Chapter 01 – 14e
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
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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MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
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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