Social Work with Individuals and Families Review Questions
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This course explores the foundational theories, principles, and skills necessary for effective social work practice with individuals and families across diverse contexts. Students will learn to conduct comprehensive assessments, develop intervention plans, and apply culturally responsive approaches to address complex social, behavioral, and emotional challenges. Emphasis is placed on building therapeutic relationships, facilitating communication, understanding family dynamics, and promoting client strengths and empowerment. Through case studies, role-plays, and reflective exercises, students will gain practical experience in evidence-based interventions, ethical decision-making, and advocacy for individual and family well-being.
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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) Arnold Gesell suggested the term ________ to describe genetically programmed sequential patterns of change such as puberty or menopause.
A) "stages"
B) "maturation"
C) "norms"
D) "milestones"
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a key feature of an experimental study?
A) an independent variable
B) subjects in a control group
C) controls for cohort effects
D) subjects in an experimental group
Answer: C
Q3) G. Stanley Hall opposed Darwin's concept of developmental milestones related to age.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Theories of Development
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Q1) In a classroom based upon Lev Vygotsky's ideas, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT
A) teaching strategies are adapted to children's developmental level or zone of proximal development.
B) teachers model strategies for learning and guide children through questions, demonstrations, and explanations.
C) teachers create scaffolds.
D) the child actively engages in a process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to create schemes that fit his learning environment.
Answer: D
Q2) Learning to repeat or stop behaviours because of their consequences refers to A) classical conditioning.
B) operant conditioning.
C) observational learning.
D) punishment.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) The most common reason for an infant to be born with a low birth weight is
A) maternal use of substances such as nicotine, alcohol, or cocaine.
B) that the infant was born before the full gestation period.
C) that the infant lacks surfactant, which adds weight in the last weeks of gestation.
D) maternal exposure to mutagens.
Answer: B
Q2) What occurs during the third stage of labour?
A) The cervix opens and thins.
B) The contractions are strong, closely spaced, and quite painful.
C) The placenta is delivered.
D) The infant's head crowns.
Answer: C
Q3) Mutagens may cause birth defects because they damage genetic material. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy
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Q1) Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk devised an apparatus called the "visual cliff" to study
A) visual acuity.
B) depth perception.
C) linear perspective.
D) motion parallax.
Q2) Which of the following does NOT belong with the others?
A) micronutrient malnutrition
B) weight of 60% less than the weight expected for age
C) chronic diarrhea
D) parasitic infections
Q3) Researchers from Canada have found that supplying vitamin A to young children living in at-risk countries decreases the mortality rates of those children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The brain processes of pruning and myelinization continue until adolescence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true regarding language acquisition rates in children?
A) Rates of language acquisition follow common set sequential patterns.
B) The speed at which children acquire language varies widely.
C) The mean length of utterance (MLU) is a good test for cognitive delay.
D) Gender determines the speed of language acquisition.
Q2) According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children under the age of 2 should watch no television.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Werker's research demonstrates that one characteristic of infants that helps them to learn language is
A) intelligence.
B) concentration.
C) the ability to babble.
D) the ability to distinguish between human speech and other non-speech sounds.
Q4) One of the benefits of an infant's exposure to television is cognitive stimulation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
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Q1) Zitzi is a very intense, highly active, emotionally reactive 2 year old who has difficulty making transitions. His mother Andu is very easy-going and loves being with other people. Often their social outings end in disaster, with Andu having to leave the situation to take Zitzi home. What principle of temperament does their relationship illustrate?
A) frontal lobe asymmetry
B) niche-picking
C) goodness of fit
D) ambivalent insecure attachment
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the developmental benefits of proximity between infants and caregivers?
A) Proximity protectively restricts the infant's movements and keeps the child safe.
B) Proximity contributes to the development of a strong emotional bond between the child and the caregiver.
C) Proximity permits social interactions between the child and the caregiver.
D) Proximity imprints the caregiver's identity and makes the infant wary of strangers.
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Myelinization of the reticular formation and the hippocampus in the brain probably accounts for improvements in ________ during early childhood.
