Pediatric Nursing Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Pediatric Nursing focuses on the specialized care of infants, children, and adolescents within the context of the family and community. This course covers growth and development, common pediatric diseases and disorders, and the unique physiological, psychological, and developmental needs of pediatric patients. Students will learn assessment techniques, age-appropriate communication strategies, and family-centered care approaches, while emphasizing safety, evidence-based practice, and the promotion of health and wellness in children. The course prepares students to collaborate effectively within interdisciplinary teams and advocate for the well-being of pediatric patients in various healthcare settings.
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Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Q1) What period of human development brings the most rapid time of change?
A) the prenatal period
B) infancy and toddlerhood
C) early childhood
D) adolescence
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is an important criticism of behaviorism?
A) It overemphasizes genetic influences.
B) It underestimates children's contributions to their own development.
C) It cannot be effectively applied to toddlers or preschool children.
D) It only works in controlled settings, not in children's everyday lives.
Answer: B
Q3) In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, interactions between a father and his child occur in the
A) mesosystem.
B) microsystem.
C) macrosystem.
D) exosystem.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Strategies
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Q1) Dr. Ramirez examined 100 brother-sister pairs for 10 minutes each, noting on a checklist the behaviors that occurred during 20 thirty-second intervals. This is an example of A) event sampling.
B) time sampling.
C) a naturalistic observation.
D) a genetic experiment.
Answer: B
Q2) A major limitation of correlational studies is that A) researchers cannot study how conditions of interest currently exist. B) researchers cannot infer cause and effect.
C) there is no way to measure the strength of a positive relationship between variables. D) negative relationships between variables cannot be measured.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Q1) At birth, babies prefer
A) pure tones to complex sounds, such as noises and voices.
B) nonspeech sounds to human speech.
C) male voices to female voices.
D) complex sounds, such as noises and voices, to pure tones.
Q2) The percentage of REM sleep is greatest in A) preterm babies.
B) full-term newborns.
C) infants between 2 to 3 months.
D) infants between 6 to 9 months.
Q3) Sweet liquid increases the occurrence of the sucking response in baby Basil. Sweet liquid is a(n)
A) punisher.
B) conditioned response.
C) reinforcer.
D) unconditioned response.
Q4) Describe operant conditioning, reinforcers, and punishment.
Q5) Identify and describe useful techniques for soothing a crying baby.
Q6) Describe the five infant states of arousal.
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Chapter 5: Physical Growth
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about intervening with adolescent parents?
A) Teenage mothers who have a long-term mentor relationship are less likely than those without a mentor to stay in school.
B) Home-visited mothers have less frequent contact with the child's father than those who are not in a home-visiting program.
C) Teenage mothers who receive financial assistance from the child's father are more distressed than those who do not receive assistance.
D) As with teenage mothers, support from family members helps teenage fathers stay involved with their children.
Q2) Discuss the factors that influence adolescents' decisions about contraceptive use.
Q3) Despite its complexity, the human __________ reaches its adult size earlier than any other organ or structure.
A) brain
B) skeleton
C) heart
D) liver
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Development: an Information-Processing Perspective
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Q1) Long-term memory
A) stores information temporarily.
B) is the conscious part of the cognitive system.
C) is unlimited in capacity.
D) directs the flow of information in the cognitive system.
Q2) The more information we process in working memory and the more effectively we process it, the more likely it will transfer to
A) long-term memory.
B) the central executive.
C) the sensory register.
D) the short-term memory store.
Q3) Researchers believe that Guatemalan Mayan children were better able to remember the placement of 40 familiar objects in a play scene than their U.S. agemates because Mayan children
A) were more adept at relying on techniques such as spatial location and arrangement of objects.
B) have better memory skills in practical, everyday situations.
C) have better long-term memory.
D) applied elaboration more effectively.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) Researchers assessing black and white community college students' familiarity with vocabulary taken from items on an intelligence test found that the A) blacks were not as capable as whites at learning new words. B) two groups did not differ.
C) whites had considerably more knowledge.
D) blacks had considerably more knowledge.
Q2) Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is most consistent with A) the core knowledge perspective.
B) Vygotsky's theory.
C) ecological systems theory.
D) Piaget's theory.
Q3) Students most likely to score poorly on high-stakes exams are A) children with a high IQ.
B) children with a low IQ.
C) children who did not attend an early intervention program such as Head Start.
D) minority youths living in poverty.
Q4) Explain Cattell's theory of intelligence, including how it relates to children with different cultural and educational backgrounds.
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) Describe pragmatic development, including factors that support early communication skills.
Q2) Two-year-old Jacqueline says, "Mommy dancing," rather than her usual "Mommy dance," when her mother starts dancing. The -ing ending is known as a A) grammatical phoneme.
B) grammatical morpheme.
C) protodeclarative.
D) recast.
Q3) When 3-year-old Melissa was talking to her father on the phone, she asked, "What's that?" as she pointed to a bug on the window. Melissa's question demonstrates her lack of
A) illocutionary intent.
B) metalinguistic awareness.
C) speech registers.
D) referential communication skills.
Q4) Summarize the advantages of bilingualism, and describe a current approach to bilingual education in the United States.
