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Understanding Business Ethics
4. What strategies might Rosie use to remain healthy, vigorous, and cognitively sharp during her golden years? We have traced major events in the development of physical, social, and cognitive growth
3. Was Rosie right to think that she was on the cusp of becoming irrelevant? Why or why not? We have traced major events in the development of physical, social, and cognitive growth throughout the
2. Did Rosie have a realistic perspective on entering old age? If you were Rosie’s best friend, what might you tell her to help her become more optimistic about turning 60? We have traced major
1. What might have been some of the developmental milestones that Rosie Boycott mentioned experiencing during earlier decades of her life? We have traced major events in the development of physical,
2. From the perspective of a health-care provider: What sorts of recommendations would you make to your older patients about how to deal with aging? How would you handle someone who believed that
6. In Kübler-Ross’s stage, people resist the idea of death. In the stage, they attempt to make deals to avoid death, and in the stage, they passively await death.
5. During old age, a person’s intelligence continues to increase, whereas intelligence may decline.
4. Lower IQ test scores during late adulthood do not necessarily mean a decrease in intelligence. True or false?
3. theories suggest that there is a maximum time span in which cells are able to reproduce.This time limit explains the eventual breakdown of the body.
2. In households where both partners have similar jobs, the division of labor that generally occurs is the same as in“traditional” households where the husband works and the wife stays at home.
1. Rob recently turned 40 and surveyed his goals and accomplishments to date. Although he has accomplished a lot, he realized that many of his goals will not be met in his lifetime. This stage is
LO 30-3 How can we adjust to death?
LO 30-2 How does the reality of late adulthood diff er from the stereotypes about that period?
LO 30-1 What are the principal kinds of physical, social, and intellectual changes that occur in early and middle adulthood, and what are their causes?
2. From the perspective of a child-care provider: If a parent was not sure whether to enroll his or her child in your program, what advice would you give about the possible positive and negative
5. Match the stage of development with the thinking style characteristic of that stage:1. Egocentric thoughta. Sensorimotor 2. Object permanenceb. Formal operational 3. Abstract reasoningc.
3. Match the parenting style with its defi nition:1. Permissivea. Rigid; highly punitive;2. Authoritative demanding obedience 3. Authoritarianb. Gives little direction;4. Uninvolved lax on
LO 28-3 How does cognitive development proceed during childhood?
LO 28-2 What are the milestones of physical and social development during childhood?
LO 28-1 What are the major competencies of newborns?
1. Match the type of memory with its defi nition: 1. long-term memory 2. short-term memory 3. sensory memory a. holds information 15 to 25 seconds b. stores information on a relatively permanent
1. Match the component of grammar with its defi nition: 1. Syntax 2. Phonology 3. Semantics a. Rules showing how words can be combined into sentences. b. Rules governing the meaning of words and
4. Match the following memory disorders with the correct information: 1. Affects alcoholics; may result in hallucinations. 2. Memory loss occurring without other mental problems. 3. Beta amyloid
2. From the perspective of a child-care provider: Consider what factors might determine why a child is not learning to walk at the same pace as his peers. What kinds of environmental infl uences
5. Match each of the following terms with its defi nition:1. Zygotea. Smallest unit through which 2. Gene genetic information is passed 3. Chromosomeb. Fertilized eggc. Rod-shaped structure
• Would you want to be tested if you might learn that you had a genetic disorder that was likely to shorten your life? Why or why not?
• Would you choose to be genetically tested so that you could know your susceptibility to genetic diseases?
LO 273 What factors aff ect a child during the mother’s pregnancy?
LO 272 What is the nature of development before birth?
LO 271 How do psychologists study the degree to which development is an interaction of hereditary and environmental factors?
4. How would you explain Wall’s seemingly contradictory desires to please others and to compete against others? Motivation and emotions are two interrelated aspects of psychology. In these modules,
3. How might emotion play a role in whether Wall plays a good game or not? Motivation and emotions are two interrelated aspects of psychology. In these modules, we fi rst considered the topic of
2. What indications are there that Wall has a high need for achievement? What about a high need for affi liation? Motivation and emotions are two interrelated aspects of psychology. In these modules,
1. How could Wall’s determination to succeed at basketball be explained by each of the diff erent approaches to motivation? Motivation and emotions are two interrelated aspects of psychology. In
2. From the perspective of an advertising executive: How might you use Schachter and Singer’s fi ndings on the labeling of arousal to create interest in a product? Can you think of other examples
5. What are the six primary
4. Your friend—a psychology major—tells you, “I was at a party last night. During the course of the evening, my general level of arousal increased. Since I was at a party where people were
3. According to the - theory of emotion, both an emotional response and physiological arousal are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.
2. The - theory of emotion states that emotions are a response to instinctive bodily events.
1. Emotions are always accompanied by a cognitive response. True or false?
LO 26-4 How does nonverbal behavior relate to the expression of emotions?
LO 26-3 What are the explanations for emotions?
LO 26-2 What are the functions of emotions?
LO 26-1 What are emotions, and how do we experience them?
