Child and Adolescent Development Test Bank
Course Introduction
Child and Adolescent Development is an in-depth exploration of human growth from infancy through adolescence, examining physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development during these formative years. The course investigates key developmental theories, research methods, and the influence of family, peers, culture, and environment on children's and teenagers' well-being. Through analysis of milestones and challenges faced at different stages, students gain insight into normative development as well as atypical trajectories, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to healthy growth and the implications for education, parenting, and psychological support.
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Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 1st Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the levels of one's environment as postulated by the ecological theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner?
A) the metasystem
B) the mesosystem
C) the exosystem
D) the macrosystem
Answer: A
Q2) As a result of reading several research articles on the long-term effects of daycare, a state legislature passes a new law mandating that all daycare providers modify their practices to be in concordance with this research. This action reflects
A) how research can affect social policy.
B) the benefits of doing meta-analytic research.
C) the importance of longitudinal studies.
D) why correlational research is superior in some ways to experimental research.
Answer: A
Q3) A(n) ________ variable in an experiment is the condition that is manipulated by the researcher
Answer: independent
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the chemical compounds that makes up a strand of DNA?
A) depranine
B) adenine
C) thymine
D) cytocine
Answer: A
Q2) In Germany in the 1950s, the effects of teratogens gained widespread attention when pregnant women who took ________ to help them sleep gave birth to babies with deformations of their heads, legs, hands, and/or fingers. Over 7,000 babies were harmed by this drug before it was removed from the market.
A) phenteramine
B) aspasneet
C) thalidomide
D) paregoric
Answer: C
Q3) ________ is the most important factor in preventing low birth weight babies, which in turn can reduce the number of infants who die prior to their first birthday.
Answer: Prenatal care
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development
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Q1) Xavier wants to see if his daughter knows that she exists. While he is wiping her face, he puts a red dot on her nose and then shows her own reflection in a mirror. At what age would we expect her to reach up and touch her own nose instead of reaching for the nose in the reflection?
A) 8 months
B) 10 months
C) 12 months
D) 15 months
Answer: D
Q2) Based on the different components of dynamic systems theory, you should not expect a child to be able walk on their own, unsupported, until they reach the age of ________ months.
A) 6-9
B) 9-12
C) 12-15
D) 15-18
Answer: C
Q3) ________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.
Answer: Motor
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Grammatical ________ are words or endings of words that make a sentence grammatically correct.
A) morphemes
B) phonemes
C) telegraphs
D) schemes
Q2) Which two parts of the brain are responsible for the initial storage of information?
A) the amygdala and the hippocampus
B) the hypothalamus and the medulla
C) the pons and the reticular activating system
D) the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum
Q3) Mia likes to kick soccer balls. She has developed a mental structure for kicking that may be applied to different situations. This mental structure for kicking would best be described as
A) a scheme.
B) egocentrism.
C) an intonation.
D) an expressive style.
Q4) A(n) _____ is an early infant vowel-like sound.
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and
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Q1) Play that is organized around a particular theme, with each child taking on a different role, is called ________ play.
A) cooperative
B) associative
C) parallel
D) simple social
Q2) When children play alone but remain aware of and interested in what another child is doing, they are engaging in ________ play.
A) collaborative
B) imitative
C) onlooker
D) parallel
Q3) The internal ________ model suggests that attachments develop, in part, because of a child's expectations of his parents' availability and dependability.
Q4) An individual's sense of themselves as male or female is their ________.
Q5) Gender ________ is part of the process of acquiring our gender identity. It refers to the fact that children come to understand that boys become men and girls become women.
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Many researchers have identified different components that are associated with more successful schools. They include all of the following EXCEPT
A) having a safe and nurturing school climate.
B) having parents who are involved.
C) monitoring of student, teacher, and programs.
D) a variety of extracurricular offerings.
Q2) Describe any six of Gardner's types of intelligences. How did he feel about a person's ability to excel in one or more of these areas?
