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Course Introduction
Lifespan Development explores the patterns of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth that occur from conception through old age. The course examines key developmental theories, the influence of genetics and environment, as well as milestones and challenges unique to each stage of life. Students will analyze how culture, family, and context shape development and consider current research on topics such as attachment, identity formation, language acquisition, aging, and death. Through case studies and evidence-based findings, learners gain a comprehensive understanding of human development across the entire lifespan.
Recommended Textbook Children and Their Development 4th Canadian Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Science of Child Development
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Q1) Jean Piaget is associated with ________ theory.
A)ecological
B)psychodynamic
C)learning
D)cognitive-developmental
Answer: D
Q2) B.F.Skinner is most closely associated with which of the following concepts?
A)imprinting
B)self-efficacy
C)operant conditioning
D)observational learning
Answer: C
Q3) Piaget claimed that radical revisions occur three times in development: once at about age one,a second time at about age five,and a third time just before adolescence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Genetic Bases of Child Development
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Q1) The presence of abnormal autosomes is a major cause for spontaneous abortions during the period of the zygote.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Who has the greatest risk of having a child with Down syndrome?
A)28-year-old Meredith
B)22-year-old Katie
C)36-year-old Lisa
D)44-year-old Susan
Answer: D
Q3) Inherited disorders
A)are most often caused by dominant alleles.
B)are relatively rare.
C)do not run in families.
D)are more common than disorders caused by the wrong number of chromosomes. Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
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Q1) Premature babies often have difficulty regulating their body temperature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A zygote is
A)a structure through which nutrients and wastes are exchanged between the mother and the developing organism.
B)a sac filled with amniotic fluid.
C)a fertilized egg.
D)what a developing organism is called after it is completely embedded in the uterine wall.
Answer: C
Q3) The transition phase of Stage 1 of labour is the most painful part of labour.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Hypoxia can lead to developmental disabilities or death.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Growth and Health
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Q1) The rate of physical growth is slowest during which period of life?
A)prenatal development
B)the first year of life
C)preschool and elementary school years
D)early adolescence
Q2) Anorexia
A)does not have any serious consequences.
B)is unrelated to cultural values.
C)occurs more often when parents grant their adolescents much independence.
D)is more common in females than in males.
Q3) Bone develops from A)cartilage.
B)muscle fibres.
C)fat tissue.
D)the central nervous system.
Q4) Your friend Dorothy is upset because her adopted 13-year-old daughter is overweight,and she is worried about the impact of the extra weight on her daughter's health.No one else in the family has a weight problem.What can you tell Dorothy about the influence of heredity and environment on one's weight? What advice can you give Dorothy about weight loss in children?
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Chapter 5: Perceptual and Motor Development
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Q1) In the treatment of ADHD
A)medication is of little benefit.
B)depressants are the most helpful type of medication.
C)psychosocial treatments are not effective.
D)both medication and psychosocial treatment can be effective.
Q2) What is habituation and how is it used to study perception in infants?
Q3) Frankie is a new mother and someone just brought her newborn a mobile that has many colours.Frankie's newborn will be able to perceive the colours just as well as Frankie herself can right after birth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jared has typical visual acuity for a newborn.He can see at 6 metres what his father,who has normal vision,can see at ________ metres.
A)6
B)20
C)60-120
D)500-1000
Q5) Shane doesn't think that the senses are functioning in babies who are only a few weeks old.What can you tell Shane about the sense of taste?
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Chapter 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Q1) ________ propose(s) distinctive domains of knowledge,some of which are acquired very early in life.
A)Information processing theory
B)Core-knowledge theories
C)Cognitive-developmental theory
D)Sociocultural theory
Q2) Consider the following:
Premise 1: If an animal barks,it is a dog.
Premise 2: A snail barks.
The concrete operational child would fail to draw the conclusion that "a snail is a dog" because his or her conclusions are based on
A)tertiary circular reactions.
B)experience.
C)deductive reasoning.
D)egocentrism.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT characteristic of formal operational thinking?
A)abstract thinking
B)hypothetical reasoning
C)deductive reasoning
D)centration
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
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Q1) Rovee-Collier's experiments in which two- to three-month-old infants learned to kick to make a mobile move showed that two- to three-month-old infants
A)are not able to remember events from the past.
B)can remember events from the past for a few days or weeks,but over time will not be able to recall the event even if given a memory cue.
C)can remember events from the past for a few days or weeks,but over time will not be able to recall the event unless given a memory cue.
D)can remember events from the past for months without being given a memory cue.
