HDFS201 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Jean Piaget, Tabula Rasa, Social Learning Theory
12 Oct 2018
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MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
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chapter 1: principles of development
1. the contextual settings that our development include which of the
following?
a. Global warming
b. Economics
c. History
d. Individual culture
2. most children in the US start school when they are 5 or 6 years of age.
This occurrence would be described as a:
a. normative age-graded influence
3. american baby boomers shared the experience of the Cuban missile crisis
in their youth. This is an example of a normative ____ graded influence
a. history
4. a _____ life event is an unusual occurrence that has a major influence on
a person’s life
a. non-normative
5. culture, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are _____
components of life-span development
a. sociocultural
6. _____ encompasses the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products
of a particular group of people that are passed from generation to
generation and influence the behaviors of its members.
a. culture
7. the term _____ comes from the Greek word for “nation”?
a. ethnic
8. ______ identity refers to the characteristics of people as males and
females
a. gender
9. life-span _____ is the pattern of movement or change that begins at
conception
a. development
10. which of the following are aspects of the life-span perspective of
development?
a. It is lifelong
b. It is non-contextual
c. It is multidirectional
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d. It is multidimensional
e. It is unidimensional
f. It is static
11. A central focus in developmental research is plasticity, which refers to:
a. A person’s capacity for change
12. As people enter into middle and late adulthood, development tends to
involve ____ and regulation of _____
a. Growth; expectations
b. Growth; loss
c. Maintenance; growth
d. Maintenance; loss
13. A person creates a unique developmental path by actively choosing
from the environment the things that optimize his or her life. Which of
the following statements describes this process?
a. Development is a co-construction of biology, culture, and the
individual
b. Development involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss
c. Development is cyclical
d. Development is plastic
14. If two people earn similar incomes and have about the same
educational background, they share the same:
a. Socioeconomic status
15. Marian Wright Edelman, a children’s rights activist, believes that
_____ is our society’s most important function and needs to be taken
more seriously than we have in the past
a. Social security
b. Parenting and nurturing the next generation of children
c. A focus on unemployment rates
d. Global environmental protection and preservation
16. The study of life span _____ includes the journey from conception to
death
a. development
17. the upper boundary or the oldest age a human has lived to date is
____ years of age
a. 122
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