PSY 357 GCU UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes
toward these issues is called
Answer: thanatology
●● Which developmental task would most likely characterize Dave, who
is in his mid-teens
Answer: Crystallization
●● The cellular theory of aging most focuses on
Answer: deterioration of cells over a lifetime
●● What trait fits someone who scores low on an openness to experience
assessment?
Answer: Uncurious
●● In 1950, the population distribution of the United States resembled
a(n)
Answer: Pyramid
, ●● Most people confront the death of their parents when they are
Answer: Middle aged
●● As a demographer, Sherwood would be most interested in studying
Answer: how the number of young people in a population has changed
over the past 50 years
●● Perimenopause is accompanied by decrease in _____ and _____
levels
Answer: estrogen; progesterone
●● The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act gave people the right to
Answer: unpaid time off care for dependents
●● Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's stage thoery of dying was intially developed
as a research project
Answer: investigating how the terminally ill cope with dying
●● Which statement concerning how grandparent-grandchild
relationships have changed over the past few decades is accurate?
Answer: More grandparents now live lives independent from their
grandchildren
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes
toward these issues is called
Answer: thanatology
●● Which developmental task would most likely characterize Dave, who
is in his mid-teens
Answer: Crystallization
●● The cellular theory of aging most focuses on
Answer: deterioration of cells over a lifetime
●● What trait fits someone who scores low on an openness to experience
assessment?
Answer: Uncurious
●● In 1950, the population distribution of the United States resembled
a(n)
Answer: Pyramid
, ●● Most people confront the death of their parents when they are
Answer: Middle aged
●● As a demographer, Sherwood would be most interested in studying
Answer: how the number of young people in a population has changed
over the past 50 years
●● Perimenopause is accompanied by decrease in _____ and _____
levels
Answer: estrogen; progesterone
●● The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act gave people the right to
Answer: unpaid time off care for dependents
●● Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's stage thoery of dying was intially developed
as a research project
Answer: investigating how the terminally ill cope with dying
●● Which statement concerning how grandparent-grandchild
relationships have changed over the past few decades is accurate?
Answer: More grandparents now live lives independent from their
grandchildren
