels dilate.
- The infants total blood volume decreases with age.
- His or her heart rate usually increases with age.

Answer 23

Blood pressure directly corresponds to body weight.

Question 24

Mental function often begins to decline within _ years before death.

Answer 24

5 years immediatly before death

Question 25

Why do middle adults experiance financial concerns? Select one: - The majority of middle adults stilll have small children who live at home with them. - They are prepairing for retirement but muststill manage everyday financial demands. - Most people in the middle adult age group have chronic illnesses and cannot work. - They are typically recieving social security and must budget with a fixed income.

Answer 25

They are prepairing for retirement but must still manage everyday financial demands.

Question 26

The low normal systolic blood pressure for a 30 year-old is:

Answer 26

90 mm Hg

Question 27

Infants are often reffered to as "belly breathers" becasue: - Their diaphragm does not recieve impulses from the brain. - Their rib cage is less rigid, and teh ribs sit horizontally. - Their intercoastal muscles are not functional. - An infants ribs are brittle and are less able to expand.

Answer 27

Their rib cage is less rigid, and the ribs sit horizontally

Question 28

Which of the following statements regarding toddlers and preschoolers is correct? - Toddlers and preschoolers commonly experiance upper respritory infections becasue of teh loss of passive immunity. - The normal respritory rate in toddlers and preschoolers is between 12 and 20 breaths/min. - Toddlers and preschoolers have well- developed lung musculature, even though they have less lung tissue. - Muscle mass and bone density decrease in toddlers and preschoolers becasue of increased physical activity.

Answer 28

Toddlers and preschoolers commonly experiance upper respritory infectinos becasue of the loss of passive immunity

Question 29

An infant or small childs airway can be occuled if it is overextended or overflexed because: - the tongue is proportionately small and can fall back into the throat. - The back of the head is flat, which prevents a neutral position. - The occiput is proportionately large, and the trachea is flexible. - He or she has a long neck, which makes the trachea prone to collapse.

Answer 29

The occipu is proportionately large, and the trachea is flexible.

Question 30

What is the decline in kidney filtration between the ages of 20 and 90 years? Select one: - 10% - 50% - 45% - 20%

Answer 30

50%

Question 31

# Select one What is the typical range for an adolescent? - 6 to 12 years - 3 to 6 years - 12 to 18 years - 10 to 19 years

Answer 31

12 to 18 years

Question 32

# Select one Children who make decisions bassed on their conscience are using what type of reasoning? - Postconventional reasoning - Psychosocial - Conventional - Preconventional

Answer 32

Postconventional

Question 33

# Select one Which of the following is a nervous system change commonly found in older adults? - Increase in brain weight - Increase in peripheral nerve functioning - Less space for cerebral spinal fluid - Deterioration of nerve endings

Answer 33

Deterioration of nerve endings

Question 34

# Select one Maturation of the reproduction system usually takes place during: - Early adulthood - Preschool - Middle adulthood - Adolescence

Answer 34

Adolescence

Question 35

# Select one What term is used to identify a person who is from birth to 1 month old. - Infant - Toddler - Neonate - Newborne

Answer 35

Neonate

Question 36

# Select one What is the current estimated average life expectancy for humans? - 120 - 78 - 67 - 56

Answer 36

78 years of age

Question 37

# Select one When encountering a person with depressed fontanelles, you should suspect: - Respritory distress - Dehydration - Atherosclerosis - Nephrosis

Answer 37

Dehydration

Question 38

# Select one What is "vital capacity" - The volume of blood moved by each contraction of the heart. - The maximum thickness of the menengis - The volume of air moved during the deepest points of respiration. - The amount of air left in the lungs following exhalation.

Answer 38

The volume of air moved during the deepest points of respiration.

Question 39

# Select one Clingy behavior and the fear of unfamiliar people or places are normal among 10 to 18 months-old children and are commonly caused by ____ anxiety. - Bonding - Seperation - Avoidant - Mistrust

Answer 39

Seperation anxiety

Question 40

# Select one Diastolic blood pressure tends to ____ with age. - Decrease - Compensate - Increase - Decompensate

Answer 40

Increase

Question 41

# Select on Into what age range to toddlers and preschoolers fit? - 1 to 6 years - 2 to 8 years - 2 to 7 years - 0 to 5 years

Answer 41

1 to 6 years

Question 42

# Select one Empty nest syndrome is typically seen in which stage of life? - Middle adulthood - Adolescence - Late adulthood - Early adulthood

Answer 42

Middle adulthood

Question 43

# Select one At what age can an infant normally stary tracking objects with his or her eyes and recognize familiar faces? - 7 months - 2 months - 4 months - 10 months

Answer 43

2 months