Chapter 1, 2, & 3
What is a cohort?
A group of people who have the same ethnic backgrounds
A group of people born around the same time and place
A group of people who are the same race
A group of people with the same culture
2. A group of people born around the same time and place
According to The General Adaptation Syndrome, what does our stress response look like?
Stress, alarm, exhaustion
Alarm, stress, resistance
Exhaustion, resistance, alarm
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
4. Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
A child who is babbling conversationally is in what stage of language development?
Prelinguistic
1 Word
2 Words
Complex Sentences
1. Prelinguistic
When does personality become stable?
It’s stable from birth
During puberty
In adulthood
It never becomes stable
3. In adulthood
Absence of a heartbeat and breathing is normally referred to as:
Brain death
Functional death
Mortality
Clinical death
2. Functional death
Which one of Bronfenbrenner’s five ecological levels describes a child’s environment and might include better schools and access to social services?
Mesosystem
Microsystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
3. Exosystem
Kelly is two months old and just looking around her. Her hand moves across
her face and her fingers go in her mouth. She wonders how she did that and
wants to know if she can do it again. Which substage in sensorimotor is this?
1. Primary circular
2. Reflexes
3. Coordination of secondary circular
4. Secondary circular
1. Primary circular
When a person uses information that she or he has been taught to solve problems in a rational way, Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence would suggest that person was demonstrating what kind of intelligence?
Contextual intelligence
Experiential intelligence
Practical intelligence
Componential intelligence
4. Componential intelligence
Harlow’s experiment with the baby monkeys showed what?
Babies preferred mothers with food
Babies preferred mothers with comfort and went to others to feed
Babies preferred neither mother
2. Babies preferred mothers with comfort and went to others to feed
Which of the following is NOT one of Kubler-Ross’ steps to confronting death?
Bargaining
Denial
Retreating
Preparatory Depression
3. Retreating
Another word for one’s genetic make-up?
Genotype
Phenotype
Allele
Gene
1. Genotype
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, syphilis have sharply increased in ____ population.
1. High School
2. College
3. Elderly
2. College
When Greta was in her 30’s, she took up a variety of hobbies such as rock climbing, being part of a book club, and playing tennis. She continued her active lifestyle into her 50’s. Now as 75 year old, she is very happy as she walks every day with friends for exercise and has joined a book club with a group in the neighborhood. She is about as active now as she was earlier in life. In contrast, Alberta tends to stay to herself, which is similar to how she led her life when she was younger too. She’s very happy, just like Greta. Alberta’s and Greta’s happiness can be attributed to which theory of late adulthood?
Disengagement theory
Activity theory
Continuity theory
3. Continuity theory
What area of the brain is proportionally larger in women than men?
1. Amygdala
2. Prefrontal cortex
3. Frontal lobe
4. Corpus callosum
4. Corpus Callosum
What is the leading cause of death in young adulthood?
1. accidents
2. Homicide
3. Suicide
4. Aids
1. accidents
_______ reflects the idea that we come into the world as a “blank slate” and our personality/characteristics are shaped solely by experience.
the nature–nurture controversy
the chronosystem
Tabula rasa
continuous development
3. Tabula rasa
Piaget’s approach to cognitive development is best characterized as ____ and
Vygotsky’s approach as based on ______.
1. constructive; social interaction.
2. Normative; scaffolding.
3. continuous; zone of proximal development.
4. nativist; discrete stages
1. constructive; social interaction.
Which of these statements do NOT support the nativist view of language?
Language is dependent upon social interactions
Certain regions in our brain are predisposed to language
Language is unique to humans
There is a sensitive period of brain lateralization
1. Language is dependent upon social interactions
What is the most prevalent psychological disorder in Adolescents?
1. Anxiety disorders
2. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
3. Depression
4. Bipolar Disorder
1. Anxiety disorders
Which of the following is the definition of bereavement?
Emotional response to loss
Having a disorganized attachment style
Knowing we have experienced death practically
Being open to new ideas
3. Knowing we have experienced death practically
Which term refers to the layer of cells that form the bones, blood, muscles, and the circulatory system during the embryonic stage of prenatal development?
Ectoderm
Endoderm
Placenta
4. Mesoderm
4. Mesoderm
John is a college student and he decided to go out drinking one night. John
became very drunk. Which stage of sleep will John NOT get due to his drinking?
REM-1
REM-2
REM-3
REM
4. REM
_________ is demonstrated when a test measures consistently what it is trying to measure; __________ is demonstrated when a test actually measures what it is supposed to measure.
Validity: Intelligence; Quotient
Intelligence quotient; Reliability
Reliability: Validity
Validity; Reliability
3. Reliability: Validity
Patrick and Courtney are married. One day the couple gets into a very bad fight over finances until Patrick finally says, “you are so stupid, you can’t do anything right. I have explained this to you so many times but you are never going to understand what I’m trying to say because you are so dumb.” What has Patrick just done?
Patrick is getting very defensive as he is ignoring the problem
Patrick is complaining about Courtney and her behavior
Patrick is showing contempt as he believes that Courtney is less than him in their relationship
Patrick is stonewalling as he is not letting Courtney stand up for herself and rebuttal
3. Patrick is showing contempt as he believes that Courtney is less than him in their relationship
Which term refers to the practice of assisting people who are terminally ill to die more quickly?
Protracted suicide
Terminalization
Premature dying
Euthanasia
4. Euthanasia