A Life Course Perspective Verified Test Bank Ch1 - Human Behavior Life Course 6e Test Bank by Elizabeth D. Hutchison. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 1: A Life Course Perspective
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. A(n) ______ perspective looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.
A. person-in-environment
B. life course
C. developmental
D. identity development
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.2. Summarize the relevance of the life course perspective for social work competencies.
Answer Location: The Life Course Perspectives and Social Work Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
2. A(n) ______ is the sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person's life.
A. developmental history
B. self history
C. personal history
D. event history
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.2. Summarize the relevance of the life course perspective for social work competencies.
Answer Location: The Life Course Perspectives and Social Work Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
3. A cohort is similar, yet distinct from a(n) ______.
A. generation
B. team
C. family
D. observational group
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Cohorts
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
4. A ______ is a significant occurrence in a person’s life that may produce serious and long-lasting effects.
A. transition
B. trajectory
C. life event
D. turning point
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Life Events
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
5. A ______ is a change in roles and statuses that represent a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses.
A. transition
B. trajectory
C. life event
D. turning point
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Transitions
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
6. A _____ is a life event or transition that produces a shift in the life course trajectory.
A. transition
B. trajectory
C. life event
D. turning point
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Turning Points
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
7. A _____ is a long-term pattern of stability and change, which usually involves multiple transitions.
A. transition
B. trajectory
C. life event
D. turning point
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Trajectories
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
8. ______ is a major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family development must be understood in a past context.
A. Timing of lives
B. Linked or interdependent lives
C. Developmental risk and protection
D. Interplay of human lives and historical time
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Interplay of Human Lives and Historical Time
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
9. The life course perspective is useful to social work because it acknowledges the ______ of people’s lives.
A. multidisciplinary nature
B. diversity
C. similarity
D. central purpose
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.2: Summarize the relevance of the life course perspective for social work competencies.
Answer Location: The Life Course Perspective and Social Work Practice
Difficult Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
10. ______ is a major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that experiences with one life transition have an impact on subsequent transitions and events and may either guard the life course trajectory or put it at risk.
A. Timing of lives
B. Diversity in life course trajectories
C. Developmental risk and protection
D. Interplay of human lives and historical time
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Major Themes of the Life Course Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
11. A person's ______ indicates their level of biological development and physical health, as measured by the functioning of their various organ systems.
A. biological age
B. chronological age
C. psychological age
D. social age
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Dimensions of Age
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
12. The capacities that people have and the skills they use to adapt to changing biological and environmental demands is ______.
A. biological age
B. chronological age
C. psychological age
D. social age
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
13. ______ represents age-graded roles and behaviors expected by society.
A. spiritual age
B. chronological age
C. psychological age
D. social age
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
14. ______ indicates the current position of a person in the ongoing search for meaning and morally fulfilling relationships.
A. spiritual age
B. chronological age
C. psychological age
D. social age
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
15. Policies and laws that regulate timing of social role transitions are referred to as ______.
A. age norm
B. age structuring
C. age timing
D. age development
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Standardization in the Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
16. The behaviors that are expected of people of a specific age in a given society at a particular point in time are referred to as ______.
A. age norm
B. age structuring
C. age timing
D. age development
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Standardization in the Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
17. The ability of some people to fare well in the face of risk factors is referred to as ______.
A. coping ability
B. adaptability
C. protection
D. resilience
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Developmental Risk and Protection
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
18. The story of Phoung and her family’s experience resettling in southern California after spending two years in a refugee camp highlights ______.
