Human Growth Development Final Exam

Many of the cognitive changes thought to influence religious development involve:

Piaget's cognitive developmental theory

Eighty-year-old Lucia has difficulty remembering to call her son every Sunday at noon. This is most likely due to a decline in her:

Prospective memory

Which of the following is a difference between formal operational thought and postformal thought?

Realistic thinking

For older adults, social support is linked to a(n):

Reduction in symptoms of disease.

A "good death" involves all of the following EXCEPT:

Religious or community death rites.

Which of the following statements is TRUE about creativity?

Researchers have found that creativity does peak in adulthood and then declines.

The transition from adolescence to adulthood has been referred to as emerging adulthood, which occurs from approximately ___ years of age.

18 to 25

Based on the 200- Kaiser Family Foundation survey, adding up the daily media uses figures to obtain weekly media use leads to almost ___ hours a week by 15-to 18-year-olds.

56

Which of the following statements about the living arrangements of older adults is true?

The older people become. the greater are their odds for living alone.

Kubler-Ross describes the ___ stage as the end of the dying struggle

Acceptance

Which of the following is true of the possible selves of older adults?

Acceptance of past selves increases

The ___, where fibers connect the brain's left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence, and this improves adolescents' ability to process information.

Corpus callosum

Which of the following statements about cohabitation is true?

Couples who wait until they are engaged to cohabitate have a better chance of successful marriage than couples who cohabitate before becoming engaged.

Currently in the United States, 90 percent of hospice care is provided:

In the patients' homes.

According to the socioemotional selectivity theory, the emotion trajectory is high during:

Infancy and early childhood.

Which of the following is Erikson's eighth stage of development?

Integrity versus despair

According to the old model of parent-adolescent relationships, ____.

parent-adolescent conflict is intense and stressful throughout adolescence.

What are the two major forms of love?

romantic and affectionate

Baumeister and Vohs argue that a quest for a meaningful life involves fulfilling four main needs: purpose, values, and _____.

self-worth

Approximately ____ percent of U.S. women are estimated to develop bulimia nervosa.

1 to 2

Estimates indicate that as many as ___ percent of individuals 65 years of age and older have mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

10 to 20

_____ adults describe themselves as securely attached.

A majority of

Which of the following most resembles the grieving process?

A roller coaster ride of emotions

What type of love tends to increase in middle ages?

Affectionate love

Which of the following statements is true about cohabition?

After three years of cohabiting, 40 percent of women got married, 32 percent continues to live with their partner, and 27 percent had moved out of the cohabiting relationships.

What best describes leisure time?

After you have gotten off of work, pursuing a hobby that you've been looking forward to all day.

Vaillant's research showed that at age 50, the best predictors of who would be dead at 75 to 80 years of age were:

Alcohol abuse and smoking

Which of the following statements is true about obesity?

Americans are usually more obese than Europeans.

The old model of parent-adolescent relationships suggested that:

As adolescents mature they detach themselves from parents and move into a world of autonomy apart from their parents.

What attachment style describes adults who are hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once in a relationship tend to distance themselves from their partner?

Avoidant attachment

Jordan is very afraid of gaining weight but she cannot control her eating habits. She has been making up for eating binges by vomiting immediately after a meal or by purging with laxatives. This pattern of behavior has been occurring thrice a week for the past for the past four months. Jordan is most likely suffering from:

Bulimia Nervosa

Gina is doing what she can to help her older aunt take care of herself and stay in her own home. Gina often takes meals to her aunt and helps her clean, go shopping, and make visits to the doctor. Gina is providing ____ for her aunt.

Eldercare

Which of the following statements about novices and experts is TRUE?

Experts process information more automatically than novices.

According to recent meta-analysis, which of the following program types was linked to a reduction in recidivism for juvenile offenders?

Family treatment

Jasper's grandparents show a strong interest in all their grandchildren but are careful not to give child-rearing advice. They are using the _____ style of grandparenting.

Formal

Which of the following qualifies as binge drinking as defined in the University of Michigan surveys?

Having five or more drinks in the last two weeks.

Which of the following has been linked to lower cognitive performance, not only in older adults but also in young and middle-aged adults?

