Social Work with Children and Families Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the principles, methods, and skills required for effective social work practice with children and families. Emphasizing a strengths-based and culturally competent approach, topics include child development, family dynamics, assessment and intervention strategies, child protection, and the impact of social policies. Students will examine the roles and responsibilities of social workers in supporting child welfare, promoting family well-being, addressing abuse and neglect, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The course integrates theoretical frameworks with practical case studies to prepare students for real-world challenges in promoting the safety, stability, and resilience of children and families in diverse contexts.
Recommended Textbook Infants and Children Prenatal Through Middle Childhood 8th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Research Strategies
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Q1) Theories are vital tools because they
A) provide organizing frameworks for our observations of children.
B) provide the ultimate truth about child development.
C) do not require scientific verification.
D) are resistant to the influence of cultural values and belief systems.
Answer: A
Q2) Both __________ and __________ emphasize many possible courses of development.
A) the psychoanalytic perspective; ethology
B) ethology; evolutionary developmental psychology
C) cognitive-developmental theory; behaviorism
D) behaviorism; social learning theory
Answer: D
Q3) Because participants are measured only once in the cross-sectional design, researchers need not be concerned about such difficulties as __________ and
A) cohort effects; practice effects
B) selective attrition; cohort effects
C) cohort effects; biased sampling
D) participant dropout; practice effects
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Genetic and Environmental Foundations
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Q1) Most homeless families consist of
A) childless couples.
B) single fathers with adolescent children.
C) single mothers with adolescent children.
D) women with children under age 5.
Answer: D
Q2) Fragile X syndrome
A) is an example of polygenic inheritance.
B) occurs when there is a sudden but permanent change in a segment of DNA.
C) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability.
D) occurs more often in females than males because the disorder is X-linked.
Answer: C
Q3) Jonelle can promote her grandchildren's development indirectly by
A) praising the children rather than offering them encouragement.
B) gently reprimanding the children when they misbehave.
C) providing financial assistance to their parents.
D) implementing a reward system for the children's good behavior.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) Jenna's physical growth is slow. She has short eyelid openings, a thin upper lip, a flattened philtrum, and brain injury. Jenna's mother probably __________ during pregnancy.
A) drank heavily
B) smoked cigarettes
C) used cocaine
D) used methadone
Answer: A
Q2) At the beginning of the period of the embryo, the __________ system develops fastest.
A) nervous
B) circulatory
C) digestive
D) skeletal
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn Baby
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Q1) __________ is appropriate if the mother's pushing during the second stage of labor does not move the baby through the birth canal in a reasonable period of time.
A) Instrument delivery
B) Epidural analgesia
C) Use of an anesthetic
D) Induced labor
Q2) Which of the following statements about reflexes and the development of motor skills is true?
A) The stepping reflex appears only when the newborn's body is in upright position.
B) Certain reflexes drop out early, but the motor functions involved are renewed later.
C) Parents should deliberately exercise newborn stepping reflexes to encourage early walking.
D) The tonic neck reflex may prepare the baby for voluntary walking.
Q3) Describe ways parents and caregivers can soothe a crying baby, and explain how or why each technique works.
Q4) Describe preterm and small-for-date infants. How are they different?
Q5) Describe the signs that indicate that labor is near.
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Chapter 5: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) As long as negative environmental influences such as poor nutrition or illness are not severe,
A) children and adolescents typically show catch-up growth once conditions improve.
B) adopted children typically reach a height closer to their adoptive than biological parents' heights.
C) body weight is more acutely influenced by eating habits rather than heredity.
D) height and rate of physical growth are largely determined by the environment.
Q2) In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that
A) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the left hemisphere.
B) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the right hemisphere.
C) undamaged areas-in either the left or the right hemisphere-took over vocabulary and grammatical skills by ?age 5.
D) language skills were more likely to be permanently damaged than spatial skills.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Which of the following is a limitation of Chomsky's nativist perspective?
A) Chomsky's theory is inconsistent with research on efforts to teach nonhuman primates language systems.
B) Chomsky's theory cannot explain why children refine and generalize many grammatical forms gradually.
C) Chomsky's theory overemphasizes the role of social experience in language development.
D) Chomsky's theory fails to show that humans have evolved specialized regions in the brain that support language skills.
Q2) Today, infant tests are largely used for
A) measuring higher-order cognitive skills.
B) predicting future performance.
C) predicting school placement.
D) screening to identify babies in need of intervention.
Q3) According to Piaget, infants' very first schemes are
A) disorganized bits of information.
B) based on internal representations of experience.
C) sensorimotor action patterns.
D) deliberate and creative.
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Chapter 7: Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) __________ is moderately related to attachment security in diverse cultures and SES groups.
A) Goodness of fit
B) Social referencing
C) Grandparent primary caregiving
D) Sensitive caregiving
Q2) Research on sex differences in temperament shows that
A) girls are more daring than boys, and they have a large advantage in effortful control.
