Social and Emotional Development in Children
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Course Introduction
This course explores the key theories, research findings, and practical applications related to social and emotional development in children from infancy through adolescence. Students will examine the factors that influence socialization, the acquisition of emotional competence, empathy, self-regulation, and the formation of relationships with family, peers, and teachers. The course also addresses the impact of culture, family environments, and community contexts on children's social and emotional growth, as well as current challenges such as bullying and mental health concerns. Through case studies and interactive activities, students gain insight into promoting positive social and emotional outcomes in various educational and caregiving settings.
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Children and Their Development 6th Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Science of Child Development
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Q1) Alvaro is interested in finding out how children's conceptions of death change with age.He decides to interview children and ask them questions such as "What happens when people die?" and "Do people eat when they die?" Alvaro is using a form of _________ to measure children's conceptions of death.
A)naturalistic observation
B)self-report
C)sampling behavior with tasks
D)structured observation
Answer: B
Q2) Frank was watching a Saturday morning cartoon in which the main character kicked someone and took away a toy.Frank then walked across the room and kicked his brother Joe and took away Joe's toy just as the cartoon character had done on the TV show.According to social cognitive theory,Frank has just demonstrated
A)observational learning or imitation.
B)punishment for aggressive behavior.
C)reinforcement for sharing toys.
D)imprinting.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Genetic Bases of Child Development
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Q1) In vitro fertilization
A)usually is accompanied by surrogate motherhood.
B)is successful about 80% of the time.
C)is less likely to result in the birth of twins or triplets.
D)sometimes involves the use of egg and sperm from donors.
Answer: D
Q2) Adoption studies may be flawed because
A)adopted children are more likely than nonadopted children to have genetic disorders.
B)the results of adoption studies usually conflict with results of twin studies.
C)agencies may try to place adoptees in environments similar to those of their biological parents.
D)parents treat adopted children differently from biological children.
Answer: C
Q3) Huntington's disease is associated with
A)the absence of an important liver enzyme.
B)limited development of secondary sexual characteristics.
C)a progressive deterioration of the nervous system.
D)taller than normal height.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth and the Newborn
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Q1) The Apgar Scale measures a newborn's
A)skin tone.
B)hearing.
C)vision.
D)intelligence.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a recommendation for having a healthy baby?
A)Stop drinking alcohol and caffeinated beverages.
B)Eat healthy foods including food from each of the five major food groups.
C)Limit exercise.Exercise during pregnancy can rob the baby of essential nutrients.
D)Get enough rest,especially during the last two months of pregnancy.
Answer: C
Q3) Children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
A)are usually born prematurely.
B)may have serious attentional problems.
C)usually have normal levels of intelligence.
D)have deformed limbs.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Growth and Health
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Q1) Around seven months after conception,all six layers of the brain are in place.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Crystal has a fast metabolic rate and Paula has a slow metabolic rate;therefore,
A)Paula burns calories more rapidly than Crystal.
B)Crystal burns calories more rapidly than Paula.
C)Paula reached puberty earlier than Crystal.
D)Crystal reached puberty earlier than Paula.
Q3) Research suggests that severe malnourishment during infancy
A)will not impair childhood intellectual ability as long as children have attained normal height and weight.
B)nearly always stunts height and weight in later childhood.
C)has been found to result in normal physical development,but below average intelligence during later childhood.
D)will stunt physical growth,but will not impair intellectual development.
Q4) Which of the following is TRUE of nutrition and physical growth?
A)Nutrition is particularly important during infancy when growth is rapid.
B)In a two-month-old,almost 80% of the body's energy is devoted to growth.
C)Young babies need fewer calories per pound of body weight than do adults.
D)Nutrition is not related to physical growth.
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Chapter 5: Perceptual and Motor Development
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Q1) Shelley is convinced that her two-week-old baby can smell the difference between her breast milk and the breast milk she received from a donor.Her husband thinks she has a vivid imagination because there is no way a newborn baby could detect the difference.What does research evidence suggest?
