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Course Introduction
Family Studies explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families across various cultures and historical periods. The course examines topics such as family relationships, roles, communication patterns, parenting styles, and the impact of social, economic, and cultural factors on family life. Students will analyze the evolving definitions of family, the effects of societal changes, family challenges, and resources available to support family well-being. Through theoretical frameworks and practical case studies, the course fosters a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and significance of families in contemporary society.
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Child Development 14th Edition by John W Santrock
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Luis Vargas,a clinical psychologist,is involved in work including the A) assessment and treatment of children,adolescents and their families.
B) training mental health professionals to provide culturally responsive mental health services.
C) training mental health professionals to provide developmentally appropriate mental health service.
D) All of these.
Answer: D
Q2) Which theorist is associated with the information-processing theory?
A) Skinner
B) Siegler
C) Piaget
D) Vygotsky
Answer: B
Q3) What is the purpose of correlational research?
A) to determine the cause of a behavior
B) to describe the strength of the relationship between two events
C) to compare the responses of an individual with that of a group
D) to compare groups from at least two different cultures or geographic areas
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings
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Q1) An approach emphasizing the importance of adaptation,reproduction,and "survival of the fittest" in explaining behavior is
A) sociobiology.
B) evolutionary psychology.
C) ethology.
D) contextual life course theory.
Answer: B
Q2) The surprising information from the Human Genome Project was that humans were thought to have ______________ genes but the project found out they had approximately _____________.
A) 5,000; 7,000
B) 100,000; 20,500
C) 10,000; 1,000
D) 7,000; 100,000
Answer: B
Q3) Describe the processes of mitosis and meiosis.
Answer: Mitosis is the process when each chromosome of the cell nucleus duplicates itself.Meiosis is when a cell in the testes and ovaries duplicates its chromosomes and then divides twice,forming four cells.
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) What are the familiar blood groups?
A) A,B,O,and X
B) X,Y,A,and B
C) B,O,X,and XX
D) A,B,O,and AB
Answer: D
Q2) In the United States,most doulas work
A) in hospitals.
B) as independent providers hired by the expectant woman.
C) in obstetrician's offices.
D) in alternative birthing centers.
Answer: B
Q3) What occurs at the end of the first stage of the birth process?
A) the baby completely emerges from the mother's body
B) contractions dilate the cervix to an opening of about 4 inches
C) the placenta and umbilical cord are expelled
D) the baby's head starts to move through the uterus
Answer: B
Q4) List the three periods of prenatal development.
Answer: germinal,embryonic,and fetal
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Chapter 4: Physical Development and Health
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Q1) At birth,the newborn's brain is about what percentage of its adult weight?
A) 25 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 90 percent
Q2) Which of the following is not in control of the secretion of key hormones?
A) hypothalamus
B) menarche
C) gonads
D) pituitary gland
Q3) Which one of the following mothers can breast feed her baby?
A) the mother who is infected with AIDS
B) the mother who has already breast fed three of her other children
C) the mother who has active tuberculosis
D) the mother who is taking an unsafe drug that can be transmitted through her milk
Q4) Compare the time spent in REM sleep of an adult to an infant.
Q5) Define sudden infant death syndrome.
Q6) In physical development,a child will most likely experience a growth spurt.Explain the concept of a growth spurt.
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Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
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Q1) _______________________ is the recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes.
A) Size constancy
B) Shape constancy
C) Perceptual constancy
D) Depth perception
Q2) List five different factors relating to the vision of an infant.
Q3) Robert Frantz placed infants in a "looking chamber" that had two displays on the ceiling above the infant's head.This approach is used to study a child's
A) hearing.
B) vision.
C) heart rate.
D) arm movement.
Q4) Which of the following skills is needed in order to walk upright?
A) balance on one leg while the other is swinging forward
B) shift weight from one leg to another
C) take steps that are at least 10 inches apart
D) the ability to both balance on one leg and to shift weight from one leg to another.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches
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Q1) Bob is a Piagetian studying the cognitive development of children.His utilization of a "three mountains task" would indicate that he is interested in
A) depth perception.
B) animism.
C) horizontal décalage.
D) egocentrism.
