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Does research indicates that men with Type A personalities have the same rate of heart and coronary disease as men with Type B personalities.

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No

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The term for physical declines brought about by environmental factors of an individual’s behavioral choices is _________.

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secondary aging

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Are all stress-related events are unpleasant.

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No

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When a person has some deficiency in his/her diet, this is called _______.

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undernutrition

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George is experiencing back pain. His doctor tells him the bones attached to his spinal column have become less dense. The doctor is referring to the ___________.

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settling process

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What is the term for an eating disorder characterized by binges on large quantities of food, followed by purges of the food through vomiting or the use of laxatives?

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bulimia

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When the production of the protein beta amyloid precursor protein, which normally produces neurons, goes awry and produces clumps of cells that trigger inflammation and deterioration of nerve cells, this is called __________.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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Does perimenopause describes the period after menopause when hormone levels become stable once again?

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No

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A condition in which the bones become brittle, fragile, and thin, often brought about by a lack of calcium in the diet is called __________.

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osteoporosis

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Is family history of cancer considered an environmental and behavioral factor related to cancer?

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No

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True or False: By age 40, about 50 % of men have enlarged prostates.

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False

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Can some stress can be positively handled through exercise and/or meditation?

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Yes

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Do men or women seem to be more prone to a decline in height due to the risk of osteoporosis?

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women

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Is thinking that smoking cigarettes is safer than using illicit drugs a reason why adolescents become addicted to smoking?

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No

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Mita is 21 years old. She has two jobs and is attending a local college. However, due to her hectic schedule, she is experiencing several stressors that are contributing to physical ailments. Mita does not want to take medication for her stress. The therapist at the college informs her to try to increase contact with friends as a means of decreasing her stress. This is referred to as ________.

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social support

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What is the term that Piaget used for the process in which one state is changed into another?

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transformation

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Does adolescents’ ability to reason using formal operations also cause a change in their everyday behavior(s)?

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Yes

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True or False: There are no disputes or disagreements with Piaget’s theories. Everybody agrees with everything he has proposed.

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False

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Piaget proposed that children reach the formal operational stage of development around age _________.

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12

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According to Piaget, what is the key aspect of preoperational stage?

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symbolic function

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What is the term for an organized pattern of functioning that adapts and changes with mental development?

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scheme

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True or False: Schaie’s perspective on cognitive development supports the notion that cognitive change stops at adolescence.

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False

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Piaget’s Substage 4: Coordination of secondary circular reactions occurs for infants in the age range of _________.

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8 to 12 months

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Piaget believed that the earliest schemes are limited to ________ that we have when we are born.

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reflexes

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According to Schaie, the stage in which people in middle adulthood may become involved in town government, service clubs, charitable groups, unions and organizations, where they have a larger purpose in society and can look beyond their individual/family situations, is called the ________.

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executive stage

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According to Schaie, what is the mission of people in late adulthood?

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reintegration

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True or False: Research indicates that people who live in unsophisticated, non-technologically based cultures are incapable of attaining the formal operational stage of thinking, as described by Piaget.

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False

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“Piaget observed his son Laurent dropping a toy swan repeatedly, varying the position from which he dropped it, [and] carefully observing each time to see where it fell.” This is an example of _________.

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Substage 5: Tertiary circular reactions

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Four-year-old Alex and his mother visited the zoo. While they were there, Alex’s mother took him to see the squirrel exhibit. Alex saw many different types of squirrels, but when he saw a flying squirrel glide from one branch to the next he pointed and said, “A bird.” Considering Piaget’s work, Alex is demonstrating an example of ___________.

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assimilation

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True or False: According to Lebouvie-Vief, the complexity of society requires specialization of thought. Therefore, thought is not necessarily based on only logic but also requires intellectual superiority.

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False

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When information in memory is rehearsed and stored on a relatively permanent basis, it is called _________.

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long-term memory

32
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Students who were tutored in _______ showed improved reading proficiency and increased activity in brain areas related to skilled reading.

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phonics

33
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Larry was daydreaming the day that his first-grade teacher reviewed the math lesson that 5 + 5 = 10. Later, Larry was not able to recall this information, probably because ________.

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he never encoded it

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When a middle school student is able to demonstrate the he/she is able to hear a string of digits (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) and then repeat the string in reverse order, the child is indicating that he/she is developing _________.

