Social Work with Children and Families Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the principles, values, and methods of social work practice with children and families, focusing on both preventative and intervention strategies. Students will examine the developmental, environmental, and cultural factors affecting children and family dynamics, and will develop skills in assessment, case planning, and advocacy. Key topics include child welfare policy, family systems theory, child protection, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Special attention is given to issues such as poverty, abuse, neglect, and the impact of trauma, as well as cultural competence and ethical practice in diverse family contexts.
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Child Development 1st canadian Edition by John W Santrock
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Two-year-old Benjamin asserts his independence and realizes his will.He tests his parents' boundaries.Based on Erikson's psychosocial theory,if he is restrained or punished too harshly,he is likely to develop A)guilt.
B)despair.
C)identity confusion.
D)shame and doubt.
Answer: D
Q2) Due to her knowledge of psychoanalysis,Julie is aware that her 9-month-old daughter is in the A)anal psychosexual stage.
B)oral psychosexual stage.
C)latency psychosexual stage.
D)phallic psychosexual stage.
Answer: B
Q3) List the five stages of childhood development.
Answer: Prenatal,infancy,early childhood,middle and late childhood,adolescence.
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Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings
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Q1) What genetic disorder occurs more often in persons of African descent?
A)Down syndrome
B)sickle-cell anemia
C)hemophilia
D)Klinefelter syndrome
Answer: B
Q2) The difference in the genetic relationship between two fraternal twins versus two identical twins is critical to behaviour genetics-based research because
A)identical twins have more canalized traits.
B)fraternal twins have significantly different environmental experiences.
C)identical twins are more genetically similar than fraternal twins.
D)fraternal twins have a much smaller range of reactions.
Answer: C
Q3) Who is best associated with the process of natural selection?
A)Aristotle
B)William James
C)Charles Darwin
D)Sandra Scarr
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) Amniotic fluid develops from A)blood.
B)dead cells.
C)maternal wastes.
D)the fertilized egg.
Answer: D
Q2) Afterbirth refers to the A)first stage of the birth process.
B)second stage of the birth process.
C)third stage of the birth process.
D)first month after birth.
Answer: C
Q3) The mother of which of the following children most likely had syphilis when she was pregnant?
A)Katarina, who is blind and deaf
B)Stephie, who has "flipper" arms and legs
C)Klaus, who has severe motor coordination retardation
D)Rudiger, who has attention problems and is hyperactive
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical Development and Health
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Q1) Which one of the following mothers can breastfeed her baby?
A)the mother who is infected with AIDS
B)the mother who has already breastfed three of her other children
C)the mother who has active tuberculosis
D)the mother who is taking an unsafe drug that can be transmitted through her milk
Q2) Depressed brain activity has been found in children who grow up in a(n)__________ environment.
A)enriched
B)complex
C)deprived
D)inflexible
Q3) The timing for the emergence of puberty is
A)environmental.
B)completely related to stress.
C)completely related to nutrition.
D)programmed into the genes of every human being.
Q4) Compare and contrast cephalocaudal and proximodistal patterns of growth.
Q5) List two important factors contributing to height and weight of children around the world.
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Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
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Q1) Sensitivity to taste is present in an infant
A)before birth.
B)at 1 month.
C)at 3 months.
D)at 6 months.
Q2) When a child learns how to walk,which two controls are closely linked?
A)locomotion and eye-hand coordination
B)postural and language
C)locomotion and postural
D)None of these.
Q3) Reading Dr.Seuss's classic story The Cat in the Hat to the child in the mother's womb,according to a recent research project,showed that the
A)newborn recognized the story after birth.
B)infant sucked on a nipple in a different way when the mother read the story.
C)infant's brain has a remarkable ability to learn even before birth.
D)All of these.
Q4) Compare and contrast the fine motor activities of an infant,a preschool child,and a grade-school child.
Q5) Describe and give two examples of the perceptual-motor coupling of an infant.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches
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Q1) As 4-month-old Nina's father picks her up,Nina begins to make sucking noises even though there is no breast or bottle present.From a Piagetian perspective,this is best explained as
A)symbolic functioning.