A) sociability and altruism
B) locomotor and manipulative skills
C) grammar and vocabulary
D) attention and concentration
Q2) By approximately three years of age, a child can distinguish between appearance and reality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A child's rate of growth in height and weight is faster during the toddler and preschool years than in infancy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When Gregoriev says, "My doggie runned away," he is using
A) dialogic meaning.
B) overextension of class.
C) overregularization.
D) extended word meaning.
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Chapter 8: Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) A style of communicating that involves suggestions, support, and agreement between the participants is called ________, and this style is typically used between
A) sex-typed; age-peers unequal in social status
B) constricting; boys
C) facilitating; peers
D) enabling; girls
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 high percentage of positive outcomes for Asian children parented by the authoritarian parenting style is proof that authoritarian parenting is the most effective style.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Self-regulation is a skill associated with the development of the social self.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) During middle childhood, a major growth spurt in the brain involves
A) the limbic system and the cranial nerves.
B) the cerebellum.
C) the cerebral cortex.
D) synaptogenesis and myelinization.
Q2) Limited English proficient (LEP) students do not have a greater rate of school failure as long as
A) parents also receive instruction in English.
B) their school attendance is regular.
C) schools provide some transition to English-only instruction.
D) they enter English school at an early age.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about girls' and boys' physical development during middle childhood?
A) Boys perform better than girls in activities that require strength and speed.
B) Girls are more advanced than boys in skeletal and muscular maturation, which makes girls more coordinated.
C) Girls are more advanced than boys in their rate of growth in height.
D) Boys are more advanced than girls in the development of fine motor coordination.
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Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) The child who says, "My friend is very smart and he is more helpful than I am" is most likely _______ than the child who describes his best friend by saying, "My friend has a fast bike."
A) smarter
B) more observant
C) more socially adaptive
D) older
Q2) Of the following statements, which is an accurate description of the nature of a child's relationship with her parents during middle childhood?
A) School-aged children no longer need parents as a safe base for support.
B) In non-Western societies, the middle childhood years are when children are launched into independence.
C) The quality of a child's attachment relationship with parents is related to the child's ability to maintain friendships with peers.
D) Parental supervision increases due to concerns about peer influences.
Q3) Gender segregation is not common among boys and girls age 6 to 12 years old.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Comprehensive sex education causes teenagers to become sexually active.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If Sameer wants to learn calculus so he can become an engineer, he is motivated by a(n) ________ goal.
A) task
B) ability
C) hypothetico-deductive
D) metacognitive
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about Canadian teenagers' typical internal models of expectation for the physical changes of puberty?
A) The worst effects are experienced by girls who are late in their physical development.
B) Normal-developing girls and early-developing boys should have the best psychological experience of puberty.
C) Pubertal changes should occur between 12 and 14.
D) The negative psychological effects experienced by late-developing boys and early-developing girls occur because they are "off-time" in their development.
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Chapter 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about the adolescent identity formation process?
A) Research findings on identity formation with participants in college or college-preparation programs do not differ significantly from research findings with participants who did not attend college after high school.
B) Researchers have determined that the process of identity formation in adolescence may only be one period of identity formation among several.
C) Evidence suggests that the quest for personal identity is solidified by late adolescence/early adulthood.
D) Over identification in peer-group identity impedes self-identity.
Q2) At level I of Kolberg's stages of moral development-preconventional morality-judgments are based on
A) compliance with superior power.
B) the notion of retaliation.
C) the greatest good for the greatest number.
D) the expectations of others.
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) During adulthood, what happens to the body's ability to take in and transport oxygen to various body organs (VO<sub>2</sub> max)?
A) When measured at rest, VO<sub>2</sub> max minimally declines with age, but during exercise, there is systematic decline of VO<sub>2</sub> max beginning between ages 35 and 40.
B) When VO<sub>2</sub> max is measured at rest, there is a systematic decline of about 1% per year, but during exercise there is minimal decline in capacity.
C) Primary aging causes an increase in VO<sub>2</sub> max during both rest and exercise, although the greatest increases are found during exercise conditions.
