1. 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:
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A. person-in-environment perspective
*B. life course perspective
C. developmental perspective
D. identity development perspective
2. A sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person's life from
birth to death is known as:
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A. developmental history
B. self history
C. personal history
*D. event history
3. A cohort is:
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*A. 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
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
4. A life event is:
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A. 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
,B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
*C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
5. A transition is:
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*A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
6. A turning point is:
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A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
*D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
7. A trajectory is:
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A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
*B. a long-term pattern of stability and change, which usually involves multiple
transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
,D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
8. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family
development must be understood in a past context is:
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A. timing of lives
B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
*D. interplay of human lives and historical time
9. 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:
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A. timing of lives
*B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
D. interplay of human lives and historical time
10. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that experiences with
one life transition have an impact on subsequent transitions and events and may either
guard the life course trajectory or put it at risk is:
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A. timing of lives
B. diversity in life course trajectories
*C. developmental risk and protection
D. interplay of human lives and historical time
, 11. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that particular roles and
behaviors are associated with particular age groups based on biological age,
psychological age, and spiritual age is:
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*A. timing of lives
B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
D. human agency in making choices
12. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that the individual life
course is constructed by the choices and actions individuals take within the opportunities
and constraints of history and social circumstances is:
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A. timing of lives
B. diversity in life course trajectories
C. developmental risk and protection
*D. human agency in making choices
13. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that there is much
diversity in life course pathways due to cohort variations, social class, culture, gender,
and individual agency is:
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A. timing of lives
*B. diversity in life course trajectories
C. developmental risk and protection
D. human agency in making choices
14. A person's level of biological development and physical health, as measured by the
functioning of the various organ systems indicates:
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transitions, and social change shape people's lives from birth to death is known as:
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A. person-in-environment perspective
*B. life course perspective
C. developmental perspective
D. identity development perspective
2. A sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person's life from
birth to death is known as:
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A. developmental history
B. self history
C. personal history
*D. event history
3. A cohort is:
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*A. 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
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
4. A life event is:
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A. 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
,B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
*C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce
serious and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
5. A transition is:
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*A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
6. A turning point is:
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A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
B. a long-term pattern of stability and change which usually involves multiple transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
*D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
7. A trajectory is:
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A. a change in roles and statuses that represents a distinct departure from prior roles and
statuses
*B. a long-term pattern of stability and change, which usually involves multiple
transitions
C. a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious
and long-lasting effects
,D. a life event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
8. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family
development must be understood in a past context is:
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A. timing of lives
B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
*D. interplay of human lives and historical time
9. 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:
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A. timing of lives
*B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
D. interplay of human lives and historical time
10. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that experiences with
one life transition have an impact on subsequent transitions and events and may either
guard the life course trajectory or put it at risk is:
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A. timing of lives
B. diversity in life course trajectories
*C. developmental risk and protection
D. interplay of human lives and historical time
, 11. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that particular roles and
behaviors are associated with particular age groups based on biological age,
psychological age, and spiritual age is:
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*A. timing of lives
B. linked or interdependent lives
C. developmental risk and protection
D. human agency in making choices
12. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that the individual life
course is constructed by the choices and actions individuals take within the opportunities
and constraints of history and social circumstances is:
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A. timing of lives
B. diversity in life course trajectories
C. developmental risk and protection
*D. human agency in making choices
13. A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that there is much
diversity in life course pathways due to cohort variations, social class, culture, gender,
and individual agency is:
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A. timing of lives
*B. diversity in life course trajectories
C. developmental risk and protection
D. human agency in making choices
14. A person's level of biological development and physical health, as measured by the
functioning of the various organ systems indicates:
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