Q2) As children develop,they learn more about how memory operates and they devise theories about memory.All of this is related to the idea of metamemory. A)True B)False
Q3) By four years of age,most youngsters can count to 20. A)True B)False
Q4) What are some factors that contribute to improved reading comprehension?
Q5) Name and briefly describe the three basic principles of counting.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
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Q1) Behavioural factors that place individuals at risk for intellectual disability include
A)inadequate special education services.
B)impaired parent-child interactions.
C)domestic violence.
D)malnutrition.
Q2) IQ stands for Intelligence Question.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ refers to the difficulty level of the problems that children can solve correctly on an intelligence test.
A)Reliability
B)Validity
C)Mental age
D)Chronological age
Q4) From early childhood to late adolescence,it is most common for IQ scores to A)change little.
B)first decrease,then increase.
C)first increase,then decrease.
D)increase steadily.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) The term semantics refers to
A)the sounds of a language.
B)the study of words and their meanings.
C)the structure of language.
D)the study of how people use language to communicate effectively.
Q2) Name and briefly describe the five different elements of language.
Q3) "Two mans" is an example of overregularization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children with a referential style use language as a social tool.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most toddlers understand that one's reply to comments should be related to the comment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Adding -s and -ing are simple grammatical morphemes that are mastered at an early age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) With high-quality parenting,a secure attachment is likely regardless of a child's experience in childcare.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most North American infants become attached to their mothers but not their fathers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Basic emotions consist of a subjective feeling,a physiological change,and an overt behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bowlby described four phases in the growth of attachment.They are
A)preattachment,secure attachment,insecure attachment,and true attachment.
B)preattachment,attachment in the making,true attachment,and reciprocal relationships.
C)attachment in the making,true attachment,secure attachment,and adult attachment.
D)secure attachment,anxious-avoidant attachment,ambivalent attachment,and avoidant attachment.
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Chapter 11: Understanding Self and Others
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Q1) Parents,peers,the broader social context,and personality factors all contribute to an adolescent achieve identity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Anne participates in a study in which she is asked how much statements such as "I'm very good at schoolwork" and "I find it very easy to make friends" apply to her.The study involves measuring
A)perspective-taking.
B)stranger anxiety.
C)self-esteem.
D)basic and complex emotions.
Q3) A three-year-old celebrating a birthday understands that she's an older version of the same person who had a birthday a year before.She is
A)able to recognize continuity in the self over time.
B)beginning to form self-awareness.
C)very advanced for her age.
D)not yet able to form a self-concept.
Q4) Discuss acculturation and the research by John W.Berry.
Q5) Name and briefly describe Selman's five stages of perspective taking.
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Chapter 12: Moral Understanding and Behaviour
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Q1) Research on domains of social judgement show that by three years of age,children understand moral rules are special-they can't be changed and they apply broadly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) At about ________ year(s) of age,children first become aware that people impose demands on them and that they are not entirely free to behave as they wish.
A)one
B)two
C)three
D)four
Q3) Children are not capable of self-regulation until about five years of age.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly explain the relationship between failure in school and aggression.
Q5) Research on Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning suggests that A)his theory describes people in all cultures equally well.
B)moral reasoning is related to moral behaviour.
C)many individuals skip stages in his theory.
D)moral reasoning does not change with age.
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Chapter 13: Gender and Development
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Q1) Who has the most accurate opinion about gender differences in math skills?
A)Rosie,who thinks that boys usually get better grades than girls in high school math courses.
B)Opal,who thinks that in elementary school,girls are better than boys in math achievement.
C)Sally,who thinks that girls are better than boys in math skills at all ages.
D)Gerald,who thinks that boys are better than girls in all areas of math at all ages.
Q2) Who would you expect to have the HIGHEST self-esteem?
A)Nick,who has a stereotypically male gender role
B)Felicity,who has a stereotypically female gender role
C)Peter,who is androgynous
D)Heather,who is androgynous
Q3) A child's ability to understand that they are either a boy or a girl is referred to as gender
A)stability.
B)stereotyping.
C)labelling.
D)constancy.
Q4) What are some of the explanations for gender differences in spatial ability?
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Chapter 14: Social Influences
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Q1) The first signs of peer interaction include pointing to or smiling at another infant.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Only children have lower levels of intelligence and are more immature than children with siblings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An action that discourages the reoccurrence of the response that it follows is referred to as
A)reinforcement.
B)punishment.
C)modelling.
D)counterimitation.
Q4) During parallel play children engage in similar activities,talk or smile at one another,and offer each other toys.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the factors that determine who will become friends.
Q6) Name and describe Baumrind's four parenting styles.
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