Introduction to Human Services Exam Review
Course Introduction
Introduction to Human Services provides students with a foundational understanding of the human services profession, focusing on its history, values, and the various roles of human service workers in diverse settings. The course explores the range of services designed to meet individual and community needs, including mental health support, advocacy, case management, and social welfare programs. Students will examine ethical considerations, the impact of social policy, and the importance of cultural competence while developing essential communication and problem-solving skills critical for working with vulnerable populations.
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Exploring Marriages and Families 2nd Edition by Karen T. Seccombe
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Chapter 1: Why Study Families and Other Close Relationships?
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Q1) Teenagers' attitudes toward marriage and family life have become significantly more negative over the past few decades.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) An experiment is a controlled method for determining cause and effect.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is the best example of a "master status"?
A)eye color
B)race/ethnicity
C)mother's maiden name
D)number of siblings
E)birthplace
Answer: B
Q4) List the six research methods discussed in your text.
Answer: (1)survey; (2)in-depth interview; (3)experiment; (4)focus group; (5)observational studies; (6)secondary analysis.
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Chapter 2: Social Status: Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class
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Q1) Today the rapid growth in the Hispanic population is primarily due to:
A)immigration.
B)naturalization.
C)a high birth rate.
D)emigration.
E)institutional discrimination.
Answer: E
Q2) About what percentage of Native Americans identify with a specific tribe?
A)one-quarter
B)one-third
C)one-half
D)two-thirds
E)three-quarters
Answer: E
Q3) List the six pathways by which poverty hurts children.
Answer: (1)inadequate health and nutrition; (2)lower-quality home environment; (3)parental stress and mental health problems; (4)fewer resources for learning; (5)housing problems; (6)poor-quality neighborhoods
Q4) Which age group is most likely to be poor?
Answer: children
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Chapter 3: Building Relationships
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Q1) If we compare committed same-sex cohabiting to heterosexual marriages, we find that they are more alike than different.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Alex and Tony are two working-class high school friends who live in the same neighborhood. Which of the following is likely to characterize their friendship, as compared to middle-class friendships?
A)Their friendship has lasted longer.
B)Their friendship is weaker.
C)There are no significant differences in friendship across social classes.
D)They are more likely to continue their friendship over the phone or through messages.
E)They are less intimate.
Answer: A
Q3) List three features of men's friendships, compared to women's.
Answer: Men have the same number but less intimate friendships; less verbal disclosure and spend more time engaging in activities; expect less closeness, intimacy, and commitment; males know their friends for a longer period.
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Chapter 4: Love and Loving Relationships
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Q1) Definitions of love, the importance of attachment, theoretical perspectives, and the experiences of love are generally __________ for same-sex couples as compared to heterosexual couples.
A)the same
B)somewhat more important
C)somewhat less important
D)extremely different
E)irrelevant
Q2) Thomas had a crush on Bobby, but the feelings were not reciprocated. This is an example of:
A)irrational jealousy.
B)prejudice against gays.
C)unrequited love.
D)Mania.
E)the feminization of love.
Q3) Write an essay about stalking. Be sure to include information on the different types of stalking, its frequency, and the consequences.
Q4) Companionate love is based on __________.
Q5) What are the four stages in the wheel theory of love, according to Reiss?
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Chapter 5: Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Relationships
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Q1) Teenage births:
A)occur to nearly 100,000 women a year.
B)have most sharply declined among Blacks between 1991 and 2008.
C)have risen for all groups expect for Whites between 1991 and 2008.
D)can be quite dangerous for the baby, although maternal outcomes are not significantly different from those of older women.
E)have increased since 1991 because of the decline in stigma associated with births outside of marriage and the highly publicized pregnancies of several celebrity teens.
Q2) Individuals who undergo sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatments are transsexuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast the sexual scripts for men and women. How do you relate to your sexual script?
