PSYC 1101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Openstax, Prenatal Development, Attachment Theory
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Chapter 9: Lifespan Development
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Multiple Choice
1. ________ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor
skills, and health and wellness.
A. cognitive
B. learning
*C. physical
D. psychosocial
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
2. What does the normative approach ask regarding the lifespan?
A. What do people think about development?
B. What is biological about development?
*C. What is normal development?
D. Who decided what constituted normal development?
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
3. Specific normative events are also called ________.
A. age-related standards
B. averages
C. benchmarks
*D. developmental milestones
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
4. The continuous development approach views development as a ________.
A. biological imperative
*B. cumulative process
C. series of accidents
D. unique progress
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
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5. ________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning,
and creativity.
A. artistic
*B. cognitive
C. emotional
D. psychosocial
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
6. Theorists who view development as ________ believe that development takes place in unique
stages.
A. continuous
*B. discontinuous
C. progressive
D. regressive
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
7. Which concept refers to the persistent difference in grades, test scores, and graduation rates
that exist among students of different ethnicities, races, and sexes?
*A. achievement gap
B. Bell curve
C. attrition
D. racism
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.3
8. Who called the stages of development psychosexual stages?
A. Erik Erikson
B. Jean Piaget
C. Lawrence Kohlberg
*D. Sigmund Freud
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
9. Ego identity is our ________.
A. early personality
B. nature
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C. primary character
*D. sense of self
Difficulty: Moderate
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
10. ________ development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships.
A. mental
B. physical
C. psychological
*D. psychosocial
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
11. Who developed the psychosocial theory of development?
A. Abraham Maslow
*B. Erik Erikson
C. Jean Piaget
D. Lawrence Kohlberg
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
12. ________ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret
information.
A. categories
B. cognitions
C. facsimiles
*D. schemata
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1, 1.2
13. A(an) ________ begins as a one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge.
A. embryo
B. placenta
C. protean
*D. zygote
Difficulty: Easy
APA Standard: 1.1
Document Summary
Multiple choice: ________ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness, cognitive, learning. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2: specific normative events are also called ________, age-related standards, averages, benchmarks. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2: the continuous development approach views development as a ________, biological imperative. *b. cumulative process: series of accidents, unique progress. Chapter 9: lifespan development: ________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity, artistic. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2: theorists who view development as ________ believe that development takes place in unique stages, continuous. *a. achievement gap: bell curve, attrition, racism. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2, 1. 3, 3. 3: who called the stages of development psychosexual stages, erik erikson, jean piaget, lawrence kohlberg. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2: ego identity is our ________, early personality, nature. Apa standard: 1. 1, 1. 2: ________ development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships, mental, physical, psychological.
