Family Studies
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Family Studies explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families within diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts. The course examines stages of family development, communication patterns, roles and relationships, and the impact of societal changes on family life. Topics may include parenting, marriage and partnerships, kinship, family health, conflict resolution, and the influence of policy and economics on family well-being. Through theoretical frameworks and practical examples, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how families shape and are shaped by the world around them.
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HDEV 5th Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) Punishments such as spanking are considered less effective than types of discipline that provide alternative, acceptable behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The nature-nurture debate is concerned with:
A) the question of why genes are more influential in development than environment.
B) the question of why the environment is more important in development than evolution.
C) the relationship between heredity and environmental influences on human development.
D) the claim that females are more intelligent for genetic reasons.
Answer: C
Q3) Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that children were born inherently evil.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Prenatal Development
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Q1) _____ is a life-threatening disease, characterized by high blood pressure that may afflict women late in the second or early in the third trimester.
A) Rubella
B) Syphilis
C) Preeclampsia
D) Phenylketonuria
Answer: C
Q2) Who among the following share 100% of their genes?
A) Biovular twins
B) Fraternal twins
C) Dizygotic (DZ) twins
D) Monozygotic (MZ) twins
Answer: D
Q3) The field of biology that studies heredity is called:
A) etiology.
B) ecology.
C) genetics.
D) eugenics.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Baby: in
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Q1) The _____ in our brain causes us to breathe if we are in need of oxygen.
A) cerebellum
B) medulla
C) thalamus
D) hypothalamus
Answer: B
Q2) _____ would be most effective in preventing the circulatory systems of a mother and baby from mixing during childbirth.
A) The Lamaze method
B) A cesarean section
C) The biofeedback method
D) Hypnosis
Answer: B
Q3) _____ refers to the typical 9-month period from conception to childbirth.
A) Preterm
B) Postpartum period
C) Term
D) Critical period
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) Juan, a three-year-old baby, fell from his bed and ever since has had poor limb, and eye control. He also finds it difficult to hold his toys. Which part of Juan's brain is most likely to be damaged?
A) The medulla
B) The cerebellum
C) The cerebrum
D) The hypothalamus
Q2) In the context of the ability of neonates to lift and hold their torsos and heads, which of the following is true?
A) They generally manage to hold their heads quite well; hence, supporting the head is not necessary.
B) They cannot move their heads on their own.
C) They can move their heads slightly to the side.
D) They can lift their heads and torsos for short periods of time when on their stomachs.
Q3) Discuss the development of hearing in neonates.
Q4) Briefly explain cephalocaudal development in neonates.
Q5) In the context of development, discuss the adaptability of the human brain.
Q6) Briefly explain proximodistal development in infants.
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) According to research by Imuta et al. in 2013, infant memory can be improved if infants receive a reminder before their memory is tested.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During a study, Rovee-Collier and her colleagues tied one end of a ribbon to a brightly colored mobile and the other end to an infant's ankle. Which of the following did this study measure?
A) Object permanence
B) Habituation
C) Memory in infants
D) Primary circular reactions in infants
Q3) Cognitive development proceeds in the same way and at the same pace for all infants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Screening infants does not help detect early signs of sensory or neurological problems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) A(n) _____ is best described as a state of feeling with physiological, situational, and cognitive components.
A) emotion
B) outlook
C) quality
D) trait
Q2) Which of the following is a difference between children with day-care experience and home-reared children?
A) Children placed in day care are always less aggressive toward peers and adults than home-reared children.
B) Children with day-care experience are more peer oriented and play at higher developmental levels than home-reared children.
C) Children in high-quality day care are less likely to share their toys than home-reared children.
D) Children from high-quality day-care centers are less likely to be disruptive than home-reared children.
Q3) What are the three phases of attachment in infants identified by Mary Ainsworth and her colleagues?
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Chapter 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Provide a brief account of enuresis.
Q2) A parent who demonstrates to a child how to tie his or her shoes and then gradually turns over the responsibility of the task to the child is exhibiting _________.
A) cognitive scaffolding
B) cognitive centration
C) cognitive attachment
D) cognitive conservation
Q3) Explain Vygotsky's concept of inner speech.
Q4) American children spend more time watching television than they do in school.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following statements is true of accidents?
A) Girls are more likely than boys to incur accidental injuries.
B) Poor children are more likely to die from fires than other children.
