HDL Test 3 Questions with The Correct
Solution
which of the following best summarizes physical changes during early adulthood?
a. young adults have more diseases than children due to bad health habits
b. young adults are less healthy than they will be during middle adulthood
c. young adults are healthy and fit but are beginning to decline in some areas
d. young adults show peak performances in most sports but show significant declines in
sensory systems - ANSWER - C
which of the following MOST accurately describes the situation for the children of single
teenage mothers?
a. they are less likely to live in poverty than children born to single older women
b. they start out at higher physical risk than children born to older mothers but catch up
by elementary school
c. they are born and remain at higher physical and educational risk than children born to
older mothers
d. they are as likely to receive quality day care and educational opportunities as children
born to older mothers - ANSWER - C
which one of the following situations is a valid implication of Maslows hierarch for
education?
a. Kendall who had low self-esteem will probably have little motivation to belong to and
be like by a group
b. Megan who is feeling ill this week, may show little interest in academic performance
c. Emily who fails to satisfy her aesthetic needs well be prevented from having high self-
esteem
d. Aaron who is frustrated in his search for knowledge, may show little interest in his
physiological well-being - ANSWER - B
a consequence is denied by BF Skinner as a reinforcer or a punisher depending on
whether it
a. increases or decreases the frequency of the behavior that it follows
b. is designed to promote desirable behavior or suppress undesirable behavior
c. is pleasurable or uncomfortable for the subject receiving the consequence
d. occurs antecedent to or as a consequence of the behavior - ANSWER - A
, a heightened sense of self consciousness, which can cause the adolescent to think he
or she is the focus of everyone, is known as
a. imaginary audience
b. personal fable
c. personal vanity
d. adolescent delusion - ANSWER - A
a large study of Americans sexual activity by Michael et al (1994) found all of the
following except
a. people are kinkier than expected
b. married couples have more sex
c. adultery is the exception, not the rule
d. men think about sex more than women - ANSWER - A
according to James Marcia, who expanded Ericksons stage of identity vs. role
confusion, an incoherent, disjointed sense of self is typical of
a. negative identity
b. identify foreclosure
c. identity diffusion
d. identity moratorium - ANSWER - C
according to your textbook, which of the following is expected to occur during one's
thirties
a. greater muscle tone and strength
b. sagging chin and protruding abdomen
c. radical changes in the sensory system
d. decrease the body's fatty tissue - ANSWER - B
adolescents cognitive abilities differ in their thinking from children primarily in that,
unlike children, their thinking is not necessarily tied to
a. logic
b. abstract ideas
c. fantasy
d. concrete events - ANSWER - D
an analogous process in males to the female menarche is
a. penis growth
b. first ejaculation
c. development of the testes
d. voice change - ANSWER - B
Solution
which of the following best summarizes physical changes during early adulthood?
a. young adults have more diseases than children due to bad health habits
b. young adults are less healthy than they will be during middle adulthood
c. young adults are healthy and fit but are beginning to decline in some areas
d. young adults show peak performances in most sports but show significant declines in
sensory systems - ANSWER - C
which of the following MOST accurately describes the situation for the children of single
teenage mothers?
a. they are less likely to live in poverty than children born to single older women
b. they start out at higher physical risk than children born to older mothers but catch up
by elementary school
c. they are born and remain at higher physical and educational risk than children born to
older mothers
d. they are as likely to receive quality day care and educational opportunities as children
born to older mothers - ANSWER - C
which one of the following situations is a valid implication of Maslows hierarch for
education?
a. Kendall who had low self-esteem will probably have little motivation to belong to and
be like by a group
b. Megan who is feeling ill this week, may show little interest in academic performance
c. Emily who fails to satisfy her aesthetic needs well be prevented from having high self-
esteem
d. Aaron who is frustrated in his search for knowledge, may show little interest in his
physiological well-being - ANSWER - B
a consequence is denied by BF Skinner as a reinforcer or a punisher depending on
whether it
a. increases or decreases the frequency of the behavior that it follows
b. is designed to promote desirable behavior or suppress undesirable behavior
c. is pleasurable or uncomfortable for the subject receiving the consequence
d. occurs antecedent to or as a consequence of the behavior - ANSWER - A
, a heightened sense of self consciousness, which can cause the adolescent to think he
or she is the focus of everyone, is known as
a. imaginary audience
b. personal fable
c. personal vanity
d. adolescent delusion - ANSWER - A
a large study of Americans sexual activity by Michael et al (1994) found all of the
following except
a. people are kinkier than expected
b. married couples have more sex
c. adultery is the exception, not the rule
d. men think about sex more than women - ANSWER - A
according to James Marcia, who expanded Ericksons stage of identity vs. role
confusion, an incoherent, disjointed sense of self is typical of
a. negative identity
b. identify foreclosure
c. identity diffusion
d. identity moratorium - ANSWER - C
according to your textbook, which of the following is expected to occur during one's
thirties
a. greater muscle tone and strength
b. sagging chin and protruding abdomen
c. radical changes in the sensory system
d. decrease the body's fatty tissue - ANSWER - B
adolescents cognitive abilities differ in their thinking from children primarily in that,
unlike children, their thinking is not necessarily tied to
a. logic
b. abstract ideas
c. fantasy
d. concrete events - ANSWER - D
an analogous process in males to the female menarche is
a. penis growth
b. first ejaculation
c. development of the testes
d. voice change - ANSWER - B
