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Question #1
A number of cross-cultural studies on mixed race children tend to support some or all aspects of the margin personality characteristics which include all of the following except
A.
Fear of rejection
B.
Identity ambivalence
C.
Insensitivity toward the future
D.
Social avoidance and withdrawal
Question #2
A rigorous empirical test of the interaction between parental behavior and child personality is difficult due to many intervening variables except
A.
Inconsistency in parental behavior
B.
Age, gender, and birth order of the child
C.
Cultural differences in gender role and parenting
D.
Parental hostility in combination with restrictiveness
Question #3
According to Dimsdale, what coping strategy is one using when he or she completely surrenders to the stress?
A.
Regressive behavior
B.
Null coping
C.
Anticoping
D.
Psychological removal
Question #4
According to Levinson, a middle aged man is caught between all of the following polarities or contradictions, except
A.
Physical growth/decline
B.
Destruction/creation
C.
Attachment/separateness
D.
masculine/feminine
Question #5
According to Roger Gould, one has a developmental task to overcome false assumptions in each of his or her life phases. What false assumption does one have to overcome during his or her mid-life decade?
A.
There is no evil or death in the world. The sinister has been destroyed
B.
I’ll always belong to my parents and believe in their world
C.
Life is simple and controllable. There are no significant coexisting contradictory foces within me.
D.
Rewards will come automatically if we do what were supposed to do
Question #6
According to the confluence model proposed by Zajonc
A.
The later born is more extroverted, sociable, empathetic and risk-taking than the first born.
B.
Intelligence decreases with family size, the fewer the children in your family, the smarter you are likely to be. Intelligence also decreases with birth order, the fewer older brothers or sisters you have, the brighter you are likely to be.
C.
Intelligence is not necessarily a product of how many brothers and sisters you have, and of your seniority in the family.
D.
Intelligences increases with family size, and the more children in your family, the smarter you are likely to be. Intelligence also increase with birth order, the more older brothers or sisters you have, the brighter you are likely to be.
Question #7
According to the text, five major ideal types of coping strategies for survival in extreme situations can be identified on the basis of past studies. They are:
A.
Mastery, denial, psychological removal, regression, and depndency/identification
B.
Differential focus on the good, survival for some purpose, psychological withdrawal, mastery, and group affiliation
C.
The will to live, the mobilization of hope, regressive behavior, surrender to stress, and fatalism
D.
Ineffectualization, belief in mortality, time distortion, a sense of humor, and the Musselman-type apathy.
Question #8
According to the text, role changes in the late adulthood include all of the following, except:
A.
Role withdrawal
B.
Role substitution
C.
Role attrition
D.
Role continuity
Question #9
According to the text, the study of personality in extreme situations ultimately has to deal with the global extreme situation, including
A.
All of the other three
B.
Normalized anomie and violence
C.
Institutionalied oppression
D.
Rationalized terrorism
Question #10
Adolescent life in schools is influenced by three dimensional pressures from all of the following except
A.
Teachers
B.
Parents
C.
Adolescents
D.
Peers
Question #11
Critics of the material deprivation theory all argue of the following except
A.
“Maternal deprivation” is too heterogenous and the effects are too varied for any meaningful analysis
B.
Personality disorder of mother-absent children are linked with broken homes not because of the mother absence per se but rather because of the discord and disharmony which led to the break
C.
Individual differences in response to deprivation need to be emphasized as many children are not affected by mother deprivation
D.
Some deprivation effects are reversible, depending on timing, duration and intensity of deprivation
Question #12
Elderly people among American minority groups suffer from a double jeopardy that might include
A.
Age and gender discriminations
B.
Age and ethnic discriminations
C.
All of the three
D.
Age and racial discriminations
Question #13
Extreme situations refer to unusual conditions in life under which one experiences extremely severe stess. They include:
A.
Man-made disasters such as total institutions and hostage cries
B.
Both natural and man-made disasters
C.
Neither natural nor man-made disasters
D.
Natural disasters such as earthquakes and epidemics.
Question #14
Factors associated with inter-generational conflicts include all of the following except
A.
Physiological and psychological differences
B.
Adolescents’ stressful life events
C.
Different rates of socialization
D.
Rapid social cultural changes
Question #15
Farrell and Rosenberg identified four different paths of adult development. Which path is the most problematic?
A.
The transcendent-generative path
B.
The midlife crisis path
C.
The punitive-disenchanted path
D.
The pseudo-developed man path.
Question #16
In general, job stresses derive from all of the following factors, except
A.
Heavy workloads, tight deadlines, and underutilization of abilities
B.
Psychological withdrawal, time-out activities, and hiding behind policy rules
C.
high levels of role ambiguity or conflict and lack of participation in decision making
D.
Health and safety hazars, the threat of unemployment, and job insecurity
Question #17
In recent years, stage theories on personality development have been increasingly criticized for all of the following except.
