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Family Studies explores the dynamic structures, relationships, and functions of families across diverse cultures and life stages. This course examines family systems, communication patterns, parenting styles, and the impact of social, economic, and cultural factors on family life. Students analyze contemporary issues such as family diversity, work-family balance, and the effects of public policy, gaining insights into how families adapt to change and contribute to individual and societal well-being. Through theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies, learners develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills relevant to family life education and human services professions.
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HDEV 4th Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) The _________ views human development as occurring throughout an individual's existence.
A) humanistic perspective
B) cognitive perspective
C) functional perspective
D) life-span perspective
Answer: D
Q2) The ecological systems theory of development states that only genetic factors are worth studying.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Cross-sequential research:
A) usually lasts for the subjects' entire lifetime.
B) is hampered by the cohort effect.
C) combines longitudinal and cross-sectional research methods.
D) has too many ethical problems to be considered an effective research method.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Prenatal Development
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Q1) Which of the following is a characteristic of supermales?
A) They are somewhat taller than average.
B) Their facial hair growth is minimal when compared to XXX males.
C) They suffer from gynecomastia.
D) They are typically impotent.
Answer: A
Q2) The _________ is the hollow organ within females in which the embryo and fetus develop.
A) placenta
B) ovum
C) uterus
D) amniotic sac
Answer: C
Q3) Girls with Turner syndrome:
A) possess more thymine than cytosine.
B) are taller than average.
C) produce little estrogen.
D) are more likely to give birth to twins.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Baby: In the New World
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Q1) Postpartum depression is caused due to:
A) a sudden drop in estrogen levels.
B) a decrease in metabolism levels.
C) the lack of bonding between parents and infants.
D) the use of anesthetics during delivery.
Answer: A
Q2) Women who experience postpartum depression can benefit from social support and counseling.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Babies who are born weighing under _________ pounds are considered to be of low birth weight.
A) 7.5
B) 5.5
C) 6.5
D) 8.5
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true of infants' ability to differentiate sounds?
A) Infants learn to ignore small, meaningless variations in the sounds of their native language by the age of two months.
B) Infants can discriminate the sounds of their parent's voices by 3½ months of age.
C) By the age of one week, infants perceive differences between speech sounds that are highly similar.
D) By the age of one month, infants reliably discriminate three-syllable words such as marana and Malana.
Q2) Which of the following is true of the introduction of new foods to an infant?
A) Exposure to several foods at once is necessary so that the child has a variety of new tastes to choose from.
B) New foods should be introduced one at a time to assess for allergies.
C) It must begin with the introduction of meat followed by vegetables.
D) All new foods should be low in fat and high in fiber.
Q3) Dendrites receive impulses from other neurons.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) When infants babble, they tend to produce:
A) incomplete sentences.
B) sounds of the vowel A.
C) complete sentences of five to six words.
D) combinations of consonants and vowels.
Q2) _________ is comprised of both mental-scale and motor-scale items, and also includes a behavioral rating scale.
A) The Apgar Scales of Infant Development
B) The Riley Scales of Cognitive Development
C) The Bayley Scales of Infant Development
D) The Piaget Scales of Cognitive Development
Q3) Why are infants tested? Name a few scales with which they are tested.
Q4) Tertiary circular reactions are witnessed during the _____ stage of cognitive development.
A) sensorimotor
B) concrete operational
C) preoperational
D) formal operational
Q5) What are mirror neurons? Explain mirror neurons in humans.
Q6) Explain briefly about overextension.
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) The easy child has irregular sleep and feeding schedules.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true of stranger anxiety in children?
A) It peaks at nine to twelve months of age.
B) It appears at about three months of age.
C) It declines at six months of age.
D) It ends after one year of age.
Q3) Asperger's disorder is characterized by:
A) a range of physical, behavioral, motor, and cognitive abnormalities.
B) abnormal functioning and loss of previously acquired skills.
C) significant cognitive or language delays associated with autism.
D) social deficits and stereotyped behavior.
Q4) What is social referencing?
Q5) Spitz's classic study of infants in an orphanage showed that institutionalized children who receive little or no social stimulation:
A) appear depressed and withdrawn.
B) show great interest in adults when given more stimulation.
C) are responsive to strangers.
D) showed elevated rates of failure to thrive syndrome.
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Chapter 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Young children are able to use retrieval cues provided to them by adults to remember things.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a difference between growth during childhood years and growth during infancy?
A) Growth during the preschool years is significantly slower than growth during infancy.
