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Family Studies explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families across diverse cultural and societal contexts. This course examines the roles and relationships within family units, the impact of societal changes on families, and the developmental stages of family life cycles. Students analyze issues such as parenting, communication, conflict resolution, and the influence of external factors like economics and public policy. Through both theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies, the course fosters an understanding of the complexities and challenges families face, preparing students for careers in social services, education, counseling, and related fields.
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Lifespan Development 6th Edition by Denise Boyd
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Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Methods
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Q1) Explain the concept of internal models of experience and give an example from your own experience.
Answer: The answer needs to explain the environmental influences of development AND the individual's perception of these experiences. The example needs to demonstrate that the student can properly apply the nature-nurture concept.
Q2) You are taking part in an experiment to test the effectiveness of cognitive therapy in treating anxiety. There are two groups: one group receives cognitive therapy; the other group meets weekly with a therapist who does not use cognitive therapy but merely chats during the session. Using the terminology of research, identify each of the two types of groups.
Answer: experimental group; control group
Q3) What term is used to describe standardized tests that compare an individual child's score to the average score of others her age?
A) Empirical tests
B) Norm-referenced tests
C) Content normed tests
D) Normative metric tests
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Theories of Development
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Q1) Which of the following is particularly useful in research that is the focus of behavioral genetics?
A) Special learning environments
B) Stem cells
C) Multiple births from independent zygotes
D) Identical twins
Answer: D
Q2) In classical conditioning, a ________ stimulus is paired with a reflexive stimulus to create a response.
Answer: neutral
Q3) Which of the following is LEAST likely to influence IQ?
A) The type of television shows a child watches
B) A stimulating environment
C) Genetics
D) The IQ of one's parents
Answer: A
Q4) How do ecological psychologists study behavior?
Answer: They do experimentation in the field and in the actual situations in which people need to think. They study everyday settings in real life situations.
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Which of the following is a correct statement about the events leading up to conception?
A) Ordinarily, a woman produces two ova per month, one from each of her ovaries.
B) Conception normally takes place in the uterus.
C) After ejaculation, sperm travel the following path: the woman's vagina, cervix, uterus, and fallopian tube.
D) After ovulation, the ovum travels down the uterus to the fallopian tube.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is a condition that can cause a baby to grow too rapidly and result in premature labor or an infant that is too large for a vaginal birth?
A) Ectopic pregnancy
B) Gestational diabetes
C) Hypothyroidism
D) High blood pressure
Answer: B
Q3) Blake carries two dominant genes for brown eyes. Blake is therefore ________ in his eye color chromosomes.
Answer: homozygous
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Chapter 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
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Q1) Macie and Darius have a new baby girl. Although they complain that the baby wakes them a lot at night, the truth is the baby probably sleeps as much as ______ of the time?
A) 25 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 80 percent
Q2) What effect does watching television have on the developing brain?
A) Any television watching prior to age two is likely to inhibit healthy brain development. B) Toddlers might improve their vocabulary and social skills by watching high-quality television programs.
C) Television programs such as Sesame Street can interfere with synaptogenesis.
D) The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children between 18 months and two years of age watch 2 - 3 hours per day of educational programming.
Q3) Describe the various forms of malnutrition that can pose risks for infant development. What are possible long-term effects of malnutrition?
Q4) Infant mortality is defined as death within the first ________ after birth.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) Which style is associated with strings of words that involve common interactions with adults?
A) Suggestive
B) Expressive
C) Receptive
D) Referential
Q2) How do the beliefs of Spelke differ from Piaget in terms of object permanence?
Q3) According to your text, means-end behavior is ________ .
Q4) Naming explosion typically occurs around what age?
A) 8 - 10 months
B) 12 - 18 months
C) 11 - 14 months
D) 16 - 24 months
Q5) Novelty preference and visual recognition tests are measuring ________.
Q6) Clarify some of the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a bilingual household.
Q7) Summarize the value of baby talk.
Q8) According to Piaget, the first phase of intelligence occurs during the first ________ months of life.
Q9) According to B.F. Skinner, how does babbling develop into language? Page 7
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) The presence of young children in the adult day care facility seems to have a ________ effect on the residents.
Q2) Freddie is two months old. He smiles and coos at almost everyone he meets. Bowlby would say that Freddie is in which phase of attachment?
A) Nonfocused orienting and signaling
B) Focus on one or more figures
C) Secure base behavior
D) Internal model
Q3) Which of the following is the best definition of temperament?
A) The typical pattern of responses that a child shows when angry or frustrated.
B) One of three personality patterns displayed by children.
C) Inborn behavioral and emotional predispositions that form the basis of personality.
D) The degree to which a child will allow himself to be influenced by others.
Q4) Describe where the United States stands in relation to other countries in terms of securely attached infants. Give your informed and educated opinion as to why the U.S. stands where it does statistically.
Q5) What does neurological research show to be an effect of asymmetry of the frontal lobes of the brain?
