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In industrialized nations, the norm is not the...
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Nuclear family
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The goal of palliative care in Hospice is to manage...
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Pain
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Twin studies have found three personality traits that are partly inherited. Which of these is not a potentially inherited trait?
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-Emotionality
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Thorndike's Law of Effects says that when a behavior is pleasant it is...
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Likely to be repeated
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Binge drinking is highest among...
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Males who do not attend college
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The "fundamental pragmatics of life" describes...
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Wisdom
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Ethnocentric bias is the belief that our values and customs are...
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Correct and those of others are inferior
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Many black and Hispanic single parents also live in...
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Intergenerational households
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Suicide is most common among...
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Older adults males
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Prejudice can be based on all these except...
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-Ethnicity
-Religion -Group membership -Diversity * |
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The years of peak vitality, strength and endurance are...
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20s - 30s
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The greatest influence on when to retire is...
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Health
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During the first month of life outside the womb, the baby is called...
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Neonate
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Which process is used when the ego cannot deal with impulses or guilt?
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Repression
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Prejudice or aversion to same sex relationships is called...
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Homophobia
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Which developmental domain is involved with aquiring problem solving skills and learning new information?
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-Cognitive Domain *
-Personality Domain -Physical Domain -Sociocultural Domain |
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Another name for reading disorder is...
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Dyslexia
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Withdrawl from society in an unexpected consequence of aging. Which Theory is this?
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Disengagement Theory
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Learning about the culture and social rules is part of which domain?
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Sociocultural Domain
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Which variable is manipulated in experimental research?
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Independent variable
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The Bioecological Model of human development was created by...
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Brofenbrenner
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Jean Piaget is distinguished from behaviorists because he believed that the mind is a/an ___ participant in learning.
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Active
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Which is NOT a component of Sternberg's triangular theory of love?
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-Intimacy
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A longitudinal study involves ___ people over a ___ time.
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The same, long
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The percentage of teens with psychological disorder is...
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The same as adults
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Even as professionals, women's salaries are...
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Less than men's salaries
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Reigel wanted to add a fifth stage to Piaget's stages to deal with...
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Contradictions
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Which is an example of telegraphic speech?
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-Ma-ma
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Adolescents began to be more like what we know of the teenage years after...
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World War I
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A mutated gene that causes excessive mucus and requires exhaustive therapy to sustain life is...
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Cystic Fibrosis
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The climacteric indicates the end of...
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Reproductive capability
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What are the first steps to conduct experimental research?
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Define the problem and formulate hypothesis
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Gathering large amounts of information about an individual or a community is part of the process for a...
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Case study
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A major problem for low birth weight infants is...
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Temperature control
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The leading cause of occupational limitation in middle age is...
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Arthritis
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The climacteric indicates the end of...
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Reproductive capability
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What are the first steps to conduct experimental research?
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Define the problem and formulate hypothesis
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Gathering large amounts of information about an individual or a community is part of the process for a...
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Case study
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A major problem for low birth weight infants is...
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Temperature control
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The leading cause of occupational limitation is middle age is...
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Arthritis
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Which of these is a representative sample?
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-Student inquires to the college
-All seniors Majoring in Physics * -Freshman w/ undeclared majors -Students in the cafeteria |
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Sufficient abilities to ride a tricycle & throw a ball begin at ages...
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19 - 24 months
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If a trait is expressed, it is a ___ trait.
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Dominant
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Isolating enviornmental influences such as ignoring outside noise while studying is called...
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Habituation
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Classical learning theory shows that when a skill is learned, the progress is ___ and with practice over time, progress is ___ .
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Rapid, gradual
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A large head, a long face and mental retardation is the result of...
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Fragile X
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The physical changes of the adolescent growth spurt differ from...
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Puberty
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Freud's primitive, hedonistic component of personality is the...
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Id
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Disconnecting life support equipment to allow death to occur is...
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Passive euthanasia
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Recently divorced men are at risk for...
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Alcoholism
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Which groups are more likely to use the Hospital ER as a substitute for primary care?
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Blacks and Hispanics
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Which Erikson Stage involves demonstrating competence in school, sports, and among peers?
