LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW 2025/2026
Jill has just heard her teacher say something. The sounds produced by the
teacher are first stored in Jill's _____.
A. working memory
B. long-term memory
C. sensory memory
D. short-term memory - >>>C. sensory memory
ANSWER Family structure
refers to _____.
A. the way in which a family raises its children
B. the legal and genetic relationships of people in a household C. how the
family's house is constructed
D. how the various generations interact. - >>>B. the legal
ANSWERand
genetic relationships of people in a household
Brain weight triples during the first two years of life primarily because of the
growth of _____. A. axons
B. dendrites
C. neurons
D. synapses - >>>B. dendrites
ANSWER _____ is the general term for a
concept that is created by society.
A. culture
,B. cohort
C. Social construction
D. SES - >>>C. social construction
ANSWER
Beatriz eagerly ed. "Well your mom is my daughter," Grandpa
ANSWER
replied. "No! She's my mommy!" Beatriz exclaimed. Why did Beatriz make
"You are your mom's daughter, right?" Grandpa asked Beatriz. "Yes!"
this error?
A. conservation
B. object peranence
C. overregularization
D. centration - >>>D. centration
ANSWER
Horrace was born 26 weeks after conception. He now is a healthy, happy
2-year-old. Horace's ability to survive after being born so early was due in
part to his reaching the _____. A. term of postnatal development
B. germinal period
C. neurogenesis point
D. age of viability - >>>D. age of
ANSWERviability One of the milestones of
preoperational thought is the ability to _____.
A. use symbolic thought
B. understand reversibility
C. display conservation
D. think logically - >>>A. use symbolic
ANSWERthought
, Erikson called the psychosocial development stage that occurs between
3 and 6 years of age _____. A. initiative versus guilt
B. industry versus inferiority
C. the preoperational stage
D. autonomy versus inferiority - >>>A. initiative versus
ANSWERguilt
The third step in the scientific method involves _____.
A posing a question
B. conducting research
C. sharing the results
D. developing a hypothesis - >>>B. conducting
ANSWERresearch
The process by which a response becomes linked to particular stimulus is
called _____. A. psychoanalysis
B. cognition
C. observational learning
D. conditioning - >>>C. observational learning
ANSWER Children who are
diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can vary in the type and range of
symptoms they display, but all children with autism spectrum disorder have
_____.
A. difficulty speaking
B. a lack of eye contact
C. difficulty understanding others' speech
D. difficulty relating to others - >>>C. difficulty
ANSWERunderstanding
others' speech
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW 2025/2026
Jill has just heard her teacher say something. The sounds produced by the
teacher are first stored in Jill's _____.
A. working memory
B. long-term memory
C. sensory memory
D. short-term memory - >>>C. sensory memory
ANSWER Family structure
refers to _____.
A. the way in which a family raises its children
B. the legal and genetic relationships of people in a household C. how the
family's house is constructed
D. how the various generations interact. - >>>B. the legal
ANSWERand
genetic relationships of people in a household
Brain weight triples during the first two years of life primarily because of the
growth of _____. A. axons
B. dendrites
C. neurons
D. synapses - >>>B. dendrites
ANSWER _____ is the general term for a
concept that is created by society.
A. culture
,B. cohort
C. Social construction
D. SES - >>>C. social construction
ANSWER
Beatriz eagerly ed. "Well your mom is my daughter," Grandpa
ANSWER
replied. "No! She's my mommy!" Beatriz exclaimed. Why did Beatriz make
"You are your mom's daughter, right?" Grandpa asked Beatriz. "Yes!"
this error?
A. conservation
B. object peranence
C. overregularization
D. centration - >>>D. centration
ANSWER
Horrace was born 26 weeks after conception. He now is a healthy, happy
2-year-old. Horace's ability to survive after being born so early was due in
part to his reaching the _____. A. term of postnatal development
B. germinal period
C. neurogenesis point
D. age of viability - >>>D. age of
ANSWERviability One of the milestones of
preoperational thought is the ability to _____.
A. use symbolic thought
B. understand reversibility
C. display conservation
D. think logically - >>>A. use symbolic
ANSWERthought
, Erikson called the psychosocial development stage that occurs between
3 and 6 years of age _____. A. initiative versus guilt
B. industry versus inferiority
C. the preoperational stage
D. autonomy versus inferiority - >>>A. initiative versus
ANSWERguilt
The third step in the scientific method involves _____.
A posing a question
B. conducting research
C. sharing the results
D. developing a hypothesis - >>>B. conducting
ANSWERresearch
The process by which a response becomes linked to particular stimulus is
called _____. A. psychoanalysis
B. cognition
C. observational learning
D. conditioning - >>>C. observational learning
ANSWER Children who are
diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can vary in the type and range of
symptoms they display, but all children with autism spectrum disorder have
_____.
A. difficulty speaking
B. a lack of eye contact
C. difficulty understanding others' speech
D. difficulty relating to others - >>>C. difficulty
ANSWERunderstanding
others' speech