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) The ability to control and reflect on your own memory functions is called ________.
Q2) Explain the normal curve as it relates to IQ scores. What is the range of normal to abnormal IQ scores?
Q3) If a child follows a certain procedure each morning when they get out of bed, what are they using?
Q4) What are the behaviors which may correlate with IQ scores at the low end of normal? How strong is this correlation?
Q5) During the preschool years, parents can expect their children to gain how many inches in height each year?
A) 2-3 inches
B) About an inch
C) 1/2 - 1 inch
D) 1-2 inches
Q6) The principle that an object's quantity remains the same even though its shape may change is called ________. Children in Piaget's ________ stage are able to understand this principle.
Q7) Identify and describe Vygotsky's stages of cognitive development from birth to age 7.
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) When 4-year-old Mariella thinks of activities, behaviors, or personal characteristics as being "for mommy" or "for daddy," she is using which of the following?
A) Gender stereotypes
B) Gender concepts
C) Gender schemas
D) Sex-typing
Q2) Beginning in the 1990s, which group experienced the most rapid growth in single motherhood?
A) Caucasian teenagers
B) African American teenagers
C) Middle class professional women
D) Women over the age of 30
Q3) Freud believed that ________ plays a key role in children's development of a gender role concept and a sex role.
Q4) List all four stages of Hoffman's theory of empathy development.
Q5) What are the four aspects of family functioning according to Diana Baumrind?
Q6) While empathy develops fairly early, the more complex emotion of ________ occurs later in childhood and adolescence.
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Q7) Summarize how Erikson's theory is applied in the development of self-concept.
Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Miguel came to the United States from Puerto Rico. He speaks very little English but is in a special class that teaches him in both English and Spanish. Miguel is in a ________ education program.
Q2) Which of the following pose the most significant health risks among school-aged children?
A) Infectious diseases, such as colds and influenza
B) Accidents and obesity
C) Stress
D) Environmental toxins and pollutants
Q3) Class ________ is the understanding that subordinate categories are included in larger superordinate categories.
Q4) Describe the development of relative right-left orientation, including factors which both accelerate and inhibit this learning.
Q5) Which of the following is an example of what Piaget termed concrete operations?
A) Reversibility
B) Abstract thinking
C) Automaticity
D) Centration
Q6) How could the majority of bike-related head injuries be prevented?
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) What is the main difference in self-esteem between girls and boys?
Q2) Of the following, which is an example of controlling speech used among middle childhood boys?
A) "I can help."
B) "Why are you so mean?"
C) "Can you fix this?"
D) "Try to stop me."
Q3) Which of the following children would be LEAST likely to be rejected or neglected by peers in middle childhood?
A) Juan, who loves to write and perform various types of music
B) Elizabeth, who throws temper tantrums and cries easily
C) Larry, who is taller than his peers and considered handsome
D) Abraham, who is very shy
Q4) Which of the following is a characteristic of victims of bullying?
A) High self-esteem
B) A good sense of humor
C) Sensitivity
D) Low intelligence
Q5) What factors seem to be most important in determining a child's social status?
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following groups is more likely to occupy leadership roles but also be at increased risk for alcohol or drug use?
A) Late maturing girls
B) Early maturing boys
C) Late maturing boys
D) Early maturing girls
Q2) Identify three factors that contribute to dropping out of high school.
Q3) What are the major changes that take place in the development of the heart and lungs during adolescence?
Q4) Which of the following statements about adolescent sexual activity is correct?
A) Less than 1/3 of sexually active children report using condoms in their most recent sexual activity.
B) Of the students using contraception, more use the birth control pill than use condoms.
C) Teens who are involved in sports or after-school activities have lower rates of sexual activity than teens who do not participate in such activities.
D) Among girls, those who are sexually active are less likely to have had early menarche.
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Consider someone you know, perhaps even yourself, who comes from a biracial family. What are some of the struggles that biracial teens have to overcome? Is what the text says consistent with your own experience?
Q2) Which of the following statements best summarizes the success of programs designed to deter delinquent behavior in adolescents?
A) The programs introduced prior to the 1990s prove to be the most successful.
B) Most programs introduced in the 20th century were not successful, but in the 21st century significant progress is being made.
C) As of 2003 most of these programs have been discontinued.
D) As of 2003 most of these programs have not been successful.
Q3) At which stage of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning are the standards the child uses to judge right and wrong based on external superior sources of authority and determined by the outcome or consequences?
A) Normative reasoning
B) Preconventional morality
C) Conventional morality
D) Principled morality
Q4) The second stage in Phinney's ethnic identity theory is ethnic ________.
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) The basic underlying, inevitable aging process called senescence is also known as
A) Basic aging
B) Primary aging
C) Secondary aging
D) Tertiary aging
Q2) Most of the sexual violence in the United States takes place in which of the following contexts?
A) Marriage
B) Stalking of the victim by an unknown person
C) Social or romantic relationships
D) A nonpremeditated attack by a stranger
Q3) What is the most commonly occurring bacterial STD in the United States?