2. From the perspective of a human resources specialist: How might you use characteristics such as need for achievement, need for power, and need for affi liation to select workers for jobs? What
3. is the rate at which the body produces and expends energy.
1. Match the following terms with their defi nitions:1. Hypothalamusa. Leads to refusal of food and 2. Lateral hypothalamic starvation damageb. Responsible for monitoring 3. Ventromedial food intake
• Do you think it’s possible to combat obesity without stigmatizing obese people?Why or why not? With great publicity, the U.S. government launched a national campaign against the rising problem
• What do you think is driving the changes in cultural acceptance of overweight people? With great publicity, the U.S. government launched a national campaign against the rising problem of
LO 25-3 How are needs relating to achievement, affiliation, and power motivation exhibited?
LO 25-2 What are the varieties of sexual behavior?
LO 25-1 What biological and social factors underlie hunger?
2. From the perspective of an educator: Do you think that giving students grades serves as an external reward that would decrease intrinsic motivation for the subject matter? Why or why not?
6. According to Maslow, a person with no job, no home, and no friends can become self-actualized. True or false?
LO 241 How does motivation direct and energize behavior?
4. In what ways do you think divergent and convergent thinking are involved in the processes of invention? Do they play diff erent roles during the various stages of the act of invention, including
3. How do you think insight is involved in Matt and Akash’s “aha” moment?
2. Describe the process that Matt and Akash are likely to use to solve the problem of developing a computer program for their school’s science fair.
1. Why do you think it’s diffi cult to program a computer to recognize emotional infl ections in a speaker’s voice?
2. From the human resource specialist’s perspective: Job interviews are really a kind of test, but they rely on interviewers’judgments and have no formal validity or reliability. Do you think job
3. is the most common biological cause of mental retardation.
2. Some psychologists make the distinction between intelligence, which refl ects reasoning, memory, and information-processing capabilities, and intelligence, which is the information, skills, and
Theories of Intelligence:Are There Diff erent Kinds of Intelligence?
LO 23-5 To what degree is intelligence infl uenced by the environment and to what degree by heredity?
L O 23-4 Are traditional IQ tests culturally biased?
LO 23-3 How can the extremes of intelligence be characterized?
LO 23-2 What are the major approaches to measuring intelligence, and what do intelligence tests measure?
LO 23-1 What are the diff erent defi nitions and conceptions of intelligence?
2. From the perspective of a child-care provider: How would you encourage children’s language abilities at the different stages of development?
5. theory assumes that language acquisition is based on principles of operant conditioning and shaping.
4. A child knows that adding - ed to certain words puts them in the past tense. As a result, instead of saying “He came,” the child says “He comed.” This is an example of .
The Infl uence of Language on Thinking: Do Eskimos Have More Words for Snow Than Texans Do?
LO 22-2 How does language develop?
LO 22-1 How do people use language?
2. From the perspective of a manufacturer: How might you encourage your employees to develop creative ways to improve the products that you produce?
5. Thinking of an object only in terms of its typical use is known as . A broader, related tendency for old problem-solving patterns to persist is known as a .
1. are representations in the mind of an object or event.
• Some people fear that artifi cial intelligence machines such as Watson might one day displace workers from jobs or even be entrusted with sensitive decisions, such as diagnosing diseases in
• In what ways is Watson “thinking” like a human being, and in what ways is it not? “This facial wear made Israel’s Moshe Dayan instantly recognizable worldwide.”Such was the $1,600 clue
LO 214 What are the major obstacles to problem solving?
LO 213 How do people approach and solve problems?
LO 212 What processes underlie reasoning and decision making?
LO 211 What is thinking?
4. From a researcher’s perspective, how might you determine whether Louise Owen’s memory is truly accurate?
3. Would you expect Louise Owen to have perfect recall for all the facts and information she has encountered in her life, such as textbooks she has read? Why or why not?
2. Do you think that Louise Owen’s memory ability is more of a blessing or a curse? Why do you think so?
1. What part of Louise Owen’s memory is aff ected by her condition?
2. From a health-care provider’s perspective: Alzheimer’s disease and amnesia are two of the most pervasive memory dysfunctions that threaten many individuals. What sorts of activities might
LO 20-2 What are the major memory impairments?
LO 20-1 Why do we forget information?
2. From a social worker’s perspective: Should a child victim of sexual abuse be allowed to testify in court, based on what you’ve learned about children’s memories under stress?
2. is the process of retrieving a specifi c item from memory.
LO 19-1 What causes diffi culties and failures in remembering?
2. From a marketing specialist’s perspective: How might advertisers and others use ways of enhancing memory to promote their products? What ethical principles are involved?Can you think of a way to
• Do you agree that the risks of using neurological drugs for performance enhancement in healthy people are not worth the potential benefi ts? Why do you think so?
• How would you explain the drawbacks of using drugs that alter brain chemistry for performance enhancement to a friend who wants to try them?
LO 183 What are the biological bases of memory?
LO 182 Are there diff erent kinds of memory?
LO 181 What is memory?
4. If you were in charge of implementing the Snapshot device program, what additional program features could you implement to take advantage of cognitive learning principles?
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