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Industry vs Inferiority
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A harmful result of conditioning from a fearful experience can become a...
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Phobia
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Strict behaviorists work with...
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Overt behavior
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The existence of a toy or chair even when out of sight is...
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Object permanence
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Adolescents use metacognition which is related to...
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Abstract thought
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People are genetically programmed with a set number of years to live based on finite number of cell divisions. Which theory is this?
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Biological clock
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The primary causes of cognitive decline at older ages is Alzheimer's and...
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Strokes
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Which Theorist is NOT accurately matched with his theory?
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Thorndike-Law of Effect
Skinner-Operant Conditioning Hull-Classical Learning Theory Pavlov-Social Learning Theory* |
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Levinson's Seasons of a Person's Life views middle age as a time of...
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Moderate to severe crisis
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The eating disorder characterized by binging and purging is...
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Bulemia
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Making new information part of existing schemas is...
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Assimilation
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A hypothetical model or framework is also called a/an...
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Paradigm
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Leo Vygotsky found that children understand the world from connections with generations past which involves...
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Shared meaning
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If an Apgar score at birth is 7, than the baby is...
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Normal
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The basic unit of inheritance is the...
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Gene
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An alteration in DNA during mitosis or meiosis is a...
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Mutation
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Among Baumrind's four parenting styles, which is more likely to produce children who are self-reliant and socially competent?
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Authoritative
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Sterility, small genitalia and undescended testicles is the result of...
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Kleinfelter Syndrome
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Young children are likely to fear all except...
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Death
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Ethnocentrism is the opposite of...
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Cultural diversity
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Adolescents feel that everyone sees them and judges them. This is...
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Egocentrism
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Teratogens are...
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Substances harmful to the fetus
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In Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, the most basic need is...
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Physiological
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Delivery in the breech position puts the baby at risk for...
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Anoxia
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Teen smokers generally start smoking because of...
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Peer pressure
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The ability to speak or write is...
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Productive language
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According to Ainsworth, an infant who displays anger and avoidance of the caregiver is showing which type of attachment?
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Resistant
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The fetus reaches the age of viability at...
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24 weeks
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The most common autosomal disorder is...
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Down's syndrome
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After menopause, women are at risk for bone loss due to...
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Estrogen loss
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Receptive language is the ability to...
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Understand words
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The visual cliff tests an infant's...
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Depth perception
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Regardless what happens in a lifetime, Atchley says people remain true to...
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Their inner core
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Which of these infants reflexes will continue throughout life?
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Papillary
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Havinghurst's Developmental Tasks of Adulthood was based on who's work?
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Erikson
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The major causes of death for persons over 65 are all except...
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-Cardiovascular disease
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Schaie believed that what makes adult thinking distinctive is its...
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Flexibility
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A change in body proportions that emphasizes near to far and growth from the midline outward is...
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Proximodistal
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Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development contends that young children learn most from activities slightly ___ their competence.
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Beyond
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Inadequate amounts of food over long periods of time which cause muscles to deteriorate is called...
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Marasmus
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The translation of external stimulation into neural impulses is...
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Sensation
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In Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love the middle stage is...
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Passion
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Which of the following is not associated with vision?
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-Cataract
-Glaucoma -Visual Acuity -Hypertension * |
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Which is an early example of symbolic representation for a toddler?
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-Stepping
-Waving goodbye * -Clapping hands -Touching nose |
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Chamsky believed that children are ___ to learn a language.
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Preprogrammed
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An increasing problem among 10-13 year olds is...
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Obesity
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Becoming parents brings all of the following except...
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-Social status
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Sexual abuse of girls is most often committed by...
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Stepfathers
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Right handedness comes from the...
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Left side of the brain
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The leading cause of preventable death among adults 25-44 is...
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Accidents
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Older adults are in the final Erikson stage of...
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Integrity vs Despair
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Using current APA standards for research, the Little Albert experiment would be...
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Forbidden as unethical
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By age 3, a child can use gross motor skills without consciously planning each movement. This process is called...
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Automaticity
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The result of liberalization of teen attitudes toward sex include all except...
