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Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary field that explores the application of scientific principles to the maintenance and improvement of human health. This course covers a wide range of topics including human anatomy and physiology, disease prevention, biostatistics, health promotion, public health policy, and the social determinants of health. Emphasizing evidence-based practices, the course equips students with the foundational knowledge and analytical skills necessary to pursue careers in healthcare, research, and health administration, while also fostering an understanding of the complex factors that influence health outcomes across different populations.
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Lifespan Development 5th Canadian Edition by Denise Boyd
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Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Methods
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Q1) Beginning in 1976, Jane Ledingham and Alex Swartzman began studying children living in inner-city neighbourhoods in Montreal, and they are still studying these same people, now grown adults, today. This is an example of A) a sequential study.
B) a longitudinal study.
C) a cohort effect.
D) a cross-sectional study.
Answer: B
Q2) The three broad categories used by developmentalists to classify developmental changes include physical, social, and _______ domains.
A) biological
B) psychological C) cognitive
D) maturational
Answer: C
Q3) The Canadian Psychological Association was founded in 1939.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Theories of Development
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Q1) In a classroom based upon Lev Vygotsky's ideas, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT
A) teaching strategies are adapted to children's developmental level or zone of proximal development.
B) teachers model strategies for learning and guide children through questions, demonstrations, and explanations.
C) teachers create scaffolds.
D) the child actively engages in a process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to create schemes that fit his learning environment.
Answer: D
Q2) Erikson's psychosocial theory of development is based on the idea that development occurs from the interaction between internal drives and A) cognitions.
B) cultural demands.
C) environmental reinforcements or punishments.
D) defence mechanisms.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) What is the most common chromosomal anomaly?
A) phenylketonuria
B) Turner's syndrome
C) fragile-X syndrome
D) trisomy 21
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements about the placenta is true?
A) The placenta typically is expelled during the third stage of labour.
B) An embryo/fetus is attached to the placenta by the amniotic sac.
C) The placenta is where the mother's and baby's blood are mixed to transfer oxygen, nutrients, and waste products.
D) The placenta forms during organogenesis.
Answer: C
Q3) What types of twins are conceived when more than one ovum is produced and where both have been fertilized by separate sperm?
A) fraternal twins
B) identical twins
C) monozygotic twins
D) germinal twins
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
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Q1) A baby's tracking ability becomes skilful rather quickly, generally around
A) 6 to 10 weeks.
B) 16 to 20 weeks.
C) 33 to 40 months.
D) a year.
Q2) There has been no research that indicates female infants develop manipulative skills before male infants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why is it especially important to treat infants' respiratory infections promptly and to take measures to reduce the transmission of respiratory illnesses among infants?
A) Daycare facilities and other alternative care facilities will not provide care while a child is ill.
B) Infant immunizations cannot be given while a child is ill.
C) Ear infections may impair hearing and compromise the development of brain areas that are essential for language learning.
D) Respiratory illnesses are easily spread to other members of the family.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) If a child has cerebral palsy and can't perform many tasks on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, the accurate professional advice would be to suggest the use of the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the style of word learning characterized by low rates of noun-like terms and high use of personal/social words and phrases?
A) referential style
B) motherese
C) expressive style
D) language utterance
Q3) According to Elizabeth Bates, when understanding language development, children who are oriented toward people and toward social interactions are
A) more cognitively oriented.
B) more emotionally oriented.
C) more expressive-style.
D) more physically oriented.
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) Harrison is a 1-year-old child who is pleasant and cooperative with most adults. When his mother is at home, he does not seek or approach her as he plays. If she leaves him to go to work, he does not greet her or seek her presence when she returns. Harrison most likely would be classified as having a(n) ________ attachment.
A) ambivalent
B) disorganized
C) avoidant
D) secure
Q2) Regarding infants in centre-based non-parental care, which factor is most likely to produce positive or neutral outcomes for these children?
A) amount of time spent in centre-based care
B) high quality centre-based care
C) easy child temperament
D) age of entry combined with gender
Q3) "Temperament" refers to a pattern of responding to people and objects in the environment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) All the following characteristics are associated with an increased risk that a parent will be abusive EXCEPT
A) a history of abuse
B) substance abuse
C) depression
D) full-time employment
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a socio-cultural influence that could make physical abuse of children more likely?
