Child Development
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Course Introduction
Child Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth of children from birth through adolescence. This course examines major developmental theories, milestone achievements, and the influences of family, culture, and environment on a child's progression. Students will gain an understanding of how children learn, form relationships, and adapt to changes at various stages of development, as well as how to identify and respond to developmental delays or challenges. The course is designed for those interested in education, psychology, healthcare, or any field involving the well-being of children.
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The Process of Parenting 9th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Parenting Is a Process
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Q1) The rate of infant mortality in the United States is _______ and twice as high as that of _________.
Answer: 6.1,Japan
Q2) Joe Ehrmann believes misguided societal expectations for men include all the following EXCEPT
A) viewing competition and winning as primary goals in life.
B) expressing genuine feelings in relationships with others.
C) financial success is main measure of success as a person.
D) power and dominance are main aims of relationships.
Answer: B
Q3) Parents who grew up with an alcoholic parent do not transmit alcoholic behavior to their children when they
A) form common parenting goals with their spouse.
B) engage in controlled drinking themselves.
C) plan satisfying family activities and holiday rituals.
D) A and C
Answer: D
Q4) __________ factors are those factors that are associated with positive outcomes for children.
Answer: Protective
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Chapter 2: Cultural Influences on Parenting
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Q1) Poverty status brings with it a cascade of problems that include all of the following EXCEPT
A) poorer physical health.
B) lack of parental love.
C) greater family instability.
D) poorer quality schools.
Answer: B
Q2) Sesame Street has developed programs for preschoolers that increase appreciation for other cultural groups in countries around the world in all the following ways EXCEPT
A) teaching respect for all groups.
B) using adult stories to illustrate the points.
C) emphasizing inclusion of all groups.
D) promoting awareness of cultural groups in the country.
Answer: B
Q3) The interdependent model stresses that the child develops from an asocial infant into a socially responsible child.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Learning to Parent
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Q1) Infants and children differ not in whether __________ takes place with parents but in the nature and quality that depends on parents' behavior.
Answer: attachment
Q2) Freud viewed children as pleasure-seeking creatures who had to tame their impulses to meet parents' and society's demands.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Children's Executive Function skills begin to develop in the toddler years so parents can begin to interact with children to develop them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) With the exception of physical punishment,the effects of parenting strategies depend on the child's temperamental qualities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Becoming Parents
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Q1) Recent hospital interventions in the care of premature babies have been found to have all of the following benefits at three months of age EXCEPT
A) decreases in mothers' sensitivities to their infants.
B) increases in affectionate touching between parents.
C) decrease in infants' irritability.
D) increases in fathers' touching of their infants.
Q2) The concept of cognitive readiness for parenthood includes all of the following EXCEPT
A) knowledge of children's growth.
B) realistic expectations of children.
C) positive attitude about parenting.
D) previous experience with children.
Q3) When fathers take an active role in childcare,both parents report their marriage is more satisfying.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Women of __________ ethnic background are more likely to be voluntarily childless and women of _________________ ethnic background are less likely to be voluntarily childless.
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Chapter 5: Nurturing Close Family Relationships in a Technological Society
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Q1) A grandmother tells you she enjoys her time with her grandchildren,but she worries she is unimportant in their lives,because they have so many other sources of pleasure.You tell her maternal grandmothers
A) serve important roles as playmates, mentors, and family historians.
B) in one study, childhood survival to age six increased in families with grandmothers.
C) grandparents provide emotional support and help to parents, and that indirectly supports grandchildren.
D) all of these
Q2) Parents find television viewing satisfying,so it is a readily available stress reducer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Parents should give children feedback about their _________________,so children learn about themselves.
A) actions
B) feelings
C) thoughts
D) mistakes
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Chapter 6: Supporting Childrens Growth and Development
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Q1) Children more likely to receive physical punishment include A) preschool children.
B) boys.
C) children with difficult temperaments.
D) all of these.
Q2) Increased viewing of violent television in childhood is associated with A) increased childhood aggression.
B) increased avoidance of aggressive behavior in adulthood.
C) increased physical aggressiveness in men and women in adulthood.
D) A and C
Q3) The most positive reward for children is __________.
Q4) Reviewers found that the essential element of successful parenting programs is a focus on the quality of the parent-child relationship.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Coercion is divided into two categories: __________ and __________.
