Experiencing the Lifespan Fourth Canadian Edition Test Bank

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1.
List three normative and three non-normative influences in your life.
2.
Estimate the amount of time you spend on social media during a typical week. Then, as
a thought experiment, imagine your Internet goes on the fritz, and you are forced to
spend time on other activities. What specifically would you choose to do? Do you think
social media sites are a negative or positive influence in your life?

3.
Monitor your texting activities during a particular day. How often do you text? Do you
feel you text too much (or too little)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
using this communication mode?

4.
Describe (and speculate) on the ways an 80-year-old and a 30-year-old might view the
Great Recession of 2008 and the social media revolution.

5.
Joey and Cyril are born on the same day, but Joey lives in Canada and Cyril was born
and is growing up in Haiti. Statistically speaking, what differences between Joey and
Cyril might you predict as they travel through life?

6.
Explain how you might teach table manners to a 4-year-old, using operant conditioning.
7.
Brandi, a college sophomore, seeks help from the counseling center for her extreme
shyness, and is offered a choice of treatments. She can have sessions with a behavioral
therapist, work with a psychoanalyst, or get therapy from a person who follows the
developmental systems perspective. Explain in a sentence how each treatment would
differ from the others.

8.
Dr. Ragan, a behaviorist, is the new director of an organization that prepares people to
return to college after they have dropped out. Dr. Ragan's mission is to design a program
to assist clients in their efforts to successfully reenter school. Using the principles of
traditional behaviorism, modeling, and self-efficacy, spell out some strategies that Dr.
Regan might employ.

9.
Spell out the main similarity and difference between John Bowlby's attachment theory
and traditional psychoanalytic theory.
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10.
A psychologist wants to determine the heritability (or genetic contribution) to political
attitudes. Describe how the psychologist might design this study. What findings would
suggest that political attitudes are highly genetic?

11.
Give an example each of evocative and active genetic/environment forces and how they
have shaped the person you are. Then give an example of either an optimum or poor
person-environment fit that you have experienced this semester.

12.
Compare and contrast Erikson's and Freud's ideas.
13.
Explain Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation, and give a concrete
example of those processes.

14.
A developmentalist is studying the relationship between parenting practices and
children's sociability. Her plan is to watch each family's interactions at home, and then
observe each child's relationships with peers at school. Name the type of measurement
she uses, and spell out its advantage and disadvantages.

15.
Melissa and Ramon want to conduct a study to determine if exercise promotes health.
Melissa plans to test this question using a correlational approach, while Ramon decides
to conduct an experiment. Describe what each student's research might look like and
discuss the respective pluses and minuses of each plan.

16.
After researchers conducts a cross-sectional study, they find that older people are more
satisfied with their family relationships than are younger people. How should the
researchers interpret this finding?

17.
List the pluses and minuses of conducting longitudinal research.
18.
Take a specific concept, term, or theory in this chapter and discuss how it applies to
your own life.

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