Q4) Most married people are sexually active, and most report being quite satisfied with the sexual aspects of their relationship.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Communication, Conflict, and Power in Our Relationships
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Q1) Lucas has decided to go to graduate school next year. He has the autonomy to make that decision for himself. This is an example of social power.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There are five stages in listening. Which is NOT one of them?
A)eye contact
B)receiving
C)understanding
D)remembering
E)evaluation
Q3) Content conflict occurs when:
A)we falsely perceive that our partner is interfering with our goal or has incompatible goals.
B)partners have differing opinions on subjects that reflect personal values or issues of right and wrong.
C)individuals believe that they must win at all costs to save face.
D)there are disagreements about information.
E)partners do not understand the point that their partner is trying to make.
Q4) How are electronic means of communication changing the face of communication?
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Chapter 7: Marriage
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Q1) What do most Americans see as the main purpose of marriage today, and how does this differ by age and race/ethnicity?
Q2) How have attitudes toward interracial and interethnic marriages changed over the last 30 or 40 years?
Q3) Anna and Erika live in New York, and the law there forbids them to marry. This represents an example of:
A)the macro-side of marriage.
B)the marriage premium.
C)a selection effect.
D)covenant marriage.
E)the marital decline perspective.
Q4) Government officials, marriage and family therapists, and religious leaders have created a __________ that aims to influence public policy to promote and strengthen traditional two-parent marriage.
A)marriage initiative
B)wedding support group
C)selection effect initiative
D)marriage movement
E)social capital movement
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Chapter 8: Thinking About Parenthood
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Q1) Sophie just had a baby, and her government ensures that she has 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, with 3 additional years of unpaid leave if she wants it. Her husband also has 11 days of paid leave. What country does Sophie live in?
A)the United States
B)Canada
C)Switzerland
D)Australia
E)France
Q2) Many new parents find the transition to parenthood to be very easy because of pronatalist sentiment and their own experiences caring for children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is expected of a "good mother" in our society? How does it compare with what is expected of a "good woman"?
Q4) What does the Family Medical Leave Act require of American employers?
Q5) Distinguish between direct financial costs and opportunity costs and give an example of each.
Q6) According to parents surveyed, what are the major benefits of having children?
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Chapter 9: Raising Children
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Q1) When parents are asked to choose from a list of childhood traits they consider most desirable for their children, lower-income parents tend to choose traits such as
A)creativity
B)ambition
C)independence
D)curiosity
E)obedience
Q2) Urbanization, industrialization, and immigration produced two views of childhood: the "protected child" among __________; and "the useful child" among __________.
A)Whites; Blacks
B)urban; rural
C)wealthy; poor
D)immigrants; Blacks
E)rural; urban
Q3) Research shows that father involvement is important because it can enhance children's social, emotional, and cognitive well-being.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Families and the Work They Do
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Q1) Which of the following is evidence of the recent recession?
A)The civilian labor force shrunk by nearly 25,000 workers between 2008 and 2009 alone.
B)The number of involuntary part-time workers (people whose work hours were reduced or who cannot find a full-time job)decreased.
C)Unemployment hovered around 5.5 percent in late 2010.
D)The unemployment rates in 2009 2010 are the highest since late 1982.
E)Unemployment rates among Whites are higher than among minority groups for the first time in recorded history.
Q2) How serious a problem is being uninsured? What are the major components of the health care reform law passed in 2010?
Q3) How has increased technology contributed to a changing occupational structure, according to your text?
A)Businesses have decreased their work hours.
B)Businesses have decreased their work days.
C)More people now have to work at an office rather than working from home.
D)Women face high unemployment.
E)Work and home are less likely to be separate domains.
Q4) Give an example of routine and occasional household labor.
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Chapter 11: Family Stress and Crisis: Violence Among Intimates
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Q1) As a child, Ernesto listened to his father screaming at his mother and calling her names on a regular basis. He now does the same thing to his own wife. The __________ perspective provides a possible explanation for this pattern.
Q2) Which is FALSE regarding rape and sexual assault, according to the text?