Q2) When Mark's grandmother calls on the telephone to wish him a happy birthday,she asks him,"How old are you today?" Instead of saying anything,Mark holds up four fingers.His behavior is best explained as
A) intuitive.
B) egocentric.
C) excessive conservation.
D) a lack of object permanence.
Q3) ___________________________ is the concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension.
A) Seriation
B) Abstraction
C) Logic
D) Transitivity
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Chapter 7: Information Processing
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Q1) An important aspect of adolescent learning involves
A) critical thinking.
B) decision making.
C) Neither of these.
D) Both of these.
Q2) ________________ is the focusing of mental resources and improves cognitive processing for many tasks.
A) Attention
B) Distraction
C) Division
D) Construction
Q3) The memory strategy of organization is used more by ___________ children than _____________ children.
A) older; younger
B) younger; older
C) male; female
D) female; male
Q4) List three mental states that 2-year-old Cole can start to understand.
Q5) Identify the three mechanisms working together to change a child's cognitive skills according to Robert Siegler.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) Multiple intelligence is an innovative educational attempt by Howard Gardner and others to encourage the development of a range of intelligences in young children.Which one of the statements below would not be characteristic of this approach?
A) Materials are rich and engaging.
B) Materials are labeled as to which intelligence they are addressing,that is,"sensory" or "verbal."
C) Materials are used that relate to a combination of intelligences.
D) There are 12 areas set up in the classroom that are designed to improve children's multiple intelligences.
Q2) Which represents one of the major reasons that intelligence is a difficult concept to define?
A) It is too concrete.
B) It does not appear to have any real importance.
C) It can only be measured by indirect means.
D) There is uncertainty over whether it is inherited or learned.
Q3) Compare and contrast mental retardation and giftedness in IQ and functioning.
Q4) List the four categories of behavior tested in the theory of Arnold Gesell.
Q5) Identify four methods of guiding a child's creativity.
Q6) Describe and give an example of both divergent and convergent thinking.
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) According to research by Naomi Baron,sometimes parents allow themselves to apply sexual stereotype ideas to their children's language learning.Which of the following is not an example of this?
A) The parent allows the toddler's sex to determine how he/she talks to the child.
B) The mothers are sometimes more linguistically supportive to girls rather than to boys.
C) The fathers do more activities with their children than mothers and talk less with their children.
D) Active and cognitively enriching initiatives come from both the mother and the father.
Q2) Kiley most likely began waving bye-bye at what age?
A) 6 to 8 months
B) 8 to 12 months
C) 12 to 14 months
D) 15 to 18 months
Q3) Consider language development from birth through 2 years of age.Explain the process by using the major language milestones and ideas that support your responses.
Q4) Compare and contrast phonology and morphology.
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Parents who monitor their children's emotions and see their children's negative emotions as an opportunity to teach their children how to label their emotions and how to deal with their emotions effectively are using emotion ________.
A) teaching
B) training
C) coaching
D) controlling
Q2) Enthusiasm,joy,and laughter are examples of
A) negative emotions.
B) positive emotions.
C) MAX.
D) type-B behavior.
Q3) All of the following can be classified as ______________________: anxiety,anger,guilt,and sadness.
A) negative emotions
B) positive emotions
C) balanced affectivity
D) None of these.
Q4) List three positive and three negative emotions identified in the text.
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Chapter 11: The Self and Identity
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Q1) An infant's mother puts a dot of lipstick on his nose.Observers watch to see how often the infant touches his nose.Next,the infant is placed in front of a mirror,and observers detect whether nose touching increases.They are studying the infant's A) self-awareness.
B) visual self-recognition.
C) representation of the self.
D) theory of the self.
Q2) Harter's (1985)Self-Perception Profile for Children is used to evaluate A) self-understanding.
B) possible selves.
C) perspective taking.
D) self-concept.
Q3) George understands that he is a student,a brother,a hockey player,and a baseball player.This representation of his self reflects A) self-esteem.
B) self-awareness.
C) self-recognition.
D) self-understanding.
Q4) Compare and contrast self-esteem and self-concept.
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Chapter 12: Gender
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Q1) A weakness of Freud's gender identification theory is that
A) it is supported by research.