B)a reflex.
C)curiosity.
D)a habit.
Q2) If an infant in the coordination of secondary circular reactions substage of sensorimotor development manipulates a stick in order to bring a desired toy within reach or knocks over one block to reach and play with another one,this would be an example of
A)object permanence.
B)intentionality.
C)coordination.
D)None of these.
Q3) Adolescence corresponds with what Piagetian stage of development?
A)formal operational stage
B)concrete operational stage
C)preoperational stage
D)sensorimotor stage
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Chapter 7: Information Processing
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Q1) It is safe to say that children often use _____ to solve a problem.
A)only one strategy
B)more than one strategy at a time
C)only previously used strategies
D)only their parents' ideas
Q2) It appears that the reliability of young Mallory's reports as an eyewitness has as much to do with the _____ as with _____.
A)skills and motivation of the child; the child's memory
B)skills and motivation of the interviewer; the natural limitations of the child's memory
C)memory of the interviewer; and motivation of the child
D)skills and motivation of the child; the child's honesty
Q3) Annette is a 4-year-old in preschool.What would you expect of her thinking about her own memory skills?
A)She is withdrawn because she is having trouble remembering the other children's names.
B)She understands that she may have false beliefs.
C)She believes that other children will beat her in a memory game.
D)None of these.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) Which represents one of the major reasons that intelligence is a difficult concept to define?
A)It is too concrete.
B)It does not appear to have any real importance.
C)It can only be measured by indirect means.
D)There is uncertainty over whether it is inherited or learned.
Q2) Many early intelligence tests were culturally biased,favouring people who were from urban rather than rural environments,middle-socioeconomic status rather than low-socioeconomic status,and white rather than African American.Explain this concept and how it applies to the modern testing movement.
Q3) Though economical and convenient,group tests have the following disadvantage:
A)The examiner cannot establish rapport.
B)The examiner cannot determine the level of anxiety.
C)Both of these are disadvantages.
D)Neither of these is a disadvantage.
Q4) Howard Gardner is associated with the _________ theory.
A)two-factor
B)multiple-factor
C)multiple intelligences
D)triarchic theory
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) Kiley most likely began waving bye-bye at what age?
A)6 to 8 months
B)8 to 12 months
C)12 to 14 months
D)15 to 18 months
Q2) _____ is the ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules.
A)Infinite generativity
B)Syntax
C)Phonology
D)Displacement
Q3) What is one thing that parents should not do if their child is slow in developing language skills?
A)Give the child opportunities to talk.
B)Talk often and read to the child.
C)Use deliberate methods to teach their child to talk.
D)Provide a rich verbal environment.
Q4) There are several linguists or theorists associated with language development.Describe three linguists or theorists and explain their connection to language development.
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) Infants who are experiencing stranger anxiety will be more afraid of which of the following types of people?
A)Cheerful
B)Smiling
C)Unsmiling
D)Outgoing
Q2) What technique did Mary Ainsworth develop to measure the infant's attachment to the caregiver?
A)surrogate test
B)Strange Situation
C)stranger anxiety test
D)separation scenario
Q3) Five-month-old Frankie smiles whenever he hears his father singing.His behaviour provides an example of _____ smiling.
A)reflexive
B)social
C)basic
D)internal-based
Q4) Describe the term "goodness of fit."
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Chapter 11: The Self and Identity
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Q1) Who is best known for research on the relation between perspective taking and self-understanding?
A)Robert Selman
B)Erik Erikson
C)Susan Harter
D)Carl Rogers
Q2) Which represents a statement of self-esteem?
A)"I'm a good person."
B)"I'm fabulous-looking."
C)"I'm intellectually gifted."
D)"I may be the greatest hockey player in the world."
Q3) If Bill and Kate's son has just acquired the ability to recognize himself,how old is he?
A)3-months old
B)8-months old
C)10-months old
D)18-months old.
Q4) Explain the concept of a psychological moratorium,which occurs during the period of adolescence.
Q5) List the five forms of self-image with which an adolescent will relate.
