Family Studies Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Family Studies explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families within diverse cultural, social, and historical contexts. The course examines topics such as family relationships, communication patterns, parenting, life cycle changes, and the impact of external factors like economics, policy, and societal norms on family life. Students will analyze theories and research related to family development, challenges, and resilience, gaining a comprehensive understanding of how families adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world. The course prepares students to critically assess issues affecting families and to apply knowledge in personal, professional, or community settings.
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Essentials of Life Span Development 1st Edition by John W. Santrock
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The difference between a control group and an experimental group is that the
A) control group lacks the independent variable.
B) control group is nothing like the experimental group.
C) experimental group is dependent on the control group.
D) control group is not dependent on the experimental group.
Answer: A
Q2) A group of people born in a specified,limited span of years (e.g.,the 1960s)who experience historical and cultural events at similar points during their lifespan.
Answer: cohort
Q3) According to Jean Piaget,this is the stage of cognitive development when children are between the ages of about 7 to 11 years old.Children at this age think with logic.
Answer: concrete operations
Q4) The capacity for change in either children or adults.
Answer: plasticity
Q5) This cognitive theorist focused on the role of culture in the development of mind and thinking.
Answer: Lev Vygotsky
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Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings
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Q1) As opposed to physicians,doulas tend to:
A) spend more time with patients and give more emotional support.
B) spend less time with patients but give more emotional support.
C) give less emotional support but spend more time with patients.
D) play mostly an educational role,giving some emotional support.
Answer: A
Q2) Gisela is having her first baby and has received a drug that will numb the entire lower area of her body during labor.Gisela has been given a(n) A) epidural.
B) oxytocic.
C) analgesic.
D) hormone.
Answer: A
Q3) Drugs that act on the nervous system to alter states of consciousness,modify perceptions,and change moods.
Answer: psychoactive drugs
Q4) List the three life-support systems that develop during the embryonic period for babies.
Answer: placenta,umbilical cord,amnion
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Child-directed speech is the
A) ability for parents to understand their children's holographic speech.
B) unique way that parents (and others)talk to babies.
C) continual correcting of children's syntax by parents.
D) special way parents speak to each other in front of their children.
Answer: B
Q2) Antonio swings his arms while lying in his crib.One of his arms accidentally hits the mobile hanging above him.This causes the mobile to begin to move.Antonio continues to swing his arms but is unable to strike the mobile again.This is an example of a A) habit.
B) reflex.
C) primary circular reaction.
D) secondary circular reaction.
Answer: C
Q3) According to Jean Piaget,actions or mental representations that organize knowledge in infancy.
Answer: behavioral schemes
Q4) Skills that involve large muscle activities such as walking and running.
Answer: gross motor skills
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Chapter 4: Physical Development and Health
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Q1) This theorist was interested in individual differences in attachment and developed the observational measure called the Strange Situation in order to formulate and test his/her theories.
Q2) Describe the three main types of insecurely attached infants.
Q3) Attachment refers to
A) a close bond between an infant and a caregiver.
B) a close bond between an infant and a contact comfort object.
C) an infant's tendency to use the mother as a secure base for exploring the world.
D) a positive reaction to being held and played with by people other than the primary caregiver.
Q4) Describe the classic study of attachment by Harlow.
Q5) Blanca rarely holds her baby Joey and tends to respond to his needs in an angry,irritable fashion.It is most likely that Joey will develop a _________ with his mother.
A) secure attachment
B) insecure avoidant attachment
C) insecure resistant infant attachment
D) disorganized resistant infant attachment
Q6) This theorist argues that inhibition is the key characteristics of temperament.
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Chapter 5: Motor,Sensory,and Perceptual Development
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Q1) The memory component in which individuals retain information for up to 30 seconds,assuming there is no rehearsal of the information.
Q2) What have been found to be the two most important contributors to height differences among children worldwide?
A) nutrition and exercise
B) ethnic origin and social class
C) prenatal care and emotional difficulties
D) ethnic origin and nutrition
Q3) The knowledge that superficial changes in appearance in objects do not change the fundamental attributes of objects (such as mass or volume).
Q4) List the two stages of preoperational thought,define/describe the child's thinking at that stage,and identify the age range for that stage.
Q5) The process by which a "teacher" keeps up with the ongoing progress of the "learner" by changing the level of support over a teaching session.
Q6) List two ways that children's ability to pay attention changes during the preschool years.
Q7) The awareness of one's own mental processes and the mental processes of others.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches
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Q1) Which of the following emotions are NOT in the same "category" as the other three?
