Family Studies
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Family Studies explores the dynamics, roles, and relationships within families across diverse cultures and society. This course examines topics such as family structures, parenting styles, communication patterns, and the impact of societal changes on family life. Students will analyze theories of family development, investigate challenges faced by contemporary families, and consider the influences of economic, cultural, and legal factors. Through case studies and practical examples, learners gain insights into supporting healthy and resilient family units.
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Life Span Human Development 9th Edition by
Carol K. Sigelman
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Chapter 1: Understanding Life-Span Human Development
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Q1) Olga is interested in how people develop strategies for conflict resolution.She selects a group of preschoolers,and uses both interviews and naturalistic observation to explore their approaches to dealing with conflict.Every two years thereafter,Olga again interviews and observes this same group of youngsters,concluding her study when the children reach adolescence.Olga has been using a _____ research design.
A)behavioral observation
B)cross-sectional
C)longitudinal
D)sequential
Answer: C
Q2) Carter is hosting a welcome-to-campus party for the incoming class of freshmen at the university.Who are the guests at Carter's event?
A)late adolescents
B)emerging adults
C)mature teens
D)young adults
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Theories of Human Development
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Q1) Self-efficacy is best defined as A)feeling great about who you are.
B)the belief that you can effectively accomplish a specific outcome.
C)the ability to make fun of one's self.
D)your self-concept concerning gender,intellect,and sexual orientation.
Answer: B
Q2) Erikson suggested that humans develop over a series of psychosexual stages.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Constructivism proposes that children learn best A)by doing.
B)when an adult completes a task for them.
C)when genetics determine a behavior.
D)through vicarious reinforcement.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Genes,Environment,and Development
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Q1) Justine recently opened her second bakery and is enjoying her dream career of working with flour,butter,and sugar to bring a little joy to people.What is the likelihood that Justine's identical twin Marya is also employed in the culinary field?
A)25%
B)40%
C)60%
D)75%
Answer: B
Q2) A gene
A)is made of hormones and neurotransmitters.
B)can also be referred to as an ovum.
C)when combined with a second gene will produce a chromosome.
D)provides instructions for the production of proteins.
Answer: D
Q3) In an active gene-environment interaction,children's genetically based traits provoke a certain kind of reaction from their environment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Ovulation tends to occur _____ of the menstrual cycle.
A)on the first day
B)within the first week
C)near the midpoint
D)at the end
Q2) In her human development class,Dr.Ayers shows students several photographs of prenatal development.She points out the placenta and explains that its main purpose is to
A)provide the fetus with carbon dioxide and oxygen.
B)enable the maternal and fetal blood to mix so they will become compatible.
C)provide the fetus with oxygen and nutrients and remove carbon dioxide and wastes from the fetus.
D)protect and cushion the fetus from shock.
Q3) A doctor who is concerned about teratogenic impacts after learning of a patient's exposure to a recreational drug will likely ask which of the following questions?
A)Where did you take it?
B)Why did you take it?
C)Who gave it to you?
D)How much did you take?
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Chapter 5: Body, Brain, and Health
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Q1) During Jorge's recent period of depression over the loss of his job,he seemed to have less capacity to fight off infections and catches a cold every week.This is an example of the ________ aspect of health.
A)gain and loss
B)sociohistorical
C)multidimensional
D)lifelong
Q2) Which of the following typical adolescent females growing up in the United States would have most recently achieved her adult height?
A)14-year-old Meg
B)16-year-old Inez
C)18-year-old Sasha
D)20-year-old Halima
Q3) Montell is an average newborn.If he sleeps for 12 hours a day,how much of this time will be REM sleep?
A)9 hours
B)6 hours
C)4 hours
D)10 hours
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Chapter 6: Sensation, Perception, and Action
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Q1) Which of the following is LEAST likely to draw the visual attention of a young infant?
A)A moving object
B)A high contour object
C)A highly complex object
D)A face
Q2) Describe the quality of the senses of taste,smell,touch,temperature,and pain of the typical one-year-old.
Q3) The ecological perspective views the process of developing motor skills as a child's ________ the environment.
A)interaction with B)habituation to C)interpretation of D)mastery of
Q4) Compare and contrast the effects of cataracts,glaucoma,and age-related macular degeneration.Which do you think would be most problematic for an older adult? Explain your reasoning.
