Eight-year-old Elijah is one of 32 percent of U.S. children who are
A)overweight.
B)obese.
C)malnourished.
D)morbidly obese.
The V-chip
A)violates the First Amendment right to free speech.
B)remains optional for new television sets.
C)is mandated in all new TV sets sold in the United States.
D)serves to make offensive television programs less appealing to children.
__________ is/are a key theme in older adolescents’ self-concepts.
A)Being smart
B)Wearing the right clothes
C)Personal possessions
D)Personal and moral standards
Interventions with rejected children aim to help them attribute their peer difficulties to
__________ causes.
A)external, unchangeable
B)external, changeable
C)internal, changeable
D)internal, unchangeable
Girls are more likely than boys to
A)blame their errors in math on lack of ability.
B)have superior spatial reasoning ability.
C)regard math as useful for their future careers.
D)believe that being good at math will improve their popularity.
Beginning in early childhood, capacitity for effortful control predicts
A)outcomes such as low academic achievement and moral immaturity.
B)characteristics such as timidity, meekness, and fearfulness of social situations.
C)the ability to engage in group participation through adolescence and adulthood.
D)favorable development and adjustment in cultures as diverse as China and the United
States.
Research reveals that at-risk infants
A)whose parents have adequate time and patience to care for them fare quite well in
attachment security.
B)with special needs rarely display secure attachment to any caregiver.
C)who are born prematurely invoke reduced maternal sensitivity regardless of
socioeconomic risk.
D)who are emotionally reactive in temperament are less likely to develop later insecure
attachments.
Research shows that children are more physically active during __________ than
__________.
A)gym class; recess
B)field trips; gym class
C)classroom time; recess
D)recess; gym class
The work of __________ provided the starting point for an expanding research literature
on the development of epistemic cognition.
A) Jean Piaget
B) Lev Vygotsky
C) William Perry
D) Robert Sternberg
Compared to school-age children, adolescents place more emphasis on __________ in
their self-descriptions.
A)physical appearance
B)favorite activities
C)social virtues
D)school performance
With regards to decision making, evidence confirms that adolescents, relative to adults, are
more influenced by
A)avoidance of potential losses.
B)avoidance of taking risks.
C)the possibility of immediate reward.
D)reasoned pros and cons of a given situation.
Some Neo-Piagetian theorists argue that the development of operational thinking can
best be understood in terms of
A)a sudden shift to a new developmental stage.
B)a gradual mastery of logical concepts as children age.
C)expansion of information-processing capacity.
D)children’s interaction with adults and more skilled social models.
Of all age groups, adolescents are the most likely to
A)be obese.
B)skip breakfast.
C)make healthy food choices.
D)need less protein.