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Chapter 12: Gender
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Q1) What is the main class of male sex hormones?
A)androgens
B)estrogens
C)progesterone
D)testosterone
Q2) Many social scientists,such as Eagly,locate the cause of psychological sex differences not in biologically evolved dispositions but in
A)contrasting positions and social roles of women and men.
B)evolutionary pressures.
C)hormonal difference.
D)All of these.
Q3) An instrument to assess androgyny is the
A)Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
B)Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
C)Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults.
D)Bem Inventory.
Q4) Describe the ages and examples of the first signs of gender-typed play.
Q5) Compare and contrast the differences between gender identity,roles,and typing.
Q6) Describe the effects of increased levels of testosterone in fetal amniotic fluid.
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Chapter 13: Moral Development
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Q1) In the study of moral development,developmentalists examine four domains.Which of the following is not a domain?
A)reasoning
B)behaving
C)feeling
D)contrasting
Q2) List and describe the three levels of Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development.
Q3) From a Freudian perspective,ego ideal is to conscience as
A)consciousness is to unconsciousness.
B)approved parental standards are to disapproved parental standards.
C)masculine is to feminine.
D)childhood is to adulthood.
Q4) After reading an article by Piaget,parents would be most likely to attempt to improve their child's level of moral reasoning by
A)presenting the child with hypothetical moral dilemmas.
B)encouraging the child to interact with other kids the parents respect.
C)talking with the child about the difference between right and wrong.
D)doing nothing, since morality cannot be taught.
Q5) Compare and contrast forgiveness and gratitude.
Q6) List four things that contribute to conduct problems in children.
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Chapter 14: Families
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Q1) Custodial mothers experience the loss of about __________ of their predivorce income in comparison with the loss of one-tenth for custodial fathers.
A)one-fourth to one-half
B)one-eighteenth to one-twentieth
C)one-third to one-half
D)There is no difference.
Q2) How is the new model of parent-adolescent relationships different from the old model?
A)The old model emphasized autonomy, whereas the new model emphasizes detachment.
B)The old model saw conflict peaking in early adolescence, whereas the new model argues that the timing of conflict has no pattern.
C)The new model emphasizes the rareness of intergenerational conflict, whereas the old model saw conflict as commonplace.
D)The new model characterizes typical conflict as moderate, whereas the old model saw it as an intensive "storm."
Q3) What are some of the adjustment problems children might suffer if they come from a divorced-family situation?
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Chapter 15: Peers
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Q1) Erik Erikson viewed the purpose of play as:
A)practicing adult roles.
B)advancing cognitive development.
C)increasing exploration of the world.
D)providing a means to master anxieties and conflict.
Q2) Three-year-old Joan spends hours each day jumping rope.What kind of play does this exemplify?
A)Sensorimotor
B)Constructive
C)Practice
D)Pretend
Q3) Who is likely to be bullied?
A)Girls in the lower grades
B)Boys in middle schools
C)Younger middle-school children
D)Both boys in middle schools and younger middle-school children
Q4) Describe the difference between a clique and a crowd.
Q5) Compare and contrast friendships between boys and girls.
Q6) Describe the term "perspective taking" in early childhood,providing one example of this.
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Chapter 16: Schools and Technology
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Q1) Which statement indicates that Joe's desire to get a law degree and eventually become a judge is intrinsically motivated?
A)"If I become a famous judge, I'll get to be on television and make a lot of money."
B)"My mother always wanted one of her children to be a lawyer."
C)"I got the idea when I was watching the show, 'Judging Amy.'"
D)"I've always had a strong desire to be in the legal profession."
Q2) Which one of the following does not describe an excellent kindergarten program?
A)experimenting
B)exploring
C)restructuring
D)high academic standards
Q3) What has been the biggest change in the study of culture?
A)parental involvement
B)technological revolution
C)arguing more with parents
D)disrespect for elders
Q4) List five positives and five negatives of technology on our lives today.
Q5) List the three characteristics of ADHD.
Q6) Compare and contrast mastery motivation and performance orientation.
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