A) Gonorrhea
B) Syphilis
C) Chlamydia
D) HPV
Q4) College women in the U.S. and Europe use a ________ number of study skills than men.
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Q5) Survey data show that ________% of women have been victims of sexual violence.
Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) Owen is an engineer. He is working on a project to map the human genome. In addition, he can calculate massive columns of numbers in his head but cannot remember to say hello in the hallway. Holland would label Owen as
A) artistic.
B) social.
C) investigative.
D) conventional.
Q2) QWL stands for the ________ movement.
Q3) A person's ________ is defined as a behavior that they do on their own and which carries over into their career.
Q4) In Super's stages of career development, the establishment stage is also called the ________ stage.
Q5) Your friend Karen is seven months pregnant and has recently been diagnosed with depression. Your friend is at risk for which of the following?
A) Having a premature delivery
B) Developing gestational diabetes
C) Developing postpartum depression
D) Developing an attachment disorder toward the infant
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) How are visual and auditory memories affected in middle age?
Q2) Which of the following is the second leading cause of death in middle and old age in the United States?
A) Heart disease
B) Cancer
C) Diabetes related complications
D) Obesity
Q3) Explain the correlation between exercise and mortality rates in middle-adulthood?
Q4) What term is used for deposits of plaque in the arteries which cause them to narrow or become blocked?
A) Venosclerosis
B) Osteoarthritis
C) Atherosclerosis
D) Diabetes
Q5) Which of the following is associated with the male climacteric?
A) Enlargement of the testes
B) Increased volume of seminal fluid
C) Increased difficulty attaining and maintaining an erection
D) Increased production of testosterone
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) Max has not planned well for retirement. He is now 60 years old and is facing mandatory retirement in 5 - 7 years. He is deep in debt. According to Dychtwald, what type of retiree will Max likely be?
A) Stretched and stressed
B) Indebted and poor
C) Anxious and idealistic
D) Wealth builder
Q2) Which of the following best exemplifies a "boomerang kid?"
A) Jane, who is 21 and is living at home with her parents while she attends college
B) Richard, a father of 3 who returned home to live with his parents after his wife died so that his parents could help raise his children
C) Joey, who is 35, never married, and returns home after losing a job, which occurs about every six months
D) Malesia, whose culture encourages extended family living together, even after they are married
Q3) Studies support Erikson in his belief that a sense of ________ contributes to mental well-being in mid-life.
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) Mr. Cooper has great difficulty seeing now because the lenses inside his eyes have become clouded over. What is the name of this condition?
A) Glaucoma
B) Cataracts
C) Presbyopia
D) Presbycusis
Q2) Critics of Baltes's theory of wisdom say that he is measuring general ________ rather than wisdom.
Q3) About how long is the maximum human lifespan?
A) about 105 - 110 years
B) 125 years
C) 122 years
D) 110-120 years
Q4) Give an example of a failure of source memory.
Q5) Explain the Hayflick limit.
Q6) Which of the following is the BEST definition of Alzheimer's disease?
A) The late stage of alcohol-induced dementia
B) A severe form of dementia for which the cause is unknown
C) A more severe variation of Wernicke's syndrome
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) Hispanic American, ________ American, and ________ American elders are more likely than others to live with relatives.
Q2) What factors predict the ability to learn new skills in older age?
Q3) Julian is 94 years old; he happily recalls life when he was younger. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and their children. According to Erikson, Julian has achieved ________.
Q4) Which of the following is the best definition of spirituality?
A) A general tendency to focus on aspects of life which transcend one's physical existence
B) Belonging to a mainstream religious group
C) The adherence to a strictly defined set of beliefs
D) A tendency to focus on the philosophical aspects of one's physical existence
Q5) Explain activity theory. Apply this theory to older adults in terms of life satisfaction and health.
Q6) Explain three criticisms of the successful aging paradigm. Ultimately, how do attitudes and the realities of aging interact?
Q7) ________ retirement communities offer a large range of care from independent living to skilled nursing.
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Chapter 19: Death Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) What sort of life experiences will increase a young child's (between the ages of 6 and 9 years) understanding of death?
Q2) What tends to be the most overwhelming feeling which accompanies the death of a loved one?
Q3) According to research, which of the following attitudes was commonly reported by the loved ones of a terminally ill patient who chose a home-based hospice program?
A) They reported relief at having their loved one home.
B) They reported feeling a greater sense of burden.
C) They responded no differently than those whose loved one died in a hospital-based hospice program.
D) The reported greater satisfaction at the quality of care.
Q4) According to research, who would be least afraid to die?
A) 17-year-old Susan
B) 45-year-old Mr. James
C) 60-year-old Mrs. Washington
D) 75-year-old Mr. Jackson
Q5) ________ is a common emotion which accompanies grief.
Q6) Summarize the history and philosophy of hospice care.
Q7) ________ care is administered to control pain and maximize comfort.
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