Makayla Howell
PSYC_2314_IO1
26 September 2021
Chapter #1 Test Questions:
1. In the United States, the largest generation to reach late adulthood is known as?
a. Baby boomer
b. Generation Z
c. The Silent Generations
d. Generation Y
Answer: Baby boomer
2. Experiencing a life event that's not typical for our age group, such as losing a
parent during our childhood, is an example of a:
a. Non-normative life influence
b. Quantitative Research
c. Statistical Measures
d. Dynamic Systems
Answer: Non-normative life influence
3. Although there are several different ways to think of age, chronological age is the most
accurate and complete way of describing someone's functioning and current state. True
or false?
a. True
b. Fales
Answer: Fales
4. The argument centers on whether people have an active role in determining their
own development or are at the mercy of uncontrolled causes?
a. Stability vs. change
b. Debriefing vs. change
c. Stability vs. passive
d. Active vs. passive
Answer: Active vs. passive
5. At the end of the research study, which of the following occurs?
pg. 1
, a. Debriefing
b. Plasticity
c. Independent Variable
pg. 2
, d. Multidirectional
Development Answer: Debriefing
6. . According to Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, an individual's
immediate environment, which includes the location they are in and the people
they are with, constitutes the individual's immediate environment:
a. research design
b. Macrosystem
c. Quantitative Research
d. Microsystem
Answer: Microsystem
7. is a way to identify families and households based on their shared levels
of education, income, and occupation.
a. Ethnic Group
b. Multidirectional Development
c. Quantitative Research
d. Socioeconomic
status Answer: Socioeconomic
status
8. Stage theories of development are also called:
a. Longitudinal Research
b. Epigenetics
c. Discontinuous
d. Independent
Variable Answer: Discontinuous
9. The scientific study of ways in which people change, as well as stay the same,
from conception to death, is called:
a. Independent Variable
b. Longitudinal Research
c. Developmental psychology
d. Human
Development Answer: Human
Development
10. includes elements of both longitudinal and cross-sectional
research designs.
a. Epigenetics
pg. 3
, b. Sequential research
c. Longitudinal Research
d. Correlation and
Causation Answer: Sequential research
pg. 4
PSYC_2314_IO1
26 September 2021
Chapter #1 Test Questions:
1. In the United States, the largest generation to reach late adulthood is known as?
a. Baby boomer
b. Generation Z
c. The Silent Generations
d. Generation Y
Answer: Baby boomer
2. Experiencing a life event that's not typical for our age group, such as losing a
parent during our childhood, is an example of a:
a. Non-normative life influence
b. Quantitative Research
c. Statistical Measures
d. Dynamic Systems
Answer: Non-normative life influence
3. Although there are several different ways to think of age, chronological age is the most
accurate and complete way of describing someone's functioning and current state. True
or false?
a. True
b. Fales
Answer: Fales
4. The argument centers on whether people have an active role in determining their
own development or are at the mercy of uncontrolled causes?
a. Stability vs. change
b. Debriefing vs. change
c. Stability vs. passive
d. Active vs. passive
Answer: Active vs. passive
5. At the end of the research study, which of the following occurs?
pg. 1
, a. Debriefing
b. Plasticity
c. Independent Variable
pg. 2
, d. Multidirectional
Development Answer: Debriefing
6. . According to Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, an individual's
immediate environment, which includes the location they are in and the people
they are with, constitutes the individual's immediate environment:
a. research design
b. Macrosystem
c. Quantitative Research
d. Microsystem
Answer: Microsystem
7. is a way to identify families and households based on their shared levels
of education, income, and occupation.
a. Ethnic Group
b. Multidirectional Development
c. Quantitative Research
d. Socioeconomic
status Answer: Socioeconomic
status
8. Stage theories of development are also called:
a. Longitudinal Research
b. Epigenetics
c. Discontinuous
d. Independent
Variable Answer: Discontinuous
9. The scientific study of ways in which people change, as well as stay the same,
from conception to death, is called:
a. Independent Variable
b. Longitudinal Research
c. Developmental psychology
d. Human
Development Answer: Human
Development
10. includes elements of both longitudinal and cross-sectional
research designs.
a. Epigenetics
pg. 3
, b. Sequential research
c. Longitudinal Research
d. Correlation and
Causation Answer: Sequential research
pg. 4
