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Test Bank For Growth and Development Across the Lifespan A
Health Promotion Focus 3rd Edition by Gloria Leifer; Eve Fleck
| 9780323809405| Chapter 1-16 | All Chapters with Answers
and Rationals

What does the science of human development study? - ANSWER: how people change or remain the
same over time

Which theorist found eight psychosocial crises, unfolding across the lifespan, determine the outcome
of personality development. - ANSWER: Erikson

What is in a baby's brain that ensures she will imitate Mother's actions? - ANSWER: mirror neurons

"Guided participation" is a Vygotskian phrase. Guiding is the mentor's part. Participation is the
learner's part. If learning is a "joint construction," the mentor and learner are working together. For
success, what two things must be avoided in the learner? - ANSWER: boredom and failure

Accumulated daily hassles are more devastating than an isolated major stressor - ANSWER: true

True or False? Peer influence can be positive, facilitating diligence in
schoolwork and admirable moral choices. - ANSWER: true

True of False?
Uncle Joe, age 50, married 25-years, is suddenly asking his wife for a
divorce, dating a woman he met last month, and buying a red sports car. If a midlife crisis occurs, the
period of unusual anxiety, radical self-reexamination, and sudden transformation is best explained by
one's personal upheavals and historical experiences rather than age. - ANSWER: true

Job features such as a high salary and company car are ___ motivating. - ANSWER: extrinsically

What theory predicts that elderly people are eager to be invited to events and those who remain
involved in relationships age well? - ANSWER: Activity Theory

Loss of many friends to death, loss of appearance, and loss of respect from an ageist community make
many normal elderly people likely to _________. - ANSWER: seek to maintain a strong continual sense
of self amidst much change

A bus driver complained that he could not let Alexis off at just any different stop each day. Where did
she live? Then he noticed that each evening after high school as she got on the bus, she would walk
back the bus asking each friend, "Can I stay with you tonight?" This was one of thousands of homeless
children in my town. What is the term for context in which Alexis is developing? - ANSWER: low
socioeconomic status

People who high in contentment are also high in gratitude. What is present if two variables (like
contentment and gratitude) are measured and when one is high the other is high? - ANSWER: positive
correlation

The famous Grant Study followed male Harvard graduates for 75 years, measuring and surveying
them on many variables (like how much they drank, and how happy their relationships were) as the
men aged. What type of research was this? - ANSWER: longitudinal

, True or False? Health differences between people groups can be created by social inequities and
discrimination. While race is not a useful biological distinguisher, it is a social category that has
resulted in political and health access disparities. - ANSWER: true

Recently someone asked me how it is to be a grandmother. I said, "Every aging woman should have a
grandchild." I was thinking of how much joy and love enters life when a little one comes. As I was
going to pick up my granddaughter, a man said, "Don't spoil her too much." I answered, "It is she who
is spoiling me." I am different in many ways since she was born 16 months ago. What is the name of
the view that change keeps happening across the lifespan with every aspect of development affecting
every other aspect? - ANSWER: dynamic-systems approach

Development happens through the interaction of one's body, mind, and environment (the ecological
system); consider all aspects of development, taking a social, cultural, multidirectional, multi-
contextual, multicultural view. What perspective is this? - ANSWER: dynamic-systems model

How do scientists establish what causes what? When we expose one group to a condition and
compare this group to a similar unexposed group, we are doing ____. - ANSWER: an experiment

When a time period is essential to an outcome, what is this? - ANSWER: a critical period

____ is research done by gathering self-report through a questionnaire or an interview and is best
with honest responding. - ANSWER: A survey

The interaction of nature and nurture is known as ____. - ANSWER: epigenetics

Going to another country, Joan is quick to try to bring change to the local culture. - ANSWER:
difference-equals-deficit error

Meeting Mya, who is from the planet Neptune, Julie says, "You are different. Neptune creatures are
always lazy and you work hard." Mya says, "I am from Neptune and I work hard." Julie replies, "You
are not really in your heart a Neptune creature. You only look like a Neptune creature on the outside.
You are an Earth creature really, inside, in your heart." Mya goes away angry at Julie's stereotyping,
closed-minded views. What would Piaget say Julie was doing? - ANSWER: assimilating

What does Vygotsky's sociocultural theory say happens in the process of development? - ANSWER:
Mentors in the culture finely tune scaffolding that helps a mentee advance within the zone of
proximal development.

Two eggs become fertilized in the womb and produce two children. What percent of genes do they
share? - ANSWER: dizygotic twins; 50% of genes are shared

What is scaffolding? - ANSWER: providing helps, then removing them as mastery progresses

What is the zone of proximal development? - ANSWER: All of these are the zone of proximal
development.

What produces happier babies with stable heart and breathing rates, oxytocin release (so more milk
in mom's breasts), and healthier outcomes? - ANSWER: kangaroo care

In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development which stage is happening for the person from ages six to
eleven? - ANSWER: the concrete operational stage of thought

According to Erikson, which of the following psychosocial crisis to age match is accurate? - ANSWER:
Trust vs. Mistrust = From birth to 1 year

In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development which stage is happening for the person from ages 12 to
adulthood? - ANSWER: the formal operational stage of thought

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