A. the importance of understanding intergenerational issues within a family
B. the importance of understanding the unique adjustments refugee or immigrant families experience
C. how risk factors affect development
D. how protective factors affect development
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.8 Apply basic concepts and major themes of the life course perspective to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Answer Location: Case Study 1.3
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
19. An example of a typical age norm in the U.S. is that ______.
A. teenagers are too young to date
B. middle-aged men often experience mid-life crises
C. elderly people are bad drivers
D. children are expected to leave the parental home at 18
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Dimensions of Age
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
20. An off-time transition means that it ______.
A. does not occur at the typical stage in the life course
B. occurs multiple times at every life course stage
C. occurs only in certain cohorts
D. is atypical for the majority of young adults
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Turning Points
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
21. The population pyramid helps us ______.
A. prioritize pay schedules across industry
B. understand the supply and demand of labor stratification by age cohorts
C. advocate for living wage subsidies for working class families
D. understand workplace discrimination
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Cohorts
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
22. Disjoint agency is defined as agency that resides in ______.
A. developing countries
B. relationships between interdependent selves
C. developed countries
D. the independent self
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Human Agency in Decision Making
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
23. Conjoint agency resides in ______.
A. relationships between interdependent selves
B. developing countries
C. developed countries
D. independent self
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Human Agency in Decision Making
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
24. Self-efficacy is defined as ______.
A. personal productivity
B. self-esteem
C. sense of personal competence
D. expectation that one can personally accomplish a goal
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Human Agency in Decision Making
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
25. Privilege can be described from a life course perspective as a(n) ______.
A. preferable lifestyle
B. earned advantage
C. high income lifestyle
D. trajectory of unearned advantage
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Developmental Risk and Protection
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
26. Emma Suarez’s roles and responsibilities changed after she gave birth to Maria. This change in roles and statuses is called a ______.
A. transition
B. life event
C. turning point
D. life timing
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Transitions
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
True/False
27. A person’s event history can include a day for which they have no specific memories.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.2 Summarize the relevance of the life course perspective for social work competencies.
Answer Location: The Life Course Perspective and Social Work Practice
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
28. The life course perspective is a theoretical model based in social work.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.3: Identify some of the theoretical roots of the life course perspective.
Answer Location: Theoretical Roots of the Life Course Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
29. The LCP views the life course as a straight path.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.2 Summarize the relevance of the life course perspective for social work competencies.
Answer Location: Trajectories
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
30. A life event refers to both the happening itself and the transition that occurs because of that happening.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.4 Summarize five basic concepts of the life course perspective (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points).
Answer Location: Life Events
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
31. The same events of a particular historical era may affect different cohorts in different ways.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Interplay of Human Lives and Historical Time
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
32. The legal drinking age in the U.S. is an example of an age norm.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Dimensions of Age
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
33. When a society develops policies and laws that regulate the timing of social role transitions, it is called age structuring.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Standardization in the Timing of Lives
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
34. Parents’ lives are more influenced by the trajectories of their children’s lives than vice versa.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Links with Family Members
Difficulty Level: Easy
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Essay
35. Compare and contrast the differences between biological age, psychological age, social age, and spiritual age.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Dimensions of Age
Difficulty Level: Medium
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
36. Discuss the concepts of risk and protection in relation to the life course perspective. Include in your discussion the ideas behind cumulative advantage, cumulative disadvantage, privilege, and resilience. Provide examples in your discussion as related to the case example of David Sanchez.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.5 Critique six major themes of the life course perspective (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and risk and protection).
Answer Location: Developmental Risk and Protection
Difficulty Level: Hard
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
37. Discuss the strengths and limitations of the life course perspective. Include in your discussion reasons why this approach to understanding human behavior is particularly appropriate for social work practice.
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.6 Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the life course perspective.
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of the Life Course Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Hard
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
38. How do we as a society support life transitions? What life transitions are most supported by our social institutions? What life transitions are least supported by our social institutions? Why?
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.8 Apply basic concepts and major themes of the life course perspective to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Answer Location: Transitions
Difficulty Level: Hard
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
39. What do you think is the government's role in supporting individuals and families as they age through the life course? Who currently benefits most from government aid? What are your recommendations for change?
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.8 Apply basic concepts and major themes of the life course perspective to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Answer Location: Links with the Wider World
Difficulty Level: Hard
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
40. What do you think are the most significant/important risk factors in infancy and early childhood? Do we as a society do enough to attend to these risk factors? If not, what more can/should be done? How might such recommendations change life course trajectories?
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.8 Apply basic concepts and major themes of the life course perspective to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Answer Location: Developmental Risk and Protection
Difficulty Level: Hard
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis