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Westcott Dev Psych Final Exam with accurate detailed solutions
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What two components are significant early on in the psychosocial domain?
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-Thinking and Learning || ||




-Puberty and Sexual Health
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-Temperament and Attachment || ||




- Primary vs Secondary aging - ✔✔Temperament and attachment
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Early on, the focus is on infants and caregivers, as temperament and attachment are
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significant



What kind of development is gradual?
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-Continuous Development ||




-Discontinuous Development ||




-Growth Development ||




-Universal Development - ✔✔-Continuous Development
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With this type of development, there is a gradual change" under continuous
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Which term is not considered a "family structure" by the U.S. Census Bureau?
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-Same-bed cohabiting/married families || ||




-Nuclear family ||




-Coexisting families ||




-Cohabiting families - ✔✔Coexisting families || || || ||




Types:

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1.) nuclear
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2.) Cohabiting
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3.) Same-sex cohabiting/married
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4.) Stepfamilies & blended (terms used interchangeably)
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What needs to be assessed in order to understand the role family members have in
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individual development? ||




-Processes, Functions, and Family Structures || || || ||




-Family Structures, Socioeconomic Status, and Processes
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-Family Involvement, Processes, and Socioeconomic Status
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-Processes, Functions, and Family Involvement - ✔✔-Processes, Functions, and Family
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Structures



Family structures, processes, and functions must be assessed in order to understand the role
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family members have in individual development
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Which one of these items are not a part of the universal "family functions"?
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-Ascribed Status ||




-Economic Support ||




-Emotional Support ||




-Nutrition Support - ✔✔Nutrition support|| || || ||




Part of family functions:
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Economic support: providing basic needs, such as food, shelter, clothing, etc.
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Emotional support: providing love, comfort, intimacy, companionship, nurturing,
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belongingness, etc. ||

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Socialization of children: rearing children, parenting, helping children function to the best
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of their abilities within their society.
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Control of sexuality: defining and managing when and with whom (e.g., marriage) sexuality
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occurs.
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Procreation: contributing to the continuation of society and offspring.
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Ascribed status: providing a social identity (e.g., social class, race, ethnicity, kinship,
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religion, etc.)[5] ||




Parents who are ____, ___, and ____ help support their children's autonomy.
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-More agreeable, less anxious, and less negative
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-More anxious, more agreeable, and less negative
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-More agreeable, less anxious, and more negative
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-More anxious, less agreeable, and less negative - ✔✔-More agreeable, less anxious, and less
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negative
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Parents who are more agreeable, less anxious, and less negative also support their children's
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autonomy-Page 13 ||




Which child characteristic is not a part of what affects child-rearing behaviors and roles?
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-Gender Identity ||




-Birth Defects ||




-Birth Order ||




-Health Status - ✔✔birth defects
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Over time, parents of more difficult children may become ___ punitive and ___ patient with
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their children.
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-More, More ||

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-Less, More ||




-More, Less ||




-Less, Less - ✔✔More, Less|| || || ||




How many stages of development do developmetlists believe there are?
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-3

-4

-8

-9 - ✔✔8
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1.) Prenatal Development
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2.)Infancy and Toddlerhood || ||




3.)Early Childhood ||




4.)Middle Childhood ||




5.)Adolescence

6.)Early Adulthood ||




7.)Middle Adulthood ||




8.)Late Adulthood ||




At what stage of development does conception occur?
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-Infancy and toddlerhood || ||




-Prenatal development ||




-Early childhood ||




-Prenatal displacement - ✔✔-Prenatal development` || || || ||




Which of the following is not a stage of prenatal development?
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