A) embarrassment
B) shame
C) guilt
D) fear
Q2) Dante is encouraged by his parents to control himself and delay gratification.His parents give him some say in the rules of the house and are more likely to talk to him when he makes a mistake than to use physical discipline.His parents are MOST likely
A) Latino.
B) authoritative.
C) divorced but co-parenting.
D) of a higher socioeconomic status.
Q3) List four characteristics that are generally associated with the firstborn child.Discuss what accounts for these differences.
Q4) This theorist stated that the psychological stage of childhood was "initiative versus guilt."
Q5) A kind of physical discipline that is primarily characterized by spanking.
Q6) The social and psychological dimensions of being male or female.
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Chapter 7: Information Processing
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Q1) Less than 1% of mentally retarded Americans are considered to be
A) mildly retarded.
B) moderately retarded.
C) severely retarded.
D) profoundly retarded.
Q2) Based on the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2003),the author of your text proposed several strategies to try to get children to exercise more.List at least two ways to get children to exercise more.
Q3) Colin does not earn high grades on standardized tests but has a black belt in martial arts.According to Gardner,Colin has _______ skills.
A) spatial
B) intrapersonal
C) bodily-kinesthetic
D) interpersonal
Q4) The type of thinking that produces many answers to the same question is called A) divergent thinking.
B) convergent thinking.
C) expressive thinking.
D) multiple thinking.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) Why are there more elementary and secondary school children living in stepfamilies than there are infants and preschool children?
A) People tend not to have more children when they remarry.
B) A major cause of divorce is problems older children cause families.
C) Remarriages consolidate children into blended families.
D) It takes time to marry,have children,divorce,and remarry.
Q2) How does Kohlberg's theory of moral development differ from Gilligan's theory?
Q3) Thinking about social matters.
Q4) The FOURTH STAGE,at the end of the SECOND LEVEL,of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning.At this stage,moral judgments are based on understanding the social order,law,justice,and duty.
Q5) What does the research indicate about heart disease?
A) Women are slightly more likely to develop heart disease.
B) Women are four times more likely to die of heart attacks.
C) Men are twice as likely to develop heart disease.
D) Men have more heart attacks than women but more frequently recover from them,whereas women are more likely to die of a heart attack.
Q6) The global evaluative dimension of the self.
Q7) List the five peer statuses in middle childhood.
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) List at least three cognitive changes during adolescence that allow for improved critical thinking skills.
Q2) Which theorist believed that adolescence is a time of "storm and stress"?
A) Anna Freud
B) Jean Piaget
C)G.Stanley Hall
D) Daniel Offer
Q3) Recent research about hormones and behavior have found the relationship to be:
A) unidirectional.
B) bidirectional.
C) correlative.
D) not statistically significant.
Q4) For the majority of teens,adolescence is marked by:
A) stress and storm.
B) rebellion.
C) self-confidence.
D) low self-esteem.
Q5) Who is most likely to suffer from an eating disorder,and what characterizes the eating disorder anorexia nervosa? What characterizes the eating disorder bulimia nervosa?
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) An adolescent "group" consisting of about five individuals who are about the same age and gender.
Q2) This identity status is characterized by a commitment to a self-identity following a period of crisis.
Q3) Discuss the dimensions of individuality and connectedness.
Q4) Because of his Asian background,everyone expects Wen-Yen to excel in school.This type of stereotype exists because Wen-Yen is a member of:
A) a pluralistic society.
B) a higher social class.
C) a "model minority" group.
D) an assimilated minority group.
Q5) Which of the following best describes how childhood peer groups differ from adolescent peer groups?
A) Childhood peer groups are not as formalized as adolescent peer groups.
B) Childhood peer groups are more formalized than adolescent peer groups.
C) Childhood peer groups have more opposite-sex participation in groups than adolescent peer groups.
D) Childhood peer groups are more heterogeneous than adolescent peer groups.
Q6) Explain Erik Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development.
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Chapter 11: The Self and Identity
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Q1) The main cognitive change between formal operational and postformal thought is _________ thinking.
A) abstract
B) concrete
C) reflective
D) quantitative
Q2) In survey of drinking patterns on college campuses,which was NOT a problem reported by binge drinkers?
A) having unprotected sex
B) using illicit drugs
C) missing classes
D) physical injuries
Q3) When Franklin composes musical concertos,he becomes totally absorbed and experiences extreme happiness.This is called:
A) bliss.
B) flow.
C) euphoria.
D) nirvana.
Q4) Explain the postformal stage of thought.
Q5) List at least four features of emerging adulthood.
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Chapter 12: Gender
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Q1) Relationships with spouses and lovers tend to differ from relationships with friends in the areas of:
A) sexuality and infatuation.
B) intimacy and spontaneity.
C) dependency and trust.
D) respect and confiding.