B) boys are more anxious and timid than girls, and they are slightly more impulsive.
C) girls' advantage in effortful control contributes to better school performance.
D) boys are more active than girls, but they also tend to be more anxious and timid.
Q3) Describe Bowlby's four phases of attachment.
Q4) Discuss the involvement of fathers as it relates to attachment security. How do mothers and fathers differ in their caregiving?
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Chapter 8: Physical Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Which of the following statements is supported by research on lead exposure during childhood?
A) Overall, poorer intelligence test scores associated with lead exposure seem to be permanent.
B) Lead-exposed children given drugs to induce excretion of lead improve in long-term outcomes.
C) Once lead-exposed children move away from contaminated areas, their intelligence test scores increase.
D) Negative lead-related cognitive consequences are evident only at high levels of exposure.
Q2) Handedness
A) reflects the greater capacity of one side of the brain to carry out skilled motor action. B) is evident in a wide range of skills from birth.
C) is a heritable trait, especially for left-handed people.
D) is strongest for simple, rather than complex, skills.
Q3) Discuss sex differences in motor skills in early childhood.
Q4) Describe the development of drawing in children in Western nations.
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Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) While filling in a connect-the-dots page, Amir hesitated. His father asked him, "What comes after 7? Start counting from 1 and see if that helps you remember." Amir recited the numbers and remembered that 8 comes after 7. This is an example of A) scaffolding.
B) private speech.
C) guided participation.
D) assisted discovery.
Q2) Anneli's 4-year-old daughter manipulates sounds within words and enjoys rhyming games. Anneli's daughter is demonstrating A) phonological awareness.
B) metacognition.
C) private speech.
D) knowledge of cardinality.
Q3) According to the __________ approach, young children rely on word meanings to figure out grammatical rules.
A) fast-mapping
B) semantic bootstrapping
C) mutual exclusivity
D) syntactic bootstrapping
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Chapter 10: Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the consequences of child maltreatment is true?
A) While maltreated children show serious learning problems, they typically have few peer difficulties.
B) Repeated abuse is associated with central nervous system damage, including abnormal EEG brain-wave activity.
C) Maltreated children typically exhibit low anxiety and abnormally high self-esteem.
D) Most parents who were maltreated as children grow up to be child abusers.
Q2) In the United States, 57 percent of television programs
A) are falsely labeled as educational programming.
B) portray punishment being dealt out for aggressive acts.
C) completely avoid both verbally and relationally aggressive acts.
D) between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. contain violent scenes.
Q3) Children who get along well with agemates tend to
A) request an explanation when they do not understand a peer's behavior.
B) attend selectively to social cues.
C) hover around peers' activities.
D) barge into play groups without asking.
Q4) Describe authoritative child rearing, and explain what makes it effective.
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Chapter 11: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following is likely to help increase girls' self-confidence and participation in athletics?
A) less emphasis on skill training for girls, as basic skills are already commensurate with those of boys
B) educating parents about the minimal differences in school-age boys' and girls' physical capacities
C) decreased attention to girls' athletic achievements, to avoid embarrassment or undue pressure
D) decreased attention to boys' athletic achievements, because athletics are overemphasized in American culture
Q2) Describe advances and contributing factors in gross- and fine-motor development over middle childhood.
Q3) Gray matter
A) replaces white matter in middle childhood.
B) consists largely of myelinated nerve fibers.
C) increases steadily throughout childhood and adolescence.
D) declines as synaptic pruning and death of surrounding neurons proceed.
Q4) List and describe common factors associated with childhood obesity.
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Test designers use __________ to identify the various abilities that intelligence tests measure.
A) normative data
B) observational studies
C) confidence intervals
D) factor analysis
Q2) Mrs. Markie, a first-grade teacher, believes that, from the beginning, children should be exposed to text in its complete form so that they can appreciate the communicative function of written language. Mrs. Markie takes a __________ approach to teaching reading.
A) whole-language
B) phonics
C) reciprocal
D) hierarchical
Q3) Which of the following is a good predictor of IQ?
A) well-developed gross-motor skills
B) flexible attention strategies
C) slow, steady nervous system function
D) REM brain-wave patterns during sleep
Q4) Describe Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of successful intelligence.
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Chapter 13: Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following personality traits is a child most likely to describe as feminine?
A) dependent
B) rational
C) dominant
D) aggressive
Q2) During childhood and adolescence, __________ correlates more strongly with overall self-worth than does any other self-esteem factor.
A) academic achievement
B) perceived physical appearance
C) social competence
D) athletic ability
Q3) Nick is passive and socially awkward. He worries a lot, holds negative expectations about his peer interactions, and is disliked by many of his classmates. Nick is a __________ child.
A) neglected-withdrawn
B) neglected-aggressive
C) rejected-withdrawn
D) rejected-aggressive
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