A) the belief that children have rights
B) the belief that children are property
C) social norms for humane treatment of children
D) stressful employment conditions
Q3) Neuroscientists believe that the determination of which functions will or will not be lateralized originates in our
A) social experiences.
B) cultural norms.
C) physical experiences.
D) genes.
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Inductive discipline is a negative parenting strategy in which parents instruct the child in a never-ending list of demands in order to help the child meet their intended goals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about child poverty in Canada is accurate?
A) Due to higher incidents of behavioural and mental health disorders among poor children, Ontario Works now covers counselling and psychotropic prescriptions for children.
B) Children living in low-income families in Canada are unlikely to experience hunger due to our social safety net.
C) Female-led lone-parent families, Aboriginal families, and immigrants are overrepresented in poverty statistics in Canada.
D) In Canada, the child tax credit and other types of benefits compensate for many of the social consequences and stresses associated with poverty.
Q3) Remarriage does not resolve all family problems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) In Canadian school systems, disorders such as ADHD, autism, deafness, gifted intellectual ability, blindness, and so forth are categorized as A) learning disabilities.
B) pervasive developmental disorders. C) exceptionalities.
D) bio-neurological disorders.
Q2) According to Robert Siegler, children's cognitive development occurs as a result of A) improved operational efficiency and expanded short-term storage capacity. B) children's physical development and improved motor skills. C) improvements in metacognition.
D) the acquisition of basic rules that are then applied to new problems on the basis of experience.
Q3) Many Aboriginal languages are now extinct or lost due to the lack of heritage-language legislation and policies in Canada.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the relationship between self-esteem and depression in middle childhood?
A) strong negative correlation
B) relationship is believed to exist, but the circumstances are unclear
C) no correlation
D) strong positive correlation
Q2) The youngest age at which a child can legally be left alone in Canada is
A) 10 years old.
B) 12 years old.
C) 9 years old.
D) 7 years old.
Q3) Possessing a skill or talent will positively affect a child's self-esteem only if the child places a high value on that particular skill or talent.
A)True
B)False
Q4) From 1990 to 2001, the number of hours of TV watched by Canadian children declined, according to Statistics Canada.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) A developmental pathway for adolescent depression may be created by
A) growing up in a religion that emphasizes traditional gender roles.
B) growing up with a depressed parent.
C) having many siblings.
D) growing up in a low socioeconomic status family.
Q2) The changes in the patterns of physical growth and development that are known as the secular trend are most likely caused by
A) cultural values that favour a thin, angular body image
B) increased levels of demand and stress placed upon children and adolescents
C) an increasingly sexualized society
D) improved nutrition and health status
Q3) Lisako's assignment in biology class is to grow beans in order to measure the effect of light upon plant growth. She develops an experiment based upon a theory that the height of the plants will be proportional to the amount of light they receive. Which aspect of formal operational thought is the basis of Lisako's biology experiment?
A) the ability to understand figurative language
B) deductive reasoning, which utilizes hypotheses and predictions
C) the ability to engage in long-range planning
D) the ability to use universal ethical principles in problem-solving
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Youth offenders are unable to look at their crimes from their victims' perspectives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Erikson, the central crisis of adolescence is A) identity versus role confusion.
B) industry versus inferiority.
C) latency versus psychosexual development.
D) intimacy versus isolation.
Q3) Carol Gilligan proposes that there are two distinct moral orientations: ________ and ________.
A) justice; care
B) judgment; nurture
C) intimacy; legality
D) fairness; ethics
Q4) Since 17-year-old Ahmed has lived in Canada for 12 years, he is likely to have adopted similar patterns of lifestyle behaviour as his Canadian-born friends.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) The benefits of a post-secondary education include all of the following EXCEPT
A) improvements in abstract reasoning.
B) increased empathy for others.
C) improvement in social skills.
D) higher employment earnings.
