Week 15 Quiz

In record R8 of the running case (illustrative), the 15-year-old's school day starts at 7:30 a.m., a time set by a district decision the teen does not take part in. In Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems model, which system is that district decision?

Select one.

• The microsystem
• The mesosystem
• The exosystem
• The chronosystem

The original ACE Study asked adults about their childhood experiences and compared their replies with their later health. Which conclusion does that design support?

Select one.

• Adverse childhood experiences are linked with later health across many adults
• Adverse childhood experiences cause later health problems in every adult
• Counting a child's adverse childhood experiences diagnoses that child
• Adults who report no adverse childhood experiences have no later health problems

A youth worker meets a 6-year-old who lives with a grandparent. According to the research this course teaches, which of these matters most for the child's development?

Select one.

• Whether the household has two parents
• The warmth, routines, support, and conflict inside the household
• Whether the grandparent is younger than a set age when the child moves in
• Whether the household matches the most common family form

Which sentence describes a cultural practice the way this course does?

Select one.

• That community's children learn the wrong way because they ask adults few questions
• Asking adults many questions is the normal way to learn, so other ways fall short
• Children who learn by watching are behind children who learn by asking
• In that community, children learn by watching and pitching in, which fits its own expectations

Which three routes does this course name for how poverty is associated with children's development?

Select one.

• Family stress, fewer resources, and neighborhood conditions
• Genes, birth order, and a temperament that is fixed at birth for each child
• Screen time, diet, and bedtime alone
• Intelligence, effort, and luck

An illustrative parent visits two childcare centers. Which observation is evidence of childcare quality as this course defines it?

Select one.

• The center charges the highest monthly fee in town
• The building opened last year with new furniture
• A caregiver sits with a small group of toddlers and responds to each one
• The center's sign is large and freshly painted, and the parking lot is new

Which statement matches this course's definition of resilience?

Select one.

• A fixed trait that some children are born with and others lack
• Never meeting any hardship at all during childhood, at home or in the community
• A rating a counselor gives after counting a child's hard experiences
• Positive adaptation despite adversity, grown from protective factors

Which of these did Werner and Smith's Kauai study point to as protective factors? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• A caring adult
• Problem-solving skills
• Community supports
• A childhood with no hardship at all
• A resilient nature that is fixed at birth

Read by domain as in Week 1, the running case's 8 records (illustrative) give physical 4, cognitive 5, and social-emotional 4 readings. How many domain readings is that in all, and why does the total differ from the number of records?

Select one.

• 8, because each record shows one domain
• 13, because several records show more than one domain
• 12, because one domain is counted twice
• 24, because every record shows all three domains

The running case's records pin no family income, so the Census Bureau's child poverty figure supports no poverty reading of this child.

True or false.

• True
• False