1) sleep contributes to body growth because
a)gh is released during the childs sleeping hours.
b)rest allows the awake body to produce gh at higher levels.
c)rest allows the awake body to produce tsh at higher levels.
d)rem sleep heightens the impact of environmental events.
2) between the 1970s and the 1990s, due to increasingly busy lives and the growing
assortment of high-calorie snack foods, average daily food intake rose by almost
______ calories.
a)100
b)200
c)300
d)400
3) the overriding factor in positive adjustment after divorce is
a)the gender of the child.
b)effective parenting.
c)the custody and residential arrangements.
d)the temperament of the child.
4) an effective way to ease the strain of school transition in adolescence is to
a)assign students to classes with several familiar peers or a constant group of new peers.
b)make sure that academic expectations in junior high are tougher than in elementary
school.
c)reduce students need to conform by encouraging anonymity.
d)reduce the number of extracurricular activities available in high school.
5) eleanor and james gibson describe their theory as___________ because over time a
baby detects finer and finer invariant features among stimuli.
a)differentiation
b)discontinuous
c)dynamic
d)bidirectional
6) which recent theoretical perspective is concerned with the adaptive, or survival,
value of behavior and its evolutionary history?
a)information processing
b)ethology
c)sociocultural theory
d)ecological systems theory
7) according to vygotsky, which of the following is within a childs zone of proximal
development?
a)a task that a child cannot accomplish alone or with the help of an adult.
b)a task that a child has recently mastered independently following the assistance of an
adult
c)a task that a child cannot yet handle on her own, but can do with the help of an adult
d)a task that a child figures out how to accomplish through her own independent
activity
8) womens progress entering and excelling at male-dominated professions has been
a)slow.
b)moderate.
c)rapid.
d)nonexistent.
9) in piagets sensorimotor stage, infants and toddlers
a)think with their eyes, ears, and hands.
b)assimilate more than they accommodate.
c)represent their experiences in speech, gesture, and play.
d)carry out many activities inside their heads.
10) gains in ______ permit the transition to rule-oriented games.
a)flexibility
b)agility
c)perspective taking
d)fine-motor ability