Q2) Angelina is having some difficulty with her boyfriend.She wants to maintain a close and supportive relationship,but at times she feels smothered by the relationship.Angelina is:
A) experiencing a conflict between intimacy and independence.
B) showing the pseudo-intimate style of intimate interaction.
C) functioning at the self-focused level of relationship maturity.
D) experiencing an imbalance between parental connectedness and intimacy.
Q3) In which country is cohabitation virtually universal before marriage?
A) France
B) Sweden
C) the United States
D) Kenya
Q4) List five principles,identified by Gottman,that make a marriage work.
Q5) List three of the benefits of a good marriage.
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Chapter 13: Moral Development
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Q1) After menopause,most women experience:
A) prolonged depression.
B) a loss of sexuality or sexual desire.
C) an increase in psychological disorders related to menopause.
D) no known negative effects.
Q2) When it comes to treating male menopause,hormone treatments are:
A) effective.
B) not effective.
C) effective only after age 60 years.
D) effective in about two-thirds of cases.
Q3) A reasonable explanation for why 40-year-olds and 60-year-olds show differences in intelligence test scores is:
A) secular trends.
B) cohort effects.
C) declining IQ with age.
D) biases in IQ testing.
Q4) List the five leading causes of death in middle adulthood.
Q5) The midlife transition,for both men and women,in which fertility declines.
Q6) Briefly discuss the conditions that may occur with menopause.
Q7) List three ways that memory generally changes during middle adulthood.
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Chapter 14: Families
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Q1) List at least three major conflicts that men must come to grips with during the change to middle adulthood according to Levinson.
Q2) ) According to Erik Erikson,developing a strong sense of generativity in middle adulthood can help a person achieve a sense of ________ in later adulthood.
A) integrity
B) autonomy
C) intimacy
D) independence
Q3) List at least two criticisms of the adult stage theories of Erikson,Vaillant,and Levinson.
Q4) Girard and his sister were never close growing up.Now that they are adults,their relationship is:
A) very close.
B) neutral.
C) distant.
D) improving.
Q5) According to Erik Erikson,this term refers to an adults' desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation.
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Chapter 15: Peers
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Q1) Your 90-year-old uncle complains that he cannot get around the way he used to.He has trouble getting up out of chairs and difficulty walking across the room when he does get up.Can you help him?
A) Yes,you could have him take estrogen to improve his bone structure.
B) No,this sort of physical decline is inevitable and irreversible.
C) Yes,you could help him do exercises to improve his balance and walking.
D) No,physical exercise only tends to make the physical declines of old age worse.
Q2) After about age 60:
A) both men and women lose weight.
B) men lose weight,but women do not lose weight.
C) women lose weight,but men do not lose weight.
D) only individuals with health problems,men or women,lose weight.
Q3) A person's knowledge about the world is called ________ memory.
A) schematic
B) functional
C) normative
D) semantic
Q4) Discuss the cellular clock theory of aging.
Q5) List at least four ways in which physical appearance changes in late adulthood.
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Chapter 16: Schools and Achievement
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Q1) What percentage of elderly women who live alone live in poverty?
A) 12
B) 18
C) 25
D) 44
Q2) The process of looking back at one's life experiences,evaluating them,interpreting them,and often reinterpreting them.
Q3) As adults get older,friendships:
A) become less important than in youth.
B) remain equally as important as in youth.
C) become more important for women,less for men.
D) are more important than family for mental health.
Q4) According to the socioemotional selectivity theory,individuals are motivated by two types of goals-emotional and:
A) spiritual.
B) practical.
C) relational.
D) cognitive.
Q5) Describe the selective optimization with compensation model.
Q6) Describe the socioemotional selectivity theory.
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Chapter 17: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) Grief is MOST like:
A) an emotional volcano that erupts,then slowly dies out.
B) a roller coaster,because it goes up and down.
C) a sequence of stages,each with a specific length of time.
D) a flood that gradually swells to an emotional pitch.
Q2) In what ways can denial of death be a positive response?
A) Denial can help one accept the reality of one's death.
B) Denial can soften the emotional impact of impending death.
C) Denial can help one prepare family members for one's death.
D) Denial can prevent one from receiving unnecessary medical interventions.
Q3) According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,when a dying person finally accepts the fact of impending death and becomes depressed about it,which of the following would be MOST appropriate?
A) Remind the person of all his or her positive life achievements.
B) Tell humorous stories in order to help to cheer up the person.
C) Allow the person to experience and work through the depression.
D) Increase the person's medication so he or she will have fewer negative feelings.
Q4) Define euthanasia.Name and describe the two types of euthanasia.
Q5) Define and discuss the purpose of a living will.
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