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Test Bank for Exploring Lifespan Development 4th
Edition By Laura E Berk
The field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability
in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan is called:
A. biological development
B. lifespan development.
C. psychological development.
D. child development. - ANSWER-B. lifespan development
Biological and environmental factors that are associated with a certain
historical event, such as the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon
landing, can be considered:
A. age-graded influences.
B. history-graded influences
C. sociocultural-graded influences.
D. non-normative life events. - ANSWER-B. history-graded influences
The psychodynamic perspective is MOST closely associated with which
theorist?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. F. Skinner
D. Jean Piaget - ANSWER-A. Sigmund Freud
What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stages of
personality development?
A. latency, anal, oral, genital, phallic
B. oral, genital, latency, phallic, anal
C. anal, oral, latency, phallic, genital
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D. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital - ANSWER-D. oral, anal, phallic,
latency, genital
Which psychoanalyst provided a psychodynamic view based on
psychosocial development?
A. Carl Rogers
B. S. E. Morehouse
C. Erik Erikson
D. Jean Piaget - ANSWER-C. Erik Erikson
Mickey is an adolescent who has an awareness of the uniqueness of
himself and knowledge of roles that he should follow. Mickey has
successfully passed through Erik Erikson's ______ stage of
development.
A. trust vs. mistrust
B. initiative vs. guilt
C. industry vs. inferiority
D. identity vs. role diffusion - ANSWER-D. identity vs. role diffusion
Assunta was bitten by a small spotted dog when she was a little girl, and
now whenever she sees a small dog approaching, she feels afraid. John
B. Watson would say that Assunta's fearful reaction is a result of
________.
A. reinforcement
B. classical conditioning
C. punishment
D. psychosocial learning - ANSWER-B. classical conditioning
Which form of learning occurs when a voluntary response is
strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative
consequences?
A. the behavioral perspective
B. the psychodynamic perspective
C. operant conditioning
D. classical conditioning - ANSWER-C. operant conditioning
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Which psychologist developed an approach to understanding human
behavior that emphasizes learning by observing the actions of another
person?
A. B. F. Skinner
B. D. M. Jurick
C. Albert Bandura
D. John B. Watson - ANSWER-C. Albert Bandura
Which theoretical approach to development argues that there are five
levels of the environment that simultaneously influence individuals?
A. Jean Piaget's cognitive approach
B. Urie Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach
C. B. F. Skinner's behavioral approach
D. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach - ANSWER-B. Urie
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach
Which type of prediction is stated in a way that permits it to be tested?
A. hypothesis
B. theory
C. conclusion
D. conjecture - ANSWER-A. hypothesis
Which research approach is designed to discover causal relationships
between various factors?
A. correlational
B. hypothetical
C. experimental
D. theoretical - ANSWER-C. experimental
Beppo is part of a research group of adolescents trying to lose weight.
One of his assignments is to keep a daily diary of his food intake and the
times that he eats. This approach can be considered an example of
research.
A. experimental
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B. ethnography
C. case study
D. survey research - ANSWER-C. case study
Rolf conducts an experiment in which Group A is exposed to a
particular treatment and Group B is given no treatment. If Group A is
designated as the treatment group, then what is Group B designated as?
A. independent variable
B. dependent variable
C. control group
D. treatment group - ANSWER-C. control group
If a researcher was interested in learning how moral development
changes between the ages of 3 and 15, she might study a single group of
children across that age range, measuring them every three years. This
strategy would be an example of _________ research:
A. developmental
B. longitudinal
C. sequential
D. cross-sectional - ANSWER-B. longitudinal
Marissa and Melissa are twins and are genetically identical. Which term
would a geneticist use to describe them?
A. gamete-deprived twins
B. dizygotic twins
C. monozygotic twins
D. replicated twins - ANSWER-C. monozygotic twins
Which term is used to describe a trait within an organism that is present
but not expressed?