A)Sexual assault is the type of intimate violence least likely to be reported; in fact, it is the most underreported violent crime in the United States.
B)A survey based on a nationally representative sample of nearly 10,000 adults found that 11 percent of women and 2 percent of men said that they had Experienced forced sex at least once in their lives.
C)College students are particularly vulnerable to rape and sexual assault.
D)Date rape drugs, such as Viagra, enable men to have erections for a longer period, and under more stressful conditions, thereby facilitating rape.
E)Men who had committed sexual assault (but not rape)had remarkably comparable personality profiles to nonperpetrators.
Q3) The stress explanation of violence is an example of a macro-level theory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Process of Divorce
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Q1) List five micro-level factors from the text associated with divorce.
Q2) The crude divorce rate in the U.S. is approximately ________ per 1,000 people.
A)3.6
B)19.1
C)50.3
D)128.5
E)499
Q3) What are the two points in history in which the divorce rate peaked?
A)industrialization in the 1890s; the Great Depression in the 1920s
B)after WWII in the late 1940s; the 1980s
C)the Great Depression in the 1930s; the 1980s
D)the Roaring Twenties around 1925; today
E)industrialization in the 1890s; today
Q4) List the five macro-level factors that influence the divorce rate, according to the text.
Q5) The __________ is the number of divorces that occur out of 1,000 people.
Q6) Describe a "good divorce."
Q7) When noncustodial parents retain their legal rights to their children, this is called:
Q8) List the four phases of a separation.
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Chapter 13: Family Life, Partnering, and Remarriage After Divorce
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Q1) Marla is a 27-year-old woman beginning divorce proceedings. Of the following, she is most likely to:
A)feel anxiety about finding a job that will pay the bills after the divorce.
B)feel confident she can support her family after the divorce.
C)make a strong case for being the non-custodial parent after the divorce.
D)receive more help from family than her husband does after the divorce.
E)second-guess her decision to file for divorce.
Q2) About __________ percent of custodial parents are mothers.
A)68
B)75
C)83
D)91
E)98
Q3) Women are more likely to have children living with them. Why does this limit their opportunities for remarriage? Provide at least three reasons.
Q4) When older couples remarry, why are their marriages often so successful? Explain.
Q5) List three reasons given in the text for children's not faring well in stepfamilies.
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Chapter 14: Families in Middle and Later Life
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Q1) Informal caregivers:
A)often spend their own money to provide medicines, groceries, or other supplies to the person they are caring for.
B)usually prefer to turn to formal care.
C)are called the sandwich generation because they are taking care of their mothers, fathers, mothers-in-law, and fathers-in-law.
D)are generally paid for their services.
E)are generally happy, healthy, and have no regrets.
Q2) The passage of the Social Security Act was most influenced by the ______.
A)social changes brought on by industrialization
B)onset of the Great Depression
C)development of geriatrics
D)success of European pension programs
E)high birth rate following World War II
Q3) List the five core mental functions that can be impaired by dementia.
Q4) Most federal programs and laws treat same-sex couples differently from married heterosexual couples. List two of these differences, according to the text.
Q5) A person age 100 and over is called a ___________.
Q6) List three consequences that childlessness has on the elderly.
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Chapter 15: Looking Ahead: Helping Families Flourish
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Q1) Americans are more likely than other developed countries to believe:
A)inequality is caused by the structure of society.
B)children benefit all of society and are the responsibility of all citizens.
C)poverty is caused by personal laziness or individual failure.
D)families should not be left to fend for themselves.
E)taxes to pay for programs are everyone's responsibility.
Q2) Family protective factors are family characteristics or dynamics that assist families in bouncing back from a crisis situation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The difference in Social Security benefit size between married couples and singles is particularly acute in the United States, where elderly women who live alone are among the poorest in all developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Elizabeth demonstrates a positive self-concept, sociability, intelligence, and scholastic competence, which are examples of __________.
Q5) List four specific examples of early childhood interventions.
Q6) How are family protective factors different from family recovery factors?
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