Test Bank For Experience Human Development 15th Edition by Diane Papalia and Gabriela Martorell Chapter(1-19)

Test Bank For Experience Human Development 15e Diane Papalia and Gabriela Martorell Chapter 1 -19 Answers are at the of Each Chapter Chapter 1 Student name:__________ MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Which of the following best describes the focus of the study of human development? A) change and stability B) childhood and adulthood C) infancy D) relationships 2) Which of the following developments in the United States helped produce the concept of adolescence? A) medical advances that allowed the identification of more distinct growth periods B) greater capacity of families to support formal educ ation C) the availability of more leisure time on the part of adults D) the advent of child labor laws 3) Which of the following is true of multigenerational households? A) Roughly 35 percent of families in the United States live in multigenerational households. B) Mult igenerational households are more common in white families than in nonwhite Latino families. C) Downturns in the United States economy helped make multigenerational households more common. D) Later marrying ages has helped to make multigenerational households le ss common. 4) Which topic would NOT have been addressed by the original developmental psychologists? A) babbling B) puberty C) menopause D) toilet training 5) Which of the following statements about the concept of race is most accurate? A) Race is best understood as a biological necessity. B) Only recently has there been a scientific consensus on how to measure race. C) Multiple races belong to the same taxonomic classification. D) While ethnicity is fluid, race is a fixed construct. 6) _____ development is the concept of a lifelo ng process of development that can be studied scientifically. A) Childhood B) Longtime C) Life-span D) Traditional 7) Developmental scientists can do which of the following once they understand how language develops? They can _____ when a child needs speech therapy. A) They can intervene when a child needs speech therapy. B) They can describe when a child needs speech therapy. C) They can predict when a child needs speech therapy. D) They can explain when a child needs speech therapy. 8) Which type of development would a change and st ability in mental abilities, such as learning, memory, language, thinking, and reasoning fall within? A) physical B) cognitive C) psychosocial D) physiological 9) Which of the following would NOT have been the focus of developmental psychologists during the early years after the inception of the field of developmental psychology? A) attachment B) teen drug use C) math abilities of preschoolers D) divorce 10) Which scientific goal is reflected by suggesting that high school students who score a 1,000 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) will be successful in college? A) describe B) explain C) predict D) intervene 11) Which scientific goal is reflected by stating that most children take their first steps at about a year? A) describe B) explain C) predict D) intervene 12) Which scientific goal is reflected by stating that most students learn to read through a combination of phonetic and whole -word instruction? A) describe B) explain C) predict D) intervene 13) The scientific goal that is reflected by a developmental psychologist suggesting, after several weeks of observing a child’s aggressive behavior patterns that the child would benefit from counseling is which of the following? A) describe B) explain C) predict D) intervene 14) A child doesn ’t want to share a new toy with the other children at preschool. This child is struggling with_____ development. A) physical B) cognitive C) psychosocial D) neurological 15) A teacher is concerned that a student is behind the other classmates in computational ability. The teacher is concerned about which domain of human development? A) physical B) cognitive C) psychos ocial D) neurological 16) One student is three inches taller than every other student in the class. Which domain of development would address this child ’s height? A) physical B) cognitive C) psychosocial D) neurological 17) Typically, when studying human development, researche rs focus mainly on which domain of development? A) physical B) cognitive C) psychosocial D) All answer choices are correct. 18) Which type of development is most involved in the growth of body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health? A) cognitive B) neurological C) physical D) psychosocial 19) Which of the following would be of LEAST interest to a researcher studying the cognitive domain? A) feelings B) language C) memory D) attention 20) A researcher is passing out peer evaluations to a group of preschool children. Each child can choose a smiley face, a neutral face, or a frowny face to describe their classmates. Which developmental domain is the researcher most interested in? A) physical B) cognitive C) emotional D) psychosocial