Q3) When a child writes a paper by jotting down ideas as they are retrieved from memory with no overall organizational plan, he or she is said to be using a knowledge-________ strategy.
Q4) Significant limitations in cognitive skills that are accompanied by difficulties in adapting to one's environment define ________, provided that these symptoms emerge prior to 18 years of age.
A) giftedness
B) intellectual disability
C) Down syndrome
D) Savant syndrome
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Disagreements between parents should always be kept away from the eyes and ears of children, because there are no positive lessons that a child can learn from watching their parents argue.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Several personal characteristics in a child seem to lead to an increased likelihood that the child will be victimized by peers. Which of the following is NOT one of those qualities?
A) Being very submissive.
B) Being very withdrawn.
C) Being very aggressive.
D) Being very popular.
Q3) Which of the following discipline techniques combines the best features of punishment while also avoiding its drawbacks?
A) long-term grounding
B) corporal punishment (spankings)
C) a negative reinforcement trap
D) time-out
Q4) A voluntary, mutual relationship that involves liking is called a(n) ________.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Pubertal changes that are related to reproduction are to ________ as pubertal changes that are not directly linked to the reproductive organs are to ________.
A) adrenal maturatives; pituitary maturatives
B) primary sexual characteristics; secondary sexual characteristics
C) pituitary maturatives; adrenal maturatives
D) secondary sexual characteristics; primary sexual characteristics
Q2) From whom would you expect the biggest gains in height and weight over the next three years?
A) Ginger, who is 2 years old
B) Grant, who is 6 years old
C) Tina, who is 11 years old
D) Louise, who is 14 years old
Q3) Girls typically start their _______ at around 11 years of age, while boys experience the same event at around 13 years of age.
Q4) Children tend to rely on heuristics when solving problems, while adolescents tend to use more analytical methods.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Moving Into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) The drop in self-esteem often found when children first enter middle school appears to be due to
A) the acquisition of concrete operational thinking.
B) the illusion of invulnerability.
C) changes in ethnic identity.
D) peer comparisons.
Q2) A common non-drug intervention that is used to help adolescents who suffer from depression is
A) therapy that emphasizes certain cognitive and social skills.
B) therapy that emphasizes the acceptance of "existential solitude," so that adolescents learn to stop struggling against the disappointments of life.
C) therapy that emphasizes teaching the adolescent to separate their self-concept from that of their parents.
D) encouraging more devotion to academics, so that successes in school can translate to successes at home.
Q3) According to Erik Erikson's theory, the primary crisis that faces adolescents is
Q4) Adolescent females tend to describe their first sexual partner as ________.
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development
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Q1) Rose has been suffering from alcoholism for several years now, and she has finally decided to address the problem. If she looks to the most widely known option for treating her addiction, she will
A) start taking medications designed to make her sick when she drinks.
B) go to Alcoholics Anonymous.
C) engage the services of an individual psychotherapist.
D) seek support from people at her church as she attempts to overcome her addiction on her own.
Q2) Who would Erikson say is MOST capable of true intimacy?
A) Cindy, who is overdependent on her boyfriend.
B) Burt, who will go out with different people but finds it scary to go out with someone more than a couple of times.
C) Aileen, who has a clear sense of identity.
D) Harrison, who is 16 years old.
Q3) Tagging a future event to a specific age by which it will be completed creates a social _____.
Q4) A life-span construct refers to one's expectations about the future.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Marcus and Michelle have been married for 12 years, and as they both approach their fortieth birthdays they agree that they are going to remain childless. This decision, while frowned upon by some, brings with it several advantages. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of being childless that is noted in your textbook?
A) higher marital satisfaction
B) less concern about safety in the home
C) more freedom
D) higher standards of living
Q2) Couples who marry in the United States of America today have about a(n) ___% chance of ending in divorce.
Q3) ________ divorce is a voluntary, contractually based alternative dispute resolution process for couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than having a ruling imposed upon them by a court or arbitrator.