Q5) Describe how visual acuity,pattern perception,and depth perception change during the first year of a child's life.Provide examples to support your ideas.
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Chapter 7: Cognition
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Q1) Formal operational thinking differs from Piaget's other stages in that a formal thinker gains the ability to
A)think systematically about abstract concepts.
B)mentally manipulate objects that they can see.
C)understand the symbols used in language.
D)form mental schemas.
Q2) Focusing on the most obvious features of an object or situation is referred to as
A)perceptual salience.
B)symbolic capacity.
C)schema coordination.
D)class inclusion.
Q3) Which infant behavior best demonstrates object permanence?
A)Reaching for a toy you were enjoying after it has been put in a toy box
B)Repeatedly swiping at a mobile hanging over your crib
C)Crying when someone grabs a toy out of your hand
D)Trying to grab a toy that you can see,but is just out of reach
Q4) What are the main cognitive advances made during the concrete operational stage of development?
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Chapter 8: Memory and Information Processing
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Q1) As you read this exam question,what would best represent information in your long-term memory?
A)The light waves as they excite the cells in your visual system
B)The words from the question as you read them
C)The words from the possible answers as you repeat them in your head
D)The information you access from last night's study session
Q2) Randy is a typical six-year-old and his brother Mark is a typical 16-year-old.How do their information processing skills most likely differ on a memory task?
A)Randy will be able to learn more than Mark if both are given extra time to study for the task.
B)Randy will be more likely to utilize deliberate strategies while Mark will rely on unconscious strategies.
C)Mark will recall both more relevant information and task-irrelevant information.
D)Mark will recall more relevant information and is less likely to recall task-irrelevant information.
Q3) Describe three reasons why autobiographical memories from the earliest years of our lives cannot be retrieved.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Creativity
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Q1) The Flynn effect refers to the observation that
A)IQ scores are no longer related to socioeconomic status.
B)average IQ scores have been increasing.
C)IQ scores are predictive of occupational achievement.
D)IQ is largely heritable.
Q2) Scarr and Weinberg's research on social class and IQ showed that
A)children from disadvantaged homes could raise their IQs if adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents.
B)children from disadvantaged homes continue to show significant deficits in IQ even after being adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents.
C)children from poor economic conditions do not differ significantly in IQ from children from average or above average economic conditions.
D)improving the economic conditions of the home has no significant impact on children's IQs because IQ is so strongly affected by genes.
Q3) Why do some young popular singers have successful careers into middle age and beyond,while others have one or two hit records and then seem to disappear? About what age do most musical artists tend to fade from view?
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Chapter 10: Language and Education
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Q1) Marcus recently began taking a night class at the community college - thirty years after he graduated from high school.Why is Marcus likely taking the class?
A)because he wants to better himself
B)because he enjoys learning new things
C)because his job requires new knowledge
D)because his cognitive skills need a boost
Q2) Universal grammar is best described as
A)a list of the manner in which all words should be pronounced. B)the biological factor that limits the specific language a newborn will acquire. C)the belief that there are an unlimited number of possibilities for forming language. D)a system of common rules and properties for learning any of the world's languages.
Q3) Programs designed to raise older-adult levels of literacy are rarely successful. A)True B)False
Q4) How does level of achievement change during adolescence and adulthood? What factors lead to declines or increases in achievement?
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Chapter 11: Self and Personality
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Q1) According to James Marcia,adolescent identity can be classified into one of four statuses that are based on the key issues of
A)crisis and commitment.
B)commitment and conscientiousness.
C)conscientiousness and comparison.
D)comparison and crisis.
Q2) In the context of forming a healthy sense of identity,what benefit does attending college offer?
A)depressed self-esteem
B)credentials
C)expertise
D)exploration
Q3) Raven gets invited to all the parties because she seems to love the spotlight and craves excitement.A psychometric theorist would most likely describe Raven as being A)conscientious.
B)extraverted.
C)agreeable.
D)neurotic.
Q4) How does the development of self proceed from birth through age three?
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Chapter 12: Gender Roles and Sexuality
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Q1) Third-graders are likely to be more concerned and troubled by violations of traditional gender-role standards than are first-grade youngsters.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How would a social-learning theorist describe the acquisition of gender roles? Provide three examples of how the process works.
