Child Development
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Child Development is a comprehensive course that explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth of children from conception through adolescence. The course examines major developmental theories and research findings, offering insights into how biological, psychological, and environmental factors interact to shape children's development. Students will analyze milestones and patterns in areas such as language acquisition, moral reasoning, attachment, and identity formation. Additionally, the course emphasizes practical applications for parents, educators, and professionals, equipping learners with knowledge to support healthy development and address developmental challenges in diverse contexts.
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Childhood Voyages in Development 5th Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) According to the theory of ethology,built-in or instinctive behaviors can also be called
A) phenotypic.
B) nurture.
C) fixed action patterns.
D) releasing stimuli.
Answer: C
Q2) The University of Michigan's "Monitoring the Future" research group has been surveying 6,000 different students a year for nearly 40 years.What type of research design is this?
A) An experiment
B) A longitudinal study
C) A cross-sectional study
D) A case study
Answer: C
Q3) Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget are stage theorists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Conception
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Q1) The following is caused by a single pair of genes
A) cystic fibrosis.
B) Down syndrome.
C) sex-linked chromosomal abnormalities.
D) All of these
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is LESS highly canalized?
A) Learning to sit up
B) Learning to crawl
C) Learning to speak two-word utterances
D) Intelligence
Answer: D
Q3) Matthew likes to sing,dance,and act.Due to this,he decided to join the theatre club at his high school.Choosing environments that allow us to develop inherited preferences is termed
A) niche-picking.
B) epigenesist.
C) ecological interaction.
D) evocative genotype.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) The placenta contains a membrane that acts as a filter.It allows for which of the following to pass from mother to fetus?
A) Nutrients
B) Oxygen
C) Germs
D) All of these are able to pass across the placenta from mother to fetus
Answer: D
Q2) The research on the effects of alcohol on humans is correlational.However,experimental research exposing animal subjects to alcohol
A) finds no negative or detrimental effects.
B) supports the correlational evidence found in humans.
C) finds similar results to the human research for some animals,but not for others.
D) to date,shows no experimental research done on the effects of alcohol in animals.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn Baby: In the New World
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Q1) Parents of preterm infants generally show them increased care and affection in comparison with full-term infants.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
A) The incidence of these deaths are increasing
B) It is caused by choking on regurgitated food
C) The causes of SIDS are not precisely known
D) It affects more female than male infants
Q3) What are the positives and negatives of using anesthetics during childbirth? What does the research indicate about the impact on mother and child?
Q4) When Amina is in the first stage of childbirth,her Obstetrician straps an electronic sensing device around her abdomen.What is this device for?
A) Measuring strength and duration of the mother's contractions as well a fetal heart rate
B) Monitoring the amount of prostaglandins in the mother
C) Measuring the amount of anesthesia in the mother
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) Joseph has been treated for FTT and is now returning to his normal growth rate.What does this represent?
A) Canalization
B) Proximodistal development
C) Differentiation
D) Phenalization
Q2) An infant's role in perceptual development
A) becomes more active across time.
B) becomes more passive across time as perceptual abilities increase.
C) there is no change in the infant's role in perceptual development across time.
D) The research is inconsistent on this issue
Q3) The rapid formation of neurons
A) may cause the first growth spurt in the infant brain.
B) increases the density of the brain but not the size or weight.
C) does not occur until the child enters school and begins learning rapidly.
D) is automatic and unrelated to learning.
Q4) Briefly describe what the parts of a neuron do.
Q5) Briefly describe the difference(s)between cephalocaudal and proximodistal patterns of development.Give examples.
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Can a 3-month-old child visually track objects?
A) No
B) Yes
C) Yes,but only if the object moves very slowly
D) Yes,but only if the object is very brightly colored
Q2) Babbling typically combines consonants and vowels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE?
A) Receptive vocabulary generally exceeds expressive vocabulary
B) Expressive vocabulary generally exceeds receptive vocabulary
C) Receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary are always equal
D) Receptive vocabulary is determined by genetics,whereas expressive vocabulary is determined by the environment
Q4) Intonation involves
A) rising and falling speech patterns.
B) the repetition of consonants and vowels.
C) repeating what has been heard.
D) babbling sounds from all possible languages.
Q5) What is object permanence,and what abilities does it represent?
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Chapter 7: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)
A) tend to be evident by age 3.
B) are generally not apparent until the child enters kindergarten.
C) are found in 100 out of 1,000 children.
D) are found in 200 out of 1,000 children.
Q2) Yarrow and Goodwin (1973)found that the incidence of problems in adopted children,such as decreased social responsiveness and extremes in attachment behaviors,were positively correlated to the
A) caregiving styles of the adoptive parents.
B) age of the adoptive parents.
C) SES of the adoptive parents.
