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Course Introduction

Lifespan Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur from conception through old age. The course examines major theories, research findings, and practical applications related to development across the lifespan, highlighting the influences of genetics, environment, culture, and individual differences. Students will gain an understanding of key developmental milestones, challenges, and transitions in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging, with an emphasis on how biological and environmental factors interact to shape the human experience at every stage of life.

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The Development of Children and Adolescents 1st Edition by Penny Hauser Cram

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Chapter 1: Hauser-Cram

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Q1) According to _________,all children pass through the same four stages of cognitive development and in the same order.

A) Piaget

B) Freud

C) Erikson

D) Vygotsky

Answer: A

Q2) Which study can be used to determine cause and effect?

A) correlational study

B) microgenetic study

C) quasi-experimental study

D) none of these

Answer: D

Q3) Who co-founded the national Head Start program?

A) Jean Piaget

B) Uri Bronfenbrenner

C) Gilbert Gottlieb

D) Erik Erikson

Answer: B

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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations of Child Development

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Q1) Examples of X-linked recessive conditions include all of the following except A) Duchene muscular dystrophy.

B) Down syndrome.

C) hemophilia.

D) red-green color blindness.

Answer: B

Q2) How the genotype sets the upper and lower limits for possible outcomes is known as A) niche picking.

B) canalization.

C) active effect.

D) range of reaction.

Answer: D

Q3) The fundamental units of the nervous system are A) glial cells.

B) neurons.

C) somatic cells.

D) dendrites.

Answer: B

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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development

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Q1) The mother's cells determine the gender of the baby.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q2) Only about _________ fertilized eggs develop to maturity.

A) 1 in 10

B) 2 in 20

C) 3 in 10

D) 4 in 20

Answer: C

Q3) The embryoblast becomes the placenta.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q4) When the placenta peels away from the wall of the uterus,it is known as

A) placenta previa

B) placenta abruptio

C) placenta displacemen

D) placenta dislodgemen

Answer: B

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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn

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Q1) The initial role of the incubator is to

A) provide the baby with nutrition after birth.

B) maintain the infant's body temperature.

C) provide the baby with oxygen.

D) administer needed medications.

Q2) Why may a mother choose not to breast feed?

A) physical limitations, whether on the part of the infant or mother

B) conditions present such as HIV) that dictate that formula be used

C) lack of education provided to mothers on the value of breastfeeding

D) all of these

Q3) The goal of childbirth education is to __________ women's confidence in their ability to give birth.

A) decrease

B) increase

C) ignore

D) diminish

Q4) The American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that the Apgar Scale can be used to predict long-term outcomes.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 5: Physical Development and Health in Infancy and

Toddlerhood

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Q1) Physical growth also proceeds from inside to outside; or near to far.This is called A) proximodistal.

B) cephalocaudal.

C) differentiation.

D) asynchrony

Q2) By the end of the first year,most babies have increased in length by ** note removal of blank space in question sentence)**

A) 10%

B) 30%

C) 50%

D) One can't predict.

Q3) Most babies ____________ their birth weight by the end of the first year.

A) double

B) triple

C) quadruple

D) It's hard to say because of individual variability.

Q4) Childhood hunger and malnutrition are widespread in the United States.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy and

Toddlerhood

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Q1) If an infant shows surprise at an unexpected event,research assumes that a ____________has occurred.

A) neural connection

B) new development

C) violation of expectation

D) problem

Q2) Donnie's mom didn't finish high school and works for minimum wage.Ty's Mom has a PhD and earns $80,000 per year.Which child is likely to have the highest academic achievement?

A) Donnie

B) Ty

C) Both the same, maternal education and income being irrelevant

D) Can't predict

Q3) When is it normal for a child to say "mine!"?

A) between 9 and 12 months

B) between12 and 18 months

C) between 18 and 24 months

D) never

Q4) Discuss the three theories of language development.

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Chapter 7: Psychosocial Development in Infancy and

Toddlerhood

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Q1) Self-conscious emotions are so named because

A) they are embarrassing.

B) they require self-awareness.

C) others can notice them nonverbally.

D) others can notice them verbally.

Q2) According to the ideal in attachment theory,when little Donnie falls and hurts his knee,he will

A) seek out his mother for comfort.

B) punch his friend.

C) get up and keep playing.

D) say bad words.

Q3) Carol thinks children are great because her first born has an) ___________ temperament.The baby is usually smiling,is interested in new things,and is not intense.

A) slow to warm up

B) easy

C) difficult

D) practically perfect in every way

Q4) Discuss the similarities and difference in the upper and lower limbic systems and include primary emotions and self-conscious emotions.

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Chapter 8: Physical Development and Health in Early Childhood

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Q1) Preschoolers like to be

A) difficult.

B) chaotic.

C) helpful.

D) negative.

Q2) Otitis media is

A) outer ear infection.

B) inner ear infection.

C) middle ear infection.

D) dangling ear lobes.

Q3) The difference in overweight and obesity is

A) cultural norms.

B) actual pounds.

C) body mass index.

D) There is no difference.

Q4) Obesity is

A) not a problem because children grow out of it.

