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Which of the following is NOT one of the personality types identified by Hippocrates? |
| | A) | sanguine |
| | B) | melancholic |
| | C) | hlegmatic |
| | D) | hemalytic |
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Parents who believe their children are basically good and need little discipline have adopted which philosophical view? |
| | A) | original sin |
| | B) | tabula rasa |
| | C) | innate goodness |
| | D) | experiential |
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A Canadian female born in 2004, can expect to live to be ____. |
| | A) | 82.6 |
| | B) | 88.5 |
| | C) | 78.3 |
| | D) | 90.1 |
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The traditional approach to development emphasizes: |
| | A) | little change from birth through old age. |
| | B) | extensive change from birth to adolescence, adulthood, and old age. |
| | C) | extensive change from birth to adulthood, then little change for the rest of the life-span. |
| | D) | extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, then decline in late old age. |
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To sustain a population, experts state that a reproduction rate of ____ offspring per woman is essential. |
| | A) | 1.2 |
| | B) | 1.7 |
| | C) | 2.1 |
| | D) | 2.6 |
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Many older persons become wiser with age, yet perform poorly on cognitive speed tests. This supports the life-span perspective that development is: |
| | A) | multidirectional. |
| | B) | multidimensional. |
| | C) | lifelong. |
| | D) | plastic. |
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According to the __________ view, individuals are thought of as changing beings in a changing world. |
| | A) | plasticity |
| | B) | sociocultural |
| | C) | contextual |
| | D) | cognitive |
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| 8 | |
The onset of puberty is an example of: |
| | A) | normative age-graded influences. |
| | B) | normative history-graded influences. |
| | C) | non-normative life events. |
| | D) | storm-and-stress events. |
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The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are an example of a: |
| | A) | normative age-graded influence. |
| | B) | normative history-graded influence. |
| | C) | non-normative life event. |
| | D) | storm-and-stress event. |
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| 10 | |
Concerns for health and well-being have: |
| | A) | been important goals for most of human history. |
| | B) | become important goals since the great advances in medicine in the nineteenth century. |
| | C) | become important goals with the discovery of penicillin. |
| | D) | yet to become goals of major importance. |
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The behaviour patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular group that are passed on from generation to generation are referred to as: |
| | A) | nationality. |
| | B) | religion. |
| | C) | culture. |
| | D) | Ethnicity. |
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__________ is a classification of people according to real or imagined biological characteristics. |
| | A) | Ethnicity |
| | B) | Race |
| | C) | Culture |
| | D) | Nationality |
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A course of action designed by a national government to influence the welfare of its citizens is called a: |
| | A) | social policy. |
| | B) | social slate. |
| | C) | national policy. |
| | D) | policy agenda. |
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In Canada, policy agendas are influenced by ALL BUT which of the following? |
| | A) | demographics |
| | B) | values of individual lawmakers |
| | C) | the nations economic strengths and weaknesses |
| | D) | non-partisan politics |
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The concept of generational inequity describes: |
| | A) | the situation in which older individuals receive more of the resources than younger individuals. |
| | B) | differences in values, and is commonly called the "generation gap". |
| | C) | differences in years of education between older, less educated individuals and younger, better educated individuals. |
| | D) | family power patterns in which older individuals typically have more decision-making power. |
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