NU131 -Exam 3 2025 Questions and Answers
Permissive/Laissez-faire family - ANS Offers members complete freedom
Authorative (Democratic) - ANS Offers its members choices & encourages participation &
individual responsibility
Authoritarian/Autocratic - ANS Parents usually make ALL decisions
Same sex family - ANS Two women or two men, with or without children
Foster/adoptive family - ANS Those who take temporary responsibility for raising a child
other than their own
Communal family - ANS Consists of a group of people who have a common philosophy, value
system, and goals, and who choose to live together, sharing roles and resources
Cohabitative family - ANS A man and a woman choosing to live together without the legal
bonds of matrimony, but in all other ways this type of family resembles a nuclear or blended
family
Blended or Reconstituted family - ANS When one or both partners bring their children from a
previous marriage into the relationship
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,Single-parent family - ANS An adult living with one or more children; usually due to divorce,
separation or widowed
Extended family - ANS Consists of nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins
living together under the same roof
Nuclear (conjugal) family - ANS Traditional family; husband, wife, kids
Infancy (birth to 18 months) - ANS Trust vs. Mistrust
to develop a basic trust in the mothering figure and learn to generalize it to others
Early childhood (18 months-3 years) - ANS Autonomy vs. Shame & doubt
To gain some self control & independence within the environment
Late Childhood (3-6 years) - ANS Initiative vs. guilt
to develop a sense of purpose and the ability to initiate and direct own activities
School Age (6-12 years) - ANS Industry vs. inferiority
to achieve a sense of self-confidence by learning, competing, performing successfully, and
receiving recognition from significant others, peers , and acquaintances.
Adolescence (12-20 years) - ANS Identity vs. role confusion
To integrate the tasks mastered in the previous stages into a secure sense of self
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, Young Adulthood (20-30 years) - ANS Intimacy vs. isolation
to form an intense, lasting relationship or a commitment to another person, cause, institution,
or creative effort.
Adulthood (30-65 years) - ANS Generativity vs. stagnation
to achieve the life goals established for oneself while also considering the welfare of future
generations
Old age (65-death) - ANS Ego integrity vs. despair
to review ones life and derive meaning from both positive and negative events while achieving
a positive sense of self-worth
Sutures - ANS The bands of cartilage that separate the skull bones
Fontanels - ANS Soft spots on a baby's skull
Molding - ANS The process of the newborn's skull as the head passes through the narrow
birth canal
Infant length/weight - ANS Length is measured from head to heel
Average = 20 inches
Normal = 19-21 inches
Average growth per month = 1 inch
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Permissive/Laissez-faire family - ANS Offers members complete freedom
Authorative (Democratic) - ANS Offers its members choices & encourages participation &
individual responsibility
Authoritarian/Autocratic - ANS Parents usually make ALL decisions
Same sex family - ANS Two women or two men, with or without children
Foster/adoptive family - ANS Those who take temporary responsibility for raising a child
other than their own
Communal family - ANS Consists of a group of people who have a common philosophy, value
system, and goals, and who choose to live together, sharing roles and resources
Cohabitative family - ANS A man and a woman choosing to live together without the legal
bonds of matrimony, but in all other ways this type of family resembles a nuclear or blended
family
Blended or Reconstituted family - ANS When one or both partners bring their children from a
previous marriage into the relationship
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,Single-parent family - ANS An adult living with one or more children; usually due to divorce,
separation or widowed
Extended family - ANS Consists of nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins
living together under the same roof
Nuclear (conjugal) family - ANS Traditional family; husband, wife, kids
Infancy (birth to 18 months) - ANS Trust vs. Mistrust
to develop a basic trust in the mothering figure and learn to generalize it to others
Early childhood (18 months-3 years) - ANS Autonomy vs. Shame & doubt
To gain some self control & independence within the environment
Late Childhood (3-6 years) - ANS Initiative vs. guilt
to develop a sense of purpose and the ability to initiate and direct own activities
School Age (6-12 years) - ANS Industry vs. inferiority
to achieve a sense of self-confidence by learning, competing, performing successfully, and
receiving recognition from significant others, peers , and acquaintances.
Adolescence (12-20 years) - ANS Identity vs. role confusion
To integrate the tasks mastered in the previous stages into a secure sense of self
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, Young Adulthood (20-30 years) - ANS Intimacy vs. isolation
to form an intense, lasting relationship or a commitment to another person, cause, institution,
or creative effort.
Adulthood (30-65 years) - ANS Generativity vs. stagnation
to achieve the life goals established for oneself while also considering the welfare of future
generations
Old age (65-death) - ANS Ego integrity vs. despair
to review ones life and derive meaning from both positive and negative events while achieving
a positive sense of self-worth
Sutures - ANS The bands of cartilage that separate the skull bones
Fontanels - ANS Soft spots on a baby's skull
Molding - ANS The process of the newborn's skull as the head passes through the narrow
birth canal
Infant length/weight - ANS Length is measured from head to heel
Average = 20 inches
Normal = 19-21 inches
Average growth per month = 1 inch
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