HBSE Actual Questions and Correct Answers
Q1
A perspective which looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and
social change shape people's lives from birth to death is known as: person-in-environment
perspective life course perspective developmental perspective identity development
perspective
Answer: Life course perspective
Q2
A sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person's life from birth to
death is known as: developmental history self history personal history event history
Answer: event history
Q3
A cohort is: a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who experience
particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and at the same age a
long-term pattern of stability and changes which usually involves multiple transitions a
significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious and
long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
Answer: a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who
experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and
at the same age
Q4
A life event is a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who
experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and at the
same age a long-term pattern of stability and changes which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may
produce serious and long-lasting effects
, Q5
A transition is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses
Q6
A turning point is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
Q7
A trajectory is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions
Q8
A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family
development must be understood in a past context is: timing of lives linked or interdependent
lives developmental risk and protection interplay of human lives and historical times
Answer: interplay of human lives and historical time
Q9
A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that human lives are
interdependent, and the family is the primary arena for experiencing and interpreting wider
historical, cultural, and social phenomena is: timing of lives linked or interdependent lives
developmental risk and protection interplay of human lives and historical times
Answer: linked or interdependent lives
Q1
A perspective which looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and
social change shape people's lives from birth to death is known as: person-in-environment
perspective life course perspective developmental perspective identity development
perspective
Answer: Life course perspective
Q2
A sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person's life from birth to
death is known as: developmental history self history personal history event history
Answer: event history
Q3
A cohort is: a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who experience
particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and at the same age a
long-term pattern of stability and changes which usually involves multiple transitions a
significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious and
long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
Answer: a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who
experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and
at the same age
Q4
A life event is a group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who
experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and at the
same age a long-term pattern of stability and changes which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may
produce serious and long-lasting effects
, Q5
A transition is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses
Q6
A turning point is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
Q7
A trajectory is: a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior
roles and statuses a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course
trajectory
Answer: a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple
transitions
Q8
A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family
development must be understood in a past context is: timing of lives linked or interdependent
lives developmental risk and protection interplay of human lives and historical times
Answer: interplay of human lives and historical time
Q9
A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that human lives are
interdependent, and the family is the primary arena for experiencing and interpreting wider
historical, cultural, and social phenomena is: timing of lives linked or interdependent lives
developmental risk and protection interplay of human lives and historical times
Answer: linked or interdependent lives
