1) children whose parents use a(n) ___________ child-rearing style feel especially good
about themselves.
a)authoritarian
b)permissive
c)authoritative
d)uninvolved
2) according to bowlby, out of their experiences during the four attachment phases,
children
a)learn autonomy and develop self-soothing because they learn that caregivers cannot
be relied upon to provide support during times of stress.
b)move from secure attachment to insure attachment and back again.
c)construct enduring affectionate ties to their caregivers that they can use as a secure
base in the caregivers absence.
d)develop either avoidant or resistant attachment styles.
3) physical abuse accounts for ____ percent of reported cases of child maltreatment.
a)10
b)20
c)30
d)40
4) for the majority of adolescents, a minor brush with the law
a)does not lead to a life of antisocial behavior.
b)is an early warning of more serious problems in the future.
c)is a sign of drug abuse.
d)is usually the result of peer pressure.
5) which of the following is true about social experience and moral understanding?
a)social experiences are not vital to the development of morality.
b)children rarely benefit from adult-child discussions of moral issues.
c)children learn to care about the welfare of others from warm, sensitive parental
communication.
d)children who verbally and physically assault others tend to have parents who tell
stories with moral implications.
6) _____________ was designed to downplay culture-dependent information, which is
emphasized on only one factor (verbal reasoning).
a)the stanford-binet intelligence scales, fifth edition,
b)the wechsler intelligence scale for children-iv
c)sternbergs triarchic theory
d)gardners theory of multiple intelligences
7) graces grandma recalls menarche as a traumatic experience. she would like things to
be different for grace. what advice can you give her?
a)she should let grace be surprised by menarche and then answer any questions she has
about puberty.
b)she should explain to grace that menarche is an unpleasant but necessary experience.
c)she should prepare grace in advance and treat it as an important milestone.
d)she should provide grace with biological information but deliver the information as
clinically as possible.
8) which of the following is an example of a secondary sexual characteristic?
a)changes in the uterus
b)changes in the scrotum
c)breast development
d)changes in the testes
9) which of the following statements best characterizes piagets view of cognitive
development in middle childhood?
a)continuous improvement in logical skills
b)discontinuous restructuring of childrens thinking
c)biological prewiring of processes
d)random change in cognitive processes
10) what can happen to identity formation when either an individual or a context
changes?
a)there is a possibility for identity reformulation.
b)identity formation is interrupted.
c)identity formation is damaged.
d)individual and contextual changes have no impact on identity formation.
11) between ages 2 and 3, english-speaking children use simple sentences that follow
a(n) __________ word order.
a)verbsubjectobject
b)subjectverbobject
c)objectverbsubject
d)verbobjectsubject
12) _______ maturers in ________-income neighborhoods are especially vulnerable to
establishing ties with deviant peers.
a)late; high
b)late; low
c)early; middle
d)early; low
13) poor diet
a)is not a major contributor to susceptibility to childhood diseases.
b)is usually unrelated to childhood disease.
c)depresses the bodys immune system, making children more susceptible to disease.
d)can cause childhood diseases like measles and chicken pox.
14) according to erikson, an identity crisis involves
a)questioning the values of ones society and culture.
b)experimenting with alternatives before deciding on values and goals.
c)rejecting previous identities in favor of a new vision of the self.
d)limiting ones choices and desires.
15) which of the following is true about individual differences in motor skills?
a)parents tend to actively discourage girls from participating in athletic activities.
b)family income affects childrens access to lessons needed to develop certain abilities.
c)boys are able to understand and process the rules of most athletic events more quickly
than girls.
d)many low-ses children are less skilled in motor activities even when they are exposed
to formal lessons.
16) sally and her granddaughter play peekaboo regularly. at first, sally starts the game
and her granddaughter is an amused observer. by 12 months, the granddaughter actively
participates, trading roles with sally. sally is helping her granddaughter
a)learn how to overextend and underextend.
b)understand the turn-taking pattern of human conversation.
c)develop a referential style of communication.
d)understand telegraphic speech.
17) by age ____, children use words to evaluate their own and others actions.
a)2
b)3
c)4
d)5
18) in a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred before
birth or in the first six months of life,
a)delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the left
hemisphere.
b)delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the right
hemisphere.
c)undamaged areas in either the left or the right hemisphere took over vocabulary and
grammatical skills by age 5.
d)language skills were more likely to be permanently damaged than spatial skills.