A.
Maturational determinism
B.
Over-generalization from Western experiences
C.
Staged changes throughout the lifespan
D.
Invariant order of developmental changes
Question #18
Levinson’s stage model basically consists of an alternating series of structure-building and structure-changing periods. In each structure-building period, one may
A.
Shift from one life structure to another
B.
Make certain key choices and pursue his or her goals within a formed structure.
C.
Experience a transition in his or her occupational role
D.
Experience a transformation in marital life
Question #19
Life-stage, life-span and life-course perspectives share the following general assumptions, except.
A.
Critical age and experience
B.
Direction of change from simple to complex
C.
Inconsistency and non-cumulative influence
D.
Quantitative and qualitative changes
Question #20
Of which personality type, one would perceive aging as a threat and cling to his or her middle age as long as possible: “I will work until I drop”?
A.
The unintegrated
B.
The passive-dependent
C.
The armored-defended
D.
The integrated
Question #21
Past studies suggest the following probable effects of father absence, except
A.
Father absence in the first two years of infancy is critical and may lead to feminine orientation in boys.
B.
Father absence is associated with a decrease in verbal abilities and writing skills in children
C.
Father absence caused by divorce have more severe consequences than that caused by death
D.
Father-absent girls are more aggressive and exposed to sexual experiences at an earlier age than father-present girls
Question #22
Piaget identified six successive and irreversible stages of mental development. Which one of the following is not a correct order of change?
A.
From the stage of concrete intellectual operations to the stage of abstract operations.
B.
From the reflex or hereditary stage to the state of the first motor habits.
C.
From the stage of intuitive intelligence to the stage of practical intelligence
D.
From the stage of the first differential emotions to the stage of the first external affective fixations
Question #23
Simonton identifies a swan-song phenomenon among old people. It refers to
A.
A decline in mental functions among the elderly.
B.
Withdrawal from active roles and social interactions in old age.
C.
continued engagement in role activities by old people.
D.
A resurgence in creativity in the later years of life.
Question #24
That continued engagement in role activities are more functional for successful aging that disengagement is suggested by
A.
Disengagement theory
B.
Activity theory
C.
Engagement Theory.
D.
Role change theory
Question #25
The adolescent subculture provides adolescents with all of the following except
A.
A collective protection from adult controls.
B.
A sense of collective identity
C.
A collective superiority over childhood
D.
The primary group need satisfaction
Question #26
The dialectic theory views human life as a dynamic process of change produced by multiple and on-going interactions among various developmental conditions. According to Klaus Riegel, dynamic changes in human life can be studied in the following four dimensions, except
A.
Change-dialectical
B.
Cultural-sociological
C.
Outer-physical
D.
Inner-biological
Question #27
The flow-experience model examins adolescent problesm in four major contexts, except
A.
Family
B.
Social activities
C.
School
D.
Peers
Question #28
The high divorce proneness in American socieyt maybe reasonably explained by all of the following factors except
A.
Liberalization of divorce law
B.
Poverty and violence in inner American cities
C.
Social acceptance of divorce in America
D.
American wives’ extensive participation in the workforce
Question #29
The main effect of global modernization on aging and personality is that
A.
The higher th degree of modernizatio, the lower the degree of social status and integration of the elderly in a given society.
B.
An increasing number of older people prefer to live separately from their adult children
C.
A vertical social structure and a traditon of filial piety can counteract the impact of modernization on the care of the elderly in a given society.
D.
More and more people realize that successful aging means to stay healthy, economically secure, and socially active.
Question #30
The symptoms of PTSD are classified in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under the following three major categories except:
A.
Re-expereince of the trauma
B.
Activation of defense.
C.
Post-trauma onset of symptoms
D.
Numbing of responsiveness
Question #31
Total institutions generally refer to institution in which all aspects of people’s daily life are uniformly controlled by a single authority. Examples include all of the folowing except
A.
Prisons
B.
POW camps
C.
Hospitals
D.
Slavery
Question #32
Which of the following is most true to the composition of the adolescent subculture
A.
Charismatic leadership and her worship
B.
In-group ingo or argot and unique styles of fads
C.
Counter, delinquent, and mainstream values and norms.
D.
All of the other three
Question #33
Which of the following is not true
A.
Life-stage theories generally contend that personality develops through a certain pattern of sequential age-linked stages that are more or less universal.
B.
None of the other three.
C.
Life-course views focus on age-graded norms, generation effects, role transitions, and historical context on personality development
D.
The life-span approach emphasizes the interaction of individual and social characteristics throughout the life span.
Question #34
Whch of the following is untrue.
A.
The consistency theory asserts that personality changes consistently and persistently throughout adulthood.
B.
