TEST BANK
Life-Span Human Development
Carol K. Sigelman, and Elizabeth A. Rider
10th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Understanding Life-Span Human Development 1
Chapter 02 Genes, Environment, and Development 39
Chapter 03 Prenatal Development and Birth 77
Chapter 04 Body, Brain, and Health 113
Chapter 05 Sensation, Perception, and Action 148
Chapter 06 Cognition 184
Chapter 07 Memory and Learning 221
Chapter 08 Intelligence and Creativity 248
Chapter 09 Language, Education, and Work 275
Chapter 10 Self and Personality 308
Chapter 11 Gender Roles and Sexuality 345
Chapter 12 Social Cognition and Moral Development 381
Chapter 13 Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships 417
Chapter 14 The Family 452
Chapter 15 Developmental Psychopathology 487
Chapter 16 The Final Challenge-Death and Dying 521
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Test Bank - Life-Span Human Development, 10th Edition (Sigelman, 2022)
Chapter 01 Understanding Life-Span Human Development
True / False
1. Psychosocial development includes motives, emotions, and personality traits.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.1 How Should We Think about Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.1.1 - Define development, aging, and their relationship to each other.
OTHER: Remember
2. Bar or bat mitzvahs and quinceañeras are examples of rites of passage in different cultures.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.1 How Should We Think about Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.1.1 - Define development, aging, and their relationship to each other.
OTHER: Remember
3. The person most often cited as the founder of developmental psychologist is Erik Erikson.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.1 - Describe how the study of human development began.
OTHER: Remember
4. Maturation refers to the gains that occur across the lifespan as the result of experiences.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.2 - Explain three major issues addressed by theories of human
development.
OTHER: Understand
5. Discontinuity theorists believe that development involves primarily quantitative changes in human behavior.
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Test Bank - Life-Span Human Development, 10th Edition (Sigelman, 2022)
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.2 - Explain three major issues addressed by theories of human
development.
OTHER: Understand
6. Through a combination of maturation and experience, Piaget believed that children construct more advanced modes of
thinking that progress through four qualitatively different and universal stages.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.3 - Compare and contrast the main ideas of the five theoretical
perspectives that have dominated the study of development: evolutionary, psychoanalytic,
learning, cognitive-developmental, and bio ecological systems theories.
OTHER: Understand
7. A random sample is always smaller than the population from which it is drawn.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.3 How Is Development Studied?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.3.2 - Describe the scientific method and the choices involved in selecting a
sample and choosing data collection methods.
OTHER: Remember
8. The main advantage of the correlational method is that it can be used to establish cause–effect relationships.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.3 How Is Development Studied?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.3.3 - Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the case study,
experimental, and correlational methods.
OTHER: Understand
9. Cohort effects concern the impact of being born in a particular generation in a particular historical context rather than
another.
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Life-Span Human Development
Carol K. Sigelman, and Elizabeth A. Rider
10th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Understanding Life-Span Human Development 1
Chapter 02 Genes, Environment, and Development 39
Chapter 03 Prenatal Development and Birth 77
Chapter 04 Body, Brain, and Health 113
Chapter 05 Sensation, Perception, and Action 148
Chapter 06 Cognition 184
Chapter 07 Memory and Learning 221
Chapter 08 Intelligence and Creativity 248
Chapter 09 Language, Education, and Work 275
Chapter 10 Self and Personality 308
Chapter 11 Gender Roles and Sexuality 345
Chapter 12 Social Cognition and Moral Development 381
Chapter 13 Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships 417
Chapter 14 The Family 452
Chapter 15 Developmental Psychopathology 487
Chapter 16 The Final Challenge-Death and Dying 521
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Test Bank - Life-Span Human Development, 10th Edition (Sigelman, 2022)
Chapter 01 Understanding Life-Span Human Development
True / False
1. Psychosocial development includes motives, emotions, and personality traits.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.1 How Should We Think about Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.1.1 - Define development, aging, and their relationship to each other.
OTHER: Remember
2. Bar or bat mitzvahs and quinceañeras are examples of rites of passage in different cultures.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.1 How Should We Think about Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.1.1 - Define development, aging, and their relationship to each other.
OTHER: Remember
3. The person most often cited as the founder of developmental psychologist is Erik Erikson.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.1 - Describe how the study of human development began.
OTHER: Remember
4. Maturation refers to the gains that occur across the lifespan as the result of experiences.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.2 - Explain three major issues addressed by theories of human
development.
OTHER: Understand
5. Discontinuity theorists believe that development involves primarily quantitative changes in human behavior.
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1|Page
, ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Life-Span Human Development, 10th Edition (Sigelman, 2022)
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.2 - Explain three major issues addressed by theories of human
development.
OTHER: Understand
6. Through a combination of maturation and experience, Piaget believed that children construct more advanced modes of
thinking that progress through four qualitatively different and universal stages.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.2 What Theories Have Guided the Science of Life-Span Development?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.2.3 - Compare and contrast the main ideas of the five theoretical
perspectives that have dominated the study of development: evolutionary, psychoanalytic,
learning, cognitive-developmental, and bio ecological systems theories.
OTHER: Understand
7. A random sample is always smaller than the population from which it is drawn.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.3 How Is Development Studied?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.3.2 - Describe the scientific method and the choices involved in selecting a
sample and choosing data collection methods.
OTHER: Remember
8. The main advantage of the correlational method is that it can be used to establish cause–effect relationships.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: 1.3 How Is Development Studied?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LSHD.SIGE.10.1.3.3 - Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the case study,
experimental, and correlational methods.
OTHER: Understand
9. Cohort effects concern the impact of being born in a particular generation in a particular historical context rather than
another.
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