Family Development:
Intergenerational, Person- Environment
1. The term “dependency
ratio” refers to:
a. The number of elderly who will
need family support to survive.
b. The number of children who will
be raised by grandparents and
extended family members instead of
by natural parents.
c. The number of persons not
gainfully employed compared to persons
who are in the workforce and will
pay taxes and contribute to social
security.
d. The total number of persons who
utilize welfare/public services.
2. Marcia suggests that the
process of developing identity is organized in four categories. The category
wherein a person has never seriously
considered all the alternatives
for identity, but instead has committed
to an identity based on what
others think their identity should be
(parents, peers, etc.) is called:
a. Foreclosure
b. Moratorium
c. Identity Diffusion
d. Identity Achievement
3. Robert Havighurst’s list of
specific developmental tasks faced by
middle-aged individuals includes
all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. Reaching and maintaining
satisfactory performance in one’s job.
b. Assuming social and civic
responsibility.
c. Developing leisure-time
activities.
d. Developing initial sense of
identity.
4. Robert Havighurst’s list of
specific developmental tasks faced by
the elderly individual includes
all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. Establishing an explicit
association with one’s age group.
b. Establishing satisfactory
physical living arrangements.
c. Establishing a satisfactory
career orientation.
d. Adopting and adapting societal
roles in a flexible way.
5. The type of research design
that compares groups of different
people varying in age at the same
time is called:
a. Longitudinal design.
b. Cross-sectional design.
c. Cohort design.
d. Time-lag design.
6. According to the Representative
Filter Theory of how people
select marriage partners, the
process of mate selection involves
the use of a series of
“filters” that screen out unacceptable
candidates. The filter that
involves the geographic closeness
of the candidate to the person
making a selection is called:
a. Propinquity
b. Social Background
c. Readiness
d. Attractiveness
7. Burton and Dilworth-Anderson’s
study of intergenerational
family structures among black
families listed three types
of family structures, including
all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Vertical intergenerational
family structure
b. Inverted intergenerational
family structure
c. Age-condensed family structure
d. Substitutional family
structure.
8. Studies of sexual behavior have
revealed that sexual activity
declines with age. The reasons for
this include all of the
following EXCEPT:
a. Biologically the sex drive,
especially the drive to procreate, diminishes
with age.
b. Social factors, such as
increasing demands of work, commuting, taking care of children, and managing a
complicated life in modern
times.
c. Sexual stereotypes, which
suggest that sexual activity is not appropriate for the old.
d. Increased gender-role differences
as men and women age.
9. Studies of attitudes regarding
extramarital sex indicate that:
a. People are becoming more and
more tolerant of extramarital sex.
b. People consider extramarital
sex more acceptable for married women than married men.
c. People view sexual fidelity as
essential to the marital contract.
d. Whether a person remains
faithful depends on the behavior of their
spouse.
10. Holland’s
“person-environment fit” model of choice of a vocation has
identified 6 personality types,
including all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Phlegmatic
b. Realistic
c. Conventional
d. Enterprising
11. In Holland’s
“person-environment fit” model, the personality that
is conformist, practical,
conservative, neat and correct, but lacks
spontaneity, originality and
flexibility is:
a. Artistic
b. Realistic
c. Conventional
d. Enterprising
12. A person’s long term memory is
divided into two subcategories of
memory. One subcategory is
Episodic Memory, and the other is:
a. Echoic Memory
b. Sensory Memory
c. Working Memory
d. Semantic Memory
13. Piaget’s stage of cognitive
development which involves the ability
to use mental operations on
abstract material is the:
a. Preoperational stage.
b. Formal operations stage.
c. Concrete operations stage.
d. Postoperational stage.
14. The theory of aging that holds
that aging occurs because genetic
mechanisms begin to use
inaccurate, distorted information is called:
a. The genetic mutation theory.
b. The heritability theory
c. The cellular breakdown theory
d. The stochastic theory.
15. The theory that aging occurs
because proteins called collagen and
and elastin, which compose the
connective tissue in skin and other
parts of the body, form bonds
either within the protein molecule
or between molecules, resulting in
decreased efficiency of heart and
lungs and elevated blood pressure
is called the:
a. Cross-linking theory.
b. Stochastic theory.
c. Wear-and-Tear theory
d. Error catastrophe theory