Q2) The most common mental health disorder in Canada is depression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Overall population mortality statistics, rates of hospitalization, and morbidity rates are measures associated with the ________ approach.
A) population health approach
B) health and life expectancy approach
C) quality-adjusted life expectancy approach
D) aggregate health indicators approach
Q4) Relativism is a way of thinking that involves recognition and acceptance of paradox and uncertainty.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) Research indicates that, due to changing sex-role expectations, more men are assuming the role of kin-keeper (keeping connections and arranging family gatherings) than ever before.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research studies suggest that the parts of the brain that underlie rational decision-making, impulse control, and self-regulation do not fully mature until approximately the mid-twenties.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research indicates that both men and women's mate preferences have changed as women have gained economic power. Which of the following changes in men's criteria for mate selection is correct?
A) earning potential replaced attractiveness
B) earning potential replaced domestic skills
C) earning potential replaced younger age
D) earning potential replaced hip-to-waist ratio child-bearing potential
Q4) Assortative mating, or homogamy, is the theory that opposites attract.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Although diet and exercise help prevent osteoporosis, once the disease is actually diagnosed treatments have proven ineffective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research studies find no connection between menopausal status and a rise in depression or other psychological symptoms.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Studies have found that women who use hormone replacement therapy have no elevated risks for breast cancer or ovarian cancer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Men may die earlier than women, but women generally suffer from more disease and disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Bone loss begins at about age 30 for both men and women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) When all of the children leave the home and just the parent(s) remain, it is called
A) an empty nest.
B) the sandwich generation.
C) mid-life crisis.
D) life-course marker.
Q2) Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding the retirement of the Canadian Baby Boomer cohort?
A) Baby Boomers view retirement planning as "a man's job."
B) Baby Boomers expect that their standard of living during retirement will be greatly reduced in comparison to their pre-retirement standard of living.
C) Most Baby Boomers believe Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan benefits will be an adequate source of retirement income.
D) The expected 20 years of retirement for Baby Boomers is far longer than the retirement period of earlier generations.
Q3) Canadian men don't experience the empty nest syndrome.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) Which of the following would require wisdom, as it is defined by theorists?
A) remembering a recipe for chocolate cake
B) advising someone how to determine why their car will not start
C) advising someone who is considering divorcing their spouse
D) developing a dietary plan for an individual who has diabetes
Q2) Which of the following is a symptom of Alzheimer's disease in the early stages?
A) failure to recognize family members
B) loss of memory for long-ago events
C) repetitive conversation
D) loss of memory for recent events
Q3) A person who is 80 years old would likely have the most difficulty with which of the following memory tasks?
A) looking up and immediately dialing a seven-digit telephone number
B) remembering to perform a certain task at the same time every day
C) giving you the item you just requested from the refrigerator
D) recalling the day and time of an appointment scheduled for next week
Q4) The maximum human lifespan is approximately 100 years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) Among unattached seniors, women are less likely to be poor than men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Of the following, which person is likely to retire latest?
A) an individual whose work is challenging and interesting
B) an individual whose retirement will be supported by an adequate pension and Social Security
C) a working-class individual who considers his Social Security benefits to be adequate for retirement
D) an individual who has poor health
Q3) Married elders experience more conflict and less pleasure in their marriages than do middle-aged couples.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who provides the greatest amount of companionship to Canadians over 65?
A) grandchildren
B) children
C) spouses
D) siblings
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Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Q1) Which of the following would be the most likely response if an adult over age 60 were asked how they would spend their remaining months of life?
A) I would meditate and try to find peace within myself.
B) I would say good-bye to family members whom I have not seen for years.
C) I would tie up the loose ends of my business affairs and talk to my lawyer about my will.
D) I would do all the wild and crazy things that I have always wanted to do.
Q2) Fear of death is most common among
A) those who are uncommitted to any religious or philosophical tradition.
B) those who are totally irreligious or agnostic.
C) those who believe in a concept of hell or extreme punishment.
D) those who are deeply religious and attend religious services regularly.
Q3) Which of the following is a form of terminal care that emphasizes individual and family control of the normal process of dying?
A) nursing-home care
B) hospice care
C) Kaliai care
D) elder hostel
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