Test Bank For
Counseling Individuals Through the Lifespan Third Edition Daniel W.
Wong,Kimberly R. Hall , Lucy Wong Hernandez
Chapter1-13
Chapter 1
Multiple Choice
1. Human growth and development is both multidimensional and ______.
a. loss-oriented
b. multidirectional
c. observable
d. mobile
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 2: Explain the multidimensional and multidirectional nature of
lifespan development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Essential to Counseling Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Life maturation processes and ______ shape the individual’s life at any stage of
human development.
a. culture
b. adversity
c. psychotherapy
d. addiction
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1: Describe what is meant by viewing development from a lifespan
perspective.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Essential to Counseling Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. During the ______ period of development, achievement drive becomes evident and
the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic are mastered.
a. early school age
b. middle childhood
c. early adolescence
d. late adolescence
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Medium
,4. The ______ period of development involves adjusting to post work identity and the
challenges of changing health.
a. elderhood
b. early adulthood
c. middle adulthood
d. late adulthood
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. At the ______ period of development, the pursuit of independence and the desire to
identify vocational direction and personal identity are manifested.
a. early school age
b. early adolescence
c. late adolescence
d. early adulthood
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Baltes and Smith (2003) examine three influences on human development, including
normative age-graded influence, normative history-graded influences, and ______.
a. normative individualized life events
b. nonnormative history-graded influences
c. nonnormative or highly individualized life events
d. nonnormative professional influences
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. In the psychological component of the biopsychosocial model, issues such as ______
and ______ may result in physical and mental health problems during human
development.
a. interactive patterns, socioeconomic status
b. nutrition, genetic vulnerability
c. intelligence, poverty
,d. irrational thinking, lack of self-control
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Psychological System
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The ______ system aspect of the biopsychosocial model of development considers
various factors such as socioeconomic status, family structure, and religion, as they
contribute to healthy or unhealthy development.
a. psychological
b. social system
c. biological
d. pathophysiological
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sociocultural System
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Counseling coursework in ______ addresses theories of individuals, families, and
communities coping with disasters and post-trauma stress.
a. crises intervention
b. assessment
c. addiction
d. abnormal psychology
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 5: Explain the value of understanding human development across
the lifespan for the counseling process.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Integrated in Our Studies
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. ______, the premier accreditation body of counselor education programs, requires
their accredited programs to include at least one course in human growth and
development.
a. CACREP
b. CORE
c. CPEAA
d. NBCC
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 5: Explain the value of understanding human development across
the lifespan for the counseling process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
, Answer Location: Development: Change and Stability
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. ______ is defined as the orderly and sequential changes that occur in an organism
over time, from the beginning until the end of life.
a. Stress
b. Development
c. Regulation
d. Evolution
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1: Describe what is meant by viewing development from a lifespan
perspective.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development: Change and Stability
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. ______ was one of the pioneers in bringing an integrative model into the field of
medicine.
a. George Engel
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Eric Erikson
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. The ______ system consists of a group of organs that work together to perform
certain tasks.
a. psychological
b. sociocultural
c. biological
d. pathophysiological
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Biological System
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. ______ studied the cognitive development of children as they think about the
physical world.
a. George Engel
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
Counseling Individuals Through the Lifespan Third Edition Daniel W.
Wong,Kimberly R. Hall , Lucy Wong Hernandez
Chapter1-13
Chapter 1
Multiple Choice
1. Human growth and development is both multidimensional and ______.
a. loss-oriented
b. multidirectional
c. observable
d. mobile
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 2: Explain the multidimensional and multidirectional nature of
lifespan development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Essential to Counseling Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Life maturation processes and ______ shape the individual’s life at any stage of
human development.
a. culture
b. adversity
c. psychotherapy
d. addiction
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1: Describe what is meant by viewing development from a lifespan
perspective.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Essential to Counseling Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. During the ______ period of development, achievement drive becomes evident and
the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic are mastered.
a. early school age
b. middle childhood
c. early adolescence
d. late adolescence
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Medium
,4. The ______ period of development involves adjusting to post work identity and the
challenges of changing health.
a. elderhood
b. early adulthood
c. middle adulthood
d. late adulthood
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. At the ______ period of development, the pursuit of independence and the desire to
identify vocational direction and personal identity are manifested.
a. early school age
b. early adolescence
c. late adolescence
d. early adulthood
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Baltes and Smith (2003) examine three influences on human development, including
normative age-graded influence, normative history-graded influences, and ______.
a. normative individualized life events
b. nonnormative history-graded influences
c. nonnormative or highly individualized life events
d. nonnormative professional influences
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 3: Describe what is meant by viewing development within a
contextual framework.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development as Contextual
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. In the psychological component of the biopsychosocial model, issues such as ______
and ______ may result in physical and mental health problems during human
development.
a. interactive patterns, socioeconomic status
b. nutrition, genetic vulnerability
c. intelligence, poverty
,d. irrational thinking, lack of self-control
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Psychological System
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The ______ system aspect of the biopsychosocial model of development considers
various factors such as socioeconomic status, family structure, and religion, as they
contribute to healthy or unhealthy development.
a. psychological
b. social system
c. biological
d. pathophysiological
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sociocultural System
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Counseling coursework in ______ addresses theories of individuals, families, and
communities coping with disasters and post-trauma stress.
a. crises intervention
b. assessment
c. addiction
d. abnormal psychology
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 5: Explain the value of understanding human development across
the lifespan for the counseling process.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Integrated in Our Studies
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. ______, the premier accreditation body of counselor education programs, requires
their accredited programs to include at least one course in human growth and
development.
a. CACREP
b. CORE
c. CPEAA
d. NBCC
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 5: Explain the value of understanding human development across
the lifespan for the counseling process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
, Answer Location: Development: Change and Stability
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. ______ is defined as the orderly and sequential changes that occur in an organism
over time, from the beginning until the end of life.
a. Stress
b. Development
c. Regulation
d. Evolution
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1: Describe what is meant by viewing development from a lifespan
perspective.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development: Change and Stability
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. ______ was one of the pioneers in bringing an integrative model into the field of
medicine.
a. George Engel
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Eric Erikson
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. The ______ system consists of a group of organs that work together to perform
certain tasks.
a. psychological
b. sociocultural
c. biological
d. pathophysiological
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 4: Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to defining human
development and the multiple interactive forces that shape human development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Biological System
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. ______ studied the cognitive development of children as they think about the
physical world.
a. George Engel
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
