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What is the main problem with survey research? - ANSWER participants may give inaccurate responses Someone with an extremely rare condition, like lycanthropy, would most likely be studied using what method? - ANSWER Some professors want to teach about the life-span approach in a Human Develo...

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Human Growth and Development Ch. 1
Question and Answers latest 2022
What is the main problem with survey research? - ANSWER participants may give
inaccurate responses

Someone with an extremely rare condition, like lycanthropy, would most likely be
studied using what method? - ANSWER

Some professors want to teach about the life-span approach in a Human Development
course, whereas others want to keep the traditional developmental approach. They
disagree about
A. the plasticity of development.
B. the multidimensional nature of development.
C. whether development is lifelong.
D. whether development is multidirectional. - ANSWER whether development is lifelong

Baltes describes development as multidirectional. What does this mean?
A. Development is not dominated by any single age period.
B. Development consists of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions.
C. Development is characterized by both growth and decline.
D. Development needs psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and neuroscientists to
work together in unlocking the mysteries of development. - ANSWER development is
characterized by both growth and decline

Kathy believes that life-span development cannot be studied without considering
biological, social, and cognitive aspects. Kathy believes that development is
A. lifelong.
B. multidirectional.
C. multidimensional.
D. plastic. - ANSWER multidimensional

) Researchers increasingly study the development of adulthood. This implies that
development is
A. lifelong.
B. multidisciplinary.
C. multidirectional.
D. contextual. - ANSWER lifelong

Which of the following is NOT one of Paul Baltes' eight characteristics of the life-span
perspective on development?
A. lifelong and multidirectional
B. multidimensional and plastic
C. contextual
D. unidirectional - ANSWER unidirectional

, Human Growth and Development Ch. 1
Question and Answers latest 2022
Many older adults become wiser by calling on experiential knowledge, yet they perform
poorly on cognitive speed tests. This is an example of how development is
A. plastic.
B. contextual.
C. multidimensional.
D. multidirectional. - ANSWER multidirectional

The capacity for acquiring second and third languages decreases after early childhood,
whereas experiential wisdom increases with age. This is an example of how
development is
A. lifelong.
B. multidisciplinary.
C. multidirectional.
D. contextual. - ANSWER multidirectional

Which of the following is an example of how development is contextual?
A. Reasoning ability is biologically finite and cannot be improved through retraining.
B. Parents in the United States are more likely to rear their children to be independent
than parents in Japan.
C. Older adults call on experience to guide their decision making.
D. Intelligence may be studied by looking at genetics, anthropology, sociology, and
other disciplines. - ANSWER Parents i the United States are more likely to rear their
children to be independent than parents in Japan

In the United States, most individuals begin school around age 5, whereas in Australia
they start at 3. This is an illustration of how development is
A. lifelong.
B. multidisciplinary.
C. multidirectional.
D. contextual. - ANSWER contextual

Normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and
nonnormative life events are all ways in which development can be classified as
A. multidirectional.
B. multidimensional.
C. contextual.
D. plastic. - ANSWER contextual

Anna attributes her thriftiness to having been raised during the Great Depression. This
is an example of a
A. nonnormative life event.
B. normative history-graded influence.
C. normative age-graded influence.
D. nonnormative age-graded influence - ANSWER normative history-graded influence

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