LIFESPAN

Question 1

Question ID #18596: The research has most consistently found that neurogenesis in adulthood occurs in which of the following areas of the brain? 
Select one: 
A. hippocampus  
B. cerebellum 
C. hypothalamus 
D. caudate nucleus

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Question ID #18599: According to Erikson, the successful outcome of the final stage of psychosocial development is: 
Select one: 
A. accomplishment. 
B. personal control. 
C. wisdom.  
D. identity.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Question ID #18611: Research investigating the deficits in recent long-term memory associated with increasing age indicates that these deficits are most often attributable to:
Select one:
A. decreased storage capacity.
B. reduced use of encoding strategies.
C. impaired concentration and attention.
D. impaired comprehension.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Question ID #18588: Raymond is a high-energy four-year old who is always asking questions and likes to help with everything. A problem, however, is that when Raymond starts helping one family member, he is often distracted by other activities and may run off to help another member of the family with whatever he or she is doing. Raymond also likes to pretend that he's one of his favorite characters on TV and can often be seen trying to "arrest" his younger brother or save his friends from an imaginary "bad guy." In terms of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, Raymond appears to be in which stage of development? 
Select one: 
A. autonomy vs. shame and doubt  
B. initiative vs. guilt 
C. trust vs. mistrust 
D. industry vs. inferiority

Answer 4

B

Question 5

Question ID #18620: Children ages 7 to 9 years of age are most likely to say that:
Select one:
A. people on TV can see into their homes.
B. people who die on TV are really dead.
C. people in TV shows are actors.
D. people on TV arent alive.

Answer 5

C

Question 6

Question ID #18641: With regard to gender and biological vulnerability, the research has most consistently supported which of the following?
Select one:
A. Males are more vulnerable than females with regard to physical health.
B. Females are more vulnerable than males with regard to physical health.
C. Males and females are similarly vulnerable with regard to physical health.
D. While females are more vulnerable than males during the prenatal and postnatal periods, males are subsequently more vulnerable than females with regard to physical health.

Answer 6

A

Question 7

Question ID #18607: Klinefelter syndrome is due to: 
Select one: 
A. a dominant gene. 
B. a recessive gene. 
C. a chromosomal deletion. 
D. an extra chromosome.

Answer 7

D

Question 8

Question ID #18608: Of the senses, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is least well-developed at birth. 
Select one: 
A. vision  
B. audition 
C. taste 
D. smell

Answer 8

A

Question 9

Question ID #17920: Sarah and Eve are served liver for dinner. Sarah screams, “Now there’s more!” when hers is cut up into bite-size pieces. Eve says, “No, there’s not! It’s just the same.” In terms of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development:
Select one:
A. Sarah is in the preoperational stage.
B. Eve is in the sensorimotor stage.
C. Sarah is in the concrete operational stage.
D. Eve is in the preoperational stage

Answer 9

A

Question 10

Question ID #18639: Syntactic bootstrapping is useful for understanding how children:
Select one:
A. learn how to pronounce new words.
B. narrow the possible meanings of new words.
C. learn how words are combined to form a sentence.
D. distinguish between similarly sounding words.

Answer 10

B

Question 11

Question ID #17944: Infantile amnesia refers to:
Select one:
A. the inability of children to develop declarative memories until 10 to 12 months of age.
B. the inability of children to develop memories for autobiographical events until 3 or 4 years of age.
C. the inability of adolescents and adults to recall events they experienced prior to 3 or 4 years of age.
D. the inability of adults to accurately recall when their infants achieved major developmental milestones.

Answer 11

C

Question 12

Question ID #18643: The brain is only about 25% of its adult weight at birth but, by about \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ months of age, it has reached 80% of its adult weight. 
Select one: 
A. 6  
B. 12 
C. 24 
D. 48

Answer 12

C

Question 13

Question ID #18585: An infant (6-12 months of age) would be most likely to do which of the following first?
Select one:
A. pull him/herself to standing by holding onto the furniture.
B. show separation anxiety
C. pretend that a wood cylinder is a cup
D. say her first word

Answer 13

B

Question 14

Question ID #18583: According to Erikson, at age two, the primary psychosocial task is to develop ___________, and failure to successfully accomplish this task leads to ___________.
Select one:
A. an ego identity; identity diffusion
B. a capacity for industry; a sense of inferiority
C. a sense of basic trust; suspicion and mistrust
D. a sense of autonomy; doubt and shame

Answer 14

D

Question 15

Question ID #18622: The most common symptoms of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) are:
Select one:
A. immunologic abnormalities and delayed physical and cognitive development.
B. hyperactivity, irritability, and irregular sleep and feeding habits.
C. retarded physical growth, facial deformities, and hyperactivity.
D. intellectual disabilities and hearing and visual impairments.

