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Course Introduction
Family and Child Studies explores the dynamic interactions between families, children, and their broader social environments. This course examines theories of family development, parenting practices, and the diverse challenges and strengths of family structures across cultures. Students analyze the impact of social, economic, and policy factors on family well-being and child development. Topics include childhood socialization, family communication, the effects of divorce or remarriage, and approaches to supporting healthy family relationships. Through a combination of research, case studies, and observation, students gain a holistic understanding of the complexities shaping family and child experiences in contemporary society.
Recommended Textbook Infants and Children Prenatal Through Middle Childhood 8th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Research Strategies
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Q1) Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory
A) was developed through careful observations of his own children.
B) emphasizes that how parents manage their child's fears is crucial for healthy sexual development.
C) emphasizes five parts of the personality that become integrated during a sequence of three stages.
D) was developed through having emotionally troubled adults talk freely about painful events of their childhoods.
Answer: D
Q2) __________ is generally regarded as the founder of the child-study movement.
A) John Locke
B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C) Charles Darwin
D) G. Stanley Hall
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Genetic and Environmental Foundations
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Q1) Donor insemination
A) is commonly used to overcome female reproductive difficulties.
B) involves giving a woman hormones that stimulate the ripening of several ova.
C) permits women without a male partner to become pregnant.
D) is used to treat women whose fallopian tubes are permanently damaged.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is a reason why attempts to help children and youths have been difficult to realize in the United States?
A) Public policies aimed at fostering children's development have failed in other Western countries.
B) The interdependent nature of U.S. citizens has made government hesitant to become involved in family matters.
C) Children remain unrecognized in the process because they cannot vote or speak out to protect their own interests.
D) Public policies aimed at fostering children's development do not yield valuable returns.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) Danica is a healthy 35-year-old woman who is pregnant with her first child. Danica is
A) more likely than a younger woman to have a baby with low birth weight.
B) likely to have a longer and more difficult labor than a younger woman.
C) more likely to have prenatal complications than a woman in her twenties.
D) as likely as a younger woman to have no prenatal or birth complications.
Answer: D
Q2) At birth, Megan weighed 9.5 pounds. Research shows that she is at an increased risk of __________ in adulthood.
A) diabetes
B) lung cancer
C) breast cancer
D) stroke
Answer: C
Q3) From the twentieth week until birth,
A) brain weight increases tenfold.
B) glial cells decrease at a rapid rate.
C) the fetus is viable.
D) brain growth slows.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn Baby
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Q1) T. Berry Brazelton's Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)
A) evaluates a newborn baby's reflexes, muscle tone, state changes, and responsiveness to stimuli.
B) is specially designed for use with newborns at risk for developmental problems.
C) evaluates a newborn baby's appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration.
D) evaluates a newborn baby's vision, touch sensitivity, hearing, and odor sensitivity.
Q2) __________ is appropriate if the mother's pushing during the second stage of labor does not move the baby through the birth canal in a reasonable period of time.
A) Instrument delivery
B) Epidural analgesia
C) Use of an anesthetic
D) Induced labor
Q3) Describe ways parents and caregivers can soothe a crying baby, and explain how or why each technique works.
Q4) Describe preterm and small-for-date infants. How are they different?
Q5) Describe the Apgar Scale, and explain how it is used.
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Chapter 5: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) The best estimate of a child's physical maturity is A) height.
B) weight.
C) skeletal age.
D) chronological age.
Q2) Six-month-old Luka's weight, height, and head circumference are substantially below age-related growth norms. Luka is withdrawn and apathetic. Luka's mother sometimes appears depressed and distant, at other times impatient and hostile. Luka most likely suffers from A) growth faltering.
B) malnutrition.
C) marasmus.
D) food insecurity.
Q3) For most people, the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is largely responsible for A) judging distances.
B) negative emotion.
C) verbal abilities.
D) recognizing geometric shapes.
Q4) Describe some common forms of inadequate nutrition in the United States.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) The core knowledge perspective emphasizes A) experimentation.
B) native endowment.
C) assimilation.
D) accommodation.
Q2) Baby Luigi's mom shows him his toy turtle, which she has placed behind a pillow. He reaches for it and finds it several times. Luigi's mom then shows him his turtle hidden in a basket. Luigi continues to search for it behind the pillow. This is most likely because Luigi A) is not yet able to make an accurate A-B search.
B) does not yet appreciate physical causality.
C) has not yet attained even rudimentary object permanence.
D) cannot yet engage in goal-directed behavior.
Q3) Which of the following statements about infantile amnesia is true?
A) Infantile amnesia is more common in females than males.
B) Most older children and adults cannot retrieve events that happened before age 3.
C) Infants' memory processing is fundamentally different from that of adults.
D) During the first few years, children remember largely with verbal techniques.
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Chapter 7: Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Alice is inactive, shows mild, low-key reactions to environmental stimuli, and adjusts slowly to new experiences. In Thomas and Chess's model of temperament, Alice would be classified as a(n) __________ child.
A) slow-to-warm-up
B) uninhibited
C) difficult
D) easy
Q2) Describe the development of anger in infants, and explain why angry reactions increase with age.
Q3) Evan covers his eyes when the Wicked Witch of the West appears on the screen while he is watching The Wizard of Oz. Evan is using
A) a secure base.
B) emotional self-regulation.
C) social referencing.
D) self-soothing.
