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Lifespan Development Exam 1 Practice

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Comprehensive exam compiled for practicing the first exam.
Brittany Richardson
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Question 1

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is the systematic changes in an individual from conception to death. (Hint: "From womb to tomb")
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  • Development

Question 2

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is the biological unfolding of an organism's genetic plan.
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  • Maturation

Question 3

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The physical changes that occur from birth to maturity is known as [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • growth

Question 4

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The positive/negative changes that occur in any growing organism is defined as [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • aging

Question 5

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is a term for socially defined age groups.
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  • Age grade

Question 6

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Doing things that should be done by a certain time in one's life is called abiding by a [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • social clock

Question 7

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Behavioral expectations by age are called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • age norms

Question 8

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The three broad domains that study development are [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], and [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • physical
  • cognitive
  • psychosocial

Question 9

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The inborn, biological givens in an individual, including genes and inherited traits is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • nature

Question 10

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An [blank_start]______[blank_end] shares the view that believes both nature and nurture are intertwined in one's development.
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  • interactionist

Question 11

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Urie Bronfenbrenner developed the bioecological model of development, which included (in order) the [blank_start]______[blank_end], the [blank_start]______[blank_end], the [blank_start]______[blank_end], the [blank_start]______[blank_end], and the [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • microsystem
  • mesosystem
  • exosystem
  • macrosystem
  • chronosystem

Question 12

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The developmental model that is based on the assumption that children are both products and producers of their environment is called the [blank_start]______[blank_end] and was founded by [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • bioecological model of development
  • urie bronfenbrenner

Question 13

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The bioecological system that includes immediately influencing relationships, including immediate environments and interpersonal relationships, is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • microsystem

Question 14

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The bioecological system that includes indirect influences, such as the relationship between two microsystems, is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • mesosystem

Question 15

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The bioecological model that also includes indirect influences, but from a secondary source such as a parent or spouse losing their job, and thus indirectly influencing the individual, is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • exosystem

Question 16

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The bioecological model that influences the individual on a broader, larger-scale, where examples include the culture or society that the individual lives in, is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • macrosystem

Question 17

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The bioecological system that includes an influencing relationship that develops over a long period of time is called the [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • chronosystem

Question 18

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What are the three psychoanalytic concepts of behavioral influences? [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], and [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • id
  • ego
  • superego

Question 19

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Eric Erikson developed eight stages of psychoanalytic development that are focused less on sexual development and emphasizes more on development occurring throughout the entire lifespan of an individual. The stages in order are [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], [blank_start]______[blank_end], and [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • trust vs. mistrust
  • autonomy vs. shame and doubt
  • initiative vs. guilt
  • industry vs. inferiority
  • identity vs. role confusion
  • intimacy vs. isolation
  • generativity vs. stagnation
  • integrity vs. depair

Question 20

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is the theory that is based entirely on the nature viewpoint, whereas behavior is a result of observational learning.
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  • behavioralism

Question 21

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The research method that is used to determine the relationship between two variables, but NOT the effects of them, is called the [blank_start]______[blank_end] method.
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  • correlational

Question 22

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] method is a short research method that studies various age differences at any one time.
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  • cross-sectional

Question 23

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] research methods study changes in a single cohort over a long period of time.
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  • longitudinal

Question 24

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] effects are effects that occur due to changes in an age-group's society/culture.
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  • cohort

Question 25

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] designs is the research method that combines both cross-sectional and longitudinal methods.
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  • sequential

Question 26

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A [blank_start]______[blank_end] is the scientific term for a fertilized egg.
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  • zygote

Question 27

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is the process of gamete production.
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  • meiosis

Question 28

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The genetic makeup of an organism is called a [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • genotype

Question 29

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Two fertilized eggs produces [blank_start]______[blank_end] twins.
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  • dizygotic

Question 30

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The thread-like bodies that hold genetic information is called a [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • chromosome

