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Recent changes in the Medicare system have affected the quality of health care that
David's elderly mother receives. These changes do not affect David directly, but
Bronfenbrenner would say they affect David's development because they are part of
David's:
A. microsystem.
B. mesosystem.
C. exosystem.
D. macrosystem. - ANSWER-C. exosystem.
According to the text, at what age do more people claim to be happiest?
A. 19 years
B. 25 years
C. 42 years
D. 88 years - ANSWER-D. 88 years
At the airport, 4-year-old Kelly cries, "Let me get the suitcases, Mommy!" Her mom lets
her drag the bags off the luggage carousel; even though Kelly takes much longer than
her mom would have taken. According to Erikson's stage theory, Kelly's mom is helping
Kelly develop:
A. trust.
B. her identity.
C. altruism.
D. initiative. - ANSWER-D. initiative.
Becoming a grandmother is an example of __________ age.
A. biological
, B. cognitive
C. social
D. psychological - ANSWER-C. social
Each stage in Erikson's theory presents a crisis that must be resolved. These crises are:
A. opportunities to repair relations with others.
B. opportunities to further the healthy development of personality.
C. negative events that toughen the individual for future crises.
D. marker events that signal new stages but have little long-term effect on personality
development - ANSWER-B. opportunities to further the healthy development of
personality.
It has been shown that people who eat bananas eventually die. This does not prove that
bananas are fatal because __________ does not equal __________.
A. experimentation; causation
B. experimentation; correlation
C. causation; correlation
D. correlation; causation - ANSWER-C. causation; correlation
Mrs. B is a 66-year-old widow in remarkably good health. She is financially comfortable
and will retire soon. However, she dreads the retirement saying that she has no hobbies
and no ideas about how she will structure her new abundance of time. She is
experiencing difficulty with __________ age.
A. biological
B. cognitive
C. chronological
D. psychological - ANSWER-D. psychological