D) As women age, their VO<sub>2</sub> max decreases during rest and exercise conditions, but as men age, their VO<sub>2</sub> max improves under rest and exercise conditions.
Q2) The benefits of a post-secondary education include all of the following EXCEPT
A) improvements in abstract reasoning.
B) increased empathy for others.
C) improvement in social skills.
D) higher employment earnings.
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Chapter 14: Social and Personality Development in Early
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Q1) Attachment theories suggest that when we choose a partner we A) seek to develop attachment patterns that are different from our childhood. B) seek to maximize the benefits we get out of the relationship. C) develop attachments that match our internal model of attachment. D) expect our partner to take the primary responsibility in defining attachment.
Q2) Salman is the "strong silent type" who prefers work that does not require him to interact with other people. He is very skilled with hand and power tools and enjoys his job as a furniture craftsman. According to Holland, what is Salman's personality type?
A) conventional
B) enterprising
C) realistic
D) artistic
Q3) Compared to men, the work pattern of adult women is more likely to be interrupted or discontinuous.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unmarried men are generally healthier and happier than married men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Martha notices her father Rick, age 50, holding his newspaper further and further away to get a clear image. Martha's father is likely experiencing A) cataracts
B) presbycusis
C) nearsightedness
D) presbyopia
Q2) Which of the following is not a normal part of aging?
A) presbycusis
B) presbyopia
C) helicobacter pylori
D) atherosclerosis
Q3) Among healthy middle-aged men, performance anxiety is a frequent cause of erectile dysfunction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The factor that causes the changes in sexual functioning associated with the male climacteric is most likely a decline in testosterone levels.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle
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Q1) Which statement is the most accurate regarding the greater sense of control over their work lives that both men and women feel in middle age?
A) Retirement is just around the corner and they no longer care much about their work environments.
B) Through experience, they are better at directing their own behaviour in ways that allow them to maintain levels of personal satisfaction even in unpleasant situations.
C) Careers become more stable in middle age, with fewer interruptions caused by either voluntary or involuntary job changes.
D) Middle-aged workers have come to terms with declines in their skills and will set realistic goals for themselves.
Q2) Canadians who provide care to their aging parents have a reduced quality of life in terms of cancelled holiday plans, reduction in social activities, and less time for their own families.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) The skin of elderly adults is less responsive to cold and heat.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Researchers have established that elderly adults generally outperform young and middle-aged adults on tests of prospective memory (tasks that require an individual to remember an event into the future, such as remembering a doctor's appointment).
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is an accurate statement about life expectancy in Canada?
A) Life expectancy decreases as adults get older.
B) The fastest growing segment of the Canadian population is the group aged 25-45.
C) The life expectancy of women is longer than that of men.
D) The gender gap regarding life expectancy is widening.
Q4) The maximum human lifespan is approximately 100 years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Social and Personality Development in Late
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Q1) Which of the following is an aspect of disengagement theory?
A) decreased individuality
B) increased responsibility
C) shrinkage of life space
D) inactive extrication from roles and relationships
Q2) Rowe and Kahn did not include which of the following components in their definition of successful aging?
A) retention of cognitive abilities
B) social engagement
C) good physical health
D) extroversion
Q3) Which of the following phrases best captures an advantage associated with the loss of role definition experienced by older adults?
A) "I did it my way."
B) "Free to be me!"
C) "I've paid my dues."
D) "I take a licking and keep on ticking."
Q4) Elders often cite religious coping as their primary means of managing stress.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Q1) Which of the following is a recommended strategy for managing grief and preventing grief-related depression?
A) grief support group
B) regular exercise
C) take a vacation
D) get back to work as quickly as possible
Q2) A widow whose husband died suddenly is more likely to become depressed than a widow whose husband died after a long illness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A young adult who knew he was dying would most likely use the remaining time to complete unfinished projects and tie up loose ends.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following are Kübler-Ross's stages of dying?
A) anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
B) bargaining, denial, acceptance, depression, anger
C) denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
D) denial, fighting spirit, stoic acceptance, depression, acceptance
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