Child and Adolescent Development Review
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Course Introduction
This course explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children and adolescents from infancy through adolescence. Drawing on major developmental theories and current research, students will examine topics such as brain development, attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, moral development, family and peer relationships, and the impact of culture and environment. The course emphasizes the practical application of developmental principles in educational and caregiving settings and encourages critical analysis of issues affecting youth in contemporary society.
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Visualizing The Lifespan 1st Edition by Jennifer Tanner
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Chapter 1: Understanding Human Development: Theories and Approaches
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Q1) The most well-known theorist associated with contemporary evolutionary psychology is
A) Charles Darwin.
B) David Buss.
C) Konrad Lorenz.
D) Albert Bandura.
Answer: B
Q2) If you take some information from one theory and combine it with information from another theory, you are working from a(n) _________________perspective
A) psychodynamic
B) eclectic
C) integrated
D) complex
Answer: B
Q3) __________ results from observation and imitation
A) Operant learning
B) Social learning
C) Classical learning
D) Evolutionary learning
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development and
Birth
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Q1) Fertilization usually occurs in the A) uterus.
B) cervix.
C) Fallopian tube.
D) cilia.
Answer: C
Q2) Kristen's pregnancy has been complicated with placenta previa, a pregnancy risk commonly associated with:
A) a male-dominant genetic profile.
B) a female-dominant genetic profile.
C) smoking during pregnancy.
D) alcohol use during pregnancy.
Answer: C
Q3) Which sex chromosome carries more genes
A) male
B) female
C) Both sexes carry the same number of genes.
D) The answer is unknown.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) With respect to neural development, ___________________ receive(s) electrical impulses from neighboring neurons.
A) dendrites
B) axons
C) white matter
D) gray matter
Answer: A
Q2) Infant nutrition involves monitoring the consumption of a healthy balance of carbohydrates, fats, and other forms of calories.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Developmentalists understand that expressive language is ________ receptive language.
A) less complex than B) the same as
C) more complex than D) none of the choices
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Socioemotional Development in Infancy: The
First Two Years
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Q1) Dylan is 15 months old. With respect to Dylan's emotional maturity, a developmentalist would predict that Dylan is experiencing a(n):
A) explosion of his emotional awareness.
B) new phase of memory processing.
C) advances in physical and cognitive development associated with the emergence of adult emotions.
D) new phase of social development as a result of emotional maturation.
Q2) Two dimensions of toddler behavior fully describe social style on temperament scales: sociable and shy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Results from Harlow's monkey experiment demonstrated that the monkeys preferred the __________ mothers over the __________ mothers when seeking comfort.
A) cloth; wired
B) wired; cloth
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
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Chapter 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
Childhood:two to Six Years
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Q1) One of the results of lateralization manifests as ________________.
A) hand preference
B) drawing ability
C) early ability to skip and hop
D) early ability to write the alphabet
Q2) Research suggests that normal-weight and overweight children experience the same level of risk for unwanted health outcomes, including: depression, low self-esteem, being bullied, and dysfunctional social skills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ossification occurs during which periods of development?
A) infancy through childhood
B) infancy through adolescence
C) childhood through adolescence
D) adolescence through adulthood
Q4) Childhood obesity is
A) not a health problem; children grow out of it
B) a global health problem
C) only a problem in the USA
D) culturally defined
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Early
Childhood: Two to Six Years
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Q1) Erik Erikson described the early childhood stage of psychosocial development as A) trust versus mistrust.
B) autonomy versus shame.
C) initiative versus guilt.
D) identity versus role confusion.
Q2) If 12-year-old Stevie was asked to describe himself, the description that most likely matches his self-description is:
A) I am not good at baseball.
B) I can climb higher than I did last year.
C) I'm really shy except around my friends.
D) I have blue eyes and I can run fast.
Q3) The emergence of a positive self-concept is fundamental to socioemotional development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Demanding parenting is correlated with negative outcomes, such as low levels of school achievement and behavioral control.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and
Late Childhood: Six to Eleven Years Old
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Q1) The muscular and cardiovascular system energy expense used to perform a physical action is known as:
A) flexibility.
B) efficiency.
C) consistency.
D) cardio.
Q2) One outcome of technology-based scaffolding is that:
A) technology helped students visualize their understanding.
B) technology helped students identify resources.
C) technology managed the number of items that required attention.
D) All of the choices
Q3) Timmy just had his tenth birthday. Based on his age, we can say that Timmy has attained ____ of his ultimate bone mass.
A) all
B) none
C) 50%
D) ¼
Q4) As children approach puberty, their skeletons expand in both width and height.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Socioemotional Development in Middle and
Late Childhood: Six to Eleven Years
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Q1) An example of an unhealthy coping strategy a child can use when he feels rejected by a peer is:
A) asking for help from others.
B) pretending not to care.
C) problem solving.
D) seeking support.
Q2) Self-esteem involves the process of children ____________________ about themselves.
A) making judgments
B) having feelings
C) both of the choices
D) neither of the choices
Q3) Poverty influences development in middle childhood via:
A) restricted access to material assets.
B) assaults on personal dignity.
C) lack of social inclusion.
