WorksheetsPSYC A322F In-Class work 1
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
Q2. Baltes describes development as multidirectional. What does this mean?
A. Development consists of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions.
B. Development is not dominated by any single age period.
C. Psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and neuroscientists working together are needed to unlock the mysteries of development.
D. Development is characterized by the expansion of some dimensions and the shrinking of others.
Q3. Kathy believes that life-span development cannot be studied without considering biological, social, and cognitive aspects. Kathy believes that development is
A. multidirectional.
B. plastic.
C. multidimensional.
D. lifelong.
Q4. Researchers increasingly study the development of adulthood. This implies that development is
A. multidirectional.
B. multidisciplinary.
C. lifelong.
D. contextual.
Q5. The capacity for acquiring second and third languages decreases after early childhood, whereas experiential wisdom increases with age. This is an example of how development is
A. lifelong.
B. contextual.
C. multidisciplinary.
D. multidirectional.
Q6. Which of the following is an example of how development is contextual?
A. Intelligence may be studied by looking at genetics, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines.
B. Reasoning ability is biologically finite and cannot be improved through retraining.
C. Older adults call on experience to guide their decision making.
D. Parents in the United States are more likely to rear children to be independent than parents in Japan.
Q7. Anna attributes her thriftiness to having been raised during the Great Depression. This is an example of a
A. nonnormative age-graded influence.
B. normative age-graded influence.
C. normative history-graded influence.
D. nonnormative life event.
Q8. A primary concern in relation to social policy for older adults is
A. the increase in elder abuse.
B. access to health care and personal support.
C. negative public attitudes and prejudices.
D. the need for funding public pensions.
Q9. Diego feels a strong happiness that he never had before as he holds his newborn child. This signifies development in the __________ process
A. neurological
B. biological
C. cognitive
D. socioemotional
Q10. Alec is almost completely dependent on his parents and is beginning to develop his language and sensorimotor coordination. What period of development is he most likely in?
A. prenatal
B. infancy
C. early childhood
D. middle/late childhood
Q11. Which of the following is NOT one of the conceptions of age as described in the text?
A. biological age
B. psychological age
C. cardiovascular age
D. social age
Q12. In the nature/nurture debate, one's __________ is related to "nature," while one's __________ is related to "nurture.”
A. biological inheritance;environment
B. environment; biological inheritance
C. biological inheritance; behavior
D. age; environment
Q13. Although Angie was somewhat irresponsible as a teen, she changed her ways when she entered college and leased her first apartment. This example most directly relates to the developmental issue of
A. continuity and discontinuity.
B. stability and change.
C. nature and nurture
D. stability and nature.
Q14. The life-span development concept of plasticity aligns most closely with which of the following?
A. nature
B. nurture
C. change
D. stability
Q1. Some professors want to teach about the life-span approach in a human development course, whereas others want to keep the traditional developmental approach. They disagree most centrally about
A. the multidimensional nature of development.
B. whether development is multidirectional.
C. whether development is lifelong.
D. the plasticity of development.
