Family Studies Review Questions
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Family Studies is an interdisciplinary course that explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families in contemporary society. It examines the roles and relationships within families, the impact of cultural, social, and economic factors on family life, and the various stages of the family life cycle. The course covers topics such as parenting, communication, marriage, family diversity, and the challenges families face in a changing world. Additionally, students will analyze policies and support systems related to family well-being, fostering a deeper understanding of how families contribute to individual development and societal stability.
Recommended Textbook Children and Their Development 4th Canadian Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Science of Child Development
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Q1) According to Erikson's theory of psychosocial development,development is
A)the result of a natural unfolding of biological plans.
B)determined by the resolution of conflicts between one's biological drives and society's standards of right and wrong.
C)the result of children's attempts to understand their worlds.
D)determined by children's resolution of psychological and social crises.
Answer: D
Q2) Creating an emotional bond with the mother is sometimes called A)self-efficacy.
B)adapting.
C)imprinting.
D)maturation.
Answer: C
Q3) Social cognitive theory extended operant conditioning theory by adding the concept of
A)observational learning.
B)punishment.
C)reinforcement.
D)genetic influences.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Genetic Bases of Child Development
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Q1) The behavioural consequences of genetic instructions depend on the environment in which those interactions develop.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Perry was born with phenylketonuria (PKU) which means that
A)she has an intellectual disability and has an extra 21st chromosome.
B)phenylalanine can accumulate and poison her nervous system.
C)she will develop normally until middle adulthood,at which time her nervous system will begin to deteriorate.
D)she has a missing chromosome and will have a severe intellectual disability.
Answer: B
Q3) About 80 percent of in vitro fertilization attempts succeed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Curly hair,farsightedness,and thick lips are all examples of dominant phenotypes
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
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Q1) According to Jaffee (2003),teenage motherhood leads to harmful consequences through two distinct mechanisms.What are these two distinct mechanisms?
A)social influence and nutrition
B)social influence and social selection
C)social selection and socioeconomic status
D)social selection and social viability
Answer: B
Q2) High levels of hormones during the later phases of pregnancy place women at risk for postpartum depression.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A newborn who is calm and attentive with open eyes is in the state of A)crying.
B)waking activity.
C)alert inactivity.
D)sleeping.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Growth and Health
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Q1) Your friend Felicia is the mother of a 13-year-old daughter,Yvonne.Felicia is concerned that Yvonne is anorexic because she "eats like a bird." What can you tell Felicia about the causes and symptoms of anorexia that will help her identify if Yvonne is anorexic?
Q2) Growth hormone is secreted by the pituitary gland.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dwayne is an early maturing male and Camille is an early maturing female.Which of the following statements about Dwayne and Camille is most likely to be true?
A)Many of the influences that early maturation have on Dwayne and Camille may disappear during adulthood,particularly if a supportive environment is provided.
B)Camille will benefit more from her early maturation than Dwayne will from his.
C)Camille and Dwayne will both be more popular with their peers in school than later maturing adolescents.
D)Camille and Dwayne will both be more self-confident than later maturing adolescents.
Q4) Describe neurons,cell bodies,dendrites,and axons.
Q5) Discuss the two distinct trends that children's growth follows.
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Chapter 5: Perceptual and Motor Development
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Q1) What is habituation and how is it used to study perception in infants?
Q2) ADHD is often treated with stimulant drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Psychosocial treatments have not been effective in the treatment of ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Allan wants to know what kind of sounds his newborn son can hear the best.What could you tell him about infant auditory capabilities?
A)Infants can best hear sounds that are pitched in the range of human speech.
B)Infants can best hear high-pitched sounds.
C)Infants can best hear low-pitched sounds.
D)Infants can hear sounds of all pitches equally well.
Q5) Which of the following is NOT true of 5-month-olds?
A)they can recognize their own name
B)they are sensitive to the rhythmic structure of music
C)they prefer dissonant sounds
D)they can differentiate vowels from consonant sounds
Q6) Discuss what is known about infant visual acuity and colour perception.
Q7) Suzanne wants her children to be more active.What advice can you give her?
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Chapter 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Q1) Centration is characterized by
A)difficulty in seeing the world from another's outlook.
B)crediting inanimate objects with real-life properties.
C)believing an object's appearance tells what the object is really like.
D)focusing on one aspect of a problem while ignoring other relevant aspects of the problem.
Q2) Which is most like a computer's RAM (Random Access Memory)?
A)a memory strategy
B)long-term memory
C)sensory memory
D)working memory
Q3) Mental structures that allow for organization of information into a coherent whole are called schemas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Name and describe the three components of mental hardware,as discussed by the information-processing theory.
Q5) As children gain even greater skill,inner speech becomes private speech.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
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Q1) Infantile amnesia
A)means that adults can remember many events that occurred in their lives before the age of three years.
B)means that infants are not able to form memories.
C)may be related to the young child's well-developed sense of self.
D)may be related to an individual's changing language ability.
Q2) Preschool children use simple memory strategies such as looking at or touching objects that they have been told to remember.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Seventeen-year-old Jalen remembers the day he met his best friend in grade school,the first day of high school,and the day he got his driver's license.This information is part of his
A)sensory store.
B)working memory.
C)autobiographical memory.
D)infantile amnesia.
