sixties Correct Answer: b. sixties Question 2 4 out of 4 points Correct Research by Kagan and his colleagues concluded that behavioral inhibition is ____ rooted. Answer Selected Answer: d. subconsciously Correct Answer: d. subconsciously Question 3 4 out of 4 points Correct Ricardo is about to retire. In preparation he has begun to take up golf as a way to fill some of the time he would normally have been at work. Ricardo's response BEST fits with the ____ theory concerning successful aging. Answer Selected Answer: b. activity Correct Answer: b. activity Question 4 4 out of 4 points Correct Children who are behaviorally inhibited are Answer Selected Answer: a. high in neuroticism and low in extraversion Correct Answer: a. high in neuroticism and low in extraversion Question 5 4 out of 4 points Correct Some of the Big Five traits first begin to show themselves in Answer Selected Answer: d. early childhood Correct Answer: d. early childhood Question 6 0 out of 4 points Incorrect Winona's mother and father are both professional singers, as are her two older sisters. Winona is in college, enrolled in a music curriculum. When asked about her career goals, Winona states "I'll be a singer, of course. Everyone in my family is a singer. I've never thought of being anything else." Winona 's identity status is BEST described in terms of Answer Selected Answer: c. identity achievement Correct Answer: d. foreclosure Question 7 4 out of 4 points Correct Five-month-old Ruby is beginning to recognize that her mother, Opal, does not tend to come to feed her when she is hungry. According to Erikson, Ruby is currently involved in a psychosocial crisis of Answer Selected Answer: c. trust versus mistrust Correct Answer: c. trust versus mistrust Question 8 4 out of 4 points Correct The personality principle of ____ concerns situation-specific ways in which people adapt to their environment. Answer Selected Answer: d. dispositional traits Correct Answer: d. dispositional traits Question 9 4 out of 4 points Correct The social learning perspective assumes that Answer Selected Answer: b. personality development is highly influenced by environmental experience Correct Answer: b. personality development is highly influenced by environmental experience Question 10 0 out of 4 points Incorrect Wanda is a college student who is currently experiencing a moratorium period. This means that she is MOST LIKELY Answer Selected Answer: b. experiencing a crisis of trust Correct Answer: d. relatively free of responsibilities Question 11 4 out of 4 points Correct Sixty-year-old Irene has been a secretary for 30 years. Despite her advancing age, her typing skills remain excellent. This is in most part due to the fact that Irene continues to practice her typing every day. The Baltes' would suggest that the process of ____ is MOST responsible for Irene's continued high level of performance. Answer Selected Answer: c. optimization Correct Answer: c. optimization Question 12 4 out of 4 points Correct Which of the following utterances clearly demonstrates the development of a categorical sense of self? Answer Selected Answer: b. "I big girl" Correct Answer: b. "I big girl" Question 13 4 out of 4 points Correct Which statement would indicate that an individual has a high level of surgency? Answer Selected Answer: d. "I am always excited, in a good way, to meet people." Correct Answer: d. "I am always excited, in a good way, to meet people." Question 14 4 out of 4 points Correct With regard to personality development during adulthood, which is TRUE? Answer Selected Answer: b. There is generally more change in personality between adolescence and middle age than there is between middle age and old age. Correct Answer: b. There is generally more change in personality between adolescence and middle age than there is between middle age and old age. Question 15 4 out of 4 points Correct The period of experimenting with different roles that is so common during adolescence is referred to as the ____ period. Answer Selected Answer: b. moratorium Correct Answer: b. moratorium Question 16 4 out of 4 points Correct Which statement regarding the achievement of identity status is FALSE? Answer Selected Answer: b. By age 20, most individuals have reached complete identity achievement status. Correct Answer: b. By age 20, most individuals have reached complete identity achievement status. Question 17 4 out of 4 points Correct What is the developmental relationship between ideal self, present self, and future self? Answer Selected Answer: a. The three aspects of self are most similar in the elderly adult years. Correct Answer: a. The three aspects of self are most similar in the elderly adult years. Question 18 4 out of 4 points Correct When considering himself, Shaggy thinks, "While I am not any of these things, I should be smart, I should be nice, I should be good at sports." These thoughts BEST represent Shaggy's Answer Selected Answer: a. ideal self Correct Answer: a. ideal self Question 19 4 out of 4 points Correct About one year after she retired, Betty Joe suddenly became very unhappy and expressed the opinion that she now had nothing to do in her life. Atchley would argue that Betty Joe appears have entered the ____ phase of retirement. Answer Selected Answer: d. disenchantment Correct Answer: d. disenchantment Question 20 4 out of 4 points Correct Using a life story approach McLean and Pratt (2006) found that the more the sophisticated the "meaning making" in an adolescent's life narrative the Answer Selected Answer: d. less likely they would be in a state of foreclosure Correct Answer: d. less likely they would be in a state of foreclosure Question 21 4 out of 4 points Correct The key characteristics of someone scoring high on the personality dimension of neuroticism would be Answer Selected Answer: d. hostile and anxious Correct Answer: d. hostile and anxious Question 22 4 out of 4 points Correct The fact that parents who are taught to interpret and respond more effectively to their child's cues can produce calmer infants who cry less BEST illustrates the concept of Answer Selected Answer: a. goodness of fit Correct Answer: a. goodness of fit Question 23 4 out of 4 points Correct The psychometric approach to personality has led researchers to believe that personality Answer Selected Answer: b. is best thought of in terms of a set of stable traits Correct Answer: b. is best thought of in terms of a set of stable traits Question 24 4 out of 4 points Correct Who would be MOST LIKELY to argue that the vast majority of personality is formed between birth and age 6? Answer Selected Answer: d. Fred, who is a psychodynamic theorist Correct Answer: d. Fred, who is a psychodynamic theorist Question 25 0 out of 4 points Incorrect Who is MOST LIKELY to experience a decrease in self-esteem in early adolescence? Answer Selected Answer: b. a Latino female Correct Answer: a. a white female