1) sleep rebound on weekends
a)helps teenagers perform better in school during the weekdays.
b)is vitally important to teenage sleep patterns.
c)can lead to difficulty falling asleep on subsequent evenings.
d)decreases the sleep phase delay.
2) four-year-old matthew is shown a robot. matthew is most likely to say that the robot
cannot
a)see.
b)think.
c)grow.
d)remember.
3) physically small children tend to live in
a)tropical climates.
b)less developed regions.
c)countries where food is plentiful.
d)wealthy nations.
4) delia and tanner are both aggressive girls. which of the following is probably true
about their friendship?
a)it is low in exchange of private feelings.
b)it is full of relational hostility.
c)it involves frequent physical attacks.
d)it is unlikely to include jealousy or betrayal.
5) __________ viewed the teenage years as a biologically based, universal
developmental disturbance.”
a)jean-jacques rousseau
b)margaret mead
c)g. stanley hall
d)anna freud
6) when monicas parents sit down to talk with her about sex, she laughs and tells them
that they are too late. she assures them that she already knows everything she needs to
know. chances are high that
a)monica is right, and they do not need to have the talk.
b)monica will abstain from sex until she reaches adulthood.
c)monica will adopt her parents sexual values.
d)monicas actual knowledge is far less than her perceived knowledge.
7) during childhood and adolescence, ______________ correlates more strongly with
overall self-worth than does any other self-esteem factor.
a)academic achievement
b)physical appearance
c)social competence
d)athletic ability
8) five-year-old susannah makes the following observations: boys cannot read as well
as girls, girls are faster than boys, and girls are smarter than boys. susannah is
demonstrating
a)gender typing.
b)in-group favoritism.
c)gender identity.
d)androgyny.
9) taking college courses
a)has no measurable impact on formal operational reasoning.
b)leads to improvements in formal operational reasoning on all kinds of tasks.
c)improves formal operational reasoning on tasks related to course content.
d)improves propositional thought but not hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
10) in cultures where mothers carry their infants on their hips or in slings for most of
the day,
a)infants are delayed in reaching and grasping.
b)manual skills develop later than in western infants.
c)infants are advanced in reaching and grasping.
d)the overstimulation causes babies to cry a great deal.
11) personality variations among siblings is due to
a)germline mutation.
b)dominantrecessive inheritance.
c)polygenic inheritance.
d)homozygotic inheritance.
12) following conception, the one-celled ________ multiplies and forms a(n)
________.
a)blastocyst; zygote
b)blastocyst; embryo
c)zygote; blastocyst
d)embryo; fetus
13) children of gay and lesbian parents can be distinguished from other children by
a)the amount of teasing they endure.
b)issues related to living in a nonsupportive society.
c)their higher-than-average rates of homosexuality.
d)their gender role preferences and their gender contentedness.
14) twelve-year-old tamika is a formal operational thinker. what are the major
characteristics of her thought processes?
15) renee is approaching early adolescence. how will renees gender-typed behavior
likely change as she moves through adolescence? what factors will likely contribute to
these changes?
16) what are some characteristics of sexually active adolescents? which children are
more likely than others to engage in early and frequent teenage sexual activity?
17) describe the characteristics of, and explain the difference between,
popular-prosocial and popular-antisocial children.
18)
what is crh? describe its role in initiating labor.
19) describe growth faltering, including factors that contribute to it. what interventions
are used to treat this disorder?
20) describe the long-term consequences of pubertal timing, especially for
early-maturing girls. what are some possible reasons for the difficulties early-maturing
girls face?
21) how does childrens self-esteem change from early to middle childhood?