Matching Quiz

Match the age ranges with their characteristics.


1				Dependency on adults; early psychological development


2				Master fundamental of reading, writing, and arithmetic; exposure to larger world; self-control increases; achievement becomes a central theme


3				Growth from a single cell to a complete organism


4				Biological, cognitive, and emotional changes; explore career interests; dating and identity options


5				Adjust to decreasing strength and health; retirement and reduced income; adapt to changing social roles


6				Children learn to care for self, develop school readiness, and play with peers


7				Transmit values to the next generation; enhanced concerns about one's body; reflection on meaning of life


8				Establish personal and economic independence; career development intensifies

Answer choices for questions 1 through 8

A)	infancy: birth to 18–24 months
B)	middle adulthood: 35–45 to 55–65 years
C)	late adulthood: 60–70 years until death
D)	middle and late childhood: 6 to 10–11 years
E)	prenatal
F)	adolescence: 10–13 to 18–22 years
G)	early adulthood: late teens or early 20s through the 30s
H)	early childhood: 2 to 5–6 years

Match each person's name with the concept, issue, or topic with which it is associated.

Answer choices for questions 9 through 23

A)	the consequences of a behavior produce changes in the probability of the behavior's occurrence
B)	believes that many of today's youth are more interested in information retrieval than information formation
C)	described five key features that characterize emerging adulthood
D)	believed that defense mechanisms are the key to understanding adolescent adjustment
E)	theorized that reasoning first occurs in adolescence
F)	proposed the importance of early and late experiences in his eight psychosocial stages
G)	proposed a sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasized how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development
H)	theorizes that development reflects the influence of five environmental systems
I)	believes that thinking is information processing
J)	four cognitive stages through which individuals actively construct their understanding of the world
K)	asserted that people go through five stages of psychosexual development
L)	stated that adolescence is a turbulent time of "storm and stress" charged with conflict and mood swings
M)	emphasizes that cognitive processes have important links to the environment and behavior
N)	believed that regression is a normal aspect of puberty
O)	studied resilience from childhood through adulthood

Label each data-collection method, research design, and time-span approach with its description.


24				Uses uniform procedures for administration and scoring


25				In-depth look at a single individual


26				Scientific studies in real-world settings with no effort to manipulate or control the situation


27				Standard sets of questions used to obtain people's self-reported attitudes or beliefs about a specific topic


28				Studying the same people over a period of time


29				Describes the strength of the relation between two or more events or characteristics


30				Studying people all at one time


31				Regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence behavior are manipulated


32				Aims to observe and record behavior


33				The factor in an experiment that is being measured

Answer choices for questions 24 through 33