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TEST BANK For Human Development: A Life-Span View
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9th Edition By Robert V. Kail; John C. Cavanaugh Chapters
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1. The Study of Human Development.
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Part I: PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT, INFANCY, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
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2. Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth.
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3. Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development.
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4. The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.
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5. Entering the Social World: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.
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Part II: SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
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6. Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood.
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7. Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood.
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8. Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence.
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9. Moving Into the Adult Social World: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence.
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Part III: YOUNG AND MIDDLE ADULTHOOD.
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10. Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.
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11. Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood.
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12. Work, Leisure, and Retirement.
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13. Making It in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial Challenges of Middle Adulthood.
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Part IV: LATE ADULTHOOD.
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14. The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues.
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15. Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial, Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues.
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16. The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement.
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, 1. The Study of Human Development.
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The scientific study of human development can best be described as
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ANSWER:a.multidisciplinary b


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c. non-theoretical
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2. Which term does not belong in this group?
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a. experiential
b. nurture
c. environmental
ANSWER:d. hereditary b




3. Dr. Kim takes a strong nature position with regard to the origins of intellectual
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disabilities. Therefore, she would most likely hypothesize that her son‘s intellectu
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al disability (formally known as mental retardation) is due to
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a. her parenting style
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ANSWER:b. his genes b b



c. his exposure to a toxic chemical prior to birth
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d. his exposure to Rubella prior to birth
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4. The notion that development is best described in terms of a series of abrupt
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shifts in behavior best fits with the approach.
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a. nature
b. nurture
c. continuity
ANSWER:d. discontinuity b




5. Cleo, a director of a daycare, uses terms like ―pre-K,‖ ―K-3,‖ and the ―upper-
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elementary.‖ These ideas are most compatible with a view.
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a. context-specificity
b. hereditary

, c. continuity
ANSWER:d. discontinuity b




6. Dr. Fletcher is attempting to determine whether adult criminals were rule-
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breakers throughout their childhood or whether they suddenly turned to a life of
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crime. Her research is most concerned with which issue of human development?
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a. nature versus nurture b b


b. universal versus context-specific development b b b



c. biological versus sociocultural forces b b b



ANSWER:d. continuity versus discontinuity b b b




7. Mustafa is interested in determining whether children develop virtually the sa
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b me way in Algeria as they do in other parts of the world. Mustafa‘s research deals
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b primarily with the issue of human development.
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a. psychological versus biological forces
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ANSWER:b. universal versus context-specific development
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c. nature versus nurture
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d. continuity versus discontinuity
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8. When Clarisse says, ―It doesn‘t matter if they are French, Swedish, or Chinese,
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b kids are kids,‖ she is espousing a
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a. discontinuous b



ANSWER:b. universal b



c. nurture b



d. context-specific
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9. Viviana notices that children seem to mature socially much faster in Costa
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Ric a than in the Canada. Viviana is most likely to support a position regarding
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human development.
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a. nature
b. discontinuous
ANSWER:c. context-specific b