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Social Work Foundation introduces students to the core values, principles, and practices of the social work profession. This course explores the historical development of social work, the ethical standards guiding practice, and the various roles social workers assume in diverse settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding human behavior within social environments, the importance of cultural competence, and advocating for social and economic justice. Through theoretical frameworks and practical applications, students will gain foundational knowledge and skills essential for effective, client-centered intervention and collaboration within communities and organizations.
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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) Hannah is thrilled that she has been accepted into an architecture program. All of her friends have also received letters of acceptance to their desired school programs; they all feel they are achieving in life what they need to. This is referred to as
A) biological clock.
B) social norms.
C) developmental milestones.
D) social clock.
Answer: D
Q2) Piaget's description of the cognitive stages of development and the theory he proposed to explain them became the foundation of modern developmental psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Examples of atypical development consist of developmental delay, mental illness, aggressiveness, and the like.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Theories of Development
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Q1) Last year, five-year-old Emily began a bedtime ritual that frustrated her parents. Shortly after being put to bed for the evening, Emily would begin a series of requests: "I need a drink of water." "Please read me another story." "I think something is under my bed. Come look!" Emily's parents finally resolved that they would not respond to Emily and warned her that once she went to bed, she was expected to go quietly to sleep. Through a long and difficult week, Emily's parents held firm and ignored her pleas and tears. Now, Emily drifts peacefully and quickly to sleep when she is put to bed. Emily's parents practiced the learning principle of A) punishment.
B) extinction.
C) positive reinforcement.
D) modelling.
Answer: B
Q2) Erikson is to Freud as ________ is to ________.
A) assimilation; accommodation
B) psychosocial; psychosexual
C) identity; cognition
D) reinforcement; mental category
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Movement to the head-down position for birth occurs during which weeks of pregnancy?
A) weeks 17-20
B) weeks 21-24
C) weeks 29-32
D) weeks 33-36
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is associated with the first trimester of pregnancy?
A) implantation bleeding
B) formation of a mucus "plug" to seal the entrance to the uterus
C) effacement
D) the uterus begins to shift position and put pressure on the woman's bladder
Answer: D
Q3) After implantation has been completed, an inner membrane creates a sac filled with liquid where the baby will float. This inner membrane is called
A) the blastocyst
B) the amnion
C) the placenta
D) organogenesis
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
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Q1) Which statement is TRUE regarding colour vision and the very first few weeks of a newborn child's life?
A) All the types of cells necessary to see are not present, so babies can only see in black and white.
B) The types of cells in the eyes necessary to see red, green, and blue are probably present at birth.
C) All the types of cells necessary to see are not present, therefore the babies can see black, white, and only muted shades of blue.
D) Not all the types of cells necessary to see are present at birth, so babies can only see white, black, and red.
Q2) Manufactured formula is superior nutritionally to breast milk.
A)True B)False
Q3) Normal visual acuity in adults is 20/20; infants are not that far off with 20/40 vision. A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) According to Piaget's substages of sensorimotor development, which of the following behaviours would most accurately reflect the ability of a child who is 8 to 12 months old?
A) Ahmed begins to suck his mother's breast when it is placed in his mouth.
B) When Abby, who has been breast-fed, receives a bottle, she is able to adjust her sucking to the rubber nipple.
C) Reem's toy rattle makes a sound when she hits it on her plate. Now she keeps hitting the plate to hear the sound again and again.
D) Hannah pushes the button on her musical nursery rhyme book, to hear "Itsy Bitsy Spider." She chooses this button over and over again, instead of choosing a different song.
Q2) Piaget's most fundamental theoretical proposal was that a child constructed an understanding of the world based on ______________________.
A) nature
B) genetics
C) experience
D) maturation
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) The research conducted with Romanian orphans adopted by Canadian families lends support to the concept of
A) reactive attachment disorder.
B) social referencing.
C) stranger anxiety.
D) psychoanalytic theory.
