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A Life Course Perspective MCQ

______ involve a view of long-term patterns of stability and change in a person’s life.

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Correct Answer: Trajectories

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______ age refers to an individual’s role expectations within the broader environment.

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Correct Answer: Social

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How do societies utilize age structuring?

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Correct Answer: By developing policies that will be applied to persons of a certain age-group

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Trajectories involve examining a brief period in life to determine the significant event that occurred during this time period.

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Correct Answer: False

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A group of persons who were born during the same time period and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and at the same age are called a ______.

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Correct Answer: Cohort

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The ______ is a useful way to understand the relationship between time and human behavior that looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape people’s lives from birth to death.

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Correct Answer: Life course perspective

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Researchers who study resilient children examine only the adverse experiences that have influenced children.

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Correct Answer: False

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There is research that indicates events that occur in childhood may influence a person’s life 50 years later.

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Correct Answer: True

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The death of a parent will always serve as a turning point in the life of a child.

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Correct Answer: False

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It is estimated that there are 105 males born for every 100 females in the world.

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Correct Answer: True

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______ concept in the life course perspective examines the central role of the individual in interpreting the wider social environment.

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Correct Answer: Human agency

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A ______ represents a significant change in a person’s role or status.

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Correct Answer: Transition

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A child who grows into an adult with a nurturing family, with sufficient economic resources, decent schools, and a strong community may not be aware of the ways that ______ has influenced his or her life.

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Correct Answer: Privilege

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Which of the following is not a limitation of the life course perspective?

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Correct Answer: It is difficult to identify patterns within homogeneous populations.

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______ concept in the life course perspective examines the central role of the family in interpreting the wider social environment.

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Correct Answer: Interdependent lives

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A special event that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory is called:

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Correct Answer: Turning Point

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____________ means changes in roles and statuses that represent a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses.

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Correct Answer: Transitions

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Trajectories relatively stable short-term processes and pat-terns of events, involving multiple transitions.

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Correct Answer: False

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The position of a person in the ongoing search for meaning and fulfilling relationships is called __________.

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Correct Answer: Spiritual Age

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___________ is known as rendered by others that benefits an individual.

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Correct Answer: Social Support

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Social Age is an age measured in terms of age-graded roles and behaviors expected by society.

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Correct Answer: False

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The number of males per ___________ females in a population is called Sex Ratio.

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Correct Answer: 100

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__________factors at one stage of devel-opment that increase the probability of developing and maintaining problem conditions at later stages in Risk factors.

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Correct Answer: Both

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____________ means thought to be the result of protective factors that shield the individual from the consequences of potential hazards.

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Correct Answer: Resilience

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Privilege is an unearned advantage that comes from one’s posi-tion in the social structure.

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Correct Answer: True

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The capacities that people have and the skills they use to adapt to changing biological and environmental demands is known as_________.

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Correct Answer: Psychological Age

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___________is the personal and societal factors (resources) that decrease the probability of developing and maintain-ing problem conditions later in life.

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Correct Answer: Protective Factors

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The Population Pyramid is not a chart that depicts the proportion of the population in each age group.

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Correct Answer: False

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The intentional or unintentional act or process of placing restrictions on an individual, group, or institution is called:

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Correct Answer: Oppression

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Life Event means incident or event that is brief in scope but is influential on human behavior.

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Correct Answer: True

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Life Course Perspective is an approach to human behavior that looks at how ___________ act independently, cumulatively, and interactively to shape people’s lives from conception to death and across generations.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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A pluralist theory of social identity that recognizes that all of us are simultaneously members of a number of socially constructed identity groups is known as_____________.

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Correct Answer: Intersectionality Theory

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Human Agency is the use of personal power to achieve one’s goals.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following is a sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a person’s life from birth to death.

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Correct Answer: Event History

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Cumulative Disadvantage is accumulation of increasing disadvantage as early disadvantage positions an individual for later disadvantage.

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Correct Answer: True

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_______________ _ is accumulation of increasing advantage as early advantage positions an individual for later advantage.

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Correct Answer: Cumulative Advantage

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A time when the family faces a transition in the family life stage or in family composition is called__________.

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Correct Answer: Transition Points

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Life Course Developmental Perspective on Families is the perspective that focuses on families as multigenerational systems moving through time, composed of people who shared__________.

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Correct Answer: Both

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____________ Is the study of changes in gene expression that occur without changes to the underlying genetic code.

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Correct Answer: Epigenetics

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Cohort Effect is the effect of social change on a specific cohort.

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Correct Answer: True

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Group of persons who are born in the same time period and who are of the same age group at the time of specific historical events and social changes is known as:

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Correct Answer: Cohort

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Biological Age is a person’s level of biological development and physical health, as measured by the functioning of the various__________ .

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Correct Answer: Organ systems

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The standardization of the ages at which social role transitions occur, by developing policies and laws that regulate the timing of these transitions is known as ____________.

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Correct Answer: Age Structuring

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__________means the behaviors expected of people of a specific age in a given society at a particular time.

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Correct Answer: Age Norm

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