1) seven-year-old cassandra is reading an arthur chapter book to her grandmother.
cassandra is able to decode many of the words; for others, she has sight recognition. her
grandmother patiently helps cassandra with words she doesnt know. according to the
text, this typical way of learning to read is a ______ process.
a. social
b. cognitive
c. language
d. all of these
2) ______ used the strange situation procedure to study differences in infant
attachments with their caregivers.
a. john bowlby
b. erik erikson
c. daniel goleman
d. mary ainsworth
3) valerie spends hours reading because she is curious and interested in learning. tim
spends hours reading because he wants to earn more points in the accelerated reader
program. valeries motivation is _____, and tims motivation is _____.
a. extrinsic; extrinsic
b. intrinsic; intrinsic
c. extrinsic; intrinsic
d. intrinsic; extrinsic
4) which of the following is not a mental operation used by children in the concrete
operational stage of development?
a. propositional logic
b. classification
c. conservation
d. seriation
5) the 5- and 6-year-olds in your kindergarten class will have a vocabulary of about
______ words.
a. 20,000
b. 15,000
c. 5,000
d. 500
6) a child is asked to sit in a chair, looking at a landscape of three mountains. then the
child is asked to select a drawing that best describes how the mountains might look to
someone sitting in a different chair. what is being studied in this research setting?
a. egocentrism
b. conservation
c. zone of proximal development
d. animism
7) your child has recently received a score of 145 on an intelligence test. what might
this score suggest?
a. your child has average intelligence.
b. your child has below-average intelligence.
c. your child has very high intelligence.
d. your child is like 95 percent of all other children.
8) meghans second-grade daughter, elissa, has a strong interest in swimming. she has
shown less interest in reading. meghan has come to you for advice on how to increase
elissas literacy skills. what advice would you give her?
a. check out and read library books about swimming.
b. have elissa keep a journal about her swim meets and read segments to meghan.
c. regularly read swimmer magazine to elissa.
d. all of these
9) which of the following parents will be least effective in helping their child develop
prosocial behaviors?
a. adam, whose primary discipline style is reasoning and induction
b. bethany, who models prosocial behaviors at home
c. christopher, who prohibits antisocial behaviors without explanation
d. dawn, who encourages her children to perform routine household tasks and chores
10) which of the following statements about the television viewing is false?
a. educational programs have been shown to have no academic benefits for children.
b. heavy viewing of television has been negatively related to early reading skills.
c. the average preschool child witnesses an average of 600 violent acts per week on
television.
d. there is no strong evidence to indicate that television viewing reduces time for
homework.
11) as a preschool teacher, you should expect most of your students to be in which stage
of cognitive development?
a. sensorimotor
b. formal operations
c. concrete operations
d. preoperations
12) studies indicate that the rate of conduct disorders among boys is between
________ , and among girls between__________.
a. 6 and 16 percent; 2 and 9 percent
b. 6 and 9 percent; 2 and 5 percent
c. 2 and 9 percent; 6 and 16 percent
d. 2 and 5 percent; 6 and 9 percent
13) generalizing from research presented in the textbook, which strategy would youas a
new middle school teacherselect to help your students have a deep processing of
information?
a. providing concept maps and outlines for your students
b. having your students develop their own concept maps and outlines
c. avoiding the use of concept maps and outlines
d. focusing on lecturing to your students
14) tristan has just visited her obstetrician, where she was able to hear her babys
heartbeat. she has also begun to feel the baby moving. in which week of pregnancy
would you estimate tristan to be?
a. 3 to 4 weeks
b. 8 to 12 weeks
c. 20 weeks
d. 30 weeks