B) Growth during the preschool years is much faster than growth during infancy.
C) Growth during preschool years involves gaining more baby fat than growth during infancy.
D) Growth during preschool years requires more nutrition than growth during infancy.
Q3) Which of the following is true of contrast assumption?
A) Assuming that novel terms must refer to something that you already know
B) Assuming that novel terms must refer to unfamiliar objects
C) Assuming that words refer to whole objects, and not characteristics of objects
D) Assuming that similar objects must belong to the same category
Q4) Briefly describe the nutritional needs of preschool children.
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following restrictive techniques includes isolating or ignoring misbehaving children?
A) Power assertion
B) Withdrawal of love
C) Deduction
D) Induction
Q2) A _____ is a cluster of concepts about male and female physical traits, personality traits, and behaviors.
A) gender schema
B) gender design
C) gender rubric
D) gender mnemonic
Q3) Which of the following types of play involves children interacting and sharing toys?
A) Onlooker play
B) Solitary play
C) Associative play
D) Unoccupied play
Q4) What is gender-schema theory?
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Q5) How are later-born children different from first-born children?
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Chapter 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following terms is the view that retribution for wrongdoing is a direct consequence of the wrongdoing?
A) Moral realism
B) Convergent thinking
C) Immanent justice
D) Divergent thinking
Q2) According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children in the conventional level base their moral judgments on the consequences of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cultural bias refers to the factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Overweight children excel in sports and are considered attractive in adolescence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Jack is seven years old. He did not eat his lunch at school. He knows that his mother would be angry if she does not know the reason why he did not eat his lunch. However, Jack believes that his mother would understand if he explained to her that the food was stale. According to Selman, this scenario illustrates level _____ of perspective-taking skills in childhood.
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Q2) According to Piaget, middle childhood is partly characterized by:
A) a decline in egocentrism.
B) failure to acknowledge others' perspectives.
C) suppression of sexual feelings.
D) anxiety about separating from parents.
Q3) A similarity between teachers and parents is that both:
A) do not set limits on behavior.
B) act as important confidants.
C) communicate values and foster development.
D) allow children to share troubling ideas and experiences.
Q4) Discuss the origins and treatment of conduct disorders.
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Chapter 11: Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Evaluate Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
Q2) For adolescents, the transition to the new school setting is often accompanied by:
A) an increased participation in school activities.
B) a decline in grades.
C) a rise in self-esteem.
D) a decrease in stress.
Q3) Calcium intake is particularly important to females to:
A) avoid early puberty.
B) avoid abnormalities in the endocrine system.
C) prevent early menopause.
D) prevent osteoporosis later in life.
Q4) Which of the following statements is true of gender differences in cognitive abilities?
A) Girls usually outperform boys on many types of visual-spatial tasks.
B) Research indicates that both historically and in recent years female adolescents generally outperform males in mathematics.
C) Girls in the United States are more likely than boys to have reading problems.
D) As a group, females surpass males in verbal ability throughout their lives.
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Chapter 12: Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes a clique?
A) A large group of people who are identified by the activities of the group
B) A group of people belonging to the same age group
C) A small group of individuals who hang around together and who share activities and confidences
D) A group of people who temporarily come together for a specific purpose, the completion of which ends their interaction
Q2) List at least five warning signs of suicide among adolescents.
Q3) In the context of sexual orientation, a lesbian:
A) desires sexual intimacy with men.
B) is sexually attracted to both men and women.
C) feels like a male trapped in a female body.
D) desires sexual intimacy with women.
Q4) Which of the following is an example of a status offense?
A) Amanda, a teenager, attempts to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
B) Tina, a primary school student, is often rebuked for truancy.
C) Ted, a young adult, is sexually intimate with his friend Bob.
D) Alex, a 20-year-old, is often fined for overspeeding.
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Chapter 13: Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true of cognitive development?
A) As with physical development, people are at the height of their cognitive powers during adolescence.
B) People typically retain their verbal skills and may even show improvement in vocabulary and general knowledge as they age.
C) Performance on tasks that require reasoning or problem-solving speeds, and visual-spatial skills tend to decline in early adulthood.
D) Crystallized intelligence is more susceptible to age than fluid intelligence.
Q2) Most young adults are careless about their health during early adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of emerging adulthood?
A) It occurs after the end of puberty.
B) It occurs between the ages of 18 and 25.
C) It occurs sooner for those who go to college than for those who do not.
D) It occurs primarily in those from the lower socioeconomic groups.