Q4) Explain what is meant by a memory strategy and discuss how memory strategy use changes with age.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
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Q1) The Bayley Scales of Infant Development consist of five scales that measure mental and motor ability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is an example of stereotype threat?
A)Kyoung Lae is aware of the stereotype that Asians are good at math and as a result,he performs well on a math test.
B)Joanna is aware of the stereotype that females aren't strong in the maths and sciences,so she goes out and performs well in those areas.
C)Jamal is aware of the stereotype that black students don't do well in school and as a result,he struggles on his academic tests.
D)Franklin,an older gentleman,is aware of the stereotype that elderly people move at a slower pace and as a result,he walks even faster.
Q3) All students with learning disabilities
A)need instruction tailored to their individual needs.
B)have problems in phonological awareness.
C)have difficulty performing arithmetic operations.
D)have attention problems.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) Celia has noticed that her seven-month-old daughter has recently begun to raise and lower the pitch of her voice when she babbles so she sometimes sounds as if she is asking questions.Celia's daughter has added ________ to her babbling.
A)cooing
B)repetition
C)vowel sounds
D)intonation
Q2) ________ is the study of how people use language to communicate effectively.
A)Phonology
B)Grammar
C)Semantics
D)Pragmatics
Q3) ________ are words or endings of words (such as -ed or -ing) that make a sentence grammatical.
A)Overextensions
B)Underextensions
C)Grammatical morphemes
D)Overregularizations
Q4) Compare and contrast phonology and morphology
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Studies of temperament in twins have found that
A)fraternal twins are more alike in temperament than are identical twins.
B)identical twins are more alike in temperament than are fraternal twins.
C)there are no differences in the degree of similarity in temperament in fraternal and identical twins.
D)heredity does not seem to influence temperament.
Q2) Four-year-old Allan has a difficult temperament.Four-year-old Ethan has an easy temperament.When they are older and enter school
A)Ethan is more likely than Allan to have behavioural problems.
B)Allan is more likely than Ethan to have behavioural problems.
C)Allan and Ethan are both likely to have behavioural problems.
D)Allan and Ethan are both unlikely to have behavioural problems.
Q3) At roughly 15 to 18 months,the child typically has some ___________________,which pave(s) the way for complex emotions.
A)stranger wariness
B)self-regulation
C)basic emotions
D)understanding of the self
Q4) Discuss how a child's environment can contribute to children's temperament.
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Chapter 11: Understanding Self and Others
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Q1) Children's self-worth depends on being valued regardless of actual competence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Selman's third-person stage of perspective-taking,children can step out of the immediate situation and see how they and another person are viewed by a third person.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is true about helping children with low self-esteem?
A)Therapy directed at increasing self-esteem in children doesn't seem to be effective.
B)Training related to social skills doesn't seem to be effective.
C)Taking the time to recognize each child as an individual creates the feelings of "being special" and therefore helps increase self-esteem.
D)There don't seem to be any effective ways to help children with low self-esteem.
Q4) Adolescents' self-concepts include religious and political beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name and briefly describe Selman's five stages of perspective taking.
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Chapter 12: Moral Understanding and Behaviour
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Q1) According to Crick and Dodge's information-processing model of aggressive children's thinking,
A)aggressive and nonaggressive children do not differ in their processing of social information.
B)aggressive children are less likely to attend to information that signals non-hostile motives.
C)aggressive and nonaggressive children both know the appropriate responses,but aggressive children choose to act aggressively.
D)aggressive children are more skilled at interpreting others' behaviour.
Q2) Children are more likely to act altruistically when it entails few or modest sacrifices. A)True B)False
Q3) Explain and give an example of a "white lie" that might be told by a Chinese child compared to a North American child.
Q4) Aggression is behaviour that is meant to harm others. A)True B)False
Q5) Discuss situational influences on prosocial behaviour.
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Chapter 13: Gender and Development
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Q1) By three years of age,most children show a preference for sex-typed toys.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which pair of children is most likely to have enabling interactions with each other?
A)Sam and John,two boys
B)Drew and Jenny,a boy and a girl
C)Kelsey and Caitlin,two girls
D)Sam and John,Drew and Jenny,and Kelsey and Caitlin are equally likely to have enabling interactions.
Q3) Androgyny is
A)more beneficial for girls than for boys.
B)more beneficial for boys than for girls.
C)equally beneficial for boys and girls.
D)harmful to both boys and girls.
Q4) Your friend insists that gender differences in behaviour are due totally to socialization-that if you treat males and females exactly the same,there will be no differences between them.You disagree,arguing that biology has some influence on gender differences.What research evidence would you cite to support your claim?
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Chapter 14: Social Influences
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Q1) Which of the following statements about child abuse is TRUE?
A)Children are less likely to be abused in countries such as the U.S.and Canada where physical punishment is somewhat condoned.
B)Parents without financial problems are just as likely as parents living in poverty to abuse their children.
C)Maltreatment of older children is more common than maltreatment of younger children.
D)Children are more likely to be abused when families are somewhat isolated from others.
Q2) Sybil wants her daughter to put her dishes in the dishwasher.She shows her how to open the dishwasher,tells her where different items go,and explains that if everyone in the family puts their dishes away,it will be much easier to keep the kitchen clean and pleasant.Sybil is using A)reinforcement.
B)punishment.
C)direct instruction.
D)inhibition.
Q3) Describe the characteristics typically associated with (1) popular children and (2) rejected children.
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