Q6) Describe three positive effects of the Strong African American Family Program on youths in the program,and two specific activities the parents engaged in.
Q7) __________ are the leading cause of death in children and teens.
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Chapter 7: Parenting Children From Birth to Two Years
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Q1) Ways of soothing crying infants differ from one society to another.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A mother of a newborn worries her baby is not normal because he sleeps only twelve hours a day.What do you tell her?
A) All newborns sleep at least eighteen hours a day.
B) Twelve hours is outside the normal range of infant sleep.
C) Twelve hours of sleep is within the normal range of infant sleep.
D) none of these
Q3) Attachment parenting requires that mothers be at home,so it is very difficult to have employment outside the home.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Fussy Baby Network provides parents with
A)explanations for babies' crying.
B)direct suggestions on how parents can reduce crying.
C)support for parents so they find their own solutions to reduce crying.
D)A and C.
Q5) Attachment is defined as _________.
Q6) Children's play is more sophisticated when they play with ____________.
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Chapter 8: Parenting Children in Early Childhood
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Q1) When preschoolers are afraid of realistic events like barking dogs,
A) boys and girls differ in how they take action.
B) girls seek help from parents.
C) boys avoid the dogs.
D) A and C
Q2) Careful analyses of conversations between parents and toddlers revealed no differences in the kinds of conversations parents and children of different ethnic groups had.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Ellen Galinsky,parents of preschool children are in the A) nurturing stage.
B) authority stage.
C) interpretive stage.
D) image-making stage.
Q4) The majority of children from two to five were low or very low on ratings of aggression by mothers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ethnic identity is defined as _______________________.
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Chapter 9: Parenting Early Elementary School Children
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Q1) Describe and illustrate four actions parents take to help children develop prosocial behavior and self-regulation.
Q2) When bullied,children who want to get along with others are successful when they A) learn social skills.
B) adopt a low-profile in social interactions.
C) demonstrate their success in social interactions so others are aware of them.
D) A and C
Q3) Parents' beliefs in their children's abilities
A) encourage children's feelings of competence through the entire school period.
B) contribute to children's feelings of pressure to achieve.
C) encourage boys and girls to participate in activities associated with the opposite gender.
D) A and C
Q4) Parents promote children's school success when they do all of the following EXCEPT
A) leave education to the experts at school.
B) provide a home with a place and time to study.
C) contribute their labor to schools in tutoring, being a room parent.
D) participate in school organizations like the PTA to make schools better.
Q5) Victims of bullies tend to be children who are __________.
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Chapter 10: Parenting Early Adolescents
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Q1) Stephen Hinshaw states one of the three demands that society places on girls is that they
A) achieve perfection and please everyone.
B) develop special talent at the gifted level.
C) develop individuality that is not influenced by others.
D) focus on their own needs.
Q2) In countries around the world,parental knowledge and monitoring of early teens were related to low levels of
A) substance abuse.
B) teen independence.
C) parents' overprotection.
D) compliance.
Q3) Reed Larson believes that voluntary school activities are beneficial for students because students
A) gain time away from stressed environment of schools.
B) learn the behavior of active agents who accomplish goals.
C) learn from copying the behaviors of the adult leaders.
D) A and C
Q4) Harsh parenting and stress from low income are related to girls' __________ menarche.
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Chapter 11: Parenting Late Adolescents and Young Adults
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Q1) When teens have insecure-preoccupied attachments with parents,both teens and parents
A) are close and involved with each other.
B) become trapped in angry conflict.
C) seek satisfactions with the extended family.
D) are highly independent.
Q2) For youth in their early twenties,periods of ________________ were related to increases in depressive feelings and decreases in self-esteem.
Q3) Parents with the following characteristics were most likely to experience problems in parenting their teenagers
A) having many satisfactions or interests outside the home.
B) being the same sex as the child.
C) having a positive cognitive set about adolescence.
D) A and C
Q4) Families termed Fast Starters are those in which parents are working,______________ and ________________.
Q5) In laboratory sessions,teens' decision-making involves more high-risk taking when they __________.
Q6) Friendships in adolescence involve more __________.
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Chapter 12: Working and Parenting
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Q1) Two structural measures of day care are __________ and _______________.
Q2) Some __________ can ease parents' transition from work to home.
Q3) Two stressful demands/strains parents experience at home are ____________ and ______________.