B) children do not attach to the opposite-sex parent.
C) it ignores the possibility of unconscious motivation.
D) gender-typing occurs before the ages proposed by this theory.
Q2) __________________________ is a cognitive structure,or network of associations,that organizes and guides a child's perceptions.
A) Schema
B) Cognition
C) Identity
D) Influence
Q3) In the United States,of the following 7-year-olds,who is most likely to be ridiculed and lose status with peers?
A) a male who wants to be on the track team
B) a female who wants to be the captain of the football team
C) a male who wants to play with dolls
D) a female who wants to play house
Q4) When do children begin to engage in gender stereotyping?
Q5) Describe the ages and examples of the first signs of gender-typed play.
Q6) Compare and contrast an androgynous girl and boy.
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Chapter 13: Moral Development
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Q1) At what Piagetian stage of moral development does a child believe in immanent justice?
A) autonomous morality
B) heteronomous morality
C) social-system morality
D) punishment and obedience morality
Q2) ________________________ perspective is the moral perspective that focuses on the rights of the individual.
A) Justice
B) Dare
C) Unaware
D) None of these.
Q3) A company hires you to help lead a school-based fund drive to collect money for "poor people around the world." Which age would you first expect to see true humanitarian concern for others and an increase in donations?
A) 1 to 2 years of age
B) 3 to 5 years of age
C) 6 to 9 years of age
D) 10 to 12 years of age
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Chapter 14: Families
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Q1) What parenting style is associated with child aggression?
A) authoritative
B) authoritarian
C) indulgent
D) neglectful
Q2) Todd's parents were highly involved with him but also extremely indulgent with him.As a result,he lacks
A) self-control.
B) creativity.
C) nurturance.
D) social skills.
Q3) The text refers to parents as ______ of their children.
A) facilitators
B) monitors
C) managers
D) All of these.
Q4) Tehra is a mother of three children.She is skilled at making friends,sharing with others,and leading others.What characteristics would you expect her children to display?
Q5) Identify the pros and cons of co-parenting.
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Chapter 15: Peers
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Q1) When you are informed that 8-year-old Gerald was named "most popular" by his classmates,you would least expect him to be identified as
A) conceited.
B) talkative.
C) self-confident.
D) attentive.
Q2) Who is likely to be bullied?
A) girls in the lower grades
B) boys in middle schools
C) younger middle-school children
D) both B and C
Q3) Children's friendships serve the function of providing resources and assistance,which Gottman and Parker (1987)call
A) companionship.
B) stimulation.
C) physical support.
D) ego support.
Q4) Describe the difference between a clique and a crowd.
Q5) Compare and contrast friendships between boys and girls.
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Chapter 16: Schools and Achievement
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Q1) John is observing a classroom that is developmentally inappropriate.John observes that
A) the teacher uses highly structured,teacher-directed lessons almost exclusively.
B) children are able to select many of their own activities from a variety the teacher prepared.
C) children are provided many opportunities to develop negotiating skills.
D) the teacher enhances children's self-control by using positive guidance techniques.
Q2) Describe why American students have scored lower in math performance than other cultures,according to the research of Harold Stevenson.
Q3) Compare and contrast external and internal motivation.
Q4) ______________________ is the cognitive view people develop of themselves.
A) Atonement
B) Mindset
C) Excuse
D) Plan
Q5) Describe Project Head Start.
Q6) List the three characteristics of ADHD.
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Chapter 17: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) In the United States,previous findings on the effects of ethnic minority status are being challenged because
A) numerous researchers have been identified as being racists.
B) past research often failed to consider the fact that ethnicity and SES are confounded.
C) new culture-free intelligence tests have been developed.
D) most previous research on ethnicity utilized Native Americans as subjects,and today this group is one of the smaller ethnic minority groups.
Q2) The main way adolescents communicate with their friends is _______.
A) talking
B) texting
C) notes
D) phone calling
Q3) Which of the following does not fit in with children growing up in poverty?
A) physical punishment
B) lack of home structure
C) nonviolent settings
D) domestic violence in their buildings
Q4) What behaviors would you expect from a boy who watches violent television shows?
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