•
Question
1
2 out of 2
points
The lifespan/life-space theory is based upon which of the following
concepts?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
all of the above
•
Question
2
0 out of 2
points
Most of the domestic migration in the U.S. and Europe can be explained by:
Selecte
d
Answer
:
cost of living.
•
Question
3
2 out of 2
points
One nontraditional exit from the labor force is to retire and take a bridge
job. Of the following selections, choose the one who is considered to be
working a bridge job.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Jorge, a retired county sheriff, took a part-time security
guard position at a local Walmart
•
Question
4
2 out of 2
points
Which pattern of work and non-work is associated with greatest work
success or highest income among women?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Work continuously.
•
Question
5
2 out of 2
points
There are numerous studies comparing the effects on children of mothers
who work. What finding(s) was/were noted consistently?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
All of the above have been noted
•
Question
6
2 out of 2
points
Chantel is a 62-year-old employee of a large manufacturing company.
Based on the research, she will compared to her co-workers in their 20s.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
comply more to the norms of the workplace
•
Question
7
2 out of 2
points
A major criticism of Holland’s theory of occupational choice and personality
is that
.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
the theory does not predict job achievement
•
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is TRUE?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Even if they are still employed, workers exposed to layoffs
among friends or co-workers experience higher levels of
depression and more symptoms of poor health than workers not
exposed to layoffs.
•
Question
9
2 out of 2
points
Which of the following is most accurate about family influences on career
choices of children?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Young women with working mothers have higher educational
goals and aspirations toward more prestigious careers than their
counterparts whose mothers do not work outside the home.
•
Question
10
2 out of 2
points
Which of the following best describes the relationship between job
satisfaction and age?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Job satisfaction rises steadily with age for both
men and women.
•
Question
11
2 out of 2
points
The author of the best-known theory of career development in the field
of vocational psychology, the life-span/life-space theory, is .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Donald Super
•
Question
12
2 out of 2
points
For what type of jobs, if any, does job performance decline past midlife?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
those requiring speed
•
Question
13
2 out of 2
points
Which of the following is NOT among the 6 personality types studied by
Holland in his research on personality and occupational choices?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
intuitive
•
Question
14
2 out of 2
points
Critics of Holland’s theory argue that those adults who find a job that
matches their vocational interests .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
discover that the match does not predict achievement
•
Question
15
2 out of 2
points
On which of Holland’s personality dimensions is a minister likely to score the
highest?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
social
•
Question
16
2 out of 2
points
Like other social ills, poverty in old age is not equally distributed across
ethnic groups or gender. Of the following older individuals, who is more
apt to live his/her Golden Years in poverty?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Kaloni S., a 70 year old African-American woman who lives
alone
•
Question
17
2 out of 2
points
Research on the effects of genetics on career choice (using a score
based on occupational status) showed that
Selecte
d
Answer
:
environmental effects played a stronger role for women than
for men.
•
Question
18
0 out of 2
points
Of the following individuals, who is most likely to be unemployed in the
U.S.?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Vanessa, a black female
•
Question
19
0 out of 2
points
A classic study of typists between 19 and 72 years of age showed that
Selecte
d
Answer
:
the younger typists read ahead and were ready to type
those words sooner than the older typists.
•
Question
20
2 out of 2
points
Of all his six siblings, Bernard lived the longest. All his sisters and
brothers died of various illness at much younger ages than Bernard,
who died at the age of 92.
Bernard was most likely high in the personality trait of:
Selecte
d
Answer
:
conscientiousness
•
Question
21
2 out of 2
points
Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development states that personality
development takes place in that represents a conflict the individual
must try to resolve.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
distinct stages over the life span
•
Question
22
2 out of 2
points
Trust, altruism, straightforwardness, and kindness are characteristics of
which
personality trait?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
agreeableness
•
Question
23
2 out of 2
points
An article written by Erik Erikson would NOT emphasize development that
.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
centers around adaptation to unique life experiences
•
Question
24
2 out of 2
points
Recent research on personality consistency suggests higher consistency
in some periods of adult life than others. During which age period does
personality appear to be LEAST consistent?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
early adulthood
•
Question 25
Which of the following statements is part of Erikson's
theory?
0 out of 2
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
The solutions to psychosocial crises may be derived from
unconscious memories.
•
Question
26
2 out of 2
points
A person’s genetic endowment combines with environmental factors to
maintain personality traits over the years of adulthood, a concept known as:
Selecte
d
Answer
:
person-
environment
transactions.
•
Question
27
2 out of 2
points
What evidence most clearly demonstrates a genetic component in
personality consistency in adulthood?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
greater similarity in the personalities of identical than of
fraternal twins
•
Question
28
2 out of 2
points
An adult describes herself as “a small-town, family girl; a good person.”