Q5) Describe the nativist and interactionist perspectives of language development.
Q6) Describe two accounts of how semantic development takes place.
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Which of the following describes the probable reaction of a 3-month-old who hears another infant crying?
A) cries in response to the infant's crying
B) attempts to pat and comfort the other infant
C) watches the other infant with a sense of curiosity
D) cries louder than the other infant to gain a caregiver's attention
Q2) Miss Kennelly shows 14- and 18-month-olds broccoli and crackers. She acts delighted with the taste of the broccoli but disgusted with the taste of the crackers. When asked to share the food, which of the following is the most likely to occur?
A) Fourteen-month-old Reese, who prefers crackers to broccoli, will offer Miss Kennelly broccoli.
B) Fourteen-month-old Jake, who prefers broccoli to crackers, will offer Miss Kennelly crackers.
C) Eighteen-month-old Gina, who prefers crackers to broccoli, will offer Miss Kennelly broccoli.
D) Eighteen-month-old Samuel, who prefers crackers to broccoli, will offer Miss Kennelly crackers.
Q3) Discuss the concept of stranger anxiety.
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Chapter 11: Self and Social Understanding
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Q1) During childhood and adolescence, perceived __________ correlates more strongly with global self-esteem than any other self-esteem factor.
A) physical/athletic ability
B) academic competence
C) physical appearance
D) social competence
Q2) Research on identity development has shown that
A) diffused young people report the lowest levels of parental support and warm, open communication.
B) young people who lack confidence in the prospect of ever knowing anything with certainty tend to be foreclosed.
C) young people in moratorium usually have close bonds with parents, but lack opportunities for healthy separation.
D) young people in moratorium assume that absolute truth is always attainable.
Q3) Which of the following factors is linked to increased suicide in adolescence?
A) the onset of puberty
B) moving away from identity foreclosure toward identity moratorium
C) immaturity and the need for attention
D) teenagers' improved ability to plan ahead
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Chapter 12: Moral Development
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Q1) Disagreements between adolescents and parents are most often
A) due to different moral imperatives.
B) related to social conventions.
C) disputes over personal issues.
D) related to drug use and antisocial behavior.
Q2) According to psychoanalytical theory, Denzel will adopt his society's standards of moral behavior through the process of A) choice.
B) motivation.
C) biological necessity.
D) internalization.
Q3) Children in Piaget's heteronomous morality stage
A) want to maintain the affection and approval of others by being a "good person."
B) view rules as unchangeable and requiring strict obedience.
C) base their moral understanding on reward, punishment, and the power of authority figures.
D) view the "right" action as what satisfies their needs or otherwise results in personal advantage.
Q4) What is moral identity, and why is it important to identify its origins?
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Chapter 13: Development of Sex Differences and Gender
Roles
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Q1) During early childhood, gender-stereotyped beliefs
A) weaken.
B) first emerge.
C) strengthen.
D) disappear.
Q2) In one study, prenatal levels of the androgen hormone testosterone,
A) contributed to the tendency to evaluate members of one's own sex more negatively during adolescence.
B) showed little or no correlation to gender-stereotypical behavior of either gender during the school years.
C) positively predicted "masculine"-style play in both boys and girls when they were followed up during middle childhood.
D) predicted which males would withdraw from other males who initiated rough, physical play.
Q3) When mothers label gender, either with nouns or with pronouns, these statements
A) prevent the use of generics in children's language.
B) promote gender-neutral thinking in children.
C) can confuse children about what it means to be male versus female.
D) encourage toddlers to sort their social world into gender categories.
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Chapter 14: The Family
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Q1) The mild increase in parent-child conflict that often occurs in early adolescence
A) affects teenagers more strongly than it does parents.
B) is due to adolescents pressing for greater autonomy and parents pressing for more aggressiveness.
C) affects parents more strongly than it does teenagers.
D) usually causes a long-lasting strain in parent-child relationships.
Q2) Throughout adolescence, the __________ is the single most consistent predictor of mental health.
A) development of a friendship between parent and child
B) use of coregulation
C) level of autonomy achieved
D) quality of the parent-child relationship
Q3) Ariel's parents just divorced. They should be aware that a __________ will protect Ariel from early sexual activity and unhappy romantic involvements.
A) few sessions of family therapy
B) good father-child relationship
C) good mother-child relationship
D) strong self-concept and sense of autonomy
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Chapter 15: Peers, Media, and Schooling
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Q1) Research indicates that by age 10, the most important aspect of friendship is usually A) mutual interests.
B) trust.
C) loyalty.
D) intimacy.
Q2) If Lydia goes to a constructivist classroom, which of the following outcomes will most likely occur?
A) She will show a slight edge in achievement test scores over children in traditional classrooms.
B) She will show gains in critical thinking and moral maturity.
C) She will show gains in cognitive development and creativity.
D) She will display a decrease in behavioral problems during high school.
Q3) Taylor is under pressure from his peers to experiment with drugs. He is most likely to resist this pressure if his parents use a(n) __________ parenting style.
A) neglectful
B) permissive
C) authoritative
D) authoritarian
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