Family Studies
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Family Studies explores the structure, function, and dynamics of families across diverse cultural and societal contexts. This course examines theories and research on family relationships, roles, communication patterns, and development over the life cycle. Students will analyze contemporary issues such as parenting, marriage, family diversity, work-family balance, and the impact of social change on family life. Emphasis is placed on understanding the challenges faced by families and the strategies for promoting healthy family functioning and well-being.
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HDEV 2nd Canadian Edition by Spencer Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) How has the idea that childhood is a special time of life developed over time?
A) This idea declined throughout the 20th century.
B) This idea became evident during the Industrial Revolution.
C) This idea occurred at a time of ease and play for children during the Industrial Revolution.
D) This idea corresponded to the Middle Ages and the importance of children in the family during this time.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Freud's theory, what behaviour can result from becoming fixated during the anal stage of development?
A) being overly dependent
B) being untidy and careless
C) being shy and overcautious
D) being very gullible (easily fooled)
Answer: B
Q3) Freud believed the superego developed to force the id to follow rules.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Prenatal Development
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Q1) John thinks his neighbour's child has Down syndrome.His wife looks closely at the child's face and shakes her head.What facial characteristic did Mary notice that suggests the child does NOT have Down syndrome?
A) a protruding tongue
B) a pointy nose
C) a sloping fold of skin over the inner corners of the eyes
D) a rounded face
Answer: B
Q2) What is the result of a zygote that divides into two cells that separate?
A) mitosis
B) dizygotic twins
C) cross-fertilization
D) monozygotic twins
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is a characteristic of toxemia?
A) It has clear causal factors.
B) It sometimes causes maternal death.
C) It is a problem for only the unborn child.
D) It usually causes babies to be born extremely overweight.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Baby: in the New World
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Q1) Newborns are colour blind and farsighted at birth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What advantages do the senses of hearing and smell provide to a newborn?
A) These senses may assist in the attachment process.
B) The newborn can devote all its energy to developing other abilities.
C) These senses will alert the infant to danger, by triggering a startle reflex.
D) These senses will speed up how quickly the infant can leave the hospital.
Answer: A
Q3) The Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths has made recommendations to help young parents reduce the risk factors associated with sudden infant death syndrome.What is the name of the educational campaign?
A) Back to Sleep
B) No More Fluffy Blankets
C) Butt Out
D) Belly Sleepers
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) You are a new parent, and you want to ensure you provide proper nutrition to your child.What is an appropriate guideline to follow concerning your infant's diet?
A) Provide as much fibre as possible.
B) Do NOT overly restrict infant fat and cholesterol intake.
C) Infants will show a preference for those foods they need the most.
D) Sugar and salt do NOT need to be minimized as the child's body is deficient in these.
Q2) Which of the following observations does NOT support the notion that perception becomes more active through childhood?
A) Infants scan their environments more purposefully as they get older.
B) Infants search their environments more systematically as they get older.
C) Infants are better able to ignore irrelevant information as they get older.
D) Attention becomes more general, and children pay attention to more stimuli as they get older.
Q3) How quickly does the infant brain grow?
A) It develops slowly over the first 10 years of childhood.
B) It grows more slowly than the rest of the body.
C) It triples in weight by the child's first birthday.
D) It reaches 70% of its adult weight in adolescence.
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Cooing is the same thing as crying.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Infants are unable to imitate others' behaviours until 6 months of age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By approximately 6 months of age, infants tend to look for objects that are dropped.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Tertiary circular reactions occur when infants engage in purposeful adaptations of established schemes to specific situations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do a newborn's reflexes develop?
Q6) According to psycholinguistic theory, language acquisition involves an interaction between environmental influences and an inborn tendency to acquire language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Ainsworth and her colleagues identified three phases of attachment.Which of the following was NOT one of the three phases?
A) the initial-preattachment phase
B) the attachment-in-the-making phase
C) the clear-cut-attachment phase
D) the solidification-attachment phase
Q2) What behavioural aspect is NOT included in temperament?
A) activity level
B) regularity in eating and sleep habits
C) cognitive ability and mastering tasks
D) adaptability to new situations
Q3) Which of the following best defines emotional regulation?
A) the overcoming of stranger anxiety
B) the ways in which young children control their emotions
C) a parent's attempt to reduce negative emotionality in a child
D) an infant's attempt to be aware of the range of emotions she feels
Q4) Infants do NOT use caregivers' facial expressions to interpret situations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Adults treat boys and girls the same in all ways.