Question 31

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is the process of somatic cell replication for the purpose of repair, building, and replacement.
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  • mitosis

Question 32

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A single fertilized egg that produces two genetically identical offspring are called [blank_start]______[blank_end] twins.
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  • monozygotic

Question 33

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The physical characteristics given by an organism's genotype is called it's [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • phenotype

Question 34

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is a genetic disorder called by (usually) an extra copy of chromosome 21 (trisomy), resulting in short stature, broad facial structure, and intellectual impairment.
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  • down syndrome

Question 35

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is a subfield of psychology that focuses on environmental and genetic influences that shape behvaior.
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  • behavioral genetics

Question 36

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] are harmful drugs, enviromental influences, or diseases that harm the development fetus.
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  • teratogens

Question 37

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[blank_start]______[blank_end] (causes miscarriages/SIDS) and [blank_start]______[blank_end] (causes FAS) are both examples of teratogens.
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  • tobacco
  • alcohol

Question 38

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] period is the first 14 days of prenatal implantation, where the chances of success are only 50%.
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  • germinal

Question 39

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] period includes the 9th week to the day the baby is born, where proliferation occurs and the brain develops tremendously.
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  • fetal

Question 40

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] period inlcudes the 3rd to 8th week of prenatal development where organogenesis and sexual differentiation occurs.
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  • embryonic

Question 41

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The harmful tranquilizer that was banned in the 1960's for resulting in babies being born without limbs or deformed limbs is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • thalidomide

Question 42

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The Hawaiian study "Resilience and Recovery" was developed by Werner, and found essentially that not all high-risk families will raise infants that will become malicious/delinquents. The study was established over a [blank_start]______[blank_end] year period, and found that the two main protective factors for high-risk infant development was [blank_start]______[blank_end], and [blank_start]______[blank_end] environments.
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  • 40
  • personal resources
  • supportive postnatal

Question 43

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The widespread 2015 virus that spread through sexual intercourse and mosquito bites and resulted in infants being born with microcephaly is called the [blank_start]______[blank_end] virus.
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  • zika

Question 44

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] developing females and the [blank_start]______[blank_end] developing males have the most difficult time adjusting socially and academically. The [blank_start]______[blank_end] developing females and the [blank_start]______[blank_end] developing males have the easiest time socially and academically.
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  • early
  • late
  • late
  • early

Question 45

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The orderly procession of growth in a normal human is (1) [blank_start]______[blank_end], meaning the growth begins from the head-down, (2) [blank_start]______[blank_end], meaning the growth starts from the center-outwards, and (3) [blank_start]______[blank_end], meaning growth is innately driven linearly from global, undifferentiated evolution to specialisation.
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  • ceophalocaudal
  • proximodistal
  • orthogenetic

Question 46

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The eventual decline of testosterone levels in men in late-adulthood is called [blank_start]______[blank_end].
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  • andropause

Question 47

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When humans get to old age, they reach the highest point of the [blank_start]______[blank_end] where the least amount of stimulus can be detected, and more is needed to taste/hear/smell/see...
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  • sensory threshold

Question 48

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The [blank_start]______[blank_end] reflexes during Infancy include survival reflexes that are clearly adaptive such as breathing, sucking, and rooting, as well as primitive (unexplained) reflexes such as the Babinski reflex, where the toes fan out when the foot is touched.
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  • neonatal

Question 49

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The Life-span Developmental Model dictates (1) that health is a [blank_start]______[blank_end], (2) health is determined by both [blank_start]______[blank_end] and [blank_start]______[blank_end], (3) health is [blank_start]______[blank_end]-dimensional, (4) changes involve both [blank_start]______[blank_end], and (5) health includes [blank_start]______[blank_end] context.
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  • life-long process
  • environment
  • genetics
  • multi
  • gains and losses
  • socioeconomic

Question 50

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During adulthood, the functioning of the heart and lung [blank_start]______[blank_end] capacity lowers.
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  • reserve
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