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short-term memory

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What is the term for the model that seeks to identify the way that individuals take in, use, and store information?

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information processing approach

36
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True or False: Behavior is considered a basic aspect of information processing

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False

37
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The choices people make are determined by ______________, information processing involving the ability to strategically choose among and sort out different stimuli in the environment.

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attention

38
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Infantile amnesia is defined as the lack of memory for experience that occurred prior to _________.

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3 years of age

39
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Do the properties that make a stimulus attention-getting change drastically throughout the lifespan?

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no

40
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With age, children become better at ignoring ________________ stimuli.

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irrelevant

41
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What term refers to the maintenance of material saved in memory?

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storage

42
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One way to question children to produce the most accurate recollections is to ___________.

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question them as soon as possible after an incident.

43
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Is sequential memory one of the three sequential components of memory?

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no

44
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Rasheed is memorizing his math times tables by using flash cards. He does this frequently enough that eventually he does not need the visual stimulation of the cards to remember his times tables for a test. Rasheed is then taking advantage of _________.

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long-term memory

45
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When information in memory is held for 15 to 25 seconds, it is called __________.

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short-term memory

46
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When a young child begins to learn how to take turns in conversation, stay on topic, and give appropriate responses such as “please” and “thank you,” is the child demonstrating the knowledge of pragmatics?

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yes

47
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Babbling is universal to all infants. While infants are babbling, do they spontaneously produce most of the sounds found in the language they hear people speak?

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no

48
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Which of Chomsky’s concepts relates to how the human brain is uniquely and genetically predisposed to comprehend and produce language?

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language acquisition device

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By the age of two, most children can use two-word sentences and __________ speech where non-critical words of a sentence are left out.

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telegraphic

50
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When middle-school-age children become more competent with the rules governing the use of language to communicate in a given social setting, they are demonstrating knowledge of __________.

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pragmatics

51
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The concept that all of the world’s languages share a similar underlying structure was created by ________ and is called ________

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Chomsky; universal grammar

52
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What is the term for instances in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter?

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fast mapping

53
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Does linguistic production will always precede linguistic comprehension or does linguistic comprehension come first?

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comprehension comes first

54
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At approximately 3 years old can a child can follow the principles of grammar most of the time?

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yes

55
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The ___________________ shape their first words, regardless of the language they speak.

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experiences children have

56
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Can metalinguistic awareness helps children master comprehension when information is not clear?

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yes

57
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___________refers to the process in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter.

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fast mapping

58
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Which theory of language acquisition combines several schools of thought to hypothesize that language development is produced through a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language?

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interactionist perspective

59
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What is the term for the smallest language unit that has meaning?

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morpheme

60
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What term refers to the way in which an individual combines words and phrases to form sentences?

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syntax

61
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What are 4 types of events likely to cause stress?

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(1) events that evoke negative emotions; (2) are uncontrollable and unpredictable; (3), are ambiguous or confusing; (4) create strain on a person’s capabilities

62
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What are 4 direct physiological effects of stress?

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(1) elevated blood pressure; (2) decrease in immune system functioning; (3) increased hormonal activity; (4) psychophysiological conditions

63
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What are 4 harmful behaviors that may be consequences of stress?

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(1) increased use of nicotine, alcohol, and other drugs; (2) decreased nutrition; (3) decreased sleep; (4) increased drug use

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What are 3 indirect health-related behaviors that may be consequences of stress?

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(1) decreased compliance with medical advice; (2) increase in delays in seeking medical care; (3) decrease in likelihood of seeking medical advice

65
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Name 6 stress coping approaches

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(1) emotional insulation (2) problem-focused coping (3) emotion-focused coping (4) social-support coping (5) defensive coping (6) unconscious strategies

66
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Definition of malnutrition

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Improper amount and balance of nutrients, produces several results

67
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Definition of obesity

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weight greater than 20% for given height

68
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What percent of children are obese?

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15%

69
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What percent of adolescents are obese?

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5%

70
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What percent of adolescents are overweight?

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20%

71
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What percent of adults are obese?

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20-30%

72
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True or False: A clear link between overweight babies and overweight adults has been found

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False

73
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Name 3 conditions obesity can lead to

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(1) heart disease; (2) type 2 diabetes; (3) certain types of cancer

74
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True or False: Weight gains in infancy are associated with weight gains at age 6.

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True

75
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What is the most common nutritional concern in adolescence and adulthood?

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obesity

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