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Chapter 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Zack enjoys drawing basic shapes and is good at it.How old is Zack likely to be?
A) 1 year
B) 18 months
C) 2 years
D) 3 years
Q2) What is the current advice regarding whether a sleepwalker should be wakened?
A) They should NOT be wakened because waking them could cause them harm.
B) They should be wakened because they are NOT really asleep.
C) They should be wakened, but most will just go back to bed.
D) They should NOT be wakened because they could become extremely violent.
Q3) Jeff wonders whether his second child, Willem, will have the same experience in developing motor skills as Jeff's first child, Maya.Which of the following would you tell Jeff?
A) Boys begin utilizing motor skills earlier than girls.
B) Early experience seems to affect the development of motor skills.
C) Genetics makes no difference because motor skills are based on experience.
D) Experience makes no difference because motor skills are based on maturation.
Q4) At 2 years of age, the brain already has attained 75% of its adult weight.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Gender stereotypes are usually true.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What type of child is most likely to demonstrate prosocial behaviour?
A) a child whose parents explain how her behaviour affects others
B) a child who is insecurely attached to her parents
C) a child whose parents use power-assertive techniques of discipline
D) a child who did NOT have the opportunity to experience non-interactive play
Q3) Sex hormones and other chemical substances stoke the prenatal differentiation of sex organs
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which word best describes power-assertive parents?
A) indulgent
B) permissive
C) authoritative
D) authoritarian
Q5) How do the social cognitive and evolutionary theories differ in how they explain gender-role development?
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Chapter 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) What is a key component of the information-processing view of cognitive development?
A) expansive attention
B) random retrieval processes
C) selective attention processes
D) a limit on how much information can be stored in long-term memory
Q2) Right and wrong are judged by conforming to social conventions in the conventional level of moral development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) At approximately what age does a child usually develop the coordination required for gymnastics?
A) at approximately age 4
B) at approximately age 5
C) at approximately age 6
D) at approximately age 8
Q4) What does has research found in terms of the theories that explain dyslexia and whether a genetic link exists?
Q5) Are Canadian children physically fit? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which factor is NOT highly related to high self-esteem during middle childhood?
A) body type
B) gender
C) closeness to parents
D) parenting style
Q2) Self-esteem tends to increase during middle childhood as children become more realistic in their appraisal of their abilities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is NOT characteristic of the relationship between teacher expectations and student performance?
A) High expectations tend to create high achievement.
B) Low expectations tend to create low achievement.
C) Self-fulfilling prophecies may come into play.
D) Only popular teachers can influence student performances.
Q4) Self-esteem declines in middle childhood as children perform more poorly in academics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) What are the sex differences in cognitive abilities in adolescence?
Q2) The personal fable is another example of adolescent egocentrism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The secondary sex characteristics of boys develop simultaneously.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the function of menstruation?
A) to prepare the uterus for childbirth
B) to slough off the endometrium
C) to increase the temperature in the ovaries so the ova can ripen
D) to cleanse the uterus to prepare it for implantation of an ovum
Q5) Which of the following is NOT a major achievement of formal operational thinking?
A) conservation
B) classification
C) logical thought
D) hypothetical thought
Q6) Describe G.Stanley Hall's views of adolescent development?
Q7) What are the characteristics of moral development in adolescence?
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Chapter 12: Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following is similar to Marcia's ego identity statuses of diffusion or foreclosure?
A) unexamined ethnic identity
B) ethnic identity search
C) achieved ethnic identity
D) ethnic differentiation
Q2) Which of the following is most likely to be the consequence of an adolescent boy who rejects the dominant culture's values and embraces the values of the minority group?
A) He may limit his opportunities for advancement in the larger society.
B) He may eliminate the problems that minority adolescents otherwise face.
C) He may find the situation to be more problematic than it would be for a female adolescent.
D) He may create more anxiety than if he tried to find a balance between the minority and dominant cultural values.
Q3) Which of the following is Phinney's ethnic identity search most comparable to?
A) Marcia's identity diffusion
B) Erikson's identity foreclosure
C) Marcia's identity moratorium
D) Erikson's ego identity
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Chapter 13: Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a common challenge people experience in their careers?
A) learning how to carry out a job
B) evaluating one's occupational choice
C) finding a sponsor or mentor to "learn the ropes"
D) coping with low pay and unsatisfying work conditions
Q2) Most people between their late teens and early 20s recognize that they are NOT fully adults yet.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Methamphetamine is a dangerous stimulant that may cause brain damage. A)True
B)False
Q4) Substance abuse is defined by drug use that interferes with one or more aspects of one's daily life.