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-Triple pregnancy rates
-Spread of STDs -Increased abstinence * -Increase in HIV |
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Havinghurst's Stages of Vocational Life considers the way...
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People are involved with work at various ages
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The "deviation IQ" was a concept developed by...
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Wechsler
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White's Theory of motivation claims that actions done to gain a reward or avoid punishment is ___ motivated behavior.
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Extrinsically
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Sociocultural differences between people at different age groups is...
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Cohort Effect
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The period when the last child leaves home is the...
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Empty nest
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Which of these is accurate in regard to maturation?
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There are critical periods and sensitive periods
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Depressive symptoms are more likely to be seen among...
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White and Asian teens
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In matters of flexibility and adaptation, growing up bilingual is a/an...
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Advantage
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According to Parten's levels of social interaction in play, playing together without interacting is an example of...
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Parallel play
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Butler recommends that the way to resolve old conflicts and reestablish meaning is by...
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Life review
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Adolescents begin to spend less time with family and more time...
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With peers
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A male version of menopause is...
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Not proven to exist
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In abusive situations, death is most common for children...
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Under age 3
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Watching long hours of TV violence can lead to ___ behavior in children.
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Aggressive
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Which of Baumrind's four parenting styles gives no reason to rebel, yet tends to produce rebellious, aggressive children?
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Permissive
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Which is the term we use to describe a personality with a complete blend of masculine and feminine traits?
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Androgynous
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Kessler found that midlife crisis is more common among the...
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Affluent
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Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligences detail's 8 types of intelligence. A child who relates well to feelings of others has which type of intelligence?
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Interpersonal
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A test that measures a child's performance against a standard of specific skills is...
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Criterion referenced
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Boys who lust for their mothers and fear castration by their fathers may have a/an...
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Oedipus complex
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Children's complaints of growing pains are real, the result of...
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Skeletal maturation
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The ability to think about thinking is...
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Metacognition
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According to Kubler-Ross, a person who rejects the terminal diagnosis and starts searching for a magic cure is in which stage of death?
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Denial
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Muscle training exercises can help older adults...
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Double or triple strength
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What is an infant's preferred sound?
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Mother's voice
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Reminiscence or recalling memories fulfills a ___ need of older adults.
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Psychological
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If a test measures what it claims to measure, than it had good...
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Validity
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Sternberg's model of Successful Intelligence advocates capitalizing on ___ and compensating for ___.
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Strengths, weaknesses
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Children who are mentally retarded have differing abilities. Among the classifications, which children will not benifit from formal education?
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Profound
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What are the final steps in experimental research?
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Analyze data and publish findings
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During a long terminal illness the family experiences...
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Anticipatory grief
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The first menstraul period in females can occur as early as...
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9 1/2 years of age
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B.F. Skinner used various stimuli in his animal experiments including rewards and...
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Punishments
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The greatest influence on a child's language development is...
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Watching educational TV
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Sexual abuse leaves lifelong scars on the individual's...
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Identity and self-esteem
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The adolescent who daydreams that his father is a millionaire and his mother a movie star who left him on a doorstep of an ordinary couple is using...
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Foundling fantasy
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Levinson found that job change in middle age may be due to...
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Burnout
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In western culture, the period of grief is intended to be...
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Short, than return to normal life
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Teens tend to discuss ideas with their ___ and homework with ___ .
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Father, mother
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Freud's stages deal with sexual issues, while Erikson's stages cover the...
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Lifespan
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Drug use is often linked to...
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Delinquent behavior
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The benefits of living in a retirement-only community are all except...
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Isolation
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What is the greatest predictor of suicide risk for adolescents?
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Previous attempt
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The stage of social comformity in Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development is...
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Conventional
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The male measure of psychological well being has traditionally been...
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Job role
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The embryonic period begins after...
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Implantation
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The sense of who we are as males or females is...
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Gender identity
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Gillian's theory offers gender explanations for moral behavior in which the male view is based on ___ and the female view on ___
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Justice, caring
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The positive aspects of funerals and memorials are all except...