C) Poor children are less likely to die in motor vehicle accidents than other children.
D) Accidents cause less deaths than any other causes of deaths.
Q6) In the context of cognitive development of children, write a note on Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD).
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true of preoperational children?
A) They tend to be able to see things from the vantage points of others.
B) They tend to be egocentric.
C) They interact with other children to achieve common, group goals.
D) They tend to exhibit empathy.
Q2) _________parents tend to impose rules and watch their children closely.
A) Permissive
B) Restrictive
C) Negligent
D) Indulgent
Q3) How do the evolutionary and social cognitive theories differ in how they explain gender-role development?
Q4) _________methods to enforce restrictions on children include physical punishment and denial of privileges.
A) Deductive
B) Permissive-indulgent
C) Authoritative
D) Power-assertive
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Q5) Describe the permissive-indulgent parenting style.
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Chapter 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) In the word-recognition method, children learn to associate written letters and letter combinations (such as "ph" or "sh") with the sounds they indicate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements suggests that dyslexia has a genetic component to it?
A) Dyslexia affects anywhere from 5% to 17.5% of American children.
B) Dyslexic children understand sounds more acutely than other children do.
C) Most studies show that dyslexia is much more common in boys than in girls.
D) 25% to 65% of children who have one dyslexic parent are dyslexic themselves.
Q3) Seven-year-old George, who possesses average academic ability, is a problematic student. He continuously disrupts the classroom decorum and talks to other children while they are working. He shows no interest in activities that require his attention for a length of time and usually acts on his impulses. In this scenario, George is most likely suffering from ____.
A) autism
B) dyslexia
C) Asperger's disorder
D) attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following theories focuses on the importance of rewards and modeling in middle childhood?
A) Gender schema theory
B) Psychoanalytic theory
C) Cognitive-dissonance theory
D) Social cognitive theory
Q2) Minnie is six years old. She has frequent nightmares about her mother abandoning her and wakes up with chills. She throws tantrums to avoid school as well. Minnie's behavior best illustrates _____.
A) postpartum depression
B) seasonal affective disorder
C) transient tic disorder
D) separation anxiety disorder
Q3) Discuss the dilemma of marital conflict. Should a couple remain married for the sake of their children?
Q4) In middle childhood, children depend more on external rewards and punishments and struggle to regulate their own behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) 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) Historically, it has been believed that 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.
Q2) In the _________of Stage 5, it is recognized that laws stem from agreed-on procedures and that many rights have great value and should not be violated.
A) contractual, legalistic orientation
B) universal ethical principles orientation
C) conventional morality orientation
D) social contract orientation
Q3) Which of the following brakes the female growth spurt during adolescence?
A) Testosterone
B) Menarche
C) Estrogen
D) Oxytocin
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Chapter 12: Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Girls are much more likely than boys to engage in delinquent behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Peers exhibit higher influence on adolescents than parents in matters pertaining to _____.
A) speech patterns
B) educational goals
C) moral values
D) religious beliefs
Q3) People's sexual orientation always corresponds to their sexual identity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe peer groups during adolescence.
Q5) Teenagers who _____ are less likely to initiate sexual activity at an early age.
A) have close relationships with their parents
B) face trouble communicating with their parents
C) have sexually active peers
D) experience precocious puberty and have older friends
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Q6) According to researchers, what are the three stages in the development of ethnic identity?
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Chapter 13: Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Nikolai is a 20-year-old young man. When asked whether he thinks he has become an adult, he replies "In some respects yes and in other respects no." Nikolai is not completely dependent on his parents, but he is not yet fully self-supporting. In the context of the characteristics of emerging adulthood theorized by Jeffrey Arnett, Nikolai is _____.
A) illustrating egocentrism
B) illustrating narcissism
C) experiencing the feature of feeling in-between
D) experiencing the feature of stability
Q2) Which of the following is true of skin changes that occur toward the end of early adulthood?
A) The skin becomes more elastic.
B) Signs of skin deterioration are more common in women than in men.
C) Skin tightening, a sign of skin deterioration, occurs toward the end of early adulthood.
D) The skin continues to be wrinkle free.
Q3) Discuss the effects of stress and on the health of young adults.
Q4) Discuss obesity and its causes in emerging adulthood.
Q5) Explain Labouvie-Vief's theory of pragmatic thought.
Q6) Describe substance use and abuse in early adulthood.
