Experience Human
Development 14e
Diane Papalia,
Gabriela Martorell
(Test Bank All
Chapters Answers
at the end of each
Chapters)
,Chapter 1
1) Which of the followingbest describesthe focus of the study of human development?
A) change and stability
B) childhood and adulthood
C) infancy
D) relationships
2) Which of the following developments in the United States helped produce the concept of
adolescence?
A) medical advances that allowed the identificationof more distinct growth periods
B) greater capacity of families to support formal education
C) the availability of more leisuretime on the part of adults
D) the advent of child labor laws
3) Which of the following is true of multigenerational households?
A) Roughly 35 percent of families in the United States live inmultigenerational
households.
B) Multigenerational households are more common in white families than in nonwhite
Latino families.
C) Downturns in the United States economy helped make multigenerational
householdsmore common.
D) Later marrying ages has helped to make multigenerational householdsless common.
4) Which topic would NOT have been addressed by the original developmental
psychologists?
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, A) babbling
B) puberty
C) menopause
D) toilet training
5) Which of the following statements about the concept of race is most accurate?
A) Race is best understood as a biological necessity.
B) Only recently has there been a scientific consensus on how to measure race.
C) Multiple races belong to the same taxonomic classification.
D) While ethnicity is fluid, race is a fixed construct.
6) The concept of a lifelong process of development that can be studied scientifically is
known as what?
A) childhood development
B) longtime development
C) life-span development
D) traditional development
7) When developmental scientists understand how language develops, they can ________
when a child needs speech therapy.
A) intervene
B) describe
C) predict
D) explain
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Development 14e
Diane Papalia,
Gabriela Martorell
(Test Bank All
Chapters Answers
at the end of each
Chapters)
,Chapter 1
1) Which of the followingbest describesthe focus of the study of human development?
A) change and stability
B) childhood and adulthood
C) infancy
D) relationships
2) Which of the following developments in the United States helped produce the concept of
adolescence?
A) medical advances that allowed the identificationof more distinct growth periods
B) greater capacity of families to support formal education
C) the availability of more leisuretime on the part of adults
D) the advent of child labor laws
3) Which of the following is true of multigenerational households?
A) Roughly 35 percent of families in the United States live inmultigenerational
households.
B) Multigenerational households are more common in white families than in nonwhite
Latino families.
C) Downturns in the United States economy helped make multigenerational
householdsmore common.
D) Later marrying ages has helped to make multigenerational householdsless common.
4) Which topic would NOT have been addressed by the original developmental
psychologists?
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, A) babbling
B) puberty
C) menopause
D) toilet training
5) Which of the following statements about the concept of race is most accurate?
A) Race is best understood as a biological necessity.
B) Only recently has there been a scientific consensus on how to measure race.
C) Multiple races belong to the same taxonomic classification.
D) While ethnicity is fluid, race is a fixed construct.
6) The concept of a lifelong process of development that can be studied scientifically is
known as what?
A) childhood development
B) longtime development
C) life-span development
D) traditional development
7) When developmental scientists understand how language develops, they can ________
when a child needs speech therapy.
A) intervene
B) describe
C) predict
D) explain
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