Q2) "Temperament" refers to a pattern of responding to people and objects in the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research suggests that children who attend daycare demonstrate
A) no cognitive or language gains even if the daycare is enriched.
B) increased rates of insecure attachments for both genders.
C) higher rates of aggression with peers.
D) difficulty transitioning from daycare to school.
Q4) Neurological variables have proven to be more causal than genetics in the development of temperament characteristics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Measures of skills like capacity, creativity, social sense, and so forth
A) are included in modern, more holistic IQ measures.
B) have now been included in tests of intelligence.
C) are not necessary to measure, because they do not predict future success.
D) are not measured in standard IQ tests and are a limitation of the IQ testing process.
Q2) The term ________ is used to describe a child's sensitivity to the sound patterns that are specific to her language.
A) "dialogic sensitivity"
B) "operational efficiency"
C) "oral inflection"
D) "phonological awareness"
Q3) The typical pattern of children's growth from age two to adolescence is
A) that they add approximately 11 cm of height and 4 kg of weight per year.
B) too variable to generalize because there is no common pattern of growth through this period.
C) much faster and greater than from birth to age 2.
D) that they add approximately 5-8 cm of height and 2.7 kg of weight per year.
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Children whose parents divorce have a higher risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shaking hands with another person when you meet them is an example of a(n)
A) moral rule.
B) social convention.
C) understanding of others' intentions.
D) person perception.
Q3) The developmental ability that initiates the developmental crisis of initiative versus guilt is
A) the ability to see another's point of view.
B) altruism.
C) social referencing.
D) the ability to plan.
Q4) In Canada, approximately what percentage of children live in two-parent homes?
A) 38%
B) 72%
C) 50%
D) 64%
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following statements offers an accepted explanation for boy's overall poorer school performance?
A) uninteresting male role models
B) educational materials do not match interests
C) innate biological differences
D) pressure from expectations is too high
Q2) Researchers who have studied the effects of video games on children's development have noted that all the following are associated with playing video games EXCEPT
A) improved spatial perception skills.
B) increased emotional hostility.
C) increased aggressive behaviour.
D) enhanced verbal skills.
Q3) Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence is supported by the fact that children's ability to control their emotions in childhood is strongly related to measures of academic achievement in high school.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) A 6-year-old's description of another person, in comparison to a 10-year-old's description, would
A) include primarily internal, abstract characteristics.
B) be more truthful.
C) be focused on external, concrete features.
D) be less kind.
Q2) According to Erikson, the psychosocial task of middle childhood is to develop industry, which is the willingness to work to achieve goals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By age eight, a child will take into account the intentions of another person when the child is making a moral judgment about the other person's behaviour or actions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Popular children tend to be attractive and physically larger than their peers, characteristics they have no control over.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) The average age for first time drug use is 13 to 14 years old.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Of the following, which would be the least effective strategy for parents who want to prevent children from smoking?
A) provide a parental model for non-smoking
B) punish teens who are found to be smoking
C) establish family rules against substance use
D) discuss beliefs about the morality of smoking
Q3) The cumulative psychological effect of experiencing significantly early or significantly late puberty is related to
A) whether the individual's family members experienced similar timing of puberty.
B) whether the individual is capable of formal operational thought.
C) an individual's stage of moral development when the changes of puberty begin.
D) an individual's belief about the "right time" to go through puberty.
Q4) In Canada, the rate of teenage pregnancy has declined since 1974.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Hamza feels a sense of belonging to her Lebanese parent's culture, values, beliefs and traditions. This sense of belonging is called one's:
A) individual identity.
B) ethnic identity.
C) minority identity.
D) bicultural identity.
Q2) Minority teenagers face all of the following issues EXCEPT
A) self-identifying as a member of their specific group.
B) developing an individual identity.
C) committing to the values of their specific group.
D) assimilating into the dominant culture.
Q3) Which of the stages of moral reasoning listed below is most commonly found among teenagers?
A) Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
B) Stage 3: Mutual Interpersonal Expectations, Relationships, and Interpersonal Conformity
C) Stage 5: Social Contract or Utility and Individual Rights
D) Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) Which of the following occurs among adults who are experiencing age-based systematic decreases in cardiac output and maximum oxygen uptake?
A) Immune system functioning is less efficient.
B) There is a general loss of strength and speed.
C) Tissues in all parts of the body become more elastic and flexible.
D) There is a loss of bone mineral and an increase in the wear and tear of the joints.
Q2) Studies show that the risk of virtually every kind of emotional disturbance is higher in early adulthood than in middle age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A delusion is a false sensory experience.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is an example of secondary aging?
A) decline in production of viable sperm
B) osteoporosis
C) cancer
D) increased wrinkling of the skin
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) How are the interpersonal relationships of adulthood affected by the internal working models of attachment that were developed in infancy and early childhood?
A) Through the processes of individuation and autonomy, young adults abandon their infant/early-childhood models of attachment and develop new models by resolving the crisis of intimacy versus isolation.
B) Insecurely attached children inevitably become adults with insecure, unsatisfactory intimate relationships.
C) Adults tend to duplicate their infant/early-childhood models of attachment with their prospective spouses.
D) The internal working model of attachment predicts an individual's happiness in adult love relationships.
Q2) Divorced or recently separated adults are more likely to become depressed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After the birth of a child, marital satisfaction tends to increase.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Which of the following physical or psychological effects is NOT associated with the use of hormone replacement therapy?
A) reduced mood swings
B) reduced sex drive
C) reduced risk of coronary heart disease
D) reduced bone loss from osteoporosis
Q2) Studies have found that the death rates of men with alcoholism who are in their 50s and early 60s are five to six times higher than among nonalcoholics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although diet and exercise help prevent osteoporosis, once the disease is actually diagnosed treatments have proven ineffective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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) The pattern of adult children leaving the parental home but returning again to live with parents is a social phenomenon known as
A) the cramped nest.
B) Peter Paning.
C) the revolving door.
D) boomeranging.
Q2) Vaillant argued that the name of one of Erikson's stages should be changed from "generativity" to "the keeper of meaning."
A)True
B)False
Q3) The behaviours and characteristics expected of a person in a social position, such as mother, student, or retired person, constitute the ________ of the person filling the position.
A) personality
B) role
C) operations
D) goals
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) In Canada, the fastest-growing segment of the population is the oldest old.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Older adults do not perform as well on remembering everyday tasks such as
A) remembering the main points of a story or newspaper article.
B) recalling conversations.
C) remembering whether they did something.
D) all of the above
Q3) Socioeconomic status is a cause of the reduced atrophying of the cerebral cortex.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Cohen's four-stage theory of mid- to late-life creativity, a creative person's desire to pool her accomplishments together into a cohesive, meaningful story is called
A) the liberation phase.
B) the encore phase.
C) the summing-up phase.
D) the evaluation phase.
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) 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
Q2) The degree to which seniors maintain cognitive functioning is linked in large part to education.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Late-in-life eccentricity in dress, language, and personal preferences is an early sign of dementia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most elders who have mild or moderate disabilities or health problems prefer to live with relatives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Q1) Psychiatrist Harvey Chochinov's Model of Dignity research identified all of the following as tangible benefits of whole-person end-of-life care EXCEPT
A) decreased levels of distress in the terminally ill.
B) patients' report of a heightened sense of dignity.
C) patients' report of an increased sense of purpose.
D) patients' report of a decreased will to live and prolong the inevitable.
Q2) Which person would be more at risk for developing prolonged grief or long-term grief-related problems?
A) 65-year-old Mrs. Carter, whose husband died
B) 8-year-old Billy, who knew his dog was ill and in danger of dying
C) 16-year-old Susan, whose mother died
D) 45-year-old Mr. Perez, whose mother died of breast cancer
Q3) Researchers have determined that widowhood appears to have both immediate and long-term effects on which dimension of physical health?
A) hormone production of the endocrine system
B) the cardiovascular system
C) the immune system
D) sensory perception
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