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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LSD CH.1 EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -48 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: In Piaget's Blank______ stage of cognitive development, which lasts from about 2 to 7 years of age, children are able to represent the world in their minds, but cannot yet mentally represent actions.
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pre-operational Question 2: Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development is the stage of ___ vs ___
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trust vs. mistrust Question 3: In the life-span perspective, no age period dominates development. This highlights the view that development is considered to be_____
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lifelong Question 4: Development involves the interaction of age, body, mind, emotion, and relationships. These are continually changing and affecting each other. The best way to characterize this is that development is _______
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multidimensional
Question 5: what is an example of normative age-graded influences?
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16 year old learning to drive 90 year old finds out her physical health is declining Question 6: Which of the following research designs is used to detect whether a relationship exists between two or more variables, although it cannot infer causation?
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correlational Question 7: What term describes someone whose gender identity differs from the gender assigned to them at birth?
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transgender Question 8: Which of the following contemporary topics is the most recent and has had a dramatic influence at all points in human development health and well-being education parenting technology
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technology Question 9: By studying life-span development we learn information about ourselves, including which of the following?
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who we are, how we came to be this way, how we will age
Question 10: A government's social policy is the course of action taken by the government to___
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promote the welfare of its citizens Question 11: As compared to Freud, today's psychoanalytic theorists place more emphasis on ______ as determinants of an individual's development.
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cultural experiences Question 12: Which theoretical approach believes that individuals develop a gradually increasing capacity for sensing, storing, and remembering information that allows them to acquire increasingly complex knowledge and skills?
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information processing Question 13: ______ period refers to a time frame in a person's life that is characterized by certain features.
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developmental
Question 14: Age has been conceptualized in which of the following ways? (4)
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chronologically , psychologically, biologically, socially Question 15: ______ age refers to an individual's ability to adapt to change as compared to other people who have lived the same amount of time.
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psychological Question 16: A government's social policy is the course of action taken by the government to ___
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promote the welfare of the country's citizens
Question 17: Which of the following types of research designs aims to observe and record behavior?
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descriptive
Question 18: what are normative history-graded influences
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common to members of a particular generation.Question 19: A central focus in developmental research is plasticity, which refers to ___
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a person capacity for change Question 20: Which aspects listed are part of the multidimensional characteristic of life-span development?
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cognitive, biological, socioemotional
Question 21: ______ comes from the Greek word for "nation."
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ethnicity Question 22: According to the life-span perspective, which age dominates development?
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no age dominates development
Question 23: What is one criticism of standardized tests?
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they assume the results are consistent Question 24: the idea that development is ____ refers to the fact that some dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink throughout the life span
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multidirectional
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