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Chapter 14: Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Discuss the characteristics of lonely people.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of parenthood?
A) Bearing children in developed nations is generally seen as something that ideally occurs in middle adulthood.
B) It is unlikely that having a child will save a marriage.
C) Most couples in developed nations report that they choose to have children to have additional farmhands for labor.
D) The father is always the primary caregiver.
Q3) _________is associated with whirlwind courtships that burn brightly but briefly as the partners realize that they are not well matched.
A) Companionate love
B) Consummate love
C) Empty love
D) Fatuous love
Q4) According to Erik Erikson, an absent or fluctuating ego identity is connected with a high divorce rate in teenage marriages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Describe the sexual dysfunctions among men and women in middle adulthood.
Q2) Crystallized intelligence tends to decrease during adulthood, while fluid intelligence tends to increase.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The _________is the body's defense against infections and some other sources of disease.
A) respiratory system
B) cardiovascular system
C) immune system
D) nervous system
Q4) Which of the following terms refers to the foreign substances that enter the body?
A) Antigens
B) Leukocytes
C) Antibodies
D) Erythrocytes
Q5) Discuss the physical changes in middle adulthood.
Q6) Discuss the signs and symptoms of heart disease in middle adulthood.
Q7) How does aerobic capacity change during middle adulthood?
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Chapter 16: Middle Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Van Hiel and colleagues found that those research participants who had the highest level of what Erikson would call generativity scored significantly higher in the personality variable of _________.
A) neuroticism
B) conscientiousness
C) agreeableness
D) extraversion
Q2) Identify an event that is likely to trigger a midlife crisis among middle-aged adults.
A) The acquisition of a new home
B) The birth of nephews and nieces
C) The death of a parent or a friend
D) The wedding of a grandchild
Q3) Hannah is extremely sensitive in nature and is prone to moodiness. She also gets very nervous on occasions. According to the "big five" model of personality factors, Hannah displays _____.
A) neuroticism
B) hyperactivity
C) conscientiousness
D) attention deficit
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Chapter 17: Late Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true of free radicals?
A) They are produced during metabolism by oxidation.
B) They elongate telomeres.
C) They loosen body proteins and tissues.
D) They accelerate the secretion of enzymes by the endocrine system.
Q2) Following the decline in bone density in late adulthood, men stand about twice the risk of hip fractures and about eight times the risk of spine fractures that women do.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Age-related decline in reading comprehension is related to:
A) a distortion or decay of long-term memory.
B) a decrease in the scope of working memory.
C) an increase in the associative ability and associative memory.
D) an increase in the processing speed.
Q4) Discuss the occurrence and reasons of arthritis among late adults.
Q5) Sleep problems in late adulthood may involve physical changes that bring discomfort.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 18: Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Drugs are the most reliable ways to ease the discomforts of older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Based on research conducted by Shiota and Levenson, middle-aged married couples with differences in conscientiousness and extraversion:
A) are unlikely to handle individual and shared responsibilities well.
B) are likely to be satisfied in their marriages.
C) tend to have more conflicts over division of labor.
D) tend to achieve body transcendence rather than ego transcendence.
Q3) The developmental task of body transcendence versus body preoccupation is best described as:
A) transcending death by lending financial support to people.
B) placing more value on cognitive activities and social relationships.
C) preparing to go beyond the physical limitations of one's life.
D) redefining one's identity outside the workplace.
Q4) Among the psychological problems faced by older adults, _________is rare.
A) depression
B) generalized anxiety disorder
C) panic disorder
D) phobic disorder
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Chapter 19: Lifes
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Q1) Which of the following accurately defines mourning?
A) It describes customary methods of expressing grief.
B) It refers to the inability to bounce back after bereavement.
C) It focuses on the acceptance of one's mortality.
D) It refers to the denial of a loss of a loved one.
Q2) Unlike hospitals, hospices:
A) consider the entire family to be the unit of care.
B) focus on curative treatment rather than palliative care.
C) tend to be highly expensive.
D) function to save lives of patients.
Q3) Discuss the prevalence and benefits of hospice care in the United States.
Q4) The term _________refers to the purposeful taking of a person's life through gentle or painless means to relieve pain or suffering.
A) brain death
B) sedation
C) euthanasia
D) suicide
Q5) Discuss physician-assisted suicide as a form of active voluntary euthanasia.
Q6) Discuss critics' exceptions to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's hypothesis of the five stages of dying.
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