D) all of the choices
Q4) Emotions reach peak complexity by the time children reach school age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) David Elkind's work on adolescent development offers a framework for understanding the emotional world of teens.
A)True
B)False
Q2) From a Piagetian perspective, adolescence is primarily associated with the development of formal operational thinking.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During adolescence, changes in gray matter take place primarily in the:
A) cingulate gyrus.
B) hippocampus.
C) amygdala.
D) prefrontal cortex.
Q4) Almost all adolescents strongly underestimate the immediate consequences of high-risk behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Emotion regulation in adolescence is influenced by the pathway of emotion regulation development that begins early in the lifespan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "status phase" of building a romantic relationship is all about dating:
A) at least one person.
B) the right person.
C) many others.
D) all of the choices
Q3) The cascade effect, when used to explain the pathway to juvenile delinquency, recognizes that there is a link between _________________ that increases the risk for problem behaviors in adolescence.
A) parent maltreatment and academic problems
B) parent abuse and problems with peers
C) parent neglect and running away from home
D) all of the choices
Q4) Peer crowds have clear boundaries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood
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Q1) Worldview refers to the lens an emerging adult develops, through which he or she sees and interprets the world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Healthy lifestyle behaviors in emerging and young adulthood can reduce health risks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Senescence refers to a gradual decline in:
A) memory systems.
B) cognitive systems.
C) physical systems.
D) neurological systems.
Q4) Creativity decreases in emerging adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Individuals continue to physically develop into their 20s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood
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Q1) The rate of "hooking up" is ________________ in emerging adulthood.
A) equivalent for males and females
B) higher for males
C) higher for females
D) unknown with respect to males versus females
Q2) Personality plays a role in determining how an individual will experience the transition to adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q3) At the transition to parenthood, lesbian couples are more likely than opposite-sex couples to organize household and childcare responsibilities by:
A) taking equal responsibility for paid work and in-home family responsibilities.
B) giving one partner all the work responsibilities; one partner is assigned the home and family care responsibilities.
C) hiring extra help in the home.
D) reducing the number of hours each works outside the home.
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Many middle-aged adults don't feel that they have a great deal of extra time, but they can achieve health benefits via weight-bearing exercise, such as:
A) doing yard work.
B) working from home.
C) doing aqua aerobics.
D) cycling to work.
Q2) Through middle age, individuals experience a decrease in sensitivity in their taste buds and olfactory cells, which results in a loss of sensitivity to the _____________ of food.
A) texture
B) flavor
C) temperature
D) nutritional value
Q3) In terms of developing expertise, "Master" is the highest stage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are gender differences in reproductive changes in middle adulthood.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Socioemotional Development in Adult-Hood
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Q1) A relatively recent partnership arrangement understood to be an alternative to remarriage in middle adulthood is:
A) cohabitation.
B) living with multiple roommates.
C) living in the same apartment building.
D) living together apart.
Q2) Adult siblings get along best when they perceive their parents as:
A) financially wealthy.
B) traditional and religious.
C) honest about favoritism.
D) fair and equitable.
Q3) In middle adulthood, well-being is not an accurate indicator of the positive feelings adults have about their lives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Childlessness at midlife has little, if any, influence on the well-being of: A) men.
B) women.
C) neither a nor b; childlessness affects neither.
D) both a and b; childlessness affects them in the same way.
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in the Later Years
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Q1) Both hearing loss and reduced sensitivity to touch can put older adults at risk due to a decreased likelihood that they will recognize:
A) warning signs of dangers.
B) insurance risks.
C) probability of injury.
D) the problems that they cause.
Q2) Memory changes vary widely through the later decades of adulthood because memory is a multidimensional cognitive process.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Older adults become increasingly likely to suffer from _______________, which involves the wearing down of tissues around the skeletal joints.
A) osteoporosis
B) rheumatitis
C) carditis
D) osteoarthritis
Q4) Telomere length provides information about cellular health.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in the Later Years
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Q1) Su Jin grew up in China and came to the United States when she was 40. Su Jin's values influenced her self-narrative by organizing it around:
A) collectivist values common in East Asian countries.
B) collectivist values common in the Eastern United States.
C) individualistic values common in the United States.
D) individualistic values common in East Asian countries.
Q2) Spouses often coordinate their retirement.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In older adults, some scientific evidence suggests that religious involvement is protective against:
A) depression.
B) substance use disorders.
C) anxiety disorders.
D) family disengagement.
Q4) Spirituality is different from religion; spirituality refers to a personal and emotional connection that transcends everyday events.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving
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Q1) Worldwide, most deaths can be attributed to:
A) noncommunicable causes.
B) communicable causes.
C) HIV/AIDS.
D) food-borne illnesses.
Q2) The leading cause of death in low-income countries is respiratory diseases.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When an individual "bargains" during the dying process, the person tries to find a way to make the disease:
A) a source of comfort.
B) harmless.
C) a welcome process.
D) go away.
Q4) Criteria used to declare that irreversible coma cannot be used to confirm death in exceptional cases, such as:
A) hypothermia.
B) narcotic-induced CNS dysfunction.
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
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