WorksheetsPractice Quiz for Lifespan Midterm
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 29mins
Priya is evaluating different aspects of her life, such as her relationships, work, health, and overall happiness. She wants to understand what the term "quality of life" means in this context.
Fulfillment of basic needs
Long life expectancy
Absence of disease
Perception of life satisfaction
Which of the following best describes the purpose of a frame of reference in clinical practice?
It provides a set of rules for diagnosis
It guides the selection of assessment tools
It offers a structured way to plan and implement interventions
It determines the outcome measures to be used
Epigenetics is the study of:
None of these
Determining what causes genes to express themselves
Mapping the human genome
Determining what causes genes to express themselves
Harper, a therapist, organizes a workshop at a local community center to teach children and their parents about the importance of wearing helmets while riding bicycles to prevent injuries. This is an example of:
Cumulative impact
Health trajectory
Competence promotion
Critical periods
Which of the following best describes a structured approach that guides clinical reasoning and intervention planning in practice?
Professionalism
School of thought
Frame of reference
Theory
During a clinic visit, a 16-month-old child clings to her father when a stranger enters the room, but gradually begins to explore the environment after her father reassures her. This behavior best illustrates:
Sears and Bandura's social learning theory
Attachment scenario of Ainsworth
Skinner's behaviorism theory
Kohlberg's Theory
Grace is a physical education teacher who notices that children in different countries reach certain motor milestones at different ages. She wonders what this means about cultural variations in motor development. What does this imply?
It is impossible to compare motor development across cultures.
Culture has a genetic basis.
Some cultures are better than others at facilitating movement.
Assessments of motor behavior are standardized and equally useful in all cultures.
Which of the following best demonstrates linguistic competence in a healthcare setting?
Ensuring that health materials are available in multiple languages to accommodate patients with limited English proficiency
Only providing health information in the most commonly spoken language in the region
Expecting patients to bring their own interpreters for medical appointments
Using complex medical terminology in all patient communications
The parameter of language development that includes social rules like turn-taking between speakers and providing the speaker with feedback is called ________.
Expressive
Pragmatics
Nonverbal
Semantics
Typically, the earliest people outside of a family are able to understand most of what a child says, and the child understands and answers simple who, what, and where questions is which age:
6 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
Which of the following statements best describes the role of global mental functions in human behavior?
They are specific mental functions that control voluntary muscle movements.
They influence an individual’s consciousness, orientation, and overall psychological state.
They are only involved in short-term memory processing.
They are unrelated to emotional regulation or social interaction.
1. Which term describes the awareness and regulation of your own thought processes while studying?
Information processing
Self-actualization
Metacognition
Cognition
Michael is renovating his home and is considering changing all the door handles from knobs to levers. This change would:
All of these
Improve accessibility
Be an environmental modification
Improve negotiability
Negotiability is:
The ability to access a feature of the environment and use it for its intended purpose in a manner acceptable to the person
A standard assessment procedure that assures accessibility throughout the community
All of these
How safe and available household adaptations, like night lights and grab bars, are within an individual’s home
Which of the following sensory systems is LEAST developed in the fetus?
Vestibular
Touch
Hearing
Vision
The neural tube completes closure in which week after conception?
12th
2nd
4th
8th
Which of the following is NOT associated with normal fetal circulation?
Umbilical artery
Transposition of vessels
Foramen ovale
Ductus arteriosus
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Moro reflex?
It is commonly assessed in neonatal neurologic testing.
Arms abduct followed by adduction.
It is elicited by dropping back the head.
Absence of this reflex is common.
An intrinsic, non-purposeful pattern that repeats itself is known as a:
Volitional movement
Reflex
Stereotypy
Postural factor
Harper is observing a group of infants at a daycare. She notices that some infants react with negative emotions when their mother leaves the room, some use their mother as a secure base to explore, and some recognize strangers and may show stranger anxiety. Which of the following behaviors would NOT be typical of a securely attached infant?
They react with negative emotions when their mother leaves the room.
They will cling to their mother and refuse to explore interesting toys.
They use their mother as a secure base to explore.
They will recognize strangers and may show stranger anxiety.
Birth defects are:
Patterns of developmental delay that occur in response to prematurity or hospitalization in infancy
Physical abnormalities that are present at birth and are not related to prematurity
Mental abnormalities that are present at birth and are related to maternal substance abuse
All of these
The uncertainty in illness theory suggests that when a diagnosis is finally identified, parents often:
Demonstrate a pattern of chronic sorrow
Develop post-traumatic stress disorder
React with anger and hostility toward the individual assigning the diagnostic label to the child
React with relief that the long period of uncertainty is over