Schaefer’s hypothetical model for maternal behavior consists of two bipolar dimensions of mother’s attitudes and disciplinary behavior: love versus hostility and control versus autonomy.
C.
Accordig to Dimsdale, effective coping strategies are functionally interlinked in order of relative importance, forming a hierarchy of functional coping strategies for mitigating the impact of stress under extreme conditions.
D.
The phenomenon of adolescence is a by-product of industrialization and concomitant of sociocultural changes in the modern world.
Question #35
Which of the folowing assumptions is true to Erikson’s psychosocial development model
A.
The positive and negative components of each stage are mutually exclusive
B.
All of the other three
C.
the various life stages are not equal in length, depending on cultural and individual differences.
D.
Each life stage is characterized by a crisis or dilemma
Question #36
Which one of the following is not among the three major conflicting findings on aging and intelligence
A.
Intelligence declines with age.
B.
Intelligence increases with age in some dimensions while declining in others.
C.
Intelligence declines with age in some dimensions but in other dimensions.
D.
Intelligence does not decline with age
Question #37
which one of the following is not reported from studies on the process of personality change in extreme situations, such as the concentration camp?
A.
The initial shock and feelings of disbelief, and other helplessness and worthlessness.
B.
Regression into infantile behavior and child-like dependency.
C.
Rejection of the aggressor’s values and hostility toward the perpetrator.
D.
The period of denial, apathy and depression.
Question #38
Which one of the following is not true to peer relations?
A.
Peer relations are uncorrelated to high school dropout nor teenage suicide.
B.
Peer relations have the most impact in all outcome behavio measures of adolescents
C.
American adolescents are more subjected to peer stress than their counterparts in other countries.
D.
Peer relations tend to produce pressure to conform to peer norms and expectations.
Question #39
Which one of the following stages is not included in Kohlberg’s moral development
A.
Universal ethical principla orientation stage
B.
Social order, fixed rules and authority stage
C.
Identity claim and role play stage
D.
Punishment-obedience orientation stage
Question #40
According to DSM-IV, Personality Disorder
A.
Is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture.
B.
Does not necessarily lead to distress and impairment
C.
Is neither pervasive nor inflexible.
D.
has an onset in adulthood or senior stage.
Question #41
DSM-V describes diagnostic features and criteria for each of the following personality disorder:
A.
Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive
B.
Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Antisocial
C.
Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
D.
All of the other three
Question #42
The labeling process involves all of the following except:
A.
primary deviance (violation of norms)
B.
entrance to deviant subculture (secondary deviance)
C.
Needs for belonging and acceptance, rationalization of deviations, and successful defenses
D.
Stigma attaching labeling and social rejection/isolation
Question #43
Which one of the folowing illustrates the reactive definition of deviance
A.
Deviance takes place as part of a labeling process by a social audience.
B.
Deviance is always manufactured by society, particularly by a powerful group of people
C.
Deviance is abnormal behavior or norm-violating behavior that transgresses the tolerance limits of a community
Question #44
Which one of the following is not applicable to the United States
A.
It has the most open immigratin policies
B.
It produces the highest homicide rate among the leading postmodern societies
C.
It has the highest divorce rate in the world
D.
It maintains the most restrictive gun laws in the world
Question #45
Which one of the following is not correct under the normative definition of deviance
A.
Deviance is unthinkable without norms
B.
What is normal or abnormal is culturally irrelative
C.
Deviations from norms in a given society are considered as abnormal and subject to negative sanctions.
D.
Multi-dimensional concept of normalcy involves statistical, biological, psychological, sociocultural normalcy
Question #46
which one of the following is not true about anomie
A.
Anomie is becoming normalized in post moderns society
B.
Anomie remains to be the most significant structural and cultural source of deviance
C.
Anomie is more prevalent among postmodern societies, particularly among those with a high degree of individualism and a rapid rate of social change.
D.
Postmodern generation has become increasingly sensitized to the culture of anomie (social fragmentation and existential alienation)
Question #47
Which one of the following is not true about the new technological culture in the post-modern world?
A.
It has yet to replace the old cultural ethos
B.
It has not reconstructed a new cultural ethos
C.
It constantly challenges traditional norms
D.
It features computer, the internet, and social media
Question #48
Which one of the following is not true
A.
Japanese seem to be more disciplined and orderly yet less free and creative than Americans.
B.
Japanese culture is individual centered
C.
American culture ensures a high degree of freedom and creativity
D.
American society is highly vulnerable to deviance and alienation
Question #49
Which one of the following is incorrect
A.
The psychological factors of violence derive from dysfunctional or pathological socialization of the deviants in his/her childhood or early adolescents.
B.
The sociocultural factors of violence are deeply rooted in the rapidly changing American social structure and cultural values in the post-modern era.
C.
The biological factors of violence are usually attributed to neurological vulnerability of the individual deviant.
D.
None of the other three
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