A)Shelley's husband is right.Two-week-old infants have no sense of smell.
B)Shelley's husband is right.Two-week-old infants can smell very strong smells,but they can't make fine discriminations,such as between two different mother's breast milk.
C)Shelley is right.Two-week-old infants can identify the smell of their mother's breast milk.
D)Shelley's baby may be able to identify the taste,but not the smell of her mother's breast milk.
Q2) Most infants cannot coordinate the motions of their hands until they are 12 months old.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List and briefly describe the four types of pictorial cues that are used in depth perception.
Q4) Describe what is known about how well infants can smell,taste,and feel.
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Chapter 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Q1) The formal operational child approaches problems by
A)forming hypotheses and systematically evaluating all possibilities.
B)trial-and-error.
C)relying on past experience.
D)using centration.
Q2) Your friend,Andre,is the father of a 12-month-old daughter,Brooke.Meal time has become a very frustrating time for Andre because Brooke repeatedly pushes her sippy cup and different foods that she is eating off the high chair and onto the floor.The first time that she did this it appeared to Andre that it was an accident but now he is convinced that his daughter is deliberately pushing her cup and food onto the floor to annoy him.Based on what you know about infants being active experimenters,what can you tell Andre that might make him feel better?
Q3) When preoperational children are asked to identify different perspectives of model mountains on a table,which of the following characteristics of preoperational thought do they demonstrate?
A)egocentrism
B)animism
C)centration
D)intellectual realism
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
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Q1) Most students master learning strategies spontaneously.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Name and briefly describe the three basic principles of counting.
Q3) The one-to-one principle states that the last number name denotes the number of objects being counted.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Infants are able to distinguish differences in quantity because
A)they are able to count objects.
B)adults tell them how many objects there are.
C)their perceptual system is sensitive to quantity as a characteristic of stimuli.
D)they understand the one-to-one principle.
Q5) A child's informal understanding of memory is called
A)metamemory.
B)metacognitive knowledge.
C)cognitive self-regulation.
D)a memory strategy.
Q6) What are some common features of children's and adolescents' problem solving?
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Chapter 8: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
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Q1) Results of massive,continued intervention programs such as the Carolina Abecedarian Project show that
A)long-lasting improvements in the academic and intelligence test scores of disadvantaged children can be achieved.
B)even with continued intervention,the improvements in disadvantaged children's intelligence are not significant from a practical standpoint.
C)improvements in the scores of disadvantaged children are only temporary.
D)continued intervention is relatively inexpensive.
Q2) In today's version of the Stanford-Binet intelligence test,an individual's IQ is calculated by
A)dividing an individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying by 100.
B)correlating his or her scores on the various subtests.
C)comparing how many questions the individual passed to the average number passed by individuals of the same age.
D)multiplying the number of test items passed by 100.
Q3) Name and briefly define the nine intelligences in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) Children are most likely to learn new words when they participate in activities that force them to understand the meanings of new words and use those new words.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eighteen-month-old Lenny's vocabulary contains some words that are names for objects,but also has many social phrases such as "I want it" and "Go away." Lenny has a(n)__________ style of learning language.
A)intellectual
B)fast mapping
C)referential
D)expressive
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE of the development of babbling?
A)Infants produce complex speech sounds before simpler sounds.
B)Intonation is added to later babbling.
C)Early babbling contains combinations of many different sounds.
D)Babbling is the production of vowel-like sounds.
Q4) Common early words denote food,toys,and greetings.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Sensitive parenting is most strongly associated with what kind of adult attachment representation?
A)resistant
B)secure
C)dismissive
D)preoccupied
Q2) When 1-year-old Kim was shown a new toy,she looked at her mother who appeared to be afraid of the toy.Kim became distressed and moved away from the toy.Kim used __________ to regulate her own behavior.