D) age at which child was separated from the temporary foster parents.
Q3) Girls tend to advance more rapidly than boys in motor development during infancy. A)True
B)False
Q4) According to ethologists,one component of the FAP of attachment in humans is a baby's smile.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Physical Development
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Q1) Jeremy stutters when he speaks.What might we guess about his handedness?
A) He is right-handed,as this is associated with stuttering
B) There is no relationship between handedness and challenges such as stuttering
C) He is likely to be left-handed
D) He has inherited damage to his medulla,which is associated with handedness
Q2) What percentage of children in the United States suffers from a chronic illness?
A) About 10%
B) About 25%
C) About 33%
D) Close to 50%
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE about handedness?
A) It is a uniquely human quality
B) Only species with opposable thumbs develop handedness
C) Even parrots demonstrate the tendency for handedness
D) It is determined largely by one's sex
Q4) In terms of height and weight gains during early childhood,
A) boys and girls increase their amount of "baby fat."
B) boys and girls become more slender and lose some baby fat.
C) girls become heavier and taller than boys.
D) the growth rate speeds up compared to growth in infancy.
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Chapter 9: Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Donaldson (1979)indicated that children's difficulty with the three-mountain task may be due more to _______ than to _________.
A) the demands of the task; egocentrism
B) egocentrism; the demands of the task
C) irreversibility; egocentrism
D) being in a laboratory environment; egocentrism
Q2) Preschools that are more "child centered"
A) encourage children to choose the activities that interest them the most.
B) focus on structured activities,such as the use of workbooks and timed tests.
C) have teachers who structure the learning experience.
D) use parents to teach the classes.
Q3) Which of the following sentences would be most difficult for a 2-year-old to understand?
A) "Mommy went to the store to get some milk."
B) "The food is eaten by the dog."
C) "The car hit the truck."
D) "The cat chased the mouse."
Q4) The contrast assumption assumes that objects only have one label.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of the "categorical self?"
A) Funny
B) Girl
C) Athletic
D) Friendly
Q2) Which of the following is recognized as a dimension of childrearing?
A) Sensitivity-aloofness
B) Friendship-guardianship
C) Hands-on-unrestrictedness
D) Restrictiveness-permissiveness
Q3) Which of the following appears to be TRUE about aggression in children?
A) Aggressive younger children tend to become aggressive older children
B) Aggression tends to diminish with age
C) Aggression tends to increase with age,regardless of sex of child
D) There are no consistencies in terms of aggression and age
Q4) During middle childhood,children's fears become
A) more severe.
B) more imaginary.
C) more realistic.
D) less linked to anxiety.
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Chapter 11: Middle Childhood: Physical Development
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Q1) What is the average weight gain per year for children ages 6 to 12?
A) It varies based upon sex of child
B) Two to three pounds
C) Four to six pounds
D) Five to seven pounds
Q2) Dyslexia
A) appears to have a genetic component.
B) is caused by exposure to an environmental toxin.
C) is caused by a lack of oxygen to the fetus during the birth process.
D) appears to be caused by damage to chromosome 7.
Q3) How many children in the United States are obese?
A) 4% of girls and 6% of boys
B) 10%
C) Between 16 and 25%
D) It is impossible to tell because we have no clear definition of what obesity is
Q4) How do we define dyslexia? What are its possible causes?
Q5) Children who are heavy TV viewers are less physically active overall.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Piaget tested children's abilities of seriation by asking them to place 10 sticks in order of size.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following tasks requires seriation?
A) Placing blocks in order by size
B) Stacking blocks on top of each other to make a tower
C) Using a block of wood and pretending it's a car
D) Working with a friend to build a house out of blocks
Q3) Giftedness is defined as having a high IQ score.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If intelligence is defined as capacity,then achievement would be defined as
A) learning ability.
B) genetic ability.
C) attainment.
D) environmentally determined.
Q5) Discuss what is meant by an information-processing approach to cognitive development.
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Q6) Describe the cognitive characteristics of the concrete operational child.
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Chapter 13: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) How do teacher expectations affect student success?
Q2) Children of working mothers usually show serious adjustment problems. A)True
B)False
Q3) Children who are depressed tend to interpret failures as A) undeserved.
B) internal and stable.
C) external and stable.
D) situational and easily overcome.
Q4) Why is it the case that even though girls are doing as well in math and science as boys,they are less confident in their abilities in these areas?
A) Parents hold stereotyped views that girls will do less well in math
B) Teachers give girls lower grades in math and science than they do boys
C) Parents push girls toward other subjects such as sports
D) Girls have more test anxiety in math and science than do boys
Q5) Children rejected by their peers
A) may have been rejected because of behavioral and learning problems.
B) usually show little or no change in order to become accepted.
C) may have been rejected because of aggressive behavior.
D) All of these
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