Q4) Using Thomas and Chess's model of temperament, identify and describe the three categories of children. Do all children fit into one of these categories? Explain.
Q5) Describe Bowlby's four phases of attachment.
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Chapter 8: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) __________ are at greater risk for injury than __________.
A) Three- to 5-year-old girls; 3- to 5-year-old boys
B) Children with easy temperaments; irritable children
C) Middle-SES children; low-SES children
D) U.S. children from advantaged families; children in Western Europe
Q2) Between ages 2 and 6,
A) the brain increases from 40 percent of its adult weight to 60 percent.
B) synaptic pruning slows or ends in many parts of the cerebral cortex.
C) energy consumption of most cortical regions diminishes to near-adult levels.
D) the brain increases from 70 percent of its adult weight to 90 percent.
Q3) In the United States, __________ is/are the most frequent source of childhood injury.
A) burns
B) falls
C) being struck by an object
D) motor vehicle collisions
Q4) Dominic is left-handed. He would like to know if his infant son is likely to be left-handed or right-handed. What can you tell him about research on handedness?
Q5) Discuss sex differences in motor skills in early childhood.
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Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) By the beginning of early childhood, children's categories include objects that go together because of their common function, behavior, or natural kind. These findings challenge Piaget's assumption that
A) preschoolers' thinking is wholly governed by perceptual appearances.
B) the emergence of language brings about representational ability.
C) preschoolers have difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality.
D) transitive inference emerges during the concrete operational stage.
Q2) Which of the following is a common criticism of Vygotsky's theory?
A) It underemphasizes the role of verbal communication in early childhood development.
B) It overemphasizes the development of basic cognitive processes in early childhood.
C) It places too much emphasis on how elementary capacities spark changes in children's social experiences.
D) It says too little about how basic cognitive skills contribute to socially transmitted higher cognitive processes.
Q3) Explain what Piaget's famous conservation tasks reveal about preoperational children's thinking.
Q4) Explain how adults can foster preschoolers' language development.
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Chapter 10: Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) At a parade, 3-year-old Kyle puts his fingers in his ears when he hears the fire trucks coming down the street. Kyle is displaying
A) scaffolding.
B) situational empathy.
C) social problem solving.
D) emotional self-regulation.
Q2) By middle childhood, children who hold flexible beliefs about what boys and girls can do are __________ likely to __________.
A) more; engage in antisocial behavior
B) less; pursue nontraditional interests and activities
C) more; notice instances of gender discrimination
D) less; live in nontraditional homes
Q3) Define self-concept and self-esteem. In what ways might parents foster these aspects of self-understanding in young children?
Q4) Preschoolers in diverse cultures distinguish
A) friends and leisure activities as separate from matters of personal choice.
B) moral violations as less wrong than violations of social conventions.
C) between accidental and intentional transgressions.
D) moral imperatives from social conventions and matters of personal choice.
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Chapter 11: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) __________ is the most common vision problem in middle childhood.
A) Presbyopia
B) Tunnel vision
C) Astigmatism
D) Myopia
Q2) Which of the following people most likely has a genetic susceptibility to overweight, which emerges only under Western dietary conditions?
A) Ray, who is of Cherokee descent
B) Wes, who is of Samoan descent
C) Andrea, who is of Colombian descent
D) Carrie, who is of African descent
Q3) As Breanna gets older, how will her batting abilities change?
A) Her speed will increase, but her accuracy will stay the same.
B) Her speed will stay the same, but her accuracy will improve.
C) Batting motions will involve her entire body.
D) Batting motions will primarily involve her upper body.
Q4) List and describe common factors associated with childhood obesity.
Q5) List some interventions for chronically ill children that foster positive family relationships, help parents and children cope with the disease, and improve adjustment.
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Adoption studies consistently reveal that
A) about three-quarters of the differences in IQ among children can be traced to their genetic makeup.
B) when young children are adopted into caring, stimulating homes, their IQs rise substantially.
C) adopted children of low-IQ biological mothers score below average on IQ tests during the school years.
D) adopted children score, on average, 15 to 20 points lower in IQ than their nonadopted agemates.
Q2) Mrs. Rosinski gives each of her children, ages 5, 8, and 12, a shopping list of 10 items. Which of the following results can she expect to see?
A) Her 5-year-old will probably make a plan before searching for items.
B) Her 12-year-old will probably scan the store before searching for items.
C) All of the children will immediately start to retrieve items.
D) All of the children will probably make a plan before searching for items.
Q3) Explain the educational benefits of a small class size in early elementary school.
Q4) Describe Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of successful intelligence.
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Chapter 13: Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) The United States has experienced a(n) __________ in divorces over the past fifteen years, largely due to __________.
A) increase; increases in family size
B) increase; heightened economic stress
C) decline; improved economic stability
D) decline; a rise in the age at first marriage
Q2) During childhood and adolescence, __________ correlates more strongly with overall self-worth than does any other self-esteem factor.
A) academic achievement
B) perceived physical appearance
C) social competence
D) athletic ability
Q3) Bao, an only child, lives in China. Which of the following is probably true?
A) Bao's development is not as favorable as only children in the United States.
B) Bao tends to feel emotionally insecure and lonely.
C) Bao differs from agemates with siblings in social skills.
D) Bao does not differ from agemates with siblings in peer acceptance.
Q4) What are some ways that schools can prevent learned helplessness and foster a mastery-oriented approach to learning?
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