A)an internal working model
B)systematic desensitization
C)social referencing
D)stranger anxiety
Q3) In the New York Longitudinal Study (NYLS),the largest group of babies was classified as "difficult."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Complex emotions emerge between 18 to 24 months of age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Understanding Self and Others
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Q1) Adolescents who have achieved a strong ethnic identity
A)have lower self-esteem.
B)find interactions with family and friends less satisfying.
C)do poorly in school.
D)have parents who encouraged them to explore alternative identities.
Q2) Dr.Jones conducts a study in which he places a red mark on toddlers' noses and then places them in front of a mirror.Dr.Jones appears to be interested in A)identity statuses.
B)self-awareness.
C)egocentrism.
D)self-esteem.
Q3) Selman's perspective-taking theory is based on assumptions from __________ theory.
A)Piaget's
B)Vygotsky's
C)psychodynamic
D)social learning
Q4) Briefly describe some outcomes associated with low self-esteem.
Q5) How do children's descriptions of other people change from childhood to adolescence?
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Chapter 12: Moral Understanding and Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT correct regarding aggression and children?
A)Frequent exposure to media violence makes children more aggressive.
B)Aggressive children are often uninterested in school and their grades often reflect this disinterest.
C)Aggressive behavior is more common among children living in economically advantaged areas than among children living in poverty.
D)Aggressive children often befriend other aggressive children.
Q2) A child who reasons at the preconventional level would help another person because
A)she might get a reward for helping.
B)she is afraid that others would disapprove of her if she didn't help.
C)helping is a good behavior that is valued by society.
D)she has a moral principle of responsibility for others.
Q3) Children who showed greater self-control as 4-year-olds had more self-control,were more attentive,were better able to plan,and had higher SAT scores as 15- to 18-year-olds.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Name and briefly explain Kohlberg's three levels of moral reasoning.
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Chapter 13: Gender and Development
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Q1) Children who watch a lot of television have more stereotyped views of males and females.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT correct regarding a cross-cultural look at gender differences in math?
A)In many countries there are small differences favoring girls on math skills (countries like France and Germany).
B)In some countries there are large differences favoring boys on math skills (countries like the Republic of Korea and the Slovak Republic).
C)In Iceland,girls have the advantage over boys on math skills.
D)Math skills vary country to country because of math-related career opportunities for men and women.
Q3) Boys are more likely than girls to use relational aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mothers are more likely than fathers to treat sons and daughters differently.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Family Relationships
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Q1) Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning factors that contribute to child abuse?
A)Abuse is more common in cultures that do not tolerate physical punishment.
B)Stepchildren are more likely to be abused than biological children.
C)Parents who abuse their children were often abused themselves as children.
D)Abuse is more common when families live in poverty.
Q2) After time-out,parents should explain to the child why he or she was punished,and what he or she should have done instead.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 99 Abused children
A)have normal relationships with peers.
B)get lower grades in school.
C)do not have behavior problems in school.
D)are likely to be promoted a grade in school.
Q4) Divorce is more harmful when it occurs during the preschool or college years.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name and briefly describe the five different styles of grandparenting.
Q6) Name and describe Baumrind's four parenting styles.
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Chapter 15: Influences Beyond the Family
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Q1) 96 When children view television commercials,they
A)understand the persuasive intent of commercials even when they are preschoolers.
B)understand the persuasive intent of commercials by the time they are or years old.
C)rarely ask their parents to buy the product for them.
D)rarely receive products that are advertised on TV.
Q2) 83 Rachel is a rejected child.When she has a conflict with another child,she is likely to
A)give in to the other child easily,so they can continue their interaction.
B)cooperate with the other child in trying to settle the dispute fairly.
C)become angry and retaliate.
D)become relaxed and carefree.
Q3) If you want your child to learn the most,who would be the best teacher for your child?
A)Mrs.Luthy,who believes in active,hands-on,constructivist learning
B)Mr.Keplinger,who believes in rote memorization and worksheets
C)Mrs.Renkwitz,who believes that students are responsible for their own learning
D)Mr.Becker,who spends a lot of time disciplining students and making them behave
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