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TEST BANK
Human Development: A Life-Span View


Robert V. Kail, and John C. Cavanaugh
8th Edition

,Table of Contents

Chapter 01 The Study of Human Development 1
Chapter 02 Biological Foundations-Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth 42
Chapter 03 Tools for Exploring the World 84
Chapter 04 The Emergence of Thought and Language 124
Chapter 05 Entering the Social World 158
Chapter 06 Off to School 190
Chapter 07 Expanding Social Horizons 223
Chapter 08 Rites of Passage 255
Chapter 09 Moving into the Adult Social World 285
Chapter 10 Becoming an Adult 316
Chapter 11 Being with Others-Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood 348
Chapter 12 Working and Relaxing 380
Chapter 13 Making It in Midlife 412
Chapter 14 The Personal Context of Later Life 443
Chapter 15 Social Aspects of Later Life Psychosocial, Retirement, Relationship, and
Societal Issues 476
Chapter 16 Dying and Bereavement 508

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Chapter 01 The Study of Human Development

True / False

1. The universal and context-specific developmental issue concerns whether there is just one path of development or
several.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.1 Thinking About Development
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.1.1 - What fundamental issues of development have scholars addressed
throughout history?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

2. If you believe in continuity, you believe that development is best characterized as following a smooth progression.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.1 Thinking About Development
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.1.1 - What fundamental issues of development have scholars addressed
throughout history?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

3. The influence of ethnic factors on your behavior would be considered a sociocultural force.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.1 Thinking About Development
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.1.2 - What are the basic forces in the biopsychosocial framework? How
does the timing of these forces affect their impact?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

4. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and the nervous system in terms of brain-environmental relationships.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.1 Thinking About Development
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.1.3 - How does neuroscience enhance our understanding of human
development?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

5. The sequence of stages in Erikson’s theory is based on the epigenetic principle.
a. True

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b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.2 Developmental Theories
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.2.2 - How do psychodynamic theories account for development?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

6. Compared to punishment, reinforcement tends to result in quicker and longer-lasting learning.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.2 Developmental Theories
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.2.3 - What is the focus of learning theories of development?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

7. Piaget believed that children begin to construct knowledge in new ways at a few critical points in development.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.2 Developmental Theories
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.2.4 - How do cognitive-developmental theories explain changes in
thinking?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

8. Information-processing theory rejects the notion of conceptualizing humans as having mental hardware and software.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.2 Developmental Theories
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.2.4 - How do cognitive-developmental theories explain changes in
thinking?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

9. Vygotsky’s key insight was to view development as an apprenticeship in which children develop as they work with
skilled adults.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 1.2 Developmental Theories
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: KAIL.HDEV.19.1.2.4 - How do cognitive-developmental theories explain changes in
thinking?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

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