1) The period during which women stop menstruating and are no longer fertile is known as __________.

A. atrophy 
B. midlife 
C. menarche 
D. menopause 

2) The additional work performed by women (employed mothers) is sometimes called

A. Second-shift 
B. Late-shift 
C. On-going-shift 
D. Double-shift 

3) __________ is the period at which maturation of the sexual organs occurs.

A. Adulthood 
B. Childhood 
C. Puberty 
D. Adolescence 

4) A model of personality that seeks to identify the basic traits necessary to describe personality is called __________ theory.

A. cognitive 
B. emotion 
C. trait 
D. state 

5) __________ intelligence, which is based on the accumulation of information, skills, and strategies learned through experience, remains steady and in some cases actually improves.

A. Conscious 
B. Deep 
C. Crystallized 
D. Fluid 

6) Jean Piaget's four stages of development, in the correct order, are:

A. formal operational, concrete operational, sensorimotor, and preoperational 
B. concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor, and preoperational 
C. sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational 
D. preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, and sensorimotor 

7) Which of the following is not true regarding social development?

A. During this period people launch themselves into marriage and families 
B. Social developmental transitions are quantitative 
C. People in their early forties may question their accomplishments 
D. During this period people begin to envision life goals and career paths 

8) A method of gathering data about people by asking them questions about a sample of their behavior is known as a(n) __________ measure.

A. emotional 
B. cognitive 
C. self-report 
D. psychological 

9) __________ disease is a progressive brain disorder that leads to a gradual and irreversible decline in cognitive abilities.

A. Diabetes 
B. Hodgkin's 
C. Alzheimer's 
D. Parkinson's 

10) A statistical method of identifying associations among a large number of variables to reveal more general patterns is called __________.

A. standard deviation 
B. number analysis 
C. statistics 
D. factor analysis 

11) __________ intelligence, which involves information-processing skills such as memory, calculations, and analogy solving, declines in late adulthood.

A. Conscious 
B. Deep 
C. Crystallized 
D. Fluid 

12) According to __________, people pass through a three-level sequence of moral judgment and reasoning in a fixed order.

A. Jean Piaget 
B. Sigmund Freud 
C. Lawrence Kohlberg 
D. Erik Erikson 

13) The basic, innate disposition that emerges early in life and encompasses several dimensions, including general activity level and mood, is known as a person's __________.

A. self-esteem 
B. temperament 
C. personality 
D. cognitions 

14) Which one of the below is not a physical change that occurs at the start of adolescence?

A. loss of appetite 
B. pubic hair 
C. height spurt 
D. first ejaculation 

15) Almost ___ percent of all family households are now headed by one parent, compared with 13 percent in 1970.

A. 25 
B. 20 
C. 40 
D. 35