Hypertension

My parents told me that I'm going to be a nurse therefore I will be one. This an example of ......

Identity foreclosure

Which of the following is the identity status where a crisis is present by commitment is absent?

Identity moratorium

According to Erik Erikson, which of the following stages occurs during early adulthood, after individuals are well on their way to establishing stable and successful identities?

Intimacy versus isolation

Which of the following is a benefit of everyday conflicts that characterize parent-adolescent relationships?

It helps adolescents become more autonomous.

Which of the following is true of rape?

Legal definitions of rape usually differ from state to state.

____ is the number of years that the average person born in a particular year will probably live.

Life expectancy

Adolescents in the Family Matters program reported:

Lower alcohol and cigarette use at three months and at one year after the program had been completed.

Both divorced women and divorced men complain of all of the following EXCEPT:

Lowered sexual gratification

Cathy and Miguel have been dating for six months. Which of the following is likely to be LEAST important in their relationship considering that both are in early adulthood?

Loyalty

Which of the following is called the "common cold" of mental disorders?

Major depression

In a recent study of Navajo adolescents, positive ethnic heritage was linked to all of the following EXCEPT:

Narcissism

Which of the following is TRUE of decision-making and aging?

Older adults are far more inconsistent with their choices as compared to younger adults.

Kelly has just given birth to her first baby at age 37; her best friend, Olivia, age 26, just gave birth to her first child. Which of the following is likely to be TRUE for these new mothers?

Olivia will have fewer medical problems with pregnancy and childbirth.

Although there are differences in the quality of care in nursing homes and other extended-care facilities in the United States, more than ____ are considered to be seriously deficient.

One-third

Severe reductions in the production of dopamine have been linked with:

Parkinson disease

____ is triggered by degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.

Parkinson disease

Which of the following BEST explains why middle adulthood comes later and lasts longer now than in the early 1900's?

People today have healthier lifestyles than people in the early 1900's.

Which of the following statements is true of smell and taste in the elderly?

Smell and taste decline less in healthy older adults than in their less healthy counterparts.

Active euthanasia is legal in:

The Netherlands and Belgium

Most rite of passage focus on:

The transition to adult status.

Identify the similarity between anorexics and bulimics.

They have a distorted body image.

Which of the following is a problem that can plague cross-gender friendships?

Unclear sexual boundaries.

Which of the following strategies would be most helpful improving memory in middle age?

Use an organization strategy to categorize information to be remembered.

Regular ____ has shown to decrease the onset of physical disability in older adults.

Walking

When men use fight-or-flight manner to respond to stress, they are most likely to:

Withdraw from social contact

Which of the following statements is true about working while in college?

Working more hours results in a decline in grades.

Almost half of the grandchildren who move in with grandparents are raised by:

a single grandmother

Crystallized intelligence is:

an individual's accumulated information and verbal skills

What is the function of the corpus callosum?

assists adolescents ability to process information

The event that comes the closest to being a culture-wide right of passage in the United States is:

high school graduation ceremony.

An adult in middle age will most likely to do POORLY on which of the following tasks?

hitting the brakes of the car when the light suddenly turns red.

Which of the following statements is true about singleness? It is a/an:

is a prominent life style

The four problems that affect the most adolescents are drug abuse, sexual problems, school-related problems, and _____.

juvenile delinquency

Selena walks with a marked stoop now that she is old. This is most likely due to ________.

osteoporosis

As part of adolescent egocentrism, making statements like, "I know I can handle the car at high speeds much better than others can," says a 18-year-old Jake, reflects the tendency of adolescents to engage in:

personal fable

Delilah lost her husband Hendricks in a highway accident. Being just three years into marriage, she was devastated. Four months later, she was hassled by problems such as intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, sleep disturbance, and problems in concentrating. Delilah is probably experiencing:

post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

The amount of daily discretionary time that American adolescents have is _____ what adolescents have in East Asia.

significantly more than

William wants to know how he can keep his young son out of trouble. Typically, he should do all of the following EXCEPT:

use harsh discipline

The slowdown in learning new information has been linked to changes in _____, where individuals manipulate and assemble information when making decisions, solving problems, and comprehending written and spoken language.

working memory