Answer 15

D

Question 16

Question ID #18587: According to Kohlberg, a person in the sixth (final) stage of moral development is guided in his or her moral judgments primarily by:
Select one:
A. laws and legally binding contracts.
B. universally applicable ethical principles.
C. cultural standards and rules.
D. religious doctrine.

Answer 16

B

Question 17

Question ID #17941: Habituation-dishabituation research has demonstrated that, at about \_\_\_ months of age, infants begin to exhibit recognition memory for a visual stimulus for up to 24 hours following presentation of the stimulus. 
Select one: 
A. 3 
B. 6  
C. 9 
D. 11

Answer 17

A

Question 18

Question ID #18623: As described by Piaget, the concrete operational stage extends from ages: 
Select one: 
A. birth to 2 years. 
B. 2 to 7 years. 
C. 7 to 11 years.  
D. 11 to 15 years.

Answer 18

C

Question 19

Question ID #18604: To study social referencing, a developmental psychologist would most likely use: 
Select one: 
A. an habituation task. 
B. pattern recognition.  
C. a mobile. 
D. the visual cliff.

Answer 19

D

Question 20

Question ID #18595: Two-year-old Mayen uses the word "juice" to refer to all of the beverages that she drinks. This is an example of: 
Select one: 
A. overextension.  
B. overgeneralization. 
C. expansion. 
D. extension.

Answer 20

A

Question 21

Question ID #18642: Research by Taddio and Katz (2005) found that exposure to painful medical procedures during infancy:
Select one:
A. had no effect on subsequent responsivity to pain for both full-term and preterm infants.
B. increased subsequent responsivity to pain for full-term infants but not for preterm infants.
C. reduced subsequent responsivity to pain for full-term infants but not for preterm infants.
D. reduced subsequent responsivity to pain for both full-term and preterm infants.

Answer 21

B

Question 22

Question ID #18609: Presbyopia refers to loss of: 
Select one: 
A. far vision. 
B. near vision.  
C. color vision. 
D. depth perception.

Answer 22

B

Question 23

Question ID #17947: Separation from a parent or other primary caregiver for several weeks is least likely to have an adverse impact on a child's current level of distress and subsequent adjustment when the child is between \_\_\_\_\_ months of age at the time of the separation. 
Select one: 
A. 0 and 6 
B. 7 and 11  
C. 12 and 16 
D. 17 and 22

Answer 23

A

Question 24

Question ID #18589: As defined by Piaget, a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ circular reaction occurs when a baby explores the characteristics of familiar objects by deliberately using them in new ways. 
Select one: 
A. reflexive 
B. primary  
C. secondary 
D. tertiary

Answer 24

D

Question 25

Question ID #18625: Niche-picking is the tendency:
Select one:
A. of parents to provide their child with experiences that encourage the development of the child’s genetic predispositions.
B. of a child’s genetic predispositions to evoke certain reactions from parents and others.
C. of children to seek experiences that are consistent with their genetic predispositions.
D. of a child’s genotype to restrict his or her phenotype to a small number of possible outcomes.

Answer 25

C

Question 26

Question ID #18621: The original research on the self-fulfilling prophecy effect (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968) examined how:
Select one:
A. adolescents expectations about their academic performance affected their actual performance.
B. teachers expectations about the academic performance of children affected the childrens actual performance.
C. physicians diagnoses affected the health-related behaviors of patients with chronic illnesses.
D. the social context affects the way that people interpret the behaviors of others.

Answer 26

B

Question 27

Question ID #18584: Which of the following is LEAST likely to be one of a child's first words? 
Select one: 
A. fall 
B. bye-bye 
C. cold 
D. cookie

Answer 27

C