Carol lives in Wyoming and works for a small company with 12 employees. Carol hopes
to take 12 weeks of maternity leave. What advice can you give Carol?
A)The United States mandates 12 weeks of paid maternity leave for all new mothers.
B)Federal law mandating unpaid maternity leave does not apply to her employer.
C)The United States mandates six weeks of paid maternity leave for all new mothers.
D)The United States mandates 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave for all new mothers.
Because low-SES children are read to for an average of just 25 hours over the preschool
years,
A)their social skills do not develop at the same pace as their middle- and high-SES
counterparts.
B)most low-SES children enter kindergarten with little idea of what reading and writing is.
C)parents report higher stress levels when helping their children with homework during
the school years.
D)they are behind in emergent literacy skills and in reading achievement throughout the
school years.
White matter
A)decreases steadily throughout childhood.
B)consists largely of myelinated nerve fibers.
C)does not exist in the prefrontal cortex.
D)contains mostly of neurons and supportive material.
Mr. Selkie’s classroom includes students whose desks face the front of the classroom,
arranged in rows. The students are relatively passive-listening to Mr. Selkie, who is the
sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making. Mr. Selkie does most of the
talking, though students are expected to respond when called on. Mr. Selkie has a(n)
__________ classroom.
A)constructivist
B)traditional
C)authoritative
D)social-constructivist
Which of the following motor skills typically develops first?
A)walking alone
B)scribbling vigorously
C)walking up stairs with help
D)jumping in place
Mr. Wellington wants to reduce drug experimentation among the teens in his community
program. He should
A)teach parents that teens need freedom from activity monitoring.
B)teach students skills for resisting peer pressure.
C)deemphasize parent education.
D)acknowledge the social acceptability of drug use.
In boys, the voice change
A)is the first outward sign of puberty.
B)occurs before enlargement of the penis and testes.
C)usually takes place at the peak of the growth spurt.
D)is due to the contraction of the vocal cords.
Which of the following people most likely has a genetic susceptibility to overweight,
which emerges only under Western dietary conditions?
A)Ray, who is of Cherokee descent
B)Wes, who is of Samoan descent
C)Andrea, who is of Colombian descent
D)Carrie, who is of African descent
Adult involvement in formal groups, such as scouting and 4-H,
A)prevents children from realizing the gains in social maturity associated with peer
groups.
B)prevents children from realizing the gains in moral maturity associated with peer groups.
C)holds in check the negative behaviors associated with children’s informal peer groups.
D)stifles children’s desire for formal or informal peer group belonging.
Which of the following statements about HIV and AIDS is true?
A)Untreated HIV-infected expectant mothers pass the virus to the developing organism 10
to 20 percent of the time.
B)About 15 to 25 percent of prenatal AIDS babies die by 1 year of age.
C)There are no available drug therapies that reduce prenatal AIDS transmission without
harmful consequences.
D)AIDS progresses very slowly in infants, and rarely leads to death.
Studies show that children conceived through donor insemination or in vitro fertilization
A)receive caregiving that is somewhat warmer than children who are conceived naturally.
B)are at greater risk for genetic disorders than their naturally conceived counterparts.
C)tend to experience severe adjustment problems throughout childhood, including insecure
attachment to caregivers.
D)are usually well-adjusted until adolescence when they experience a significant rise in
psychological problems.
Piaget believed that sensorimotor activity leads to
A)internal images of experience, which children then label with words.
B)quicker executive function, which enables children to effectively combine schemes.
C)decreased interest in solitary make-believe play.
D)a better understanding of social interactions.