A. dominant
B. genotypic
C. phenotype-devoid
D. recessive - ANSWER-D. recessive
Test Bank for Exploring Lifespan Development 4th
Edition By Laura E Berk
The field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability
in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan is called:
A. biological development
B. lifespan development.
C. psychological development.
D. child development. - ANSWER-B. lifespan development
Biological and environmental factors that are associated with a certain
historical event, such as the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon
landing, can be considered:
A. age-graded influences.
B. history-graded influences
C. sociocultural-graded influences.
D. non-normative life events. - ANSWER-B. history-graded influences
The psychodynamic perspective is MOST closely associated with which
theorist?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. F. Skinner
D. Jean Piaget - ANSWER-A. Sigmund Freud
What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stages of
personality development?
A. latency, anal, oral, genital, phallic
B. oral, genital, latency, phallic, anal
C. anal, oral, latency, phallic, genital
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D. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital - ANSWER-D. oral, anal, phallic,
latency, genital
Which psychoanalyst provided a psychodynamic view based on
psychosocial development?
A. Carl Rogers
B. S. E. Morehouse
C. Erik Erikson
D. Jean Piaget - ANSWER-C. Erik Erikson
Mickey is an adolescent who has an awareness of the uniqueness of
himself and knowledge of roles that he should follow. Mickey has
successfully passed through Erik Erikson's ______ stage of
development.
A. trust vs. mistrust
B. initiative vs. guilt
C. industry vs. inferiority
D. identity vs. role diffusion - ANSWER-D. identity vs. role diffusion
Assunta was bitten by a small spotted dog when she was a little girl, and
now whenever she sees a small dog approaching, she feels afraid. John
B. Watson would say that Assunta's fearful reaction is a result of
________.
A. reinforcement
B. classical conditioning
C. punishment
D. psychosocial learning - ANSWER-B. classical conditioning
Which form of learning occurs when a voluntary response is
strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative
consequences?
A. the behavioral perspective
B. the psychodynamic perspective
C. operant conditioning
D. classical conditioning - ANSWER-C. operant conditioning
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Which psychologist developed an approach to understanding human
behavior that emphasizes learning by observing the actions of another
person?
A. B. F. Skinner
B. D. M. Jurick
C. Albert Bandura
D. John B. Watson - ANSWER-C. Albert Bandura
Which theoretical approach to development argues that there are five
levels of the environment that simultaneously influence individuals?
A. Jean Piaget's cognitive approach
B. Urie Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach
C. B. F. Skinner's behavioral approach
D. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach - ANSWER-B. Urie
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach
Which type of prediction is stated in a way that permits it to be tested?
A. hypothesis
B. theory
C. conclusion
D. conjecture - ANSWER-A. hypothesis
Which research approach is designed to discover causal relationships
between various factors?
A. correlational
B. hypothetical
C. experimental
D. theoretical - ANSWER-C. experimental
Beppo is part of a research group of adolescents trying to lose weight.
One of his assignments is to keep a daily diary of his food intake and the
times that he eats. This approach can be considered an example of
research.
A. experimental
, 4|Page
B. ethnography
C. case study
D. survey research - ANSWER-C. case study
Rolf conducts an experiment in which Group A is exposed to a
particular treatment and Group B is given no treatment. If Group A is
designated as the treatment group, then what is Group B designated as?
A. independent variable
B. dependent variable
C. control group
D. treatment group - ANSWER-C. control group
If a researcher was interested in learning how moral development
changes between the ages of 3 and 15, she might study a single group of
children across that age range, measuring them every three years. This
strategy would be an example of _________ research:
A. developmental
B. longitudinal
C. sequential
D. cross-sectional - ANSWER-B. longitudinal
Marissa and Melissa are twins and are genetically identical. Which term
would a geneticist use to describe them?
A. gamete-deprived twins
B. dizygotic twins
C. monozygotic twins
D. replicated twins - ANSWER-C. monozygotic twins
Which term is used to describe a trait within an organism that is present
but not expressed?
A. dominant
B. genotypic
C. phenotype-devoid
D. recessive - ANSWER-D. recessive
