Experiencing the Lifespan 3rd Edition by Belsky -Test Bank
| 1. | List three normative and three non-normative influences in your life. |
| 2. | Describe (and speculate) on the ways an 80-year-old and a 20-year-old might view the Great Recession and Obama’s presidency. |
| 3. | Joey and Jack are born on the same day in the same hospital. The socioeconomic status of Joey’s family is higher than average. Jack comes from a poverty-level family. What differences between Joe and Jack might you predict as they travel through life? |
| 4. | Explain how you might teach table manners to a 4-year-old, using operant conditioning. |
| 5. | 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. |
| 6. | 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. |
| 7. | Spell out the main similarity and difference between John Bowlby’s attachment theory and traditional psychoanalytic theory. |
| 8. | As a psychologist, you want to determine the heritability (or genetic contribution) to political attitudes. Describe how you would design your study. What findings would suggest that political attitudes are highly genetic? |
| 9. | 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 this semester in your life. |
| 10. | Compare and contrast Erikson and Freud’s ideas. |
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