Q3) Twin studies on sexual orientation show that A)genes are much more influential than environmental factors in determining sexual orientation.
B)sexual orientation is determined almost completely by environmental factors.
C)a genetic link cannot be established because not enough twins will participate in this kind of research.
D)genetic and environmental influences appear about equally responsible for sexual orientation.
Q4) One drawback to women living longer than men is that they lack sex partners later in life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Social Cognition and Moral Development
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Q1) As director of a positive youth development program working with teens who have been expelled from school for violent behavior,what would be the main focus of your staff's activities?
A)teaching teens the legal consequences of further violent behavior
B)exploring personal assets of each teen and ways to strengthen them
C)coaching the teens' parents in more mutually responsive strategies
D)providing academic tutoring to ensure teens get a GED certificate
Q2) At or before nine months of age,most children begin to _____.This activity is one of the earliest milestones in developing a theory of mind.
A)delay gratification
B)show prosocial behavior
C)engage in joint attention
D)recognize themselves in a mirror
Q3) Piaget found that children have sophisticated morality because they believe in different,relative tiers of rules.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe desire psychology and belief-desire psychology.Provide an example of each to explain your thinking.
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Chapter 14: Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships
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Q1) What is the highest level of peer interaction that infants can attain by age 2?
A)reciprocal exchange
B)friendship
C)turn-taking
D)chumship
Q2) Lisa is a very high-strung,active mom.Her baby,Marie,is very laid back and calm.When Lisa bounces Marie on her knee,tickles her,and talks to her in an excited voice,Marie turns away.Lisa turns Marie back toward her,bounces her more rigorously,and continues to talk and sing loudly.Based on this pattern of behavior,it is most likely that Marie will develop ________.
A)avoidant attachment
B)stranger anxiety
C)resistant attachment
D)relational aggression
Q3) A resistant attachment is characterized by a great deal of infant anxiety and ambivalence to the attached caregiver.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: The Family
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Q1) The conceptualization of a "family as a system" best matches the _____ approach to psychology.
A)bioecological
B)classical conditioning
C)psychodynamic
D)Gestalt
Q2) Debbie is always happy when her mom has a good day at work,because she brings home something yummy for dessert.This indicates that Debbie's family is
A)experiencing spillover effects.
B)high in permissiveness.
C)experiencing a transactional effect.
D)low in demandingness.
Q3) Erikson would argue that the positive feeling of self associated with the empty nest in middle age indicates a successful attainment of a sense of A)generativity.
B)integrity.
C)independence.
D)initiative.
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Chapter 16: Developmental Psychopathology
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Q1) As developmental psychologists,Sroufe and Rutter (2000)argue that psychological disorders are best
A)described in terms of a disease.
B)viewed as adaptation that occurs over time.
C)thought to be defects lying within the person.
D)attributed to individual predispositions.
Q2) When describing his problem,John says,"I know that my fear of spiders is not that unusual and that I still have my job as an exterminator,but this fear is mentally killing me!" John's comments illustrate the criteria of _____ in defining abnormal behavior.
A)maladaptiveness
B)personal distress
C)statistical deviance
D)joint attention
Q3) Depression-like symptoms are most likely to be seen in infants who
A)show no somatic reactions.
B)have experienced perinatal complications.
C)are intellectually disabled.
D)lack a secure attachment relationship.
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Chapter 17: The Final Challenge: Death and Dying
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Q1) Active euthanasia is also called
A)mercy killing.
B)assisted suicide.
C)physician-assisted suicide.
D)passive euthanasia.
Q2) Palliative care is best summarized as involving
A)direct attempts by medical professionals to cure disease.
B)meeting physical,psychological,and social needs of patients with incurable illness.
C)being provided in traditional hospitals but not in hospice facilities.
D)recognizing that the dying and their family members are experts.
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding life expectancies in the United States today?
A)Life expectancy for all people,regardless of race and gender,is very similar.
B)Males are generally expected to outlive females by about three years.
C)Hormonal difference may account for sex differences in life expectancy.
D)Life expectancy is not influenced socioeconomic level.
Q4) What did Parkes mean by saying "love and loss are two sides of the same coin"? How did this perspective influence a key model of bereavement? Give examples from the model to support your ideas.
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