Developmental Psychology (1) Flashcards
In Kubler-Ross’ stages of dying, this is the stage where the person develops the hope that death can somehow be postponed or delayed.
A. Depression
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Denial
C. Bargaining
Human’s unique understanding of death, in concert with self-preservation needs and capacity for fear, results in common emotional and psychological responses when mortality, or thoughts of death are made salient
A. Terror Management Theory
B. Terminal Drop
C. Near Death Experience
D. Advance Directive
A. Terror Management Theory
Statement 1: By age 4, children build a partial understanding of the biological nature of death
Statement 2: Children do not understand death, but they understand loss
Statement 3: Middle-Aged and Older adults are more prepared with death
A. All statements are inaccurate
B. Statement 1 and 2 are accurate
D. All statements are accurate
E. Statement 2 and 3 are accurate
D. All statements are accurate
It is the emotional response that generally follows closely on the heels of death.
A. Grief
B. Depression
C. Grief Work
D. Bereavement
A. Grief
Top causes of deaths in 1900s are the following except;
A. Tuberculosis
B. Diarrhea
C. Pneumonia
D. Cancer
D. Cancer
(Today, the most common are heart disease and cancer.)
It is the multigenerational network consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles and more relatives. Multigenerational households have become
more common in recent years.
A. Extended Family
B. Kinship
C. Nuclear Family
D. Family
A. Extended Family
During the APGAR test, the newborn’s score was 7. What does this mean?
A. Needs moderate care
B. Life-threatening situation
C. Needs special attention
D. Healthy
D. Healthy
Statement 1: Children with high IQ scores generally come from well-organized homes with appropriate play materials
Statement 2: High-quality preschool programs (e.g., Head Start) can help low-income children do better in school and have higher test scores
Statement 3: IQ test scores rose in the 20th century
A. Statement 1 and 3 are inacurate
B. Statement 3 is inaccurate
C. All are accurate
D. All are inaccurate
C. All are accurate
Statement 1: No evidence that some ethnic groups are genetically predisposition to have higher IQs than other groups
Statement 2: All ethnic groups have children who do extremely well and extremely poorly on tests
A. All statements are less likely false
B. Statement 1 is less likely true
C. Statement 2 is less likely true
D. All statements are less likely true
A. All statements are less likely false
Statement 1: A strong sense of religion and spiritual identity helps many older adults deal with life’s changes
Statement 2: Spiritual support is a type of coping strategy
Statement 3: Neuroscience research provides evidence that those who practice meditation have more organized attention and memory systems
A. Statement 3 is not true
B. Statement 2 and 3 is not false
C. Statement 1, 2, and 3 is not true
D. Statement 1, 2, and 3 is not false
D. Statement 1, 2, and 3 is not false
Statement 1: Based on limited data, gay and lesbian relationships differ in quality from heterosexual relationships in later life
Statement 2: Women are more likely to experience widowhood than men
Statement 3: Men tend to recover more slowly since they may not have a strong social support system
A. Statement 3 is not true
B. Statement 2 is not true
C. All statement are not true
D. Statement 1 is not true
D. Statement 1 is not true
(Gay and lesbian relationships DO NOT differ in quality from heterosexual relationships in later life.)
A genetic restriction of phenotype to a small number of developmental outcomes.
A. Genotype/environment correlations
B. Range of reaction principle
C. Concordance Rates
D. Canalization
D. Canalization
(A highly canalized attribute is one for which genes channel development along predetermined pathways, so that the environment has little effect on the phenotype that emerges.)
It is a study of the bioevolutionary basis of behavior and development with a focus on the survival of the individual.
A. Ethology
B. Evolutionary Psychology
C. Endology
D. Etiology
A. Ethology
Systematic continuities and changes in the individual over the course of life.
A. Development
B. Life span
C. Maturation
D. Change
A. Development
Developmental changes in the body or behavior that result from the aging process rather than from injury, illness, or some other life experience.
A. Puberty
B. Change
C. Maturation
D. Development
C. Maturation
Developmental changes that characterize most or all members of a species; typically patterns of development.
A. Normative development
B. Holistic development
C. Ideographic development
D. Non-normative development
A. Normative development
A unified view of the developmental process that emphasizes the important interrelationships among the physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects of human development.
A. Holistic development
B. Plasticity
C. Holistic Perspective
D. Normative Perspective
A. Holistic development
Methods that measure the relationships between physiological processes and aspects of children’s physical, cognitive, social, or emotional behavior or development.
A. Physiological Method
B. Psychophysiological Method
C. Assessment Method
D. Clinical Method
B. Psychophysiological Method
A research design in which subjects from different age groups are studied at the same point in time.
A. Cross-sectional
B. Longitudinal
C. Sequential
D. Correlational
A. Cross-sectional
A threadlike structure made up of genes.
A. Autosomes
B. Chromosomes
C. Genes
D. Zygote
B. Chromosomes
