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1) telegraphic speech
a)usually contains significant grammatical errors.
b)focuses on high-content words.
c)emerges around age 3.
d)focuses on smaller, less important words.
2) ned is a gay man. he recalls feeling different from other children when he was young.
if ned is typical, when did this first sense of his biologically determined sexual
orientation appear?
a)between ages 2 and 4
b)between ages 6 and 12
c)between ages 10 and 13
d)after age 14
3) self-reports
a)are usually very accurate.
b)ask research participants to provide information on their thoughts, beliefs, and
experiences.
c)tell researchers little about the reasoning behind how participants behave.
d)are always highly structured.
4) some researchers have suggested that children with autism are __________ and,
therefore, deficient in human sociability.
a)mindblind
b)animistic thinkers
c)flexible thinkers
d)poor problem solvers
5) niche-picking is an example of a(n) ___________ geneticenvironmental correlation.
a)passive
b)evocative
c)active
d)dynamic
6) which of the following classes would probably most appreciate the humor of riddles
and puns?
a)a preschool class
b)a kindergarten class
c)a third grade class
d)a high school class
7) which of the following children is most likely to compare herself to just one other
person and use that information as a basis for self-evaluation?
a)jessica, age 5
b)estelle, age 7
c)mariah, age 9
d)shelly, age 11
8) infant pointing predicts faster vocabulary development
a)from 6 to 12 months.
b)over the first year.
c)from 12 to 18 months.
d)over the second year.
9) compared to their early-onset counterparts, adolescent-onset delinquent teenagers
a)are more socially isolated and violent.
b)often have moderate to severe learning difficulties.
c)are much more likely to demonstrate continued criminal behavior into adulthood.
d)have conduct problems that arise from the peer context of early adolescence.
10) the cognitive-developmental perspective regards children as
a)passive learners of moral standards.
b)active thinkers about social rules.
c)blank slates with regard to morality.
d)prewired with moral compasses.
11) one way of understanding perceptual development is to think of it as a built-in
tendency to seek
a)risk.
b)novelty.
c)order.
d)change.
