In James Galloway and Esther Thelen’s microgenetic study following babies from their
first attempts until skill mastery, the infants
A)scooted before crawling.
B)first explored the toys with their feet.
C)violated the proximodistal trend.
D)required adult instruction to acquire motor skills.
Separation protest declines during which of Bowlby’s phases?
A)preattachment
B)”attachment in the making”
C)”clear-cut” attachment
D)formation of a reciprocal relationship
Franca, age 11, recently started contradicting and disagreeing with her parents. She is
self-conscious and often goes to her room and closes the door. Franca is a head taller
and several pounds heavier than most girls in her sixth-grade class. Franca has probably
A)developed an eating disorder.
B)entered adolescence.
C)reached full maturation.
D)developed a social phobia.
Direct instruction in which of the following activities is most likely to accelerate
gross-motor development in early childhood?
A)throwing
B)running
C)dancing
D)tumbling
For adolescents, religious involvement is associated with __________ levels of
__________.
A)higher; drug and alcohol use
B)higher; early sexual activity
C)lower; antisocial behavior
D)lower; community service
The leading killer of U.S. teenagers is
A)firearms.
B)automobile accidents.
C)suicide.
D)sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
As children’s bodies become more streamlined and less top-heavy,
A)balance improves greatly.
B)their center of gravity shifts upward.
C)gross-motor development slows.
D)fine-motor development slows.
__________ boosts older infants’ attention to an object’s surface features.
A)Motion
B)Perception
C)The environment
D)Experience
Dr. Faulkner believes that directly observable events-stimuli and responses-are the
appropriate focus of the study of child development. Which of the following perspectives
of child development does Dr. Faulkner probably follow?
A)psychosexual theory
B)psychosocial theory
C)behaviorism
D)cognitive-developmental theory
Arnold Gesell
A)was among the first to make knowledge about child development meaningful to parents.
B)viewed children as noble savages, naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong.
C)concluded that child development follows the same general plan as human evolution.
D)constructed the first successful intelligence test, together with his colleague, Alfred
Binet.
One criticism of the concept of emerging adulthood is that
A)it fails to describe the experiences of most young people in industrialized nations.
B)research on emerging adulthood largely emphasizes its societal benefits.
C)at no time has adulthood in complex societies been attained at a distinct moment.
D)it is rapidly expanding in developing nations.
Renae has a compulsive fear of getting fat. As a result, she is starving herself. Renae has
A)bulimia nervosa.
B)typical adolescent insecurities.
C)trichomoniasis.
D)anorexia nervosa.
In stage theories, development is
A)a smooth, continuous process.
B)gradual and ongoing.
C)like climbing a staircase.
D)a gradual addition of the same types of skills.
Dr. Brewer views the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which
information flows. Dr. Brewer’s view is consistent with
A)information processing.
B)ethology.
C)behaviorism.
D)sociocultural theory.
Which of the following is a major cause of the dramatic rise in fraternal twinning and other
multiple births in industrialized nations over the past several decades?
A)global warming
B)older maternal age
C)late fertilization of the ovum
D)variation in oxygen levels
Schools can help reduce obesity by
A)serving fewer meals.
B)offering more sports.
C)ensuring regular physical activity.
D)increasing vending machine access.