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Between birth and one year, infants are dependent on their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant’s needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as a safe, predictable place. In Erikson’s developmental theory, what is the primary developmental task of this stage?


autonomy vs. shame/doubt


identity vs. confusion


industry vs. inferiority


trust vs. mistrust



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 2
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Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.


milestones


norms


markers


boundaries



Text Section: 9.1 What is Lifespan Development?

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Easy

Question 3
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Adolescents (ages 12–18) experiment with and develop a sense of who they are and what roles they want to play. Erik Erikson would argue that during this period adolescents face the________ task of development.


generativity vs. stagnation


identity vs. confusion


isolation vs. intimacy


trust vs. mistrust



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Easy

Question 4
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Which of the following illustrates conservation?


Deirdre believes that five pennies have more value than two nickels but he doesn’t know the value of either coin by itself.


Joseph saves his energy by brushing his teeth in the shower but doesn’t realize that he is wasting water that way.


Rebekah recycles her glass bottles but not her cell phone batteries because she doesn’t think they can be recycled.


Scott knows that one piece of pizza cut into two slices is the same amount as cutting the same piece of pizza into three slices.



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 5
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During adolescence there is a tendency to see people engage in higher levels of risk-taking behavior. Emotional outbursts are also quite common. This is explained by the relative underdevelopment of the ________ lobe of the cerebral cortex.


occipital


temporal


frontal


parietal



Text Section: 9.3 Stages of Development

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Moderate

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During Piaget’s proposed ________ stage of development, children understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations. At the same time they lack the ability to think abstractly.


concrete operational


formal operational


preoperational


sensorimotor



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 7
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A(an) ________ begins as a one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge.


embryo


placenta


fetus


zygote



Text Section: 9.3 Stages of Development

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 8
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Which of the following is not a developmental issue children face during the preoperational stage?


egocentrism


language development


object permanence


pretend play



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 9
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Question 9
18-month-old Gordon learned the schema for apples. When Gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, “Look mommy, apples!” His mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. He now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. This exemplifies ________.


accommodation


assimilation


seriation


reversibility



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 10
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________ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.


Cognitive


Learning


Physical


Psychosocial



Text Section: 9.1 What is Lifespan Development?

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Easy

Question 11
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What is an advanced directive?


A legal document that bars anyone from providing resuscitative care if one’s heart should stop or they stop breathing.


A statement of what a person wants done with their estate, including who their possessions should go to.


A legal document that provides specific interventions that a person wants.


An indication of what a person wants for their own funeral ceremonies (including requesting that no funeral be held).



Text Section: 9.4 Death and Dying

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 12
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Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?


egocentrism


object permanence


reversibility


stranger anxiety



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 13
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________ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information.


Categories


Cognitions


Prototypes


Schemata



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 14
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Which theorist is credited with proposing the psychosexual stages of development?


Erik Erikson


Jean Piaget


Lawrence Kohlberg


Sigmund Freud



Text Section: 9.2 Lifespan Theories

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 15
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When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring, we’d say that development is taking a(n) ________ trajectory.


continuous


unidirectional


discontinuous


bidirectional



Text Section: 9.1 What is Lifespan Development?

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 16
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Early maturing girls are ________.


at a higher risk of depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders


less likely to drop out of high school


more confident


more likely to go to college



Text Section: 9.3 Stages of Development

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 17
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________ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.


Artistic


Cognitive


Emotional


Psychosocial



Text Section: 9.1 What is Lifespan Development?

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Easy

Question 18
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Jules is participating in the Strange Situation experiment. When his mother returns, he freezes, and then behaves erratically. In fact, he runs away from his mother. What kind of attachment is this?


avoidant


disorganized


resistant


secure



Text Section: 9.3 Stages of Development

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Difficult

Answers

Answered by GPT-4o mini
Here are the answers to your questions based on Erikson’s developmental theory and other relevant theories of lifespan development:

**Question 1**
- **Correct answer:** **trust vs. mistrust**

**Question 2**
- **Correct answer:** **milestones**

**Question 3**
- **Correct answer:** **identity vs. confusion**

**Question 4**
- **Correct answer:** **Scott knows that one piece of pizza cut into two slices is the same amount as cutting the same piece of pizza into three slices.** (This illustrates conservation.)

**Question 5**
- **Correct answer:** **frontal**

**Question 6**
- **Correct answer:** **concrete operational**

**Question 7**
- **Correct answer:** **zygote**

**Question 8**
- **Correct answer:** **object permanence** (This is not a developmental issue faced during the preoperational stage since it is typically achieved in the sensorimotor stage.)

**Question 9**
- **Correct answer:** **accommodation**

**Question 10**
- **Correct answer:** **Physical**

**Question 11**
- **Correct answer:** **A legal document that provides specific interventions that a person wants.**

**Question 12**
- **Correct answer:** **object permanence**

**Question 13**
- **Correct answer:** **Schemata**

**Question 14**
- **Correct answer:** **Sigmund Freud**

**Question 15**
- **Correct answer:** **discontinuous**

**Question 16**
- **Correct answer:** **at a higher risk of depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders**

**Question 17**
- **Correct answer:** **Cognitive**

**Question 18**
- **Correct answer:** **disorganized**

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