Q4) Francine Deutsch found that after the birth of a child,parents adopted a pattern of sharing work and parenting responsibilities and maintained it even if it did not work. A)True
B)False
Q5) Two resources/supports at work that have positive impacts on parents' roles at home are ______________ and __________________.
Q6) Studies of children's stress hormones in day care reveal that children are able to handle the emotional challenges without special support from parents. A)True
B)False
Q7) When it comes to day care,parents tend to overestimate the ___________ of day care and their level of __________ with caregivers.
Q8) Describe the Workplace Triple P program,its effects,and how long they last.
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Chapter 13: Parents by Adoption and Parents by
Reproductive Technology
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Q1) In the toddler and preschool years,adoptive children focus on the happy experiences of adoption.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When the functioning of seven-year-old children whose parents use donor assistance or surrogacy,is compared with children whose parents conceive naturally,there are
A) differences only in children's relationships with peers.
B) no differences in children's level of self-esteem.
C) no differences in the functioning of the two groups.
D) only a few differences in children's self-confidence.
Q3) Research following children adopted from abroad has identified a core deprivation-specific syndrome that include increased difficulties in all of the following EXCEPT
A) social understanding of others.
B) strong desires for closeness to others.
C) heightened focus of attention.
D) inappropriate social responses.
Q4) Parents who are most likely to tell children early about use of donor assistance are those parents who __________.
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Chapter 14: Parenting When Unmarried
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Q1) In African American families,teen mothers developed effective caregiving skills when their mothers
A)took pleasure in their daughters' growing skills.
B)expressed negative feelings quickly and directly.
C)taught teen mothers skills.
D)A and C.
Q2) Age,ethnicity,and education did not distinguish single mothers who could or could not form trusting relationships with men,but _________________ did.
Q3) When Single Mothers by Choice reduce their level of __________________,their children are similar in behavior to children living in two-parent families.
A) stress
B) depression
C) anger
D) frustration
Q4) About twenty percent of teen fathers live with their infants and another 50 percent visit weekly.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Parenting in Divorced Families and Remarried Families
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Q1) James Bray's study of stepfamilies found that
A) those marriages that fail have the same characteristics as those that last.
B) a stepfamily quickly forms a basic family unit.
C) successful families show a willingness to change their expectations.
D) A and C
Q2) Life in remarried families is challenging for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) anger and frustration from the previous marriage intensify current irritations.
B) feelings of loss and sadness related to previous marriage.
C) there is little emotional warmth and closeness in these families.
D) more people in the family.
Q3) Research suggests that stepparents are accepted in families in which remarriages occur when children are
A) very young.
B) adolescents.
C) preadolescents.
D) openly rebellious.
Q4) Describe and illustrate two ways in which religion influences the ways individuals respond to divorce.
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Chapter 16: Parenting in Lesbian and Gay Families
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Q1) Even if lesbian women who have been with partners a short term receive less family support for becoming parents,friend support is so strong,that lesbian women do not feel a decline in personal well-being because of lack of family support.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe four findings regarding the general functioning of the children of gay/lesbian couples,relying on the findings of more than one study.
Q3) Describe and illustrate at least three ways in which the transition to parenthood of gay and lesbian parents differs or resembles that of heterosexual parents.
Q4) The experience of adopting lesbian couples in the transition period to the birth differs from that of heterosexual parents.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Lesbian mothers in the United States report ____________ regarding discrimination and legal difficulties as a parent than lesbian mothers in Canada.
Q6) In lesbian couples co-mother is a term that refers to __________.
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Chapter 17: Parenting in Challenging Times
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Q1) In one study the majority of abused teens
A) blame themselves as well as the perpetrator
B) believe they should have prevented or avoided the abuse.
C) who blame themselves feel increased shame and depression.
D) all of these
Q2) In a sample of 1400 children and teens,_______ percent had experienced one or more victimizations in the course of a year?
A) 25
B) 50
C) 70
D) 90
Q3) Describe four features of Trauma-Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Q4) Which of the following is often true of parents who maltreat their children?
A) they set unrealistically high standards for children
B) they find activities with their children very enjoyable
C) they use fewer disciplinary techniques than non-maltreating parents
D) they are consistent in their discipline
Q5) Cultural and social beliefs that promote violence exist at the __________ level.
Q6) Children going to a community agency for therapy is a protective factor at the __________ level.
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