What stage or level in Loevinger’s model does such a description typify?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
conformist stage
•
Question
29
2 out of 2
points
With what stage does Erikson associate the potential strength of care?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
generativity versus stagnation
•
Question
30
2 out of 2
points
Soldz and Vaillant found that the higher a participant scored on , the
more money he made.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
extraversion
•
Question
31
2 out of 2
points
In Maslow’s system, love needs are to self-actualization needs as, in
Erikson’s system, .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
intimacy is to integrity
•
Question
32
0 out of 2
points
Which of the following did Erikson think is more likely to occur to young
adults who do not develop the ability to have meaningful relationships?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Mistrust of others
•
Question
33
2 out of 2
points
Juanita, a very extraverted female, just learned that her father’s cancer
has spread. Weeks before, she had agreed to go with her friend to a
party, but while she was there, she was very quiet and withdrawn. This
short-lived pattern of being quiet and withdrawn would be considered a
.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
state
•
Question
34
2 out of 2
points
What does Vaillant call the stage he has added to Erikson’s model of
development?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
career
consolidati
on
•
Question
35
2 out of 2
points
In a study by McAdams and his colleagues, men who were not
fathers scored significantly lower on than those who were fathers.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
generativity
•
Question
36
2 out of 2
points
Which of the following motives or needs would Maslow classify as a “being
motive”?
Selected altruism
Answer:
•
Question 37
2 out of 2
points
Aaron wonders where he should serve in his local church. According to
Bugbee, this is a question of
Selecte
d
Answer
:
ministry passion.
•
Question 38
Women attend religious services at higher rates
than men
0 out of 2
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
in the United States, but not in most other countries.
•
Question
39
2 out of 2
points
In Fowler’s system of faith development, which of the following stages is
the final stage, if one can reach it, the optimal form of faith in old age,
when issues of integrity and meaning become still more dominant ?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
universalizing faith
•
Question 40
Which of the following is most
accurate?
0 out of 2
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
There has been a gradual decline in the number of empirical
journal articles on religion or spirituality in the past few
decades with the shift toward brain science.
•
Question
41
0 out of 2
points
What stage in Kohlberg’s system of moral development, characterized by a
unity orientation, appears to correspond most closely to what Maslow calls
“peak experiences”?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Stage 4
•
Question 42
2 out of 2
points
Kegan proposes that development is governed by the existence of a basic
polarity of motives or needs, between .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
connection versus independence
•
Question
43
2 out of 2
points
“I try to do things that I think my mom and dad will approve of. Their
opinion really matters to me.” In Kohlberg’s category system, this is an
example of
reasoning.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
conventional
•
Question 44
The 3 levels of moral reasoning described by Kohlberg are
.
2 out of 2
points
Selecte
d
Answer
:
preconventional, conventional, and postconventional
•
Question
45
0 out of 2
points
“I grew up in the Baptist church, but when I went off to college, I really had
to question all the ideas I’d been given as a child and as a teenager. For a
while I called myself an atheist. But now I find myself drawn back to the
Baptists. It just seems to me that the church offers answers to questions
I’ve been asking myself.” Which of Fowler’s stages of faith does this
statement most reflect?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
synthetic-conventional
•
Question
46
0 out of 2
points
deals more with beliefs and behaviors connected to an
organized structure, while deals more with emotion, motivation,
and the search for meaning in life.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Conventional reasoning; postconventional reasoning
•
Question
47
2 out of 2
points
Kohlberg proposed that individuals move through a sequence of stages of
moral reasoning, each stage growing out of, but superseding, the one that
came before. His theory is considered an extension of theory.
Selecte
d
Answer
:
Piaget’s
•
Question 48
2 out of 2
points
“Generally you should obey the law, because that is one of the conditions
for living in society. But if a law is immoral, you may need to disobey it—but
be prepared to take the consequences.” What level of moral reasoning in
Kohlberg’s system is reflected in this statement?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
principled level
•
Question
49
2 out of 2
points
What effects of religiousness/spirituality are found in adults in U.S. studies?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
longer life expectancy
•
Question 50
2 out of 2
points In Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, the conventional level is
made up of 2 stages: the stage of “good-boy or good-girl orientation” and
the stage of .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
social order maintaining orientation
•
Question
51
2 out of 2
points
Miguel, who is 22 years old, thinks that breaking the law is always wrong,
even if it is done in the name of civil disobedience—such as to try to
change a law that discriminates against Hispanics. In Kohlberg’s category
system, Miguel is reasoning at the .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
conventional level
•
Question
52
2 out of 2
points
Which of the following is NOT one of Underhill’s stages of mystical
experience?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
abandonm
en t
•
Question
53
2 out of 2
points
Fifteen-year-old Jack, when asked about various moral dilemmas, says
“Well, I think if my parents think something is right, it must be okay.” In
Kohlberg’s category system, Jack is reasoning at the .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
conventional level
•
Question
54
2 out of 2
points
Step 4 in Underhill’s stages of mystical experiences involves a fuller turn
inward, back toward separateness called .
Selecte
d
Answer
:
dark night of the soul
•Question 55
2 out of 2 points
Which stage in Fowler’s theory of faith development most closely
corresponds to the stage of social contract reasoning in Kohlberg’s theory of
moral development?
Selecte
d
Answer
:
individuative-reflective