B) a major health risk.

C) only a problem in the United States.

D) culturally defined.

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Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

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Q1) Egocentric speech occurs when

A) kids vocalize inner speech.

B) children talk about themselves only.

C) the child becomes narcissistic.

D) altruism is present.

Q2) Research suggests that children

A) will need guidance to understand conservation.

B) will spontaneously understand at age 10.

C) cannot spontaneously grasp conservation before age 5.

D) can understand at age 2 with direct instruction.

Q3) Hank has learned how to bake cookies after helping his Mom several times.He has learned this through A) guided participation.

B) cooperative learning.

C) scaffolding.

D) the Zone of Proximal Development.

Q4) Discuss the characteristic that should exist in quality day care.

Q5) Children understand all aspects of conservation at the same time.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 10: Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood

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Q1) Lawrence Kohlberg said that most children in early childhood are in what stage of moral development?

A) heteronomous

B) autonomous

C) preconventional

D) postconventional

Q2) While in the sandbox,Benjamin makes a pie while David pours sand into a container.They talk and exchange tools.This is known as______ play:

A) parallel

B) cooperative

C) associative

D) nonsocial

Q3) A preschooler's self-concept usually consists of A) skills.

B) talents.

C) personality.

D) observable traits.

Q4) Empathy can be seen in the brain with neuroimaging.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 11: Physical Development and Health in Middle Childhood

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Q1) What percentage of schools have a full-time school nurse?

A) 20

B) 30

C) 50

D) 75

Q2) Bob was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 14 and Judy was diagnosed with it at age

4.Which one would you expect to have more permanent learning problems?

A) Bob

B) Judy

C) No difference; it will be the same.

D) Can't tell without more information.

Q3) One reason for the current increase in childhood obesity is____________.

A) fear and anxiety

B) computers and electronics

C) too many activities

D) genetics

Q4) Explain the neurology behind having same sex classrooms.

Q5) Sports drinks are better for children to rehydrate when playing hard than water. A)True

B)False

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Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

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Q1) _____ metacognition is knowing what do when faced with a challenge.

A) Declarative

B) Procedural

C) Conditional

D) Unconditional Knowledge,

Q2) Kevin,age 8 years,collects coins.He organizes them based on denomination and country affiliation.Kevin's classification of his collection is an example of A) hierarchical classification.

B) decentering.

C) class inclusion.

D) Both A and C.

Q3) ADHD affects _____ of school-age children.

A) 1-3%

B) 3-5%

C) 4-7%

D) 7-10%

Q4) How does working memory improve during middle childhood?

Q5) Explain why critics believe there are limitations to Piaget's findings in regards to cognitive development.

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Chapter 13: Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood

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Q1) Brain scans of adults who feel rejected have neural activity in the regions of the brain associated with ________.

A) fear

B) pain

C) anxiety

D) nausea

Q2) According to Robert Selman,one ability that improves during middle childhood is

A) social perspective taking

B) empathy

C) friendships

D) relationship satisfaction

Q3) Because children in the middle-childhood stage can now mentally engage in social comparisons,they may feel negatively about themselves.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Research shows that children do not always view lying as wrong.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 14: Physical Development and Health in Adolescence

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Q1) The poor diets of American teens ______________.

A) should not be of concern because they will change with adulthood

B) can cause serious health problems in adolescence that will last into adulthood

C) may lead to legislation promoting supersizing D) reflect the need for changes in parenting practices

Q2) Research on teen brains and sleep needs suggest that high schools should

A) start earlier than elementary schools

B) not start until about 9 or 10 a.m.

C) go longer in the afternoons.

D) stay the way they are right now.

Q3) A baby girl is born with all her ova for a lifetime,but boys don't produce sperm until puberty.

A)True

B)False

Q4) If sex education prevention programs are to be really effective,they should include children as young as 9 years of age.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

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Q1) Keith does not believe that bad things will happen to him.He thinks it is wrong for others to drink and drive but is okay for him because he is special and will not wreck.This is called ___________.

A)imaginary audience

B)personal fable

C)egocentrism

D)logical necessity

Q2) The stage of cognitive development that Piaget said is typical of teens is the ____________stage.

A) Sensorimotor

B) Preoperational

C) Concrete

D) Formal

Q3) Girls have more equal distribution of gray matter over both brain hemispheres.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Anxiety over trying to disprove a stereotype can cause a student to perform more poorly.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 16: Psychosocial Development in Adolescence

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Q1) A parenting style that consists of low levels of acceptance and warmth along with high levels of coercion and punishment.

A) authoritarian

B) permissive

C) authoritative

D) uninvolved

Q2) Adolescent: I am going to borrow the car to get to school in the morning. Parent: You need to ask,not tell me what you are going to do.You can call a friend to pick you up.

Adolescent: It's too late to call my friends! Why can't I just borrow the car?

Parent: Because you need to learn to respect property and ask for something you need.You can ride the bus if you can't do that.

Adolescent: Fine! Walks off and slams the door to their room.)

This dialogue most likely demonstrates an)

A) transactional model.

B) discussion.

C) argument.

D) disagreement.

Q3) Identify the gender differences in friendships.

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