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-Celebrate the person's life
-Mark an official end to life -Reaffirm the family's values -Define the proper place to grieve * |
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Children can survive peer rejection and isolation if they have...
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A close friend
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Ethnic awareness begins in...
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Young childhood
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Teaching a child "emotional regulation" is showing how to behave in ways that are...
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Socially acceptable
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From 9 to 12 months, infants have developed which ways to "get into things"?
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Pincer grasps
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Which of Piaget's stages involves language development, limited world view, and inability to generalize?
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Preoperational
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Neugarten described our sense of internal timing about life events as...
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Age clock
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Sexual abuse of adolescent boys typically involves a/an...
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Same sex encounter
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Women have a lifetime supply of...
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Ova
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Teens most often abuse...
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Alcohol and nicotine
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Hospice is a...
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Philosophy
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To achieve complete entry into adulthood, Levinson believed that every person must...
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Define the dream
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During the third trimester of pregnancy, there is extensive...
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Brain maturation
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Rogers believed that inadequancy was learned, not innate. One way he proposed to overcome that problem was with...
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Unconditional positive regard
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The first type of memory developed is...
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Visual
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Middle adults who maintain the family rituals are called...
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Kinkeepers
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For most adults, vision declines become noticeable after age...
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50 years
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In language development during the sensorimotor period, which would Piaget say came first?
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Concept
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Which type of test is an IQ test?
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Norm referenced
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Lazarus found that an accumulation of small stresses are worse than...
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A single stressful event
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Young children believe that whatever moves is alive. That belief is called...
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Animism
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By Cattell's definition, which type of intelligence declines with age?
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Fluid
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In Piaget's "liquid beakers" problems, the child thinks that the tall glass contains more than the short glass even though the amount of liquid is the same. What type of problem is this.
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Conservation
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In Apter's 4 types of midlife women, the woman who is making goal changes to enlarge her horizons is at the stage called...
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Expansive
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If two alleles are the same, the person is ___ for that trait.
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Homozygous
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Peck's Issues of Adult Development focus on...
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Middle and older adults
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With demands from older and young family members, middle adults are called the...
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Sandwich generation
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Grandparents who live on the next street and see their grandchildren everyday have which grandparenting style?
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Involved
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Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have an inability to sit still as well as being...
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Impulsive and impatient
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Behaviorism is often known by the symbol S-R. What does that mean?
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Stimulus - response
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Remaining single as an adult challenges inaccurate assumptions. Which of these is accurate by today's standards?
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Living single is a choice
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Satisfaction with the work itself is a/an...
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Intrinsic factor
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Neugarten coined the term "ageism" which overvalues youth and...
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Undervalues older adults
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The extent to which biologically realted persons have similar characteristics is called...
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Concordance
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Burnside developed catagories of aging by decades. Which group is referred to as the Old-Old?
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80-89
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Thanatos was first identified as the death instinct by...
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Freud
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In which period does a child believe that the rules are stable and must be obeyed without question?
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Moral realism
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If centenariean are age 100, what age does a person become a nonagenarian?
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90 years
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While still in the hospital infants are given which evaluation?
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Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
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What older adults think is a problem with taste buds may actually be a problem with...
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Smell
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Memories of remote or historical events are called...
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Tertiary memories
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In Piaget's concrete operational stage, a child's thinking becomes...
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Reversible and flexible
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By 2030, what will be the ratio of persons over 65 to all other ages?
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1 to 5
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Freud's theories were founded on which research method?
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Case study
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Major defects in body structure occur during which period of pregnancy?
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Embryonic
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The fastest growing segment of the US population is which age group?
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Over 85
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At 6 months, infants prefer to view...
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Complex patterns
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Body image satisfaction is lowest for...
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Girls at age 13
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Which of these are a random sample?
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-Student inquires to the college
-All seniors majoring in Physics -Freshman with undeclared majors -Students in the cafeteria |
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An elementary aged child might learn by chunking items together. This process is called...
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Rehearsal
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The most significant status change of later adulthood is...
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Remarriage
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Based on the Marcia's States of Identity Formation, the adolescent with strong family ties who follows his parents' choices at which state?
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Moratorium
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