A)True B)False
Q5) Visual acuity is at its peak during early adulthood. A)True B)False
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Chapter 14: Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) According to Erikson, what stage of development occurs during early adulthood?
A) the intimacy vs. despair stage
B) the identity vs. intimacy stage
C) the intimacy vs. isolation stage
D) the identity vs. identify confusion stage
Q2) Alan and Susan Smith have transitioned into the early adulthood phase.According to your textbook they are about to experience the MOST significant level of stress.Which of the following most likely describes their situation?
A) They are highly traditional parents and their son is leaving home to attend university in a different city.
B) They are highly traditional parents and their daughter is leaving home to attend university in a different city.
C) They view themselves as competent parents, yet now their son is leaving home to attend university in a different city.
D) They view themselves as competent parents, yet now their daughter is leaving home to attend university in a different city.
Q3) Is cohabitation a good trial marriage? Why or why not?
Q4) What are the consequences of loneliness?
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Chapter 15: Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Exercise and good diet may stave off erectile dysfunction for some middle-aged men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes what is known about cancer in middle adulthood?
A) It is rarely preventable.
B) It can often be controlled or cured.
C) African Canadian women have a higher rate of cervical cancer than any other demographic group.
D) Asian Canadians have twice the average death rate from prostate cancer.
Q3) Heart disease and cancer are often preventable in middle adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT an effect of estrogen deficiency?
A) It is linked to osteoporosis.
B) It is linked to a loss of breast tissue.
C) It is linked to cognitive impairments.
D) It is linked to uterine cancer.
Q5) What causes adult-onset diabetes?
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Chapter 16: Middle Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) According to Havighurst, keeping our work performance at a satisfactory level is considered a developmental task during which stage?
A) adolescence
B) early adulthood
C) middle adulthood
D) late adulthood
Q2) The majority of people in middle adulthood have at least one living brother or sister.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a study of lesbian and bisexual grandmothers, they believed that they were important sources of emotional support and help for their children and important sources of emotional support for their grandchildren.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research suggests that among siblings in middle adulthood, sisters tend to establish more intimate relationships than brothers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Late Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes substance abuse?
A) It is rare in older adults.
B) It occurs only with non-prescription, illicit drugs.
C) It leads to hospitalization of hundreds of thousands of adults each year.
D) It rarely occurs when a doctor prescribes a medication to an older adult.
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes life expectancy in Canada?
A) It varies depending on where you live geographically in Canada.
B) It is based solely on poor health behaviours.
C) It increased for a number of years, but has stabilized in the past two decades.
D) It varies depending on gender and the decade in which you were born.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT characteristic of normal aging?
A) Physiological processes decline slowly with age.
B) People are able to enjoy many years of health and vitality into late adulthood.
C) The body produces an overabundance of antioxidants, leading to circulatory problems.
D) Many Canadians over the age of 65 live close to the economic poverty line.
Q4) How do programmed and cellular damage theories differ in their explanations of aging?
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Chapter 18: Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following does NOT characterize retirement planning in Canada?
A) Retirement planning can provide for more successful retirement.
B) For couples whose relationship has high levels of satisfaction, retirement planning is more often done together.
C) In heterosexual couples, retirement planning is more often organized by women than by men.
D) Men in same-sex couples are more likely to do retirement planning than women in same-sex couples.
Q2) According to disengagement theory, when older adults disengage from society and society disengages from them, they will be dissatisfied with life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best characterizes men who are widowed compared with women who are widowed?
A) Widowed men are more likely to remarry.
B) Widowed men are less likely to be depressed.
C) Widowed men are more likely to make use of social networks.
D) Widowed men are more adept at aspects of self and household care.
Q4) How do older adults prepare for a successful retirement?
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Chapter 19: Life's
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Q1) Grief usually involves a combination of emotions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following does NOT describe the story of Nancy B.?
A) She was a young woman who was living with an incurable disease (Guillain-Barré syndrome) and bedridden for life.
B) She asked the doctors to disconnect the respirator that was keeping her alive, arguing that no one can be made to undergo treatment without consent.
C) The Supreme Court denied her argument, stating that to allow this act would erode the belief of the Canadian people in the sanctity of life.
D) The courts allowed this request stating that the doctors would NOT be aiding the patient to commit suicide.
Q3) Terminal sedation is a method typically used to hasten death.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How does the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) define the several different definitions to be used when discussing end-of-life medical decisions?
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