Q4) ________ environments may be a more comfortable medium for people who are shy to make friends in an atmosphere of greater anonymity, where intimacy and interaction levels can be controlled
Q5) The theory that the selection of one's partner is based on similarity is referred to as _____ mating.
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) In the corporate world, female professionals tend to leave their jobs for one of two major reasons. Which of the following is one of them?
A) Feeling overly-connected, and therefore dependent, on the workplace.
B) Feeling that sexual harassment is ignored and, in most cases, encouraged.
C) Feeling that the company idealizes and rewards masculine work values.
D) Feeling that their family needs them more than their career does.
Q2) At a local university, there is an opening for the Dean of Students. Of the four final applicants for the job, three are men and one is a woman. After the interviews are conducted, the selection committee (who happens to be made up entirely of men) discusses each applicant. One committee member comments that he "wouldn't want to see an overly emotional person" in charge of their students. This could indicate that ________ is taking place.
A) gender discrimination
B) ageism
C) a glass cliff
D) a glass ceiling
Q3) In 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter ________ Act was signed into law to address the inequity between the salaries of women and men.
Q4) According to Kahlil Gibran, "________ is love made visible."
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Chapter 13: Making it in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial
Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) The _________ paradigm is the dominant framework used to study stress, and it involves an emphasis on the transactions that occur between a person and his/her environment.
Q2) Somewhere around 50 to 55 years of age, men ordinarily stop producing sperm cells.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A person who is high on the neuroticism trait will tend to be anxious, hostile, self-conscious, depressed, impulsive, and vulnerable.
A)True
B)False
Q4) People who are high on the ________ factor of the Big Five personality traits tend to be anxious, hostile, self-conscious, depressed, impulsive, and vulnerable.
A) extraversion
B) openness to experience
C) agreeableness
D) neuroticism
Q5) Individuals with Type _____ behavior pattern tend to be hostile and impatient.
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) Jonathan is a 72-year-old man who is generally in good health. As he has aged his reaction times have gotten predictably slower. For which of the following activities would this post the greatest concern?
A) remembering to take his prescription medications on a daily basis
B) continuing his work as an architect
C) caretaking for his grandchildren while their parents go out for an evening
D) driving an automobile
Q2) ________ is the most common form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
A) Emphysema
B) Asthma
C) Rhonchi
D) Cystic fibrosis
Q3) X-rays, computerized tomography (CT scans), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are all examples of ________ neuroimaging.
Q4) People who study population trends are called psychometricians.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ are the tips of chromosomes that are related to the number of times that an individual human cell can divide.
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship,
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Q1) Joanna has been having a lot of struggles in her life as of late. She has decided to embrace her spiritual faith and to turn her problems over to God. Which of the following will be the third step of this process, according to the research presented by your authors?
A) emotionally disconnecting from problems that cannot be changed
B) focusing her own efforts on parts of her problems that she can change
C) distinguishing between things that can and cannot be changed
D) going to her church to seek God's help through prayer and meditation
Q2) During which age period has research found the lowest average levels of life-satisfaction?
A) 15-20 years
B) 21-30 years
C) 41-50 years
D) 61-70 years
Q3) Erikson felt that in order for one to achieve a sense of integrity, they must
A) find some sort of spiritual path to help them accept the parts of their life that they cannot reconcile.
B) have a healthy relationship with their children and/or grandchildren.
C) accept the fact that retirement from work is inevitable.
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D) make peace with the fact that the end of their life is approaching.
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) The need to process grief responses is actually rejected as being valuable by the A) four-component model
B) dual process model (DPM)
C) grief work as rumination hypothesis
D) transactional paradigm
Q2) Thanatology is the study of death, bereavement, grief, and social attitudes toward these issues.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to terror management theory, what is the primary motive of human beings?
A) to achieve a sense of spiritual harmony
B) to procreate
C) to continue our lives
D) to dominate others in our society and become an "alpha"
Q4) The grief work as ________ hypothesis suggests that excessive processing of one's own grief reactions may actually hinder the process of recovering from a loss.
Q5) ________ refers to the ways in which we express our grief following a loss.
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