1) freuds stage of latency, eriksons stage of industry versus inferiority, and piagets stage
of concrete operations are typically found in what age group?
a. infancy
b. early childhood
c. middle childhood
d. adolescence
2) dr. jameson, a motivation theorist, describes motivation as an internal tension that
leads a person to engage in goal-directed behavior. with which perspective of
motivation is dr. jamesons description most consistent?
a. motivation as an environmentally activated state
b. motivation as a set of cognitions and beliefs
c. motivation as an enduring psychological need
d. motivation as identity
3) in the united states, the number of ______ children has increased faster than those of
other racial and ethnic groups.
a.african-american
b.latino
c.asian
d.eastern european
4) in the united states, about ______ of hate crimes are committed by people under the
age of 21.
a. one-quarter
b. one-third
c. one-half
d. three-quarters
5) franklin can refer to himself by name, uses correct word order, uses telegraphic
speech, and has a vocabulary of somewhere between 50-200 words. if franklin is like
the average child his age, how old is he?
a. 6 to 12 months
b. 12 to 18 months
c. 18 to 24 months
d. 24 to 36 months
6) vygotskys theory suggests that private speech plays an _______ role in education,
and piagets theory suggests that private speech plays an _______ role in education.
a. important/important
b. unimportant/unimportant
c. important/unimportant
d. unimportant/important
7) seventeen-year-old sally engages in a pattern of binge eating followed by vomiting
and laxatives to purge the food she has consumed. sallys disorder is called:
a. anorexia.
b. bulimia.
c. obesity.
d. resiliency.
8) the tendency of young children to focus their attention on only one aspect of a
stimulus is called ______.
a. egocentrism
b. hypo-deductive thinking
c. centration
d. seriation
9) a standard deviation is:
a. an average amount of intelligence.
b. a measure of the average amount scores vary from the mean.
c. the midpoint between the highest and lowest score on an iq test.
d. the mean, or average, of all the scores earned on an iq test.
10) which of the following is not a finding from the u.s. department of education study
of kindergarten children in the 1998/1999 class?
a. about 11 to 12 percent of children are at risk for becoming overweight.
b. fewer than 10 percent of children have difficulty getting along with others.
c. 80 percent of children have received regular child care from someone other than a
parent.
d. about 75 percent of children are read or sung to on a regular basis.
11) heavy doses of television violence early in childhood:
a. can have harmful consequences for later development.
b. increase childrens acceptance of aggression.
c. increase the likelihood of aggression in children.
d. all of these