GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS
THE LIFESPAN EXAM PREP TEST BANK
WITH UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
●● When psychologists speak of life-span development, they are
referring to an approach that emphasizes
Answer: the periods of the human life span involving both growth and
decline
●● Erikson's stage for children in early childhood is
Answer: initiative vs. guilt
●● The upper boundary of the human life span has historically been, and
continues to be, __________ years.
Answer: 122
●● In early childhood, children tend to think of themselves in terms of
a(n) __________ self.
Answer: physical and active
,●● A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if
adolescents experience depression more than middle-aged adults. The
researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify?
Answer: Descriptive research
●● Between 2 and 4 years of age, children are learning
Answer: the cause and consequences of feelings.
●● During the 20th century, life expectancy increased _________ years.
Answer: 30
●● __________ is Piaget's first stage of moral development in which
rules are conceived of as unchangeable properties of the world.
Answer: Heteronomous morality
●● Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life
and are usually not applicable to many people are called
Answer: non-normative life events.
●● __________ is a set of expectations that prescribe how females or
males should think, act, and feel.
,Answer: Gender role
●● Baltes and his colleagues assert that the mastery of life often
involves conflicts and competition among three goals of human
development:
Answer: growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss.
●● Which statement best describes the explanation given by the social
cognitive theory of gender?
Answer: Children learn expected gender behaviors through rewards and
punishments, as well as through observation and imitation of models.
●● Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture
issue?
Answer: It involves the extent to which heredity and the environment
influence development.
●● __________ parenting involves encouraging children to be
independent, placing limits and controls on their actions while allowing
verbal exchange.
Answer: Authoritative
●● In 2006, _____ of U.S. children were living in families below the
poverty line.
, Answer: 17.4%
●● __________ play involves the repetition of behavior when new skills
are being learned.
Answer: Practice
●● The Minnesota Family Investment Program was designed to
Answer: primarily influence the behavior of adults, through
employment.
●● The highest incidence of game playing occurs
Answer: between ages 10 and 12.
●● A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those
peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify?
Answer: Evocative genotype-environment correlation
●● The process we refer to when we speak of changes in an individual's
thought, intelligence, and language is the
Answer: cognitive process.
THE LIFESPAN EXAM PREP TEST BANK
WITH UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
●● When psychologists speak of life-span development, they are
referring to an approach that emphasizes
Answer: the periods of the human life span involving both growth and
decline
●● Erikson's stage for children in early childhood is
Answer: initiative vs. guilt
●● The upper boundary of the human life span has historically been, and
continues to be, __________ years.
Answer: 122
●● In early childhood, children tend to think of themselves in terms of
a(n) __________ self.
Answer: physical and active
,●● A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if
adolescents experience depression more than middle-aged adults. The
researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify?
Answer: Descriptive research
●● Between 2 and 4 years of age, children are learning
Answer: the cause and consequences of feelings.
●● During the 20th century, life expectancy increased _________ years.
Answer: 30
●● __________ is Piaget's first stage of moral development in which
rules are conceived of as unchangeable properties of the world.
Answer: Heteronomous morality
●● Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life
and are usually not applicable to many people are called
Answer: non-normative life events.
●● __________ is a set of expectations that prescribe how females or
males should think, act, and feel.
,Answer: Gender role
●● Baltes and his colleagues assert that the mastery of life often
involves conflicts and competition among three goals of human
development:
Answer: growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss.
●● Which statement best describes the explanation given by the social
cognitive theory of gender?
Answer: Children learn expected gender behaviors through rewards and
punishments, as well as through observation and imitation of models.
●● Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture
issue?
Answer: It involves the extent to which heredity and the environment
influence development.
●● __________ parenting involves encouraging children to be
independent, placing limits and controls on their actions while allowing
verbal exchange.
Answer: Authoritative
●● In 2006, _____ of U.S. children were living in families below the
poverty line.
, Answer: 17.4%
●● __________ play involves the repetition of behavior when new skills
are being learned.
Answer: Practice
●● The Minnesota Family Investment Program was designed to
Answer: primarily influence the behavior of adults, through
employment.
●● The highest incidence of game playing occurs
Answer: between ages 10 and 12.
●● A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those
peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify?
Answer: Evocative genotype-environment correlation
●● The process we refer to when we speak of changes in an individual's
thought, intelligence, and language is the
Answer: cognitive process.
