Question 1

Before going away to college, Moira lived in a small town where everyone knew everyone else. Parents and children had all shared many of the same schoolteachers over the years and had also attended Sunday school with many of the same teachers, who were also friends of their parents.
 Explain the effects of this type of limited environment on the cognitive development of young adults. According to Perry, Moira will need to move from rigidity to flexibility and then to freely chosen commitments. Describe how this might be accomplished living on a college campus.
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Question 2

Discuss and identity development of adolescents. What are the critical issues for this age group as they struggle with identity formation?
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Question 3

Describe the issues that ethnic and cultural factors raise as adolescents try to develop a personal identity.
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Question 4

Interactions with parents, siblings, and peers are often renegotiated during the adolescent years. An adolescent's need for more freedom, for more control of his/her own destiny, and his/her search to find others that are having the same experiences changes the way they spend their discretionary time. Explain the kind of parenting style that works best as adolescents try to find more autonomy in their lives.
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Question 5

Describe the roles that siblings and peers play during the adolescent developmental period. Answer will vary.

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Question 6

Define sexual orientation and explain the interaction of biological and environmental factors that contribute to sexual orientation.
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Question 7

Describe the risky sexual behavior engaged in by adolescents. Be sure to address the issues of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy.
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Question 8

The Godwins have four children who are rapidly heading into the adolescent phase of their development. From chats with close friends, and the information they have gathered from the media, the Godwins anticipate nothing but havoc for the next several years. What information would you give them about what lies ahead for them? Include the physical changes that occur in both males and females during this period. Describe what parents can do in this period that will have a positive effect on their children's development.
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Question 9

When adolescents reach puberty they also experience changes in the way that they think. Describe Piaget's formal operations stage of cognitive development. Describe Elkind's views on adolescent cognitive development, including the immature thought patterns that can result from an adolescent's inexperience with formal thinking.
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Question 10

During the adolescent period of development, serious emphasis is placed on the kind of education that students receive, and the kind of educational and vocational advice they are given in order to prepare them for the world of work. Explain the effects of personal thinking patterns, such as self-efficacy and academic motivation, on educational growth. List at least three environmental factors that provide either advantages or disadvantages for academic performance.
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Question 11

Describe what puts adolescents "at risk" of not obtaining a good education, and suggest steps schools, parents, and communities can do to address the needs of at-risk students.
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Question 12

List the advantages and the disadvantages to both the parent and the child in homes where either both parents or the custodial parent in single-parent households work(s) outside the home. Describe how this family atmosphere affects children's schoolwork and school discipline.
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Question 13

There are several emotional and behavioral disorders that are identified in school-age children. List three disorders and explain the symptoms of each disorder. Describe one kind of treatment technique or therapy that may be used with each of the disorders you list.
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Question 14

Karen's father disappeared several years ago and her mother has had a difficult time battling both depression and an alcohol problem for several years. Karen not only takes care of herself, but she manages to take good care of her younger sister and brother. Karen has been identified as a "resilient child." Please define the term resilient child and describe the qualities these children have. Describe how Karen may use these qualities while caring for her younger siblings.
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Question 15

Describe the major issues that children in middle childhood face in the development of strong, healthy bodies. Describe the effects that the "American lifestyle" has had on physical development at this stage and suggest ways that parents/teachers/caregivers can counteract some of the effects.
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Question 16

Maria and Raul and their parents have just moved to the United States from Mexico. Their parents are looking for a school system that will address their special needs as English language learners and provide necessary accommodations for them. List five challenges that a child who does
 not speak English faces in the classroom. Explain how both English-immersion and bilingual education programs work and describe both the advantages and the disadvantages of each. What recommendations would you make to Maria and Raul's parents?
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Question 17

Identify the differences between the terms self-concept and self-esteem. Give three examples to illustrate how caregivers can facilitate children's development of each of these areas. Include in your answer the ideal self versus the real self and the concept of representational mapping in early childhood.
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Question 18

Sara likes dressing like her brother and plays more often with his toys instead of her own "gender-specific" toys. Describe how children develop gender roles and give two reasons why Sara may behave as she does.
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Question 19

Identify each of the four major perspectives on gender identity and describe the various viewpoints. Explain how the more recent theories-cognitive-developmental theory and gender-schema theory-add to the information we already have about gender development.
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Question 20

List each of Baumrind's parenting styles. Describe each of these parenting styles and the child-development outcomes to which each has been linked, and explain how each style provides a different outcome.
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Quiz 1: Human Development

Discuss and identity development of adolescents. What are the critical issues for this age group as they struggle with identity formation? Answer will vary.

Describe the issues that ethnic and cultural factors raise as adolescents try to develop a personal identity. Answer will vary.

Describe the roles that siblings and peers play during the adolescent developmental period. Answer will vary.

Define sexual orientation and explain the interaction of biological and environmental factors that contribute to sexual orientation. Answer will vary.

Describe the risky sexual behavior engaged in by adolescents. Be sure to address the issues of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy. Answer will vary.

Describe what puts adolescents "at risk" of not obtaining a good education, and suggest steps schools, parents, and communities can do to address the needs of at-risk students. Answer will vary.

List the advantages and the disadvantages to both the parent and the child in homes where either both parents or the custodial parent in single-parent households work(s) outside the home. Describe how this family atmosphere affects children's schoolwork and school discipline. Answer will vary.

There are several emotional and behavioral disorders that are identified in school-age children. List three disorders and explain the symptoms of each disorder. Describe one kind of treatment technique or therapy that may be used with each of the disorders you list. Answer will vary.

Sara likes dressing like her brother and plays more often with his toys instead of her own "gender-specific" toys. Describe how children develop gender roles and give two reasons why Sara may behave as she does. Answer will vary.

Identify each of the four major perspectives on gender identity and describe the various viewpoints. Explain how the more recent theories-cognitive-developmental theory and gender-schema theory-add to the information we already have about gender development. Answer will vary.

List each of Baumrind's parenting styles. Describe each of these parenting styles and the child-development outcomes to which each has been linked, and explain how each style provides a different outcome. Answer will vary.