Question 1
pts
Psychologists will be studying the development of a large number of people who lived in Japan and who
survived a recent tsunami. They expect that they will be greatly affected by their experience. This is an
example of ____________________ influences.
A. sensitive period
B. normative age-graded
Correct!
C. normative history-graded
D. nonnormative
Question 2
pts
Bob’s mother died when he was seven years old. He and his older brother and father lived together until Bob
turned 17. At that time his father remarried. The impact of these events on Bob’s development would best be
called ____________________ influences.
A. sensitive period
B. normative age-graded
C. normative history-graded
Correct Answer
D. non-normative
Question 3
pts
___________________ group refers to a group of people who grow up at about the same time and thus
experience numerous similar life events together.
,A. A norm
Correct!
B. A cohort
C. A control
D. An ethnic
Question 4
pts
A set of logically related concepts or statements, which seeks to describe and explain human development is a
A. case study
B. correlation
Correct!
C. theory
D. hypothesis
Question 5
pts
According to the ___________________________ perspective, development is shaped by unconscious forces.
A. Learning
B. Cognitive
Correct!
, C. Psychoanalytic
D Contextual
Question 6
pts
Freud suggested that as a child develops development centers upon attempts to obtain gratification and avoid
frustration from various body areas and systems. He called these the five ____________________ stages of
development.
Correct!
A. psychosexual
B. psychosocial
C. ego development
D. neurotic
Question 7
pts
Sigmund Freud said that the ________is a thinking and rational part of our personality that operates on the
reality principle and tries to find realistic ways of balancing the competing demands of the other aspects of
personality and reality.
A. Id
Correct!
B. Ego
C. Superego
pts
Psychologists will be studying the development of a large number of people who lived in Japan and who
survived a recent tsunami. They expect that they will be greatly affected by their experience. This is an
example of ____________________ influences.
A. sensitive period
B. normative age-graded
Correct!
C. normative history-graded
D. nonnormative
Question 2
pts
Bob’s mother died when he was seven years old. He and his older brother and father lived together until Bob
turned 17. At that time his father remarried. The impact of these events on Bob’s development would best be
called ____________________ influences.
A. sensitive period
B. normative age-graded
C. normative history-graded
Correct Answer
D. non-normative
Question 3
pts
___________________ group refers to a group of people who grow up at about the same time and thus
experience numerous similar life events together.
,A. A norm
Correct!
B. A cohort
C. A control
D. An ethnic
Question 4
pts
A set of logically related concepts or statements, which seeks to describe and explain human development is a
A. case study
B. correlation
Correct!
C. theory
D. hypothesis
Question 5
pts
According to the ___________________________ perspective, development is shaped by unconscious forces.
A. Learning
B. Cognitive
Correct!
, C. Psychoanalytic
D Contextual
Question 6
pts
Freud suggested that as a child develops development centers upon attempts to obtain gratification and avoid
frustration from various body areas and systems. He called these the five ____________________ stages of
development.
Correct!
A. psychosexual
B. psychosocial
C. ego development
D. neurotic
Question 7
pts
Sigmund Freud said that the ________is a thinking and rational part of our personality that operates on the
reality principle and tries to find realistic ways of balancing the competing demands of the other aspects of
personality and reality.
A. Id
Correct!
B. Ego
C. Superego
