1) skull growth is especially rapid
a)between birth and age 2 years.
b)during the preschool years.
c)between age 3 and 5 years.
d)during adolescence.
2) as teenagers become sure that others are observing and thinking about them, they
start to feel special and unique. this feature of adolescent thought is called
a)propositional reasoning.
b)the imaginary audience.
c)the personal fable.
d)rule assessment.
3) self-disclosure to friends is greater than self-disclosure to romantic partners
a)until fifth grade.
b)until late adolescence.
c)until the college years.
d)from childhood onward.
4) school-age children with low birth weights show an especially high rate of
a)myopia.
b)otitis media.
c)malnutrition.
d)presbyopia.
5) as children make the transition from emergent literacy to conventional reading,
_________ continues to facilitate the process.
a)whole-language instruction
b)private speech
c)phonological awareness
d)reciprocal teaching
6) joslyn, a school custodian, is pregnant and works in an old school building where
multiple layers of paint are flaking off the walls. to be safe, joslyn should have the paint
tested for
a)polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs).
b)mercury.
c)dioxins.
d)lead.
7) longitudinal research reveals that compared to conduct problems that begin in
adolescence, early-onset delinquency
a)is less likely to lead to a life-course pattern of criminality.
b)involves less severe crimes.
c)often emerges out of dysfunctional peer relations.
d)is more likely to lead to a life-course pattern of criminality.
8) for piaget, the most fundamental deficiency of preoperational thinking is
a)dual representation.
b)egocentrism.
c)animistic thinking.
d)centration.
9) rodneys first-grade teacher exclusively uses a phonics approach to teaching reading.
she emphasizes decoding new words and learning the relationship between letters and
sounds. with so much emphasis on basic skills, rodney could
a)become deficient in understanding the overall meaning of a passage.
b)shift from learning to read to reading to learn.
c)fail to master letter-sound correspondences.
d)decrease his fluency in decoding words.
10) children with special needs go to mrs. holman for specialized instruction for part of
the day, and remain with their regular teacher for the remainder of the day. mrs. holman
teaches in a(n)
a)fully inclusive classroom.
b)resource room.
c)partially inclusive classroom.
d)accommodation room.
11) most efforts to impart health concepts to school-age children have
a)little impact on behavior.
b)a moderate impact on behavior.
c)significant impact on behavior when combined with school curriculum.
d)significant impact of behavior when combined with food rewards.
12) which of the following is true about sports-related injuries in adolescence?
a)more than one-half of high school students are involved in sports injuries that require
medical attention.
b)coaches sometimes make unreasonable demands of players that can lead to injury.
c)many coaches match competitors on the basis of pubertal maturity rather than age and
weight.
d)the safest athletic activities during the pubertal growth period are team sports.
13) which of the following is true about peer conformity?
a)most teenagers blindly do what their peers ask, regardless of their age or relationship
with parents.
b)adolescents feel most pressured to conform to obvious aspects of peer culture, such as
grooming and participation in social activities.
c)peer pressure to engage in antisocial acts is greater than peer pressure to engage in
proadult behavior.
d)authoritarian child rearing is related to adolescents resisting peer pressure.
14) when guilt occurs in appropriate circumstances and is not accompanied by shame, it
is related to
a)ineffective parenting.
b)good adjustment.
c)poor emotional self-regulatory skills.
d)an insecure attachment.