LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT FINAL EXAM NEWEST

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LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT FINAL EXAM NEWEST

200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS )

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A strategy to increase student motivation in middle schools is to

encourage a belief in:

• Students' ability to master whatever they seek to learn
• Doing homework
• The entity approach to learning
• Studying for tests - ANSWER- A

Thinking that occurs without deliberate, conscious thought is _______ processing. - ANSWER- automatic

Which phenomenon has contributed to the worldwide spread of STI?

• Serial monogamy
• International travel
• Localized prostitution
• Modern contraception - ANSWER- B

All members of a family have _______, as the experiences and needs of individuals at one stage of life are affects by all those other stages.

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• Family discord
• Allostasis
• Homeostasis - ANSWER- A

Josephina, age 75, believes her memory is fading, and the anxiety this causes her actually diminishes her memory. This is an example of

_____.

• Sensory threshold
• Source amnesia
• Stereotype threat
• Information processing - ANSWER- C

The thought that one's appearance or behavior might confirm another person's oversimplified prejudiced attitudes, a thought that causes anxiety even when the stereotype is not held by other people. - ANSWER- Stereotype threat

Thinking intensely about themselves and about what others think about them is called _____.

• Hypotheticalism
• Deductive thinking
• Inductive thinking
• Egocentrism - ANSWER- D
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Many adolescents feel that their own thoughts and experiences are far

more extraordinary than those of other people. This is part of their:

• Personal fable
• Post-operational thought
• Moral reasoning - ANSWER- A

Eric readily adopted his parents' political beliefs without question.Happy and secure, he enjoys participating in political events with his parents. His identity status reflects _____.

• Diffusion
• Achievement
• Foreclosure
• Moratorium - ANSWER- C

Intellectual tools passed down from generation to generation that may assist in learning within societies are referred to as _____.

• Cognitive artifacts
• Cognitive tools
• Cognitive modifiers
• Cognitive optimizers - ANSWER- A

In developed nations, which of the following is one of the IADLs?

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• Toileting
• Preparing income tax forms
• Growing vegetables in a garden - ANSWER- C

Juan does not feel as though he is a male and is upset that his body does not match how he feels. He is experiencing _____.

• Gender dysphoria
• Gender identity
• Sexual identity - ANSWER- A

Ty started to behave aggressively at age 5, and by age 8 was caught shoplifting several times. Ty is now age 25 and has committed armed robbery. Ty would be considered to be a(n) _____.

• Hostile offender
• Dual offender
• Life-course-persistent offender
• Adolescence-limited offender - ANSWER- C

A longitudinal study that traced the developments of sensation seeking, which can lead to intuitive thinking, from age 12 through age 24 found

that increases in sensation seeking were notable from ages:

• 12-14
• 15-17
• 18-20
• 21-23 - ANSWER- A
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