Q4) Adulthood is more accurately defined by one's age and not by what one does.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Jack and Jill met in a summer camp. They are physically and emotionally attracted to each other. However, they do not believe their relationship has any future. This scenario is an example of:
A) consummate love.
B) romantic love.
C) companionate love.
D) empty love.
Q2) How did Levinson consider the seasons of life or phases of early adulthood to be different for men and women? How is his view considered today?
Q3) _________ entails integrating one's own values and beliefs with those of one's parents and one's society.
A) Cohabitation
B) Individuation
C) Isolation
D) Necessitation
Q4) Lonely people tend to disclose personal information to potential friends.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe Sternberg's triangular theory of love.
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Chapter 15: Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) The resting metabolic rate-also called the basal metabolic rate (BMR)-declines during middle adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The decline in the _________ in middle adulthood is largely attributable to the loss of muscle tissue and the corresponding increase in fatty tissue.
A) reaction time
B) resting metabolic rate
C) aerobic capacity
D) blood sugar tolerance
Q3) Which of the following tests is used to screen women for breast cancer?
A) An electrocardiogram
B) A mammogram
C) An electroencephalogram
D) A lymphogram
Q4) Sexual dysfunctions are persistent or recurrent problems in becoming sexually aroused or reaching orgasm.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Middle Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) According to Erikson's psychosocial theory of development, which of the following is true of people who are unable to have children?
A) They have high self-esteem.
B) They have no alternative but to experience stagnation.
C) They need to find substitutes to satisfy their need for generativity.
D) They are better off psychologically than those who have more than two children.
Q2) Rachel was laid off from her job as a financial consultant. Knowing that she is 25 and married, what can be predicted about the effects of the layoff?
A) She is more likely to have her sense of well-being disrupted than if she were older.
B) She is less likely to have financial strain than if she were older.
C) She is more likely to reject a job that interferes with her home life than if she were younger.
D) She is more likely to go back to school to earn a second degree than if she were younger.
Q3) Explain the relationship that middle-aged children share with aging parents.
Q4) Describe career change in middle adulthood.
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Chapter 17: Late Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Is substance abuse by adults a major problem in America?
Q2) Which of the following statements about arthritis is true?
A) Arthritis is less common in African Americans than European Americans.
B) Arthritis is more common in women than men.
C) Children are unlikely to be affected by arthritis.
D) The risk of arthritis tends to be highest in adolescence.
Q3) Implicit memory is associated with the ability to:
A) visually associate people with their names.
B) automatically recall things learnt by repetition.
C) remember past incidents and general knowledge.
D) recollect our plans for the future.
Q4) Older adults are more likely to be intoxicated by alcohol consumption compared to younger adults due to:
A) the slowdown in the metabolic rate of older adults.
B) the low level of free radical content in the body of older adults.
C) the increase in the processing speed of older adults.
D) the increase in antibodies secreted by the endocrine system of older adults.
Q5) Cellular damage theories see aging as a result of genetic instructions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) In the context of psychosocial theory, Erik Erikson believed that:
A) it is difficult and sometimes unlikely for older adults who engage in life reviews to find ego integrity in late adulthood.
B) older adults who achieved ego transcendence are unlikely to find ego integrity.
C) men are more likely than women to obtain ego integrity.
D) people who achieved generativity in middle adulthood are more likely to obtain ego integrity in late adulthood.
Q2) After retirement, leisure activities are likely to:
A) increase the risk of cognitive impairment.
B) have an impact on the self-acceptance of retirees.
C) remain the same irrespective of the physical aspects of aging.
D) reduce retirees' chances of successful aging.
Q3) _____ is the fear of open, crowded places.
A) Acarophobia
B) Acerophobia
C) Agoraphobia
D) Agraphobia
Q4) What is selective optimization with compensation?
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Chapter 19: Lifes
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Q1) The term euthanasia literally means_________.
A) pain relief
B) suicide
C) cure
D) good death
Q2) The most widely used criteria for establishing brain death include absence of activity of the _____.
A) cerebral cortex
B) cerebellum
C) brainstem
D) medulla oblongata
Q3) A living will is a legal document that people usually draft before their terminal illness that instructs physicians:
A) to not carry out either involuntary active euthanasia or passive euthanasia if they are disabled or incapacitated.
B) to administer a drug and assist in the patient's suicide.
C) to resort to passive euthanasia if they become permanently incapacitated and cannot communicate their wishes.
D) to not withhold life-supporting treatment if they are in a vegetative state.
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