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Family Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families within diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts. This course examines topics such as family development, communication patterns, roles and relationships, parenting, and the impact of societal change on family life. Students will analyze theories and research related to family systems, learn about challenges faced by contemporary families, and consider how policy and community resources support family well-being. Through critical reflection and case studies, participants will develop a deeper understanding of the factors that influence family interactions and the importance of fostering healthy, resilient family environments.
Recommended Textbook Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 2nd Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) Steve wants to know what the correlation is between the number of treats he gives his dog, Blue, and the speed with which she will follow his instructions to sit down. He finds that the more treats he gives Blue, the faster she sits down on command. Which of the following options describes the correlation that could describe this relationship?
A) 0.00
B) 0.82
C) -.73
D) +1.92
Answer: B
Q2) The life-span perspective in human development maintains the position that most of our development is complete by the time we finish our adolescent years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Lev _______________ believed that development is essentially an apprenticeship in which children develop as they work alongside skilled adults, including their parents and teachers.
Answer: Vygotsky
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) Why is it that 22 weeks is considered the earliest "age of viability" for an unborn child?
A) Because this is the age by which the child's systems are functioning well enough to potentially sustain life outside of the mother's body.
B) Because it is not until this age that the unborn child's brain begins developing.
C) Because this is the age when the child's sex is determined, and when appropriate genitals begin to form.
D) Because this is the age after which teratogens can no longer impact the baby.
Answer: A
Q2) Only a single sperm cell can successfully make the journey up a woman's Fallopian tube to an unfertilized egg.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The third stage of childbirth (labor) involves the expulsion of the afterbirth, also called the _______________.
Answer: placenta
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Describe the major structures of a neuron that are encountered as a message travels through the nervous system. Make sure you cover the neural structures in the correct order.
Answer: The neural structures that would be encountered that are covered by the chapter include the following (in order):
(a)dendrites - receiving ends or "branches" of the neuron
(b)cell body - the center of the cell that contains the basic biological machinery that keeps the neuron alive
(c)axon - a tubelike structure that transmits a message to other neurons and is covered and protected by Myelin
(d)terminal buttons - small knobs at the end of a neuron that release neurotransmitters
(e) neurotransmitters - chemical substances that allow neurons to communicate with each other.
Q2) _______________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.
Answer: Motor
Q3) The _______________ appears when you stroke a child's foot and the toes fan outward.
Answer: Babinski reflex
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) According to your authors, which of the following would promote the BEST growth of cognitive skills?
A) Once a child masters basic addition, move right to subtraction.
B) Once a child masters basic addition, move to slightly more difficult addition.
C) Once a child masters basic addition, move to multiplication.
D) Once a child masters basic addition, keep the child at that level to consolidate skills.
Q2) Scaffolding involves a teaching style in which assistance is always
A) from peers.
B) nonverbal.
C) done in informal, reassuring ways.
D) based on the level of the learner's needs.
Q3) The zone of proximal development refers to the difference between what a child can do on his or her own and what they can do only with assistance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The two areas of the brain that are responsible for the initial storage of information are the _______________ and the _______________.
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Research has found that a(n) _______________ mother-child attachment is just as likely to occur, regardless of the quality, duration, and frequency of childcare. The age at which a child enters child care is similarly unlikely to interfere with such an attachment.
Q2) Infants as early as four months of age will attend more to a face depicting a negative emotional expression than to a face depicting a positive one.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Play that is organized around a particular theme, with each child taking on a different role, is called ____ play.
A) cooperative
B) associative
C) parallel
D) simple social
Q4) A full understanding of gender begins by understanding that gender does not change over time.
A)True
B)False
Q5) _______________ is the actual experiencing of another's feelings.
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Impaired reading comprehension seems to be a by-product of impaired
A) basic reading skills.
B) computing skills.
C) spoken language.
D) identification of language sounds.
Q2) A very popular video aimed at teaching children how to read teaches the following song, using each letter in the alphabet; "The A says "ah," the A says "ah!" Every letter makes a sound, the A says "ah."" The song goes on to do each letter in the same way (e.g., "The B says "buh," etc.) This video is helping kids learn to read by promoting ____ awareness.
A) syntactic
B) semantic
C) phonological
D) syllabic
Q3) On modern tests of intelligence, IQ scores are determined
A) by comparing a child's score with the average score of same-age children.
B) by using the same IQ calculation as on the original Stanford-Binet exam.
C) based on a child's gender and race.
D) by subtracting a child's chronological age from their mental age.
Q4) Compare and contrast metacognitive knowledge and metamemory.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following are the two dimensions that differentiate various parenting styles?
A) warmth and responsiveness & expressed emotionality
B) parental control & expressed emotionality
C) warmth and responsiveness & parental control
D) style of discipline & assignment of responsibilities
Q2) The typical U.S. high school graduate has watched _______________ hours of television.
Q3) When aggression is unprovoked and appears to be solely done for the purpose of humiliation, harassment, or intimidation, it is best classified as _______________ aggression.
Q4) ____ refers to a view of other people, usually a negative view, based on their membership in a specific group.
A) Ethnocentrism
B) Racism
C) Discrimination
D) Prejudice
Q5) _______________ refers to a view of others, often negative, that is based on their membership in a particular group.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) More than 7 million teens get regular physical exercise by participating in ____.
A) "extreme" sports
B) muscle building
C) distance biking
D) organized sports
Q2) Anabolic steroids are chemically similar to the male hormone testosterone.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A very controversial topic in many countries is that of one's "right to die" and one's right to have a physician assist them in committing suicide. Proponents of physician-assisted suicide might say, "We each have the right to decide for ourselves when we want to die, and if a physician can make that process less painful then we should have that privilege." This sort of thinking might best reflect the ____ level of morality in Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning.
A) postconventional
B) conventional
C) postformal
D) social contract
Q4) Describe four changes that occur in information processing during adolescence.
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Discuss three reasons why sexually active adolescents do not use birth control..
Q2) In the final phase of ethnic identity development, an adolescent from a minority status group will give up any real ownership of the family's cultural and ethnic background and will immerse herself completely in the majority culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who among the following would you most expect to become pregnant as an adolescent?
A) Tiara, an African American teen who has never had sex education
B) Thao, an Asian American teen who received comprehensive sex education
C) Myra, a European-American teen who has been trained as a peer sex-educator
D) Clair, a Hispanic teen who received comprehensive sex education
Q4) Which of the following phenomena do you think BEST explains why so many teenagers who engage in sexual intercourse choose not to use contraception?
A) the illusion of invulnerability
B) the personal fable
C) adolescent egocentrism
D) the imaginary audience
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood
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Q1) Based on statistics, which of these 30-year-old adults is MOST LIKELY to die within a year?
A) Buster, a European American male
B) Tamarick, an African American male
C) Nik, a European American female
D) Jean, an Asian American female
Q2) Of the following individuals, how many are in the period called emerging adulthood?Matthias, who is a 18-year-old college student; Toby, who is a 35-year-old businessman and single father of one daughter; Gunther, who is a 25-year-old law student; Liesl, who is a 13-year-old girl from a Jewish family and has recently celebrated her bat mitzvah.
A) two
B) one
C) three
D) four
Q3) Generally speaking, fluid intelligence tends to improve throughout adulthood, while crystallized intelligence declines during the same years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Which of the following individuals is the MOST LIKELY to have the most friends, both online and in real life?
A) Louanne, who does not own a computer and never uses the Internet
B) Victoria, who owns a computer and goes on the Internet once or twice a week
C) Ussain, who owns a computer and goes on the Internet for 5 to 10 minutes once or twice a day
D) Carlynne who owns a computer as well as an internet-capable smartphone, and who spends at least two or three hours a day on the Internet.
Q2) Alicia and Jordan have an arrangement in their marriage that seems to work for them. Alicia is the "breadwinner," working full-time and earning an adequate salary to support the couple and their two children. Jordan is a stay-at-home father who is primarily responsible for taking care of the children and the home during the daytime. Each partner feels that the other contributes equally to their marriage, even though they contribute differently. According to ____ theory, their marriage is likely to be satisfying and happy.
A) reciprocity
B) traditionality
C) balance
D) exchange
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Around _______________ of mothers with children under the age of six work for pay.
Q2) Why is it that middle-aged men tend to experience more negative impact of a job loss than do younger or older men?
A) They know that they will earn only 40% of the salary that they were making.
B) They know that their chances of finding new employment are terribly poor.
C) They often have more financial responsibilities than the other two groups.
D) They feel that they will look like a failure in the eyes of their families.
Q3) Research has found that people from the generation called ____ tend to view traditional organizations with cynicism and mistrust.
A) the "generation Xers"
B) the baby boomers
C) the millennials
D) the helicopters
Q4) Lucy has been working for the same company for 30 years and has applied for a promotion. She is only mildly disappointed, until she learns that her promotion was denied so that the company doesn't have to pay her extra pension when she retires in a year or two. Lucy has a right to be angry, her company has engaged in
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) In the movie Forget Paris, a character named Mickey is picked on because he always orders the same thing when they go to a restaurant. His love of veal parmesan annoys his wife to no end, because she can never get him to order a different entrée. Mickey is probably ____ factor of the Big Five personality trait theory.
A) high on the extraversion
B) low on the openness to experience
C) high on the neuroticism
D) low on the agreeableness
Q2) Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) involves prescribing medication to women that provides low doses of estrogen which is often combined with ____ to counter the symptoms associated with menopause.
A) prolactin
B) testosterone
C) progestin
D) adrenaline
Q3) Experts are more flexible, creative, and curious than novices.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List and give a brief description of each of the Big Five personality traits.
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) If you are remembering the first time you tasted chocolate marshmallow ice cream, you are having a(n) _______________ memory.
Q2) Sheldon is seeing a therapist for treatment of his depression symptoms. His therapist helps him learn to identify when he is engaging in negative, automatic thoughts, and then they work on changing those thoughts to more positive ones. Sheldon is being treated with ____ therapy.
A) cognitive
B) behavioral
C) existential
D) humanistic
Q3) The most serious age-related condition is depression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Of countries examined, _______________ has the highest average life expectancy at just over 83 years.
Q5) An age-related loss of the ability to see objects close up is called presbycusis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues
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Q1) When you are at your "adaptation level," your
A) behavior and affect are abnormal.
B) behavior and affect are normal.
C) behavior is abnormal and your affect is normal.
D) behavior is normal and your affect is abnormal.
Q2) Which statement about marriage is true?
A) Marriage helps people deal more effectively with disabilities.
B) Over time, division of labor becomes more gender stereotyped.
C) Older married women are much happier about the marriage than their male partners.
D) Marital conflict increases significantly in old age.
Q3) Most people have not saved anything close to what they will need in retirement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT one of the steps that have been suggested for eliminating the pending Social Security crisis in the United States?
A) Require physicians to provide free services for those over the age of 65.
B) Move towards privatization.
C) Increase the retirement age.
D) Make across-the-board reductions in Social Security benefits.
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) Some research has found that older widows have a tendency to "_______________" their husbands, which involves describing their late husbands in glowing, idealized terms.
Q2) If you never want to be put on a life-support machine in case of illness or injury, you would be well-advised to prepare a living will.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Heather's father died last week with Heather and many other family members with him as he died. Heather has been talking a lot about those last hours, how he met individually with each family member to express his love and gratitude and how, once he had met with everyone, he soon lapsed into unconsciousness. Muller and Thompson (2003) would say that this reflects the ____ theme of the experience of grief.
A) coping
B) affect
C) narrative
D) relationship
Q4) Grief is a passive process that one must simply wait to overcome.
A)True
B)False
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