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Free CLEP Human Growth and Development Practice Test (2026)

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Question 1 of 25A survey finds that people in their 70s use far fewer smartphone apps than people in their 20s. A critic points out that the older group spent most of their working lives before smartphones existed. The critic is pointing to
Question 2 of 25On a modern intelligence test scored with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, a 10-year-old scores 130. What does this score mean?
Question 3 of 25A 20-month-old points at the moon, an orange, and a round lamp and calls each one "ball." This is an example of
Question 4 of 25A 52-year-old woman helps pay her son's college costs while also driving her widowed father to medical visits several times a week. Her situation is best described by the term
Question 5 of 25A 4-year-old keeps starting projects, such as building a backyard fort and planning pretend games for her friends. If adults often scold these efforts as messy or bossy, Erikson would predict that she develops a lasting sense of
Question 6 of 25Over the past 150 years, the average age at which girls in industrialized countries have their first menstrual period has dropped by several years. Researchers mainly attribute this secular trend to
Question 7 of 25Compared with when she was 40, a healthy 75-year-old spends time with fewer people, mostly close family and old friends. She says that with less time ahead, she would rather spend it with the people who matter most to her. Which theory best explains this change?
Question 8 of 25A man who has just learned he has a terminal illness says, "If I can just live to see my daughter's wedding, I'll never complain about anything again." In Kübler-Ross's model, this statement best fits
Question 9 of 25A 9-year-old easily solves, "Ana is taller than Ben, and Ben is taller than Cal, so who is tallest?" But she is puzzled by, "If all dogs are purple and Rex is a dog, what color is Rex?" and insists that dogs are not purple. Piaget would place her in which stage?
Question 10 of 25Researchers observe 200 toddlers and find that those whose parents read to them more minutes a day tend to know more words (r = +.45). A news story reports this as "Reading aloud builds bigger vocabularies." What is the main problem with the headline?
Question 11 of 25Under DSM-5, which pair of features must both be present for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder?
Question 12 of 25A couple, neither of whom has hemophilia, has a son with the condition. Hemophilia is caused by a recessive gene on the X chromosome. What is the most likely explanation?
Question 13 of 25A theorist argues that children's thinking grows mainly through dialogue with more skilled partners, and that talk children first hear from others later becomes private speech they use to guide their own problem solving. This view is most closely tied to
Question 14 of 25A 3-year-old sorts picture cards by color without trouble. When told to switch and sort the same cards by shape, she keeps sorting by color, even though she can say the new rule aloud. Her difficulty mainly reflects immature
Question 15 of 25Long-term follow-ups of high-quality early intervention programs for preschoolers from low-income families have most consistently found that
Question 16 of 25An infant is fairly inactive, reacts to new foods and new people with mild fussing or withdrawal, and slowly comes to accept them after several exposures. In Thomas and Chess's temperament categories, this baby is best described as
Question 17 of 25Researchers studying children whose parents divorce find that the effects are strongest in the first year or two and then ease, and that they differ depending on how old the child was when it happened. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model, which system captures this?
Question 18 of 25Starting in his mid-40s, a man with previously good eyesight has to hold a menu at arm's length to read it, though his distance vision is fine. What is the most likely cause?
Question 19 of 25In Harry Harlow's studies, infant monkeys raised with two artificial "mothers" spent most of their time clinging to a soft cloth figure, even when only a bare wire figure provided milk. Which idea did these findings challenge?
Question 20 of 25A 16-year-old can plan, weigh risks, and control impulses better than she could at 11, partly because signals now travel faster along the long fibers of neurons in her prefrontal cortex. The change most responsible for the faster signals is
Question 21 of 25A 9-month-old watches a toy being hidden under cloth A several times and finds it each time. Then, while she watches, the toy is hidden under cloth B, yet she searches under cloth A again. This behavior is called
Question 22 of 25A 1-month-old sucks on a pacifier that records her sucking, and each strong suck plays the sound "ba." Her sucking slows as she grows used to it. When the sound switches to "pa," her sucking speeds up again. The most reasonable conclusion is that she
Question 23 of 25Newly hatched goslings follow the first moving object they see, and this bond forms only during a short window after hatching. Which theoretical perspective built its view of development on findings like this?
Question 24 of 25Children watch a short film in which an adult hits, kicks, and shouts at an inflatable doll. Later, left alone with the same doll, many of the children copy the adult's exact actions and words. This result best supports
Question 25 of 25At about 7 months, a hearing infant begins producing repeated consonant-vowel strings such as "dadada." Deaf infants exposed to sign language produce rhythmic, repeated hand movements at about the same age. Both are examples of

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