FAML 430 Final Exam Questions
and Answers Fall 2025-2026 Update
100% Correct -BYU
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. What are the key characteristics of socialization?. ANSWER -a. Knowledge, skills
and character traits.
2. What is the different between externalization and internalization? How can we
move towards internalization?. ANSWER -
3. What are the characteristics of temperament?. ANSWER -a. Innate characteristic
that determines an individual's sensitivity to various experiences and responsiveness
to social interaction.
b. Individual differences in activity level, distractibility, adaptability to new situations,
mood, and so on
c. Easy, slow to warm up, and difficult.
4. According to David Elkin, how is child rearing and education changing in today's
society. ANSWER -a. Focus on education has increased the number of preschools and
kindergartens. There are more mommy and me classes and an increase in how to book
on teaching babies to do math and read.
b. There is an increase in afterschool activities and implantation of the no child left
behind program.
5. How has the concept of childhood changed over time?. ANSWER -a. Children
today must cope with a world in which both parents work, drugs are available, sex is
close as the TV.
, b. The age of protection for children has been undermined by societal pressures on
parents.
6. What are key demographic changes among children in the U.S. today?. ANSWER -
7. What is the difference between a passive, evocative, and active genotype
environment?. ANSWER -a. Passive: children inherit genes from their parents,
children are prewired or predisposed to be affected by the environments their parents
provide.
b. Active: An individual's genotypes will tend to motivate that person to seek out
environments more compatible with their genetic prewiring.
8. What are the major outcomes or goals of socialization?. ANSWER -a. Develop self-
regulation of emotion, thinking and behavior.
b. Reciprocity and cooperation
c. Acquisition of a cultures' morals and values, including the willingness to accept the
authority of others.
d. Conformity to and adaptions of practices and routines associated with the group
9. What are the defining characteristics of the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem,
macrosystem, and chronosystem? How does each impact socialization?. ANSWER -a.
Microsystems: refers to the activities and relationships with significant others
experienced by developing person in a particular small setting such as family, school,
peer group, or community.
b. Mesosystems: (means intermediate): is a link between two or more developing
microsystems such as family and the school, or the family and peer groups.
c. Exosystems: outside: refers to settings in which children are not active participants
but that affect them in one of their microsystems: parents jobs, the city council, or
parental social network.
and Answers Fall 2025-2026 Update
100% Correct -BYU
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. What are the key characteristics of socialization?. ANSWER -a. Knowledge, skills
and character traits.
2. What is the different between externalization and internalization? How can we
move towards internalization?. ANSWER -
3. What are the characteristics of temperament?. ANSWER -a. Innate characteristic
that determines an individual's sensitivity to various experiences and responsiveness
to social interaction.
b. Individual differences in activity level, distractibility, adaptability to new situations,
mood, and so on
c. Easy, slow to warm up, and difficult.
4. According to David Elkin, how is child rearing and education changing in today's
society. ANSWER -a. Focus on education has increased the number of preschools and
kindergartens. There are more mommy and me classes and an increase in how to book
on teaching babies to do math and read.
b. There is an increase in afterschool activities and implantation of the no child left
behind program.
5. How has the concept of childhood changed over time?. ANSWER -a. Children
today must cope with a world in which both parents work, drugs are available, sex is
close as the TV.
, b. The age of protection for children has been undermined by societal pressures on
parents.
6. What are key demographic changes among children in the U.S. today?. ANSWER -
7. What is the difference between a passive, evocative, and active genotype
environment?. ANSWER -a. Passive: children inherit genes from their parents,
children are prewired or predisposed to be affected by the environments their parents
provide.
b. Active: An individual's genotypes will tend to motivate that person to seek out
environments more compatible with their genetic prewiring.
8. What are the major outcomes or goals of socialization?. ANSWER -a. Develop self-
regulation of emotion, thinking and behavior.
b. Reciprocity and cooperation
c. Acquisition of a cultures' morals and values, including the willingness to accept the
authority of others.
d. Conformity to and adaptions of practices and routines associated with the group
9. What are the defining characteristics of the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem,
macrosystem, and chronosystem? How does each impact socialization?. ANSWER -a.
Microsystems: refers to the activities and relationships with significant others
experienced by developing person in a particular small setting such as family, school,
peer group, or community.
b. Mesosystems: (means intermediate): is a link between two or more developing
microsystems such as family and the school, or the family and peer groups.
c. Exosystems: outside: refers to settings in which children are not active participants
